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every person guilty thereof shall, for each offence, be fined not less than 200 dollars, 
nor more than 1,000 dollars, or imprisoned 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 prescribe, and it shall be the duty 
of the Secretary to prevent the killing of any fur seal, and to provide for the execu- 
tion of the provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall 
he grant any special privileges under this section. 
Section 3 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the protection of the Salmon 
Fisheries of Alaska,” approved the 2nd March, 1889, provides that 
Section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby declared to 
include and apply to all the dominion of the United Statesin the waters of Behring’s 
Sea, and it shall be the duty of the Presidentat a timely 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 Ceast, 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 of 
the vessels of the United States to diligently cruize said waters, and arrest all per- 
sous 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 Statutes, hereby warn 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 said section 1956 Revised Statutes, and I hereby proclaim that all 
persons found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the Laws of the 
United States in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and 
that all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargoes, will be 
seized and forfeited. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the 
United States to be affixed. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of March, 1889, and of the Independ- 
ence of the United States the 113th. 
(Signed) BENJ. HARRISON. 
By the President, 
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE, 
Secretary of State. 
Sailing orders have been sent to the United States steamer ‘‘ Thetis” at the Mare 
Island Navy Yard to proceed to Sitka, touching en route at such places as her com- 
manding officer may deem necessary. When she arrives at Sitka and communicates 
with the civil authorities she will, if the situation is quiet and her presence there is 
not required, continue on northward, and devote attention particularly to the whal- 
ing fleet and to other commercial interests of the United States in the waters about 
Behring’s Straits and the Arctic Ocean. 
As the whaling vessels usually leave the Arctic in the latter part of September, the 
presence of the ‘‘ Thetis” until then will add security to those engaged in that impor- 
tant industry, and the ‘‘ Thetis” will remain until they have taken their departure 
southward, taking care not to be caught in the ice. She will return to Sitka and 
await further instructions. 
No. 180. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received March 26.) 
DOWNING STREET, March 26, 1889. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to request that you will call 
the attention of the Marquis of Salisbury to the accompanying copy of 
a telegram from Washington which appeared in the “Times” of the 
23rd instant. 
As the Canadian sealing-vessels will shortly be proceeding to 
236 ~=—s the sealing-grounds in Behring’s Sea, Lord Knutsford would be 
giad if Lord Salisbury would telegraph to Her Majesty’s Chargé 
Affaires at Washington to ascertain whether the statement in the tele- 
gram is correct. 
