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Arr. XXII. All fishing boats, all rigging gear or other appurtenance; 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 Receiver of Wreck if the article saved be taken into the United Kingdom, and to the 
Commissary of Marine if the article saved be taken into France. 
The Receiver of Wreck 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 shall fix the amount which the owners shall pay to the salvors. 
Art. XXIII. The execution of the regulations concerning lights and signals, licences, muster rolls, 
and official papers, the lettering and numbering of boats and implements of fishing, is placed, with 
respect to the fishermen of each of the two nations, under the exclusive superintendence of the cruizers 
and agents of their own nation. 
Nevertheless, the commanders of the cruizers of one of the two nations shall acquaint the com- 
manders of the cruizers of the other nation with any infractions of the above-mentioned regulations 
committed by the fishermen of such other nation which may come to their knowledge. 
Art. XXIV. Allinfractions of the regulations concerning the placing of boats on the fishing ground, 
the distances to be observed between them, the prohibition of oyster fishing during a portion of the 
year, and concerning every other operation connected with the act of fishing, and more particularly 
concerning circumstances likely to cause damage, shall be taken cognizance of by the cruizers of either 
nation, whichever may be the nation to which the fishermen guilty of such infractions may belong. 
Art. XXV. The commanders of cruizers of either country shall exercise their judgment as to the 
causes of any infractions brought to their knowledge, or as to damage arising from any cause what- 
ever committed by British or French fishing boats in the seas beyond the fishery limits which have 
been fixed for the two countries; they may detain the offending boats and take them into the port 
nearest the scene of the occurrence, in order that the infraction or damage may be there duly estab- 
lished, as well by comparing the declarations and counter declarations of the parties interested as by 
the testimony of those who were present. 
Arr. XXVI. When the offense shall not be such as to require exemplary punishment, but shall 
nevertheless have caused damage to any fisherman, the commanders of the cruizers shall be at liberty, 
should the circumstances admit of it, to arbitrate at sea between the parties concerned. 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. XXVII. Every fishing boat which shall have been taken into a foreign port in conformity 
with the two preceding Articles shall be sent back to her own country for trial as soon as the infraction 
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 three clear days. 
Art. XXVIII. The depositions, minutes of proceedings, and all other documents concerning the 
infraction, after having been authenticated by the Collector of Customs in the United Kingdom, or by 
the Commissary of Marine in France, shall be transmitted by that functionary to the consular agent of 
his nation residing in the port where the trial is to take place. 
Such Consular Agent shall communicate those documents to the Collector of Customs, or to the 
Commissary of Marine, as the case may be; and if, after having conferred with that functionary, it shall 
be necessary for the interest of his countrymen, he shall proceed with the affair before the competent 
tribunal or magistrates of the country. 
Art. XXIX. In both countries the competent court or magistrate shall be empowered to condemn 
to a fine of at least eight shillings (ten francs), or to imprisonment for at least two days, persons who 
may infringe the regulations of the convention concerning— 
1. The close season for oysters, and illegal possession of dredges on board during that season, 
. The letters, numbers, and names to be placed on the boats, sails, nets, and buoys. 
. The licenses or muster rolls. 
. The flags and lights to be carried by the boats. 
The distances to be observed by the boats between each other. 
. The placing and anchoring of vessels and boats. 
. The placing and shooting of nets and the taking them up. 
. The clearing of nets. 
. The placing of buoys upon nets. 
In case of repetition of the offence the amount of fine or period of imprisonment may be doubled. 
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