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Article III. 



ARBITUATION. 



In caso the High Contracting Parties shonld be nnable to agree npon the regula- 

 tions to bo adopted, tlie questions in difference shall be referred to the arbitration 

 of an impartial government, who shall duly consider the reports hereinbefore men- 

 tioned, and whose award shall be linal, and shall deterniiuo the conditions of the 

 further Convention. 



AUTICLE IV. 



PROVISIONAL rp:gulations. 



Pending the report of the Commission and for six months after the date of such 

 report, the High Contracting Parties agree to adopt and put in force as a temporary 

 measure and without prejudice to the ultimate decision of any of the questions in 

 difference in relation to the said fishery, the regulations contained in the next follow- 

 ing articles Nos. 5 to 10 inclusive. 



Article V. 



SEAL FISHERY LINE. 



A line of demarcation to be called the "seal fishery line" shall be drawn as 

 follows: 



From Point Anival at the southern extremity of the Island of Saghalien in the Sea 

 of Ochotsk to the point of intersection of the 50th parallel of north latitude with 

 the IGOth meridian of longitude east from Greenwich, thence eastward along the 

 said .^)Oth parallel to its point of intersection with the IGOth meridian of longitude 

 west from Greenwich, 



Article VI. 



close time. 



The subjects and citizens of the High Contracting Parties shall be prohibited from 

 engaging in the fur-seal iishery and the taking of seals by land or sea nortli of the 

 seal fishery line from the 1st of May to the 30th of June, and also from the 1st of 

 October to the 30th of December. 



Article VII. 



prevention of marauders. 



Dnring the intervening period in order more effectively to prevent the surreptitious 

 landing of marauders on the said breeding islands, vessels engaged in the fur-seal 

 fishery and belonging to the subjects and citizens of the High Contracting Parties, 

 shall be prohibited from approaching the said islands within a radius of ten miles. 



Article VIII. 



further provisional regulations. 



The High Contracting Parties may, pending the report of the commission, and on 

 its recommendation or otherwise, make such further temporary regulations as may 

 be deemed by them expedient for better carrying out the provisions of this conven- 

 tion and the purposes thereof. 



Article IX. 



penalty for violation op provisional regulations. 



Every vessel which shall be found engaged in the fur-seal fishery contrary to the 

 prohibitions provided for in articles 6 and 7, or in violation of any regulation made 

 under article 8, shall, together Avith her apparel, equipment, and contents, be liable 

 to forfeiture and confiscation, and the master and crew of such vessel, and every 

 person belonging thereto, shall be liable to fine and imprisonment. 



Article X. 



seizure for breach of provisional regulations, trial of offences. 



Every such offending vessel or person may be seized and detained by the naval or 

 other duly counnissioned officers of any of the High Contracting Parties, but they 

 shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities ot the nation to which 

 they respectively belong, who shall alone have jurisdiction to try the offence and 



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