506 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
458 ARTICLE II. 
On receipt of On receipt of the Report of the Commission, and of any separate 
teport of Com- Reports which may be made by individual Commissioners, the High 
perc onan Contracting Parties will proceed forthwith to determine what Inter- 
Regulations tobe PAtional Regulations, if any, are necessary for the purpose aforesaid, 
forthwith deter- and any Regulations so agreed upon shall be embodied in,a further 
mined. Convention, to which the accession of the other Powers shall be invited. 
ARTICLE III. 
Arbitration. In case the High Contracting Parties should be unable to agree 
upon the Regulations to be adopted, the questions in difference shall 
be referred to the arbitration of an impartia' Government, who shall 
duly consider the Reports hereinbefore mentioned, and whose award 
shall be final, and shall determine the conditions of the further 
Convention. 
ARTICLE IV. 
Pending the Report of the Commission, and for six months after 
the date of such Report, the High Contracting Parties agree to adopt 
and put in force as a temporary measure, and without prejudice to 
the ultimate decision of any of the questions in difference in relation 
to the said fishery, the Regulations contained in the next following 
Articles Nos. V to X inclusive. 
Provisional 
Regulations. 
ARTICLE V. 
5 A line of demarcation, to be called the ‘seal fishery line,” shall be 
ee fishery drawn as follows: 
5 From Point Anival at the southern extremity of the Island of Sag- 
halien in the Sea of Ochotsk, to the point of intersection of the 50th 
parallel of north latitude with the 160th meridian of longitude east 
from Greenwich, thence eastward along the said 50th parallel to its 
point of intersection with the 160th meridian of longitude west from 
Greenwich. 
ARTICLE VI. 
J The subjects and citizens of the High Contracting Parties shall be 
Close time. = prohibited from engaging in the fur-seal fishery and the taking of 
seals by land or sea north of the seal fishery line from the 1st May to 
the 30th June, and also from the Ist October to the 30th December. 
ARTICLE VII. 
Prevention of During the intervening period, in order more effectively to prevent 
inarauders. the surreptitious landing of marauders on the said breeding islands, 
vessels engaged in the fur-seal fishery, and belonging to the subjects 
and citizens of the High Contracting Parties, shall be prohibited from 
approaching the said islands within a radius of 10 miles. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
Further pro- The High Contracting Parties may, pending the Report of the Com- 
visional Regula- mission, and on its recommendation or otherwise, make such further 
tious. temporary Regulations as may be deemed by them expedient for better 
carrying out the provisions of this Convention ana the purposes 
thereof. 
ARTICLE IX. 
Penaltyforvio- Eyvery vessel which shall be found engaged in the fur-seal fishery 
lation of provi- contrary to the prohibitions provided for in Articles VI and VII, or in 
ene ale violation of any Regulation made under Article VIII, shall, together 
with her apparel, equipment, and contents, be liable to forfeiture and 
confiscation, and the master and crew of such vessel, and every person 
belonging thereto, shall be liable to fine and imprisonment. 
