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Article III. 



Every vessel or person offending" against this proliibition in tlie said 

 waters of IJelning tSea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the 

 United States may be seized and detained by the naval or other duly 

 connnissioned officers of either of the Higii Contracting Parties, but 

 they shall be handed over, as soon as practicable, to the authorities of 

 the nation to which they respectively belong, who alone shall have 

 jurisdiction to try the offence and impose the penalties for the same. 

 The witnesses and x)roof necessary to establish the offence shall also 

 be sent with them. 



ARTICLE Y. 



If the result of the arbitration be to affirm the right of British seal- 

 ers to take seals in Behiing Sea within the bounds claimed by the 

 United States under its purchase from Ilussia, then coini^ensation 

 shall be made by the United States to Great Britain (for the use of 

 her subjects) for abstaining from the exercise of that right during pen- 

 dency of the arbitration, upon the basis of such a regulated and limited 

 catch or catches as in the opinion of the arbitration might have been 

 taken without an undue diminution of the seal herds; and, on the other 

 hand, if the result of the arbitration shall be to deny the right of Brit- 

 ish sealers to take seals within the said waters, then compensation 

 shall be made by Great Britain to the United States (for itself, its cit- 

 izens, and lessees) for this agreement to limit the island catch to seven 

 thousand five hundred a season, upon the basis of the difl'eience 

 between this number and such larger catch as in the opinion of the 

 Arbitrators might have been taken without an undue dimiuution of the 

 seal herds. 



There are no italics in the text I have just quoted. The regulations 

 proposed by the United States for adoption by the Tribunal of Arbi- 

 tration are in keeping with the suggestions contained in the motion 

 presented by Mr. Justice Harlan; but, while the British Government 

 denies to the tribunal the powers therein stated, the regulations offered 

 by that Government for our adoption would necessarily depend on the 

 assertion of the same powers. 



They are as follows, the regulation numbered 8 having been pre- 

 sented to the tribunal and then withdrawn: 



REGULATIONS. 



1. All vessels engaging in pelagic sealing shall be required to obtain 

 licenses at one or other of the following ])orts: 



Victoria, in the i)rovince of British Columbia. 



Vancouver, in the province of British Colund)ia. 



Port Townsend, in Washington Territory, in the United States. 



San Francisco, in the State of CalitV)rnia, in th(; United States. 



2. Such licenses shall oidy be granted to sailing vessels. 



3. A zone of 20 miles around the Pribilof Islands shall be estab- 

 lished, within which no seal hunting shall be permitted at any time. 



4. A close season from the lath of Septeuiber to the 1st of July shall 



