مجموعة ٣٤/٧ "الرِق: تجارة الرقيق وتهريب الأسلحة: حق السُفُن البريطانية في البحر الأحمر والخليج الفارسي في القيام بالتفتيش" [و‎‎٢‎٨‎١] (٥٧٦/٥٦١)

must not be examined during the proceedings for the verification of
the flag unless the interested party consents thereto.
I he provisions as to the above-mentioned documents shall not
app!y to vessels only partially decked, having a maximum crew of ten
mien, and exclusively employed in fishing within territorial waters.
Article 14.
Authority to fly the flag of one of the High Contracting Parties
within the zone of maritime supervision specified in Article 6 (3) shall
be granted only to such native vessels as satisfy all the three following
conditions:
1. The owners must be nationals of the Power whose flag they
claim to fly.
2. They must furnish proof that they possess real estate in the
district of the authority to which their application is addressed, or
must supply a solvent security as a guarantee for any fines to which
they may become liable.
3. Such owners, as well us the captain of the vessel, must furnish
proof that they enjoy a good reputation, and especially that they have
never been convicted of illicit conveyance of the articles referred to
in the present Convention.
Ihe authorisation must be renewed every year. It shall contain
the indications necessary to identify the vessel, the name, tonnage,
type of rigging, principal dimensions, registered number, and signal
letters. It shall bear the date on which it was granted and the status
of the official who granted it.
The name of the native vessel and the amount of her tonnage
shall be incised and painted in Latin characters on the stern, and the
initial letters of the name of the port of registry, as well as the
registration number in the series of the numbers of that port, shall
,be painted in black on the sails.
Article 15.
Native vessels to which, under the provisions of the last paragraph
of Article 13, the regulations relating to the manifest of the cargo are
not applicable, shall receive from the territorial or consular autho
rities, as the case may be, a special licence, renewable annually and
revocable under the conditions provided for in Article 19.
This special licence shall show the name of the ves.sel, her descrip
tion, nationality, port of registry, name of captain, name of owner
and the waters in which she is allowed to sail.
Article 16
The High Contracting Parties agree to apply the following rules
in the maritime zone specified in Article 6 (3): —