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RUSSIA. 



CODE OF RUSSIAN LAWS GOVERNING RURAL INDUSTRIES. 



[Translation.] 



[Vol. Xir, Part TI. Edition of 1885. St. Petersburg.] 



THE USTINSK SEALING INDUSTRY IN THE WHITE SEA. 



Sec. 233. The Ustiusk industry consists in the killing of seals on the 

 ice of the Gulf of Mesensk. 



Note. — The limits of the Gulf of Meseusk, to which these rules apply, are fle- 

 scribed by a straight line running from Cape Voronof to Cape Kautin, through the 

 southeastern extremity of the island Morshovtsa. 



Sec. 234. The management of the killing as well as the division of 

 products is left to the hunters. 



Sec. 235. For the purpose of determining the time for beginning 

 the killing and to see to the preservation of order and system, over- 

 seers are selected every three years from the following districts of the 

 town of Mezen: Koida, JSTishe, Dolgoi Shtchel, Semshi, Lamposhni, and 

 Kargopol. For every twenty boats an overseer must be appointed, 

 and for this purpose the districts are combined as follows: Koida with 

 Nishe, Dolgoi Shtchel with Kargopol, Mezen with Semshi and Lam- 

 IDOshni. If after division by twenty boats ten or more boats are left 

 over a special overseer must be appointed, but if the number of boats 

 left over numbers less than live no overseer need be selected. 



Sec. 236. The overseers assemble in the town of Mezen about the 

 twentieth of March and appoint the day Avhen the sealers are to put 

 to sea. The day of departure must be determined and publicly an- 

 nounced in the townships named above (in sec. 235) not later than the 

 25th of March. 



Sec. 237. The places of departure for the Ustiusk sealing are Cape 

 Abramof and Gape ISTerinsk, where those desiring to engage in sealing 

 must assemble on the appointed day. 



Sec. 238. The day appointed for departure for the Ustiusk sealing 

 grounds from Cape Nerihsk must always be four days earlier than 

 that set for Cape Abramof, so that if. for instance, the 10th day of 

 April has been set for Abramof, the sealers must set out from Nerinsk 

 on the 6th of April. 



Sec. 239. During the continuance of the hunt it is strictlyfobidden to 

 light fires to windward of the groups or hauling grounds of seals, or 

 to alarm them in any way. 



Sec. 240. Persons guilty of violation of the above rules are liable to 

 prosecution under article 57 of the Penal Code for Eural Courts and to 

 confiscation of the whole catch. The boat to whi(;h the violator of the 

 law belongs will be held responsible for the penalty imposed. 



THE FISHING AND SEALING INDUSTRIES IN THE CASPIAN SEA. 



Sec. 432. The catching of fish and killing of seals in the waters of 

 the Casx)ian Sea included in the Russian Empire, are free to all Avho 

 desire to engage in the same, except in certain localities hereafter de- 

 fined in section 439, under observance of the rules herewith established. 



Sec. 435, For the right of fishing in the sea a license fee will be 



