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invest] oration may sliow such removal of or other action to overcome 

 obstructions to be desirable. The Commission shall_ make an annual 

 report to the two Governments as to the investigations which it has 

 made and other action which it has taken in execution of the provisions 

 of this Article, or of other Articles of this Convention. 



The cost of all work done pursuant to the provisions of this Article, 

 or of other Articles of this Convention, including removing or other- 

 wise overcoming obstructions that may be approved, shall be borne 

 ecjually by the two Governments, and the said Governments agree 

 to appropriate annually such money as each may deem desirable for 

 such work in the light of the reports of the Commission. 



Article IV 



The Commission is hereby empowered to limit or prohibit taking 

 socke3'e salmon in respect of all or any of the waters described in 

 Article I of this Convention, provided that when any order is adopted 

 by the Commission limiting or prohibiting taking sockeye salmon in 

 any of the territorial waters or on the High Seas described in para- 

 graph numbered 1 of Article I, such order shall extend to all such 

 territorial waters and High Seas, and, similarly, when in any of the 

 waters of the United States of America embraced in paragraph num- 

 bered 2 of Article I, such order shall extend to all such waters of the 

 United States of America, and when in any of the Canadian waters 

 embraced in paragraphs numbered 2 and 3 of Article I, such order 

 shall extend to all such Canadian waters, and provided further, that 

 no order limiting or prohibiting taking sockeye salmon adopted by 

 the Commission shall be construed to suspend or otherwise affect the 

 requirements of the laws of the State of Washinglon or of the 

 Dominion of Canada as to the procuring of a license to fish in the 

 waters on their respective sides of the boundary, or in their respective 

 territorial waters em.braced in paragraph numbered 1 of Article I of 

 this Convention, and provided further that any order adopted by the 

 Commission limiting or prohibiting taking sockeye salmon on the High 

 Seas embraced in a paragraph numbered i of Article I of this Conven- 

 tion shall apply only to nationals and inhabitants and vessels and boats 

 of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. 



Any order adopted by the Commission limiting or prohibiting tak- 

 ing sockeye salmon in the Avaters covered by this Convention, or any 

 part thereof, sliall remain in full force and effect unless and until the 

 same be modified or set aside by the Commission. Taking sockeye 

 salmon in said waters in violation of an order of the Commission shall 

 be prohibited. 



Article V 



In order to secure a proper escapement of sockeye salmon during 

 the spring or chinook salmon fishing season, the Commission may 

 prescrilx^. the size of the meshes in all fishing gear and appliances 

 that may be operated during said season in the waters of the United 

 States of America and/or the Canadian waters described in Article I 

 of this Convention. At all seasons of the year the Commission may 

 prescribe the size of the meshes in all salmon fishing gear and ap- 

 pliances that may be operated on the High Seas embraced in para- 

 graph numbered 1 of Article I of this Convention, provided, however, 



