156 BULLETIN or THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



i8q6 U. S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. 



Lease of Alaska seal islands, etc. Letter from tlie Secretary of tlie Treasury, replying to the 

 House resolution of the 7th ultimo in regard to tlie lease of the seal islands and the policing 

 of Bering Sea. Washington, 1896. 3 p. (54Lh Cong., ist sess.. House Doc. 197.) 

 U. S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. 



Fiu'-bearing animals in Alaska . . . Report <to accompany H. R. 32o6Xfrom Committee 

 . . . favoring bill, to amend act to prevent extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska 

 [by providing for commission to arrange modus vivendi, and for destruction of herd in 

 default of same]) February 20, 1896. Washington, 1896. 2 p. (54th Cong., ist sess.. House 

 Rept. 451.) 

 U. S. Congress. Committee on Ways and Means. 



Fur seals. A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur- 

 bearing animals in Alaska," and for otlicr purposes. Hearing before Committee on Ways 

 and Means . . . Bill under discussion: H. R. 3206. Washington, 1896. 21 p. (S4tll 

 Cong., ist sess., House Rept. 3206.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



Act [Senate bill 2997 making appropriations for commission] to provide for fulfillment of 

 treaty between United States and Great Britain signed February 8, 1896 [as to Bering 

 Sea controvcrs>'], approved May 7, 1896. (In Stat. L., v. 29, p. 115.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



. . . Letter from Henry W. Elliott, of Cleveland, Ohio, relative to condition and driving 

 of fur seals on the Pribilof IsUmds, Bering Sea, Alaska. April 14, 1896. Washington. 1896. 

 6 p. (54tli Cong., 1st sess.. Senate Doc. 215.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



Joint resohition to autliorize scientific investigation of fur-seal fisheries. Approved June 8, 

 1896. (54th Cong., 1st sess., Senate Doc. 155.) Also in Stat. L., v. 29, p. 475. 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



. . . The Vice President presented tlie following letter from Acting Secretary of the Treasury, 

 inclosing a communication from N. L. Jeffries, attorney for the Nortli American Commercial 

 Company, lessee of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, protesting against the 

 proposition to destroy fur seals by order of the United States, as contemplated by bill 

 3206, which recently passed tlie House. [Washington, 1896.] i p. (54th Cong., ist sess.. 

 Senate Doc. 162.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. 



Report ^to accompany H. R. 32o6>(from committee favoring bill to amend "act to prevent 

 extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska " [by providing for commission to arrange 

 modus vivendi, and for destruction of herd in default of same]). Washington, 1896. i p. 

 (54tli Cong., ist sess., Senate Rept. 402 [pt. i]). 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. 



Vie wsof tlie minority, <;to accompany H. R. 32o6>- (adverse to House bill 3206, to amend ' ' act 

 to prevent extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska " [by providing for commission 

 to arrange modus vivendi, and for destruction of herd in default of same]), April 16, 

 1896. Washington, 1896. 7 p. (54th Cong., ist sess.. Senate Rept. 402, pt. 2.) 

 U. S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. 



Fur-seal fisheries . . . Report <to accompany H. Res. I9i> [favoring joint resolution to 

 authorize scientific investigation of seal herd]. Washington, 1896. i p. (S4th Cong., 

 ist sess. , House Rept. 2095. ) 

 U. S. President. 



Proclamation [declaring sec. 1956, Revised Statutes, to be applicable to waters designated 

 in award of Tribunal of Arbitration under treaty between United States and Great Britain 

 concluded Feb. 29, 1892; concerning] fur-seal fisheries, April 14, 1896. Washington, 1896. 

 2 p. 



