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TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO FISHERIES 



in the preceding paragraph must 

 be made, shall be one year, dating 

 from the day on which French 

 authority shall be established 

 over the territory in which the 

 persons in question have been 

 born. 



Native laws and customs now 

 existing will, as far as possible, 

 remain undisturbed. 



In the lies de Los, for a period 

 of thirty years from the date of 

 exchange of the ratifications of 

 the present Convention, British 

 fishermen shall enjoy the same 

 rights as French fishermen with 

 regard to anchorage in all weath- 

 ers, to taking in provisions and 

 water, to making repairs, to trans- 

 shipment of goods, to the sale of 

 fish, and to the landing and dry- 

 ing of nets, provided always that 

 they observe the conditions laid 

 down in the French Laws and 

 Regulations which may be in 

 force there. 



Article VIII. 



To the east of the Niger the 

 following line shall be substituted 

 for the boundary fixed between 

 the French and British posses- 

 sions by the Convention of the 

 14th June, 1898, subject to the 

 modifications which may result 

 from the stipulations introduced 

 in the final paragraph of the 

 present Article. 



Starting from the point on the 

 left bank of the Niger laid down 

 in Article III of the Convention 

 of the 14th June r 1898, that is to 

 say, the median line of the Dallul 

 Mauri, the frontier shall be 

 drawn along this median line un- 

 til it meets the circumference of 

 a circle drawn from the town of 

 Sokoto as a centre, with a radius 

 of 160,932 metres (100 miles). 

 Thence it shall follow the north 

 em arc of this circle to a point 



vue au paragraphs precedent sera 

 d'un an a dater du jour de l'in- 

 stallation de l'autorite Franchise 

 sur le territoire ou seront nees les 

 dites personncs. 



Les lois et coutumes indigenes 

 actuellement en vigueur seront 

 respectees autant que possible. 



Aux lies de Los, et pendant une 

 periode de trente annees a partir 

 de l'echange des ratifications de la 

 presente Convention, les pecheurs 

 Anglais benefieieront en ce qui 

 concerne le droit d'ancrage par 

 tous les temps, d'approvisionne- 

 ment et d'aiguade, de reparation, 

 de transbordement de marchan- 

 dises, de vente de poisson, de des- 

 cente a terre et de sechage des 

 filets, du meme regime que les 

 pecheurs Frangais, sous reserve, 

 toutefois, par eux de l'observation 

 des prescriptions edictees dans les 

 Lois et Reglements Frangais qui 

 y seront en vigueur. 



Article VIII. 



A l'est du Niger, et sous reserve 

 des modifications que pourront y 

 comporter les stipulations in- 

 serees au dernier paragraphe du 

 present Article, le trace suivant 

 sera substitue a la delimitation 

 etablie entre les possessions Fran- 

 caises et Anglaises par la Conven- 

 tion du 14 Juin, 1898 :— 



Partant du point sur la rive 

 gauche du Niger indique a 1' Ar- 

 ticle III de la Convention du 14 

 Juin, 1898, c'est-a-dire, la ligne 

 mediane du Dallul-Maouri, la 

 frontiere suivra cette ligne medi- 

 ane jusqu'a sa rencontre avec la 

 circonference d'un cercle decrit 

 du centre de la ville de Sokoto 

 avec un rayon de 160,932 metres 

 (100 milles). De ce point, elle 

 suivra Pare septentrional de ce 

 cercle jusqu'a un point situe a 5 



