236 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Nothing herein contained is intended to interfere with the employment of Indians 

 as hunters or otherwise in connection with fur- sealing vessels, as heretofore. 



ARTICLE 9. 



The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the protection and 

 preservation of the fur seals shall remain in force until they have been in whole or in 

 part abolished or modified by common agreement between the Governments of the 

 United States and of Great Britain. 



The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new 

 examination, so as to enable both interested Governments to consider whether in the 

 light of past experience there is occasion for any modification thereof. 



DECLARATIONS MADE BY THE TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION AND REFERRED TO THE 

 GOVERNMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR THEIR CONSID- 

 ERATION. 



[English version.] 



I. 



The arbitrators declare that the concurrent regulations, as determined upon by 

 the Tribunal of Arbitration, by virtue of Article VII of the treaty of the 29th of 

 February, 1892, being applicable to the high sea only, should, in their opinion, be 

 supplemented by other regulations applicable within the limits of the sovereignty of 

 each of the two powers interested and to be settled by their common agreement. 



II. 



In view of the critical condition to which it appears certain that the race of fur 

 seals is now reduced in couseqtieuce of circumstances not fully known, the arbitrators 

 think fit to recommend both Governments to come to an understanding in order to 

 prohibit any killing of fur seals, either on land or at sea, for a period of two or three 

 years, or at least one year, subject to such exceptions as the two Governments might 

 think proper to admit of. 



Such a measure might be recurred to at occasional intervals, if found beneficial. 



III. 



The arbitrators declare moreover that, in their opinion, the carrying out of the 

 regulations determined upon by the Tribunal of Arbitration should be assured by a 

 system of stipulations and measures to be enacted by the two powers; and that the 

 tribunal must, in consequence, leave it to the two powers to decide upon the means 

 for giving effect to the regulations determined upon by it. 



TERMS OF THE ORIGINAL LEASE OF THE SEAL ISLAND WITH THE ALASKA COM- 

 MERCIAL COMPANY. 



This indenture in duplicate, made this 3d day of August, A. D. 1870, by and 

 between William A. Richardson, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of 

 an act cf Congress approved July 1, 1870, entitled " An act to prevent the extermina- 

 tion of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," and the Alaska Commercial Company, a 



