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mulgated in accordance with the terms thereof, operative in the waters specified in 

 Article III of ihis convention, as to any or all of the oth(>r s])pcies of salmon, including 

 Bteelhead. It is understood that such special agreement shall on the part of the 

 United States he made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate thereof. Such special agreement shall be binding only when 

 confirmed by th(> two Governments by an exchange of notes. Such special agreement 

 shall be promulgated as provided in Article II hereof. 



Article VII. 



This convention shall remain in force for a period of fifteen years, and thereafter 

 until two years from the date when either of the High Contracting Parties shall give 

 notice to the other of its desire to terminate this convention. 



Article VIII. 



The present convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States, 



by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic 



Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as practicable. 



IN FAITH WHEUEOF, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present 



convention in duplicate and thereunto affixed their seals. 



Done at the City of Washington this second day of September, in the year one 

 thousand nine hundred and nineteen. 



ROBERT LANSING, (Seal) 

 R. C. LINDSAY, (Seal) 



J. D. HAZEN. (Seal) 



APPENDIX. 



international regulations for the protection and preservation of the sock- 

 eye salmon fisheries of the eraser river system. 



Section 1. 



The following regulations shall api)ly to the waters described in Article III of the 

 conveiitiiin of September 2, 191!), between the United States and Great Britain, to 

 which these regulations are appended, to-wit: 



(Here is in.-erted the description of the waters affected, as already set forth in Article 

 III above.) 



Section 2. 



dehinitions. 



"Drift net" shall mean a floating gill net that is neither anchored nor staked, but 

 that floats freely with the tide or current. 



"Trap net" shall include a pound net. 



"Commission" shall mean the International Fisheries Commission appointed under 

 the convention to which these regulations are appended. 



"Treaty waters" shall mean all waters descriljed in Article III of the convention 

 to which "these regulations are api)ended. 



Section 3. 



(a) Fishing for soclceye salmon in the treaty waters within the territorial limits 

 of the State of Washington, shall not be permissible except under license from such 

 state, and in the treaty waters of Canada except under license under the provisions 

 of the fisheries act of Canada. 



(h) No greater number of licenses for any class of fishing appliance shall be authorized 

 in any year in the treaty waters within the territorial limits of the State of Washington 

 than were issued for such cla-ss for the season of 1!)18, up to August 31st, inclusive 

 thereof, ancl in the treaty waters of Canada the number of gill nets that may l^e licensed 

 in any year shall not exceed 1,800. 



(c) No license shall be granted to any person or partnership in the State of Wash- 

 ington unless such person or each member of such partnership shall be an American 

 citizen, resident in said State, and no license shall be granted to any joint-stock com- 

 pany or corporation in said State, unless the officers, dire "tors and the holders of a 

 majority of the stock thereof, are American citizens, or unless it is authorized to do 

 business in the said State; and no license shall l)e granted to any person, company 

 or firm in the Province of British Columbia unless such person is a British subject 



