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then consisted solely of sections | and 2 of the Act as ultimately passed, 
and in that state if was passed by the Senate, almost without discussion. 
The Bill was then brought up before the House, and an amendment 
was offered by Mr. Dunn, which added a section 3, The amendment 
ran as erg 
244 “Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States was intended to include and apply, and is hereby 
declared to include and apply, to all the waters in Behring’s Sea in 
Alaska embraced within the boundary lines mentioned and deseribed 
in the Treaty with Russia, dated 50th March, A. D. 1867, by which the 
Territory of Alaska was ceded to the United States; 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 published at each United States port of entry 
on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said territory 
and 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 dili- 
gently cruize 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:” and, after an explanation that the object 
of the amendment was solely the preservation of seals from extermina- 
tion, was passed. When the Bill came back to the Senate, the House 
amendment above cited was disagreed to; the objection being made 
that the amendment touched upon the question of the rights of the 
Government of the United States. These, it was maintained by Sena- 
tor Morgan, had not been considered, or intended be considered, in the 
original Senate Bill, and there was now no time to considera question of 
such importance. A Conference of the two Houses was consequently 
called, which agreed to recommend the adoption of the Bill, with an 
amendment to run as follows: 
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 States in the waters of Beh- 
Ting’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 States port of 
entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said waters for the 
purpose of violating the provisions of said sec tion; and he shall also cause one or 
more vessels of the United States to diligently cruize said waters, and arrest all per- 
sons and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been , engaged in any violation oi the 
Laws of the United States therein. 
In this shape the Bill was ultimately accepted by both Houses, the 
Conferrees from the lfouses recognizing that there was no time to allow 
of the discussion and passage of another Bill of similar import intro- 
duced into the House by Mr. Dunn. The approval and signature by 
the President were obtained on the last day of the Session. 
Further copies of the Act are herewith inclosed, together with the 
full report of the proceedings taken from the Cong ressional Record. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) H. G. EDWARDES. 
