RUSSIA. 447 



ferred to in tliese regulations, and deferred action on which wonkl cause 

 injury and loss to the Government or private individuals, the Bureau 

 of Fisliing and Sealing Industries may talie the necessary steps and 

 report to the Governor of Astrakhan, who in his turn will immediately 

 assemble the Committee on Fishing and Sealing Industries, to act under 

 the provisions of sections 486 and 487. 



Sec. 448. The Bureau is charged with stationing, through its Inspec- 

 tors, light ships and buoys to determine the limits of the reserved 

 waters belonging to the Corps of Ural and Tersk Cossacks. 



Sec. 4J:i). The Bureau, under Instructions of the Ministry of Imperial 

 Property, will issue licenses for fishing or killing seals (tin plates with 

 a number to be affixed to the bow of the boats or to the forward part 

 of the sleds used for sealing on the ice). The necessary blanks, re- 

 ceipts, etc., will be furnished by the Public Treasury, upon requisition 

 and statement as to the number required. 



Sec. 455. The Bureau of Fishing and Sealing Industries is charged 

 with the collection of fees and fines and with the sale by auction of all 

 confiscated property. If such property has been seized outside of 

 Astrakhan and its shipment to that place is not convenient, the local 

 fiscal authorities nearest to the place of seizure may be entrusted with 

 such sale, in the presence of one of the officials of the Bureau. 



Tlie Bureau receives the reports of the Police of Fishing and Sealing 

 Industries of all violations of the regulations, and inaugurates pro(;eed- 

 ings against offenders in accordance with the respective sections of this 

 Code. ' 



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Sec. 498. Of the three Inspectors of the Sealing Industry one is sta- 

 tioned on Kulali Island, where tlie principal kdling is done, to enforce 

 comi)!iance with the protective regulations. 



Sec. 499. The principal duty of the other two Inspectors consists in 

 the collection of the duties on seal oil shipped to Astrakhan for trans- 

 mission to the interior provinces of Russia. 



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Sec. 535. The sealing industry is free over the whole extent of the 

 Cas])ian Sea specified in section 432. 



Sec. 530. The sealers may Avinter on the sealing grounds, with the ex- 

 ception of the localities Avhere seals haul up for breeding. All who 

 desire to make use of this privilege must procure an annual license. 



Sec. 537. The killing of seals must be begun by all sealers at one and 

 the same time, and for this purpose they will assemble at a certain 

 point for consultation, duly notifying the Inspector at Kulalinsk to en- 

 able him to be present. From the point selected all sealers depart to- 

 gether, accompanied by the Inspector, without waiting for any who may 

 fail to appear in time. 



Sec. 53S. The so-called '^driving" of seals, i. e., driving them into 

 stationary nets by shouting and discharging firearms, is prohibited on 

 all islands and coasts where the seals haul up for breeding. At all 

 other places driving is permitted, unless it interferes with other fish- 

 eries. 



Sec. 540. The killing of seals in the winter, the old as well as the 

 young, or white seals (for which the men go out on the ice with horses) 



