260 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 178. 
Mr, Edwardes to the Marquis of Sealab urge vasen ted by telegraph, 
March 23.) 
WASHINGTON, March 23, 1889. 
My Lorp: I have had the honour to inform your Lordship to-day, by 
telegraph, that a Proclamation was issued late yesterday afterngon by 
the President, warning all persons against entering the waters of 
Behring’s Sea within the domain of the United States for the purpose 
of violating the provisions of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes 
relating to ‘the killing of fur-bearing animals, and that, if found doing 
SO, they will be arrested and their vessels, apparel, &e., will be seized. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) H. G. KL DWARDES., 
Moris: 
Mr, Edwardes to the Marquis of Salishury.—(Received by telegraph, 
March 23.) 
WASHINGTON, March 23, 1889. 
My Lorp: In obedience to your Lordship’s instructions received in 
your telegram of to-day’s date, I had the honour to send to you, by tele- 
graph, the exact terms of the President’s Proclamation issued yester- 
day afternoon, which he issued under the authority granted to him by 
the Act of the 2nd March, 1889, providing for the protection of the 
salmon fisheries of Alaska. 
This Proclamation, copies of which I have the honour to inclose, 
warns all persons against violating the laws of the United States in 
the waters of Behring’s Sea, with regard to killing fur bearing animals, 
the penalty for such violation being arrest of person and seizure and 
confiscation of vessels, apparel, We. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) H. G. EDWARDES. 
[Inclosure in No. 179.] 
Extract from the ‘Washington Post” of March 23, 1889. 
ALASKA WITHOUT A GOVERNOR.—A PROCLAMATION REGARDING FUR-BEARING 
ANIMALS AND SALMON.—Governor A. P. Swineford some time since wrote out his res- 
ignation as Governor of Alaska, and sent it to the Interior Department, where it 
remains unacted upon. Since then the Governor wrote that he should leave Alaska 
for home on the 6th March, so that he is now out of the territory, and Alaska is with- 
out an executive head. 
The following Proclamation was issued late yesterday afternoon: 
A Proclamation. 
By the President of the United States. 
The following provisions of the Laws of the United States are hereby published 
for the information of all concerned: 
235 Section 1956 Revised Statutes, chapter 3, title 23, enacts that— 
No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or other fur- 
bearing animal, within the limits of Alaska territory, or in the waters thereof; and 
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