162 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Art. XXX. In all cases of assault committed or of damage or loss inflicted at sea by fishermen of 
either country upon fishermen of the other country, the Courts of the country to which the offenders 
belong shall condemn the latter to a fine of at least eight shillings (10 francs), or to imprisonment for 
at least two days. They may, moreover, condemn the offenders to pay adequate compensation for the 
injury. 
ArT. XXXI. Fishing boats of either of the two countries shall be admitted to sell their fish in 
such ports of the other country as may be designated for that purpose, on condition that they conform 
to the regulations mutually agreed upon. ‘Those regulations, together with a list of the ports, are 
annexed to the present Convention, but without prejudice to the opening by either country of any 
additional ports. 
Art. XXXII. The fishing boats of the one country shall not enter within the fishery limits fixed 
for the other country except under the following circumstances: 
1. When driven by stress of weather or by evident damage. 
2. When carried in by contrary winds, by strong tides, or by any other cause beyond the 
control of the master and crew. 
3. When obliged by contrary winds or tide to beat up in order to reach their fishing ground; 
and when from the same cause of contrary wind or tide they could not, if they remained outside, 
be able to hold on their course to their fishing ground. 
4. When, during the herring fishing season, the herring boats of the one country shall find it 
necessary to anchor under shelter of the coasts of the other country in order to await the oppor- 
tunity for proceeding to their fishing ground. 
5. When proceeding to any of the ports of the other country open to them for the sale of fish 
in accordance with the preceding article; but in such case they shall never have oyster dredges 
on board. 
Art. XXXIN. When fishing boats, availing themselves of the privilege specified in Article XXXI, 
shall have oysters on board they shall not carry any dredges or other implement for taking oysters. 
Art. XXIV. The commanders of eruizers may authorise boats belonging to their own country to 
cross the exclusive fishery limits of the other country whenever the weather is so threatening as to 
compel them to seek shelter. 
Art. XXXV. Whenever, owing to any of the exceptional circumstances specified in the three 
preceding Articles, the fishing boats of either country shall be in the ports or within the fishery limits 
fixed for the other country, the masters of such boats shall immediately hoist a blue flag two feet (60 
centimétres French) high, and three feet (1 métre French) long, and shall keep that flag flying at the 
masthead so long as they remain in such ports or within such limits. The flag shall be hauled down as 
soon as the boat is outside the said limits. 
Such boats must return outside the said limits as soon as the exceptional circumstances which 
obliged them to enter shall have ceased. 
Art. XXXVI. The commanders of the cruizers of each of the two countries, and all officers or other 
agents appointed to superintend fisheries, shall exercise their judgment as to infractions of the regula- 
tions with regard to the fishery limits, and when they shall be satisfied of the fact of the infraction 
they may detain the boats of the offenders, or cause them to be detained, and may take them, or cause 
them to be taken, into port, where, upon clear proof of the offence, such boats may be condemned by 
the competent Court or magistrate to a fine not exceeding ten pounds (250 francs). In default of 
payment, such boats may be detained for a period not exceeding three months 
In case of repetition of the offence the fine may be doubled. 
Art. XXXVII. The proceedings and trial in cases of infraction of the provisions of the present 
~ Convention shall take place as speedily and as summarily as the laws in force will permit. 
Art. XXXVIII. The terms “ British Islands” and ‘‘ United Kingdom,” employed in this Conven- 
tion, shall include the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, with their dependencies. 
ArT. XXXIX. Her Britannic Majesty engages to recommend to Parliament to pass an Act to enable 
her to carry into execution such of the arrangements contained in the present Convention as require 
legislative sanction. Whensuchan Act shall have been passed, the Convention shall come into operation 
from and after a day to be then fixed upon by the two High Contracting Parties. Due notice shall be 
given in each country by the Government of that country of the day which may be so fixed upon. 
