PERIOD SINCE THE CESSION. 83 



Statutes of the United States is liereby declared 



to include and apply to all the dominions of the 



United States in the waters of Behring Sea, and 



it shall be the duty of the President at a timely laimitiou." ^ ^'^^^ 



season in each year to issue his proclamation and 



cause the same to be published, for one month at 



least, in one newspaper (if any such there be) 



published at each United States port of entry on 



the Pacific coast, warning all persons against 



entering such waters for the purpose of violating 



the provisions of said section, and he shall also 



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." 



Annually since the enactment of this law the Vosseis seized in 



•^ . . 1889. 



President of the United States has issued his proc- 

 lamation accordingly,^ and in the year 1889 the 

 revenue cutters again seized vessels disregarding 

 its provisions, capturing in all six, five of which 

 were British.^ 



In the month of June, 1891, the United States The Modus n- 



' ' vcitdi, 



and Great Britain agreed upon the Modus Vivendij^ 

 under the terms of which both Governments 

 undertook to protect seal life in the waters of 



1 Vol. I, p. 112. 



'^ Table of vessels seized in Bering Sea, Vol. I, p. 108. 



» Vol. I, p. 317. 



