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Arr. LVII. It is forbidden to set or anchor nets, or any other fishing implement, in any place where 
herring or mackerel drift-net fishing is going on. 
Art. LVIII. No boat shall be made fast or held on to the nets, buoys, floats, or to any part of the 
fishing tackle belonging to another boat. 
Art. LIX. It is forbidden to all persons to hook or lift up the nets, lines, or other fishing implements 
belonging to others, under any pretence whatsoever. 
Art. LX. When nets of different boats get foul of each other, the masters of the said boats shall 
not cut them, except by mutual consent, unless it shall have been found impossible to clear them by 
other means. 
Art. LXI. All fishing boats, all rigging, gear, or other appurtenances of fishing boats, all nets, 
buoys, floats, or other fishing implements whatsoever, found or picked up at sea, shall, as soon as possible, 
be delivered to the Collector of Customs, if the article saved be taken into England, and to the Com- 
missary of Marine, if the article saved is taken into France. 
Art. LXII. The Collector of Customs, or the Commissary of Marine, as the case may be, shall restore 
the articles saved to the owners thereof or to their representatives. 
These functionaries may, when the circumstances are such as to call for it, award to the salvors a 
suitable compensation for their trouble and care. This compensation, which shall in no case exceed 
one-fourth of the actual value of the articles saved, shall be paid by the owners. 
Art. LXIII. The execution of the regulations concerning the fittings of nets and the size of their 
meshes, the weight and dimensions of fishing instruments, and, in short, concerning every thing 
connected with the implements of fishing, is placed, with respect to the fishermen of each of the two 
nations, under the exclusive superintendence of the cruisers and agents of their own nation. 
Nevertheless the Commanders of the cruisers of each nation shall mutually acquaint the Com- 
manders of the other nation with any transgressions of the above-mentioned regulations, committed 
by the fishermen of the other nation, which may come to their knowledge. 
Art. LXIV. Infractions of regulations concerning the placing of boats, the distances to be observed, 
the prohibition of certain fisheries by day or by night, or during certain periods of the year, and 
concerning every other operation connected with the act of fishing, and more particularly as to 
circumstances likely to cause damage, shall be taken cognizance of by the cruisers of both nations, 
whichever may be the nation to which the fishermen guilty of such infractions may belong. 
Art. LXV. The commanders of cruisers of both countries shall exercise their judgment as to the 
causes of any transgressions committed by British or French fishing boats in the seas where the said 
boats have the right to fish in common; and when the said Commanders shall be satisfied of the fact of 
the transgression, they shall detain the boats having thus infringed the established Regulations, and may 
take them into the port nearest to the scene of the occurrence, in order that the offense may be duly 
established, as well by comparing the declarations and counter declarations of parties interested, as by 
the testimony of those who may have witnessed the facts. 
Art. LXVI. When the offence shall not be such as to require exemplary punishment, but shall, 
nevertheless, have caused injury to any fisherman, the Commanders of cruisers shall be at liberty, 
should the circumstances admit of it, to arbitrate at sea between the parties concerned, and on refusal 
of the offenders to defer to their arbitration, the said Commanders shall take both them and their boats 
into the nearest port, to be dealt with as stated in the preceding Article. 
Art. LXVII. Every fishing boat which shall have been taken into a foreign port, under either of 
the two preceding Articles, shall be sent back to her own country for trial as soon as the transgression 
for which she may have been detained shall have been duly established. Neither the boat nor her crew 
shall, however, be detained in the foreign port more than four days. 
Art. LXVIII. The depositions, minutes of proceedings, and all other documents concerning the 
transgression, after being authenticated by the Collector of Customs, or by the Commissary of Marine 
according to the country into which the boat may have been taken, shall be transmitted by that func- 
tionary to the Consular Agent of his nation residing in the port where the trial is to take place. 
This Consular Agent shall communicate these documents to the Collector of Customs, if in the United 
Kingdom, or to the Commissary of Marine, if in France; and if, after having conferred with that func- 
tionary, it shall be necessary for the interest of his countrymen, he shall proceed with the affair before 
the competent tribunal or magistrates. 
