112 ACTION OP THE UNITED STATES. 



No. 2015. 



United States of America, 

 depaetment of state. 



To all lolwm these presents shall come, greeting: 



I certify that a proclamation, of wliich the annexed is a true copy, was 

 issued by the President of the United States in the year 1889, and that 

 a proclamation of similar purport was issued by him in each of the fol- 

 lowing years, to wit: 1890, 1891, and 1892. 



In testimony wliereof I, John W. Foster, Secretary of State of the 

 United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal 

 of the Department of State to be affixed. 



Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of July, A. D. 1892, 

 and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hun- 

 dred and seventeenth. 



[SEAL.] John W. Foster. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



A Proclamation. 



The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby 

 published for the information of all concerned : 



Section 1956, Kevised Statutes, chapter 3, title 23, enacts that "■ jSTo 

 person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or far seal, or other fur- 

 bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory, or in the waters 

 thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall, for each offense, be lined 

 not less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or im- 

 prisoned not more than six months, or both, and all vessels, their tackle, 

 apparel, furniture and cargo, found engaged in violation of this section 

 shall be forfeited, but the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power 

 to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or other fur- 

 bearing animal, except fur seals, under such regulations as he may pre- 

 scribe, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to prevent the killing 

 of any fur seal, and to jirovide for the execution of the provisions of this 

 section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall he grant any 

 special privileges under this section." 



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Section 3 of the act entitled " An act to provide for the protection of 

 the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides that : 



Sec. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby de' 

 clared to include and apply to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of 

 Behring Sea, and it shall be the duty of the President at a timely season in each year, 

 to issue his proclamation, and cause the same to bo 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 pur- 

 pose 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 perstms 

 and seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws 

 of the United States therein. 



Now therefore I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, 

 pursuant to the above recited vstatutes, hereby warn all persons against 

 entering the waters of Behring Sea, within the doniiniou of the United 



