264 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to 
establish such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this 
prohibition is strictly enforced, and to otherwise protect the salmon fisheries of 
Alaska; and every persou who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions 
of this section shall be fined not less than 250 dollars for each day of the continuance 
of such obstruction. 
Src. 2. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby empowered and 
directed to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and distribution of 
the salmon of Alaska, as well as the present conditions and methods of the fisheries, 
with a view of recommending to Congress such additional legislation as may be 
necessary to prevent the impairment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and 
placing them under regular and permanent conditions of production. 
Sec. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby 
declared to include and apply to all the dominion cf the United States in the waters 
of Behring’s 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 be published for one 
month in at least one newspaper, if any such there be published at each United 
238 = States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering 
said 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. 
Approved March 2, 1889, 
No. 184. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 4, 1889. 
Srr: Tam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit, for the 
information of Secretary Lord Knutsford, a copy of a despatch from 
Mr. Edwardes, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington,* on the 
question of the sale of the three british vessels seized by the United 
States authorities in 1887 when engaged in seal fishing in Behring’s 
Sea, and I am to request that you will move his Lordship to furnish 
Lord Salisbury with any observations he may have to offer on Mr. 
Kdwardes’ despatch. 
lam, &e. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
No. 185. 
Mr. Edwardes to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received April 5.) 
[Extract.] 
WASHINGTON, March 25, 1889. 
I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith extracts of 
the correspondence which has been published in response to a Senate 
tesolution of the 2nd January, 1889, upon the seal fisheries in Beh- 
ring’s Sea. 
* No. 182. 
