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be ostablislied, during which no pelagic sealing shall be x)crnnttcd in 

 Bebring Sea. 



5. No rities or nets shall be used in pelagic sealing. 



G. All sealing vessels shall be required to carry a distinguishing flag. 



7. Tlie masters in eharge of sealing vessels shall Iceep accurate logs 

 as to the times and places of sealing, the number and sex of the seals 

 captured, and shall enter an abstract thereof in their official logs. 



8. Licenses shall be subject to forfeiture for breach of above regula- 

 tions. 



Whence comes the power of this tribunal, asserted in this programme, 

 to bind Great Britain and the United States to enact laws requiring 

 all vessels engaged in pelagic sealing to obtain licenses at one or the 

 other o^ the following jiorts, viz: Victoria, Vancouver, Port Townsend, 

 and San Francisco? All o.f these are seaports on the Pacific Ocean, 

 and San Francisco is below the waters in which fur-seals are found or 

 hunted. 



To make this regulation the tribunal must go 2,000 miles south of 

 Behring Sea, with its authority, and enter the seaports of both Govern- 

 ments. 



Our authority, thus conceded, to make regulations to protect and 

 preserve the fur-seals in or habitually resorting to Bering Sea, must 

 not only enter within the ordinary 3-mile limit of each of these 

 sovereign powers, under this programme, but, while there, it must 

 destroy the pelagic hunting rights of all owners of steam vessels and all 

 the persons who hunt seals in canoes, by denying to them a license for 

 pelagic sealing. We must, while in these ports, disarm pelagic seal 

 hunters of rifles and nets while leaving to the licensees the use of the 

 deadly double-barreled shotguns, repeating pistols, and swivels. While 

 there w^e are expected to regulate navigation by creating a new inter- 

 national flag for the benefi t of the four i)orts that are given the monop- 

 oly, by these proposed regulations, of outfitting all licensed sealers 

 and, consequently, of handling the great spring catch. 



Tlien when we are engaged in establishing a close season during which 

 no pelagic sealing shall be permitted in Bering Sea, we must also fix 

 the boundaries of that sea, not yet fixed by any law or treaty. Othei-- 

 wise, we can not define the boundary that shall separate innocence 

 from guilt in pelagic sealing. 



Inside Bering Sea, we must fix and demark a zone of 20 miles around 

 the Pribilof Islands within which the seals shall live and pelagic 

 sealing shall perish. 



None of these various regulations — which would destroy some private 



