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Aleuts, or Eskimos dwelling on the coast of the waters mentioned in 

 Article III, who carry on pelagic sealing in canoes not transported by 

 or used in connection with other vessels, and propelled entirely by 

 oars, paddles, or sails, and manned by not more than five persons each, 

 in the way hitherto practiced and without the use of firearms; pro- 

 vided that such hunters are not in the employment of other persons or 

 under contract to deliver the skins to any person. 



Article VIII 



1. Each Party agrees that no person or vessel shall be permitted 

 to use any of its ports or harbors or any part of its territory for 

 any purpose designed to violate the prohibition set forth in Article 

 III. 



2. Each Party also agrees to prohibit the importation and de- 

 livery into and the traffic within its territories of skins of fur seals 

 taken in the area of the Notth Pacific Ocean mentioned in Article 

 III, except only those taken by the Union of Soviet Socialist He- 

 publics or the United States of America on rookeries, those taken 

 at sea for research purposes in accordance with the Schedule, those 

 taken under the provisions of Article VII, those confiscated under 

 the provisions of Article VI, paragraph 5, and those inadvertently 

 captured which are taken possession of by a Party ; provided, how- 

 ever, that all such excepted skins shall be officially marked and duly 

 certified by the authorities of the Party concerned. 



Article IX 



1. The respective Parties agree that, of the total number of seal- 

 skins taken commercially each season on land, there shall at the 

 end of the season be delivered a percentage of the gross in number and 

 value thereof as follows : 



By the Union of Soviet Socialist to Canada 15 per cent 



Republics to Japan 15 per cent 



By the United States of to Canada 15 per cent 



America to Japan 15 per cent 



2. Each Party agrees to deliver such sealskins to an authorized 

 agent of the recipient Party at the place of taking, or at some other 

 place mutually agreed upon by such Parties. 



3. In order more equitably to divide the direct and indirect costs of 

 pelagic research in the Western Pacific Ocean, it is agreed : 



(a) that in any year in wliich commercial killing is carried out 

 for both the Commander and Robben Islands herds and pelagic 

 research in that area is carried on at a level of 2,000 or more seals: 



(1) Canada and Japan will forego the delivery of the seal- 

 skins by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as set forth 

 in paragraph 1 of this Article ; and 



(2) the United States of America will increase its delivery 

 to Canada and Japan as set forth in paragraph 1 of this 



