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EEGULiTIONS PROPOSED BT BARON DE COURCEL, MARQUIS VISCOIVTI-YENOSTA, AND 



HIS EXCELLENCY M. GRAM. 



Article 1. The Governments of the United States and of Great Britain shall for- 

 bid tlieir citizens and subjects respectively to kill, capture, or pursue at any time 

 and in any manner whatever, the animals commonly called fur seals, within a zone 

 of 60 miles around the Pribylov Islands, inclusive of the territoral waters. 



The miles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are geographical miles, of 60 to a 

 degree of latitude. 



Art. 2. The two Governments shall forbid their citizens and subjects respectively 

 to kill, capture, or pursue, in any manner whatever, during the season extending 

 each year from the 15th of April to the 31st of July, both inclusive, the fur seals on 

 the high sea in the part of the Pacific Ocean, inclusive of the Bering Sea, which is 

 situated to the north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude. 



Art. 3. During the period of the time and in the waters in which the fur seal fish- 

 ing is allowed only sailing vessels shall be permitted to carry on or take part in fur- 

 seal fishing operations. They will, however, be at liberty to avail themselves of 

 the use of canoes or small boats, propelled wholly by oars. 



Art. 4. The sailing vessels authorized to fish for fur seals must be provided with 

 a special license issued for that purpose by its Government and shall be required to 

 carry a distinguishing flag to be prescribed by its Government. 



Art. 5. The masters of the vessels engaged in fur seal fishing shall enter accu- 

 rately in their official log book the date and place of each fur seal fishing operation, 

 and also the number and sex of the seals captured, upon each day. These entries 

 shall be communicated by each of the two Governments to the other at the end of 

 each fishing season. 



Art. 6. The use of nets, firearms, and explosives shall be forbidden in the fur seal 

 fishing. This restriction shall not apply to shotguns when such fishing takes place 

 outside of Bering Sea. 



Art. 7. The two governments shall take measures to control thefitnessof the men 

 authorized to engage in fur seal fishing; these men shall have been proved fit to 

 handle with sufficient skill the weapons by means of which this fishing may be car- 

 ried on. 



Art. 8. The regulations contained in the preceding articles shall not apply to 

 Indians dwelling on the coasts of the territory of the United States or of Great 

 Britain, and carrying on in their canoes, at a small distance from the coasts where 

 they dwell, fur seal fishing. 



Art. 9. The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the protec- 

 tion and preservation of the fur seals shall remain in force until they have been, in 

 whole or in part, abolished or modified by common agreement between the govern- 

 ments of the United States and of Great Britain. 



The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new 

 examination, so as to enable both interested governments to consider whether, in 

 the light of past experience, there is occasion for any modification thereof. 



