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States, over the territory and waters witliin the limits referred to in 

 the treaty of 1SG7. 



By a subsequent act, passed March 2, 1SS9, section 1950 of tlie Eevised 

 Statutes, forbidding the kiHing of "any otter, mink, marten, sable or 

 fur seal, or other far-bearing animals within the limits of Alaska Terri- 

 tory, or in the waters thereof," was declared "to include and apply to 

 all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea;" 

 and it was made the duty of the President, at a timely season in eacli 

 year, to issue his proclamation warning all persons against entering 

 said waters for the i)urpose of violating the provisions of said section, 

 and to cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently 

 cruise said waters and arrest all persons, and seize all vessels found 

 to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation of the laws of the 

 United States therein. 



In execution of the above statutory provisions, the Secretary of the 



clothing (Inring other months, and also such old seals as may be reqnived for their 

 own clothing-, and for the mauufactnre of boats for their own use; and tlie killing 

 in such cases shall be limited and controlled by such regulations as may be pro- 

 scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Src. 1'JIjI. It shall be unlawful to kill any female seal, or any seal loss than one 

 year old, at any season of the year, except as above provided; and it shall also be 

 unlaAvfnl to kill any seal in the waters adjacent to the islands of Saint Paul and 

 Saint George, or on the beaches, cliffs or rocks where they haul up from the sea to 

 remain; and every person who violates the provisions of this or the preceding sec- 

 tion shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars 

 nor more than one thousand dolkirs, or by inipiisonment not more than six months, 

 or by both such fine and imprisonment; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, and 

 furniture, whose crews are found engaged in the violation of either this or the pre- 

 ceding section, shall be forfeited to the United States. 



Sec. 1962. For the period of twenty years from the first of July, eighteen hun- 

 dred and seventy, the number of fur-seals which may bo killed for their skins upon 

 the Island of Saint Paul is limited to seventy-five thousand per annum, and the 

 number of fur-seal which may be killed for their skin upon the Island of Saint 

 George is limited to twenty-five thousand; but the Secretary of the Treasury may 

 limit the right of killing, if it becomes necessary for the preservation of such seals, 

 with such proportionate reduction of the rents reserved to the Government as may 

 be proper; and every person who knowingly violates either of the provisions of 

 this section shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. 



Sec. 1963. When the lease heretofore made by the Secretary of the Treasury to 

 the Alaska Commercial Company of the right to engage in taking fur-seals on tho 

 islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, pursuant to the act of tho first .July, 1870, 

 chapter one hundred and eighty-nine,or when any future similar lease expircs,or is sur- 

 rendered, forfeited or terminated, the Secretary shall lease tojiroperand responsible 



