236 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PKIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Notbinpr herein contained is intended to interfere with the employment of Indians 

 as hunters or otlierwise in connection witli fur sealing vessels, as heretofore. 



Artiile 9. 



The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the i)rotection 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 (xreat Britain. 



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

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

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



DECLARATIONS MADE BT THE TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION AND REFERRED TO THE 

 aOFFRNMENTS OF THE FNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR THEIR CONSID- 

 ERATION. 



[Eliglinli 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 2!)th 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 

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



ir. 



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

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

 think tit 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 i)roper 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 i)owers; 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 ORUilNAI. 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. liichardson. Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of 

 an act of Congress ai)proved July 1, 1870, entitled "An act to ])reventthe extermina- 

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



