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Article 5. 



The masters of the vessels engaged in tur-seal fishing shall enter accurately 

 in their official log book the date and place of each fur-seal fishing operation, 

 and also the number and sex of the seals captured upon each day. These 

 entries shall be communicated by each of the two Governments to the other at 

 the end of each fishing season. 



Article 6. 



The use of nets, fire arms, and explosives shall be forbidden in the fur-seal 

 fishing. This restriction shall not apply to shotguns when such fishing takes 

 place outside of Bering Sea, during the season when it may be lawfullv carried on. 



Article 7. 



The two Governments shall take measures to control the fitness of the men 

 authorized to engage in fur-seal fishing; these men shall have been proved fit to 

 handle with sufficient skill the weapons by means of which this fishing may be 

 carried on. 



Article 8. 



The regulations contained in the preceding articles shall not apply to Indians 

 dwelling on the coasts of the territory of the United States or of Great Britain 

 and carrying on fur-seal fishing in canoes or undecked boats not transported by 

 or used in connection with other vessels and propelled wholly by paddles, oars, 

 or sails and manned by not more than five persons each in the way hitherto 

 practised by the Indians, provided such Indians are not in the employment of 

 other persons, and provided that, when so hunting in canoes or undecked boats, 

 they shall not hunt fur seals outside of territorial waters under contract for the 

 delivery of the-skins to any person. 



This exemption shall not be construed to affect the municipal law of either 

 county, nor shall it extend to the waters of Bering Sea or the waters of the 

 Aleutian Passes. 



Nothing herein contained is intended to interfere with the emplovment 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 bv common agreement between the 

 Governments of the United States and of Great Britain. 



