6 LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO FUR-SEAL FISHING. 
vessels and propelled wholly 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 
protection and preservation of the fur seals, shall remain in force 
until they have been, in whole or in part, abolished or modified by 
common agreement 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. 
The above regulations of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration are still 
in force as applicable to British vessels. The closed season for pelagic 
sealing is therein fixed from the first of May to the thirty-first of J uly, 
both inclusive, during which period it is unlawful for British vessels 
to kill, capture, or pursue the fur seals on the high seas in the Pacific 
Ocean north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, or eastward of 
the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude. Under said regu- 
lations British vessels are permitted to engage in pelagic sealing after 
the thirty-first of July, but in the performance of said sealing they are 
forbidden to enter within a zone of sixty miles around the Pribilof 
Islands. It shall be the duty of vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service 
detailed to patrol the waters above described to seize any British vessel 
found violating the said regulations of the Paris Arbitration Tribunal, 
and send or bring the vessel so offending, with all persons on board, 
together with the proofs and declarations of the officer making the 
seizure, to Unalaska and deliver her to the senior British naval officer 
present, or to the most convenient port in British Columbia and there 
deliver her to the proper authorities of Great Britain or to the com- 
manding officer of any British vessel charged with the enforcement of 
said regulations. 
