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3. On the west: 
(1) By a straight line drawn from Gris Nez Light-house (France) to the easternmost light- 
house at South Foreland (England). 
(2) By the eastern coasts of England and Scotland. 
(3) By astraight line joining Duncansby Head (Scotland) and the southern point of South 
Ronaldsha (Orkney Islands). 
(4) By the eastern coasts of the Orkney Islands. 
(5) By a straight line joining North Ronaldsha Light-house (Orkney Islands) and Sumburgh 
Head Light-house (Shetland Islands). 
(6) By the eastern coasts of the Shetland Islands. 
(7) By the meridian of North Unst Light-house (Shetland Islands) as far as the parallel of 
the 61st degree of latitude. 
Art. V. The fishing boats of the high contracting parties shall be registered in accordance with 
the administrative regulations of each country. For each port there shall be a consecutive series of 
numbers, preceded by one or more initial letters, which shall be specified by the superior competent 
authority. 
Each Government shall draw up a list showing these initial letters. 
This list, together with all modifications which may subsequently be made in it, shall be notified 
to the other contracting powers. 
Art. VI. Fishing boats shall bear the initial letter or letters of the port to which they belong, and 
the registry number in the series of numbers for that port. 
Art. VII. The name of each fishing boat, and that of the port to which she belongs, shall be painted 
in white oil colour on a black ground on the stern of the boat, in letters which shall be at least eight 
centimétres in height and twelve millimétres in breadth. 
Art. VIII. The letter or letters and numbers shall be placed on each bow of the boat, eight or ten 
centimétres below the gunwale, and so as to be clearly visible. They shall be painted in white oil 
colour on a black ground. 
The distance above mentioned shall not, however, be obligatory for boats of small burden, which 
may not have sufficient space below the gunwale. 
For boats of fifteen tons burden and upward the dimensions of the letters and numbers shall be 
forty-five centimétres in height and six centimétres in breadth. 
For boats of less than fifteen tons burden the dimensions shall be twenty-five centimétres in height 
and four centimétres in breadth. 3 
The same letter or letters and numbers shall also be painted on each side of the mainsail of the 
boat, immediately above the close reef, in black oil color on white or tanned sails, and in white oil color 
on black sails. 
The letter or letters and numbers on the sails shall be one-third larger in every way than those 
placed on the bows of the boat. 
Arr. IX. Fishing boats may not have, either on their outside or on their sails, any names, letters, 
or numbers other than those prescribed by Articles VI, VII, and VIII of the present convention. 
Art. X. The names, letters, and numbers placed on the boats and on their sails skall not be effaced, 
altered, made illegible, covered, or concealed in any manner whatsoever. 
Art. XI. All the small boats, buoys, principal floats, trawls, grapnels, anchors, and generally 
all fishing implements, shall be marked with the letter or letters and numbers of the boats to which 
they belong. 
These letters and numbers shall be large enough to be easily distinguished. The owners of the 
nets or other fishing implements may further distinguish them by any private marks they think proper. 
Art. XII. The master of each boat must have with him an official document, issued by the proper 
authority in his own country, for the purpose of enabling him to establish the nationality of his boat. 
This document must always give the letter or letters and number of the boat, as well as her descrip- 
tion and the name or names of the owner or the name of the firm or association to which she belongs. 
Art. XIII. The nationality of a boat must not be concealed in any manner whatsoever. 
Arr. XIV. No fishing boat shall anchor, between sunset and sunrise, on grounds where drift-net 
fishing is actually going on. 
This prohibition shall not, however, apply to anchorings which may take place in consequence of 
accidents or of any other compulsory circumstances. 
