290 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



ARTICLE 5. 



The masters of the vessels engaged in fur-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, firearms, 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 lawfully 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 paddles, oars, or sails, and manned by not 

 more than five persons each in the way hitherto practiced 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 country, 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 employ- 

 ment 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 pro- 

 tection and preservation of the fur seals shall remain in force until they 

 have been in whole or in part abolished or modified by common agree- 

 ment 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. 



And whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty did submit 

 to the Tribunal of Arbitration by Article VI II of the said treaty cer- 

 tain questions of fact involved in the claims referred to in said Article 

 VIII, and did also submit to us, the said tribunal, a statement of the 

 said facts, as follows, that is to say: 



FINDINGS OF FACT PROPOSED BY THE AGENT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND AGREED TO 

 AS PROVED BY THE AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES AND SUBMITTED TO THE 

 TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION FOR ITS CONSIDERATION. 



1. That the several searches and seizures, whether of ships or goods, and the sev- 

 eral arrests of masters and crews, respectively, mentioned in the schedule to the 



