166 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Art. XXVII. The execution of the regulations respecting the document establishing nationality, 
the marking and numbering of boats, etc., and of fishing implements, as well as the presence on board 
of instruments which are forbidden (Articles VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XXIII, sec. 2), 
is placed under the exclusive superintendence of the cruisers of the nation of each fishing boat. 
Nevertherless, the commanders of cruisers shall acquaint each other with any infractions of the 
above-mentioned regulations committed by the fishermen of another nation. 
Art. XXVIII. The cruisers of all the high contracting parties shall be competent to authenticate 
all infractions of the regulations prescribed by the present Convention, other than those referred to in 
Article XXVII, and all offences relating to fishing operations, whichever may be the nation to which 
the fisherman guilty of such infractions may belong. 
Art. XXIX. When the commanders of cruisers have reason to believe that an infraction of the 
provisions of the present convention has been committed, they may require the master of the boat 
inculpated to exhibit the official document establishing her nationality. The fact of such document 
having been exhibited shall then be indorsed upon it immediately. 
The commanders of cruisers shall not pursue further their visit or search on board a fishing boat 
which is not of their own nationality, unless it should be necessary for the purpose of obtaining proof 
of an offence or of a contravention of regulations respecting the police of the fisheries. 
Art. XXX. The commanders of the cruisers of the signatory powers shall exercise their judgment 
as to the gravity of facts brought to their knowledge, and of which they are empowered to take cogni- 
zance, and shall verify the damage, from whatever cause arising, which may be sustained by fishing 
boats of the nationalities of the high contracting parties. 
They shall draw up, if there is occasion for it, a formal statement of the verification of the facts as 
elicited both from the declarations of the parties interested and from the testimony of those present. 
The commander of the cruiser may, if the case appears to him sufficiently serious to justify the 
step, take the offending boat into a port of the nation to which the fisherman belongs. He may 
even take on board the cruiser a part of the crew of the fishing boat in order to hand them over to the 
authorities of her nation. 
Art. XXXI. The formal statement referred to in the preceding Article shall be drawn up in the 
language of the commander of the cruiser, and according to the forms in use in his country. 
The accused and the witnesses shall be entitled to add, or to have added, to such statement, in 
their own language, any observations or evidence which they may think suitable. Such declarations 
must be duly signed. 
Art. XXXII. Resistance to the directions of commanders of cruisers charged with the police of 
the fisheries, or of those who‘act under their orders, shall, without taking into account the nationality 
of the cruiser, be considered as resistance to the authority of the nation of the fishing boat. 
Art. XXXIII. When the act alleged is not of a serious character, but has nevertheless caused 
damage to any fisherman, the commanders of cruisers shall be at liberty, should the parties concerned 
agree to it, to arbitrate at sea between them, and to fix the compensation to be paid. 
Where one of the parties is not in a position to settle the matter at once, the commanders shall 
cause the parties concerned to sign in duplicate a formal document specifying the compensation to 
be paid. 
One copy of this document shall remain on board the cruiser and the other shall be handed to the 
master of the boat to which the compensation is due, in order that he may, if necessary, be able to 
make use of it before the courts of the country to which the debtor belongs. 
Where, on the contrary, the parties do not consent to arbitration, the commanders shall act in 
accordance with the provisions of Article XXX. 
Art. XXXIV. The prosecutions for offences against, or contraventions of, the present convention 
shall be instituted by, or in the name of, the State. 
Art. XXXY. The high contracting parties engage to propose to their respective Legislatures the 
necessary measures for ensuring the execution of the present Convention, and particularly for the 
punishment by either fine or imprisonment, or by both, of persons who may contravene the provsions 
of Articles VI to XXIII inclusive. 
Art. XXXVI. In all cases of assault committed, or of willful damage or loss inflicted, by fishermen 
of one of the contracting countries upon fishermen of another nationality, the courts of the country to 
which the boats of the offenders belong shall be empowered to try them. 
