108 ; U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
mulgated in accordance with the terms thereof, operative in the waters specified in 
Article III of this convention, as to any or all of the other species of salmon, including 
steelhead. It is understood that such special agreement shall on the part of the 
United States be made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate thereof. Such special agreement shall be binding only when 
confirmed by the two Governments by an exchange of notes. Such special agreement 
shall be promulgated as provided in Article II hereof. 
ARTICLE VII. 
This convention shall remain in force for a period of fifteen years, and thereafter 
until two years from the date when either of the High Contracting Parties shall give 
notice to the other of its desire to terminate this convention. 
ArticLE VIII. 
The present convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic 
Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as practicable. 
IN FAITH WHEREO?P, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present 
convention in duplicate and thereunto affixed their seals. 
Done at the City of Washington this second day of September, in the year one 
thousand nine hundred and nineteen. 
ROBERT LANSING, (Seal) 
R. C. LINDSAY, Seal) 
J. D. HAZEN. Seal} 
APPENDIX. 
INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE SOCK- 
EYE SALMON FISHERIES OF THE FRASER RIVER SYSTEM. 
SECTION 1. 
The following regulations shall apply to the waters described in Article III of the 
convention of September 2, 1919, between the United States and Great Britain, to 
which these regulations are appended,, to-wit: 
(Here is inserted the description of the waters affected, as already set forth in Article 
III above.) 
SECTION 2. 
DEFINITIONS. 
“Drift net” shall mean a floating gill net that is neither anchored nor staked, but 
that floats freely with the tide or current. 
“‘Trap net” shall include a pound net. 
‘‘Commission” shall mean the International Fisheries Commission appointed under 
the convention to which these regulations are appended. 
‘“Treaty waters” shall mean all waters described in Article III of the convention 
to which these regulations are appended. 
SECTION 3. 
(a) Fishing for sockeye salmon in the treaty waters within the territorial limits 
of the State of Washington, shall not be permissible except under license from such 
state, and in the treaty waters of Canada except under license under the provisions 
of the fisheries act of Canada. 
(b) Nogreater number of licenses for any class of fishing appliance shall be authorized 
in any year in the treaty waters within the territorial limits of the State of Washington 
than were issued for such class for the season of 1918, up to August 31st, inclusive 
thereof, and in the treaty waters of Canada the number of gill nets that may be licensed 
in any year shall not exceed 1,800. 
(c) No license shall be granted to any person or partnership in the State of Wash- 
ington unless such person or each member of such partnership shall be an American 
citizen, resident in said State, and no license shall be granted to any joint-stock com- 
pany or corporation in said State, unless the officers, directors and the holders of a 
majority of the stock thereof, are American citizens, or unless it is authorized to do 
business in the said State; and no license shall be granted to any person, company 
or firm in the Province of British Columbia unless such person is a British subject 
