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Article IX 



Every national or inhabitant, vessel or lx)at of the United States 

 of America or of the Dominion of Canada, that engages in sock- 

 eye salmon fishing on the High Seas embraced in paragraph numbered 

 I'of Article I of this Cojivention, in violation of an order or regulation 

 adopted by the Commission, under the authority of this Convention, 

 may be seized and detained by the duly authorized officers of either 

 High Contracting Party, and when so seized and detained shall be 

 delivered by the said officers, as soon as practicable, to an authorized 

 official of tlie country to which such person, vessel or boat belongs, 

 at the nearest point to the place of seizure, or elsewhere, as may be 

 agreed upon with the competent authorities. The authorities of 

 the country to which a person, vessel or boat belongs alone shall 

 have jurisdiction to conduct prosecutions for the violation of any 

 order or regulation, adopted by the Commission in respect of fishing 

 for socke5^e salmon on the High Seas embraced in paragraph num- 

 bered 1 of Article I of this Convention, or of any law or regulation 

 which either High Contracting Party may have made to carry such 

 order or regulation of the Commission into effect, and to impose 

 penalties for such violations ; and the witnesses and proofs necessary 

 for such prosecutions, so far as such witnesses or proofs are under 

 the control of the other High Contracting Party shall be furnished 

 with all reasonable promptitude to the authorities having jurisdiction 

 to conduct the prosecutions. 



Article X 



The High Contracting Parties agree to enact and enforce such 

 legislation as may be necessary to make effective the provisions of 

 this Convention and the orders and regulations adopted by the Com- 

 mission under the authority thereof, with appropriate penalties for 

 violations. 



Article XI 



The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the 

 United States of America, by and with the adVice and consent of the 

 Senate thereof, and by His Majesty in accordance with consti- 

 tutional practice, and it shall become effective upon the date of the 

 exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Washington as 

 soon as possible and shall continue in force for a period of sixteen 

 years, and thereafter until one year from the day on which either 

 of the High Contracting Parties shall give notice to the other of its 

 desire to terminate it. 



In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the 

 present Convention, and have affixed their seals thereto. 



Done in duplicate at Washington on the twenty-sixth day of May, 

 one thousand nine hundred and thirty. 



[seal] Henry L. Stimsgn- 



[seal] Vincent Masse y 



And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both 

 parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged 



