490 FOREIGN STATUTES. 



VI. The number of tlie crew on foreign vessels sLall never exceed 

 twenty live. 



VII. The warrants and permits mentioned in these regulations author- 

 ize their lioklers to setu]) along the coast provisional buildings to store 

 the products of the lishing and for their preparation. 



VIII. Ill order to set up said buildings it shall be necessary first to 

 secure license from the most available municipal authority, the crews of 

 the vessels being subject to the laws of tlie land from the moment such 

 permission is requested. The said municipal authority can not grant 

 the license save when the warrant or permit of the respective maritime 

 house is produced. 



IX. The municipal authority shall assign the place where such build- 

 ing can be erected for the time covered by the ])ermit. 



X. The maritime (nistoms guards are at liberty at anytime whatso- 

 ever to visit the fishing or diving establishments and to inspect the ves- 

 sels assigned to that service,'to the end that under cover of the conces- 

 sion there may be no smuggling of foreign goods as against the provi- 

 sions of the general customs ordinance. 



XI. Incase of smuggling discovered delito infranganti, the belongings 

 of the company and the vessels shall be confiscated, while, in accord- 

 ance with the stijmlations of the maritime customs ordinance, the req- 

 uisite judicial proceedings shall be had and the imposition of the fines. 



Xri. In accord with experts and practical intelligent persons, the 

 collectors of customs shall determine the time when pearl fishing may 

 be engaged in, such fishing not to be permitted when there is any dan- 

 ger of injuring or destroying the mother shell. 



XIII. The customs collectors shall designate the territory or space 

 wherein any concessionaire may conduct tishing, diving, or other like 

 operations, placing requisite signs or marks to the end that the inter- 

 ests of any third party shall not be injured. The extent of such terri- 

 tory shall be designated in the permit issued. 



XIV. Mexican or foreign vessels which may engage in fishing or div- 

 ing traffic in violation of this regulation and the general laws of the 

 Eepublic shall be fined, such fine being imposed by the collector of cus- 

 toms at the point nearest to the scene of arrest, the fine to be in the 

 sum stipulated under the law, the offending vessel to be held in the port 

 until such fine be satisfied. 



XV. These regulations written in Spanish, French, English, and Ger- 

 man shall be posted up in a conspicuous place in each of the maritime 

 custom-houses. 



Mexico, March 16, 1872. 



Romero. 



DEC5EE OF APRIL 21, 1874. 



[Tiauslatiou.] 



Depaetment of the Treasuey, etc., 



^Section 5', Table 5. 

 The President of the liepublic has been pleased to address me the 

 following decree: 



Sebastian liCido De Tejada, Constitutional President of the United 

 Mexican States, to the inliabitants thereof: Know Ye, 



That the Congress of tlu^ TTnion has seen fit <o decree the following: 



The Congress of the Union decrees: 



Art. 1. The pearl hsheries along the coast of Lower California shall 



