298 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Committee concur in the foregoing résumé and recommendation of the Minister 
of Marine and Fisheries, and they advise that your excellency be moved to forward 
a copy of this Minute, together with the inclosures, to the Right Honourable the 
Secretary of State for the “Colonies. 
The Committee further advise that the High Commissioner for Canada be directed 
to place himself in personal communication with the Secretary of State, so as to 
afford him any further information that may be desired, all which is respectfully 
submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
‘Signed) Joun J. McGur, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
APPENDICES. 
50th Congress, 2nd session, H. R. 12432.—(Report. No. 3883.) 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
JANUARY 29, 1889.—Read twice, recommitted to the Committee on Merchant Marine 
and Fisheries, and ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Dunn, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, reported the fol- 
lowing Bill: 
A Bill to Amend Section 1963 of the Revised Statutes, and to provide for the better Protec- 
tion of the Fur-Seals and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, and for other Purposes. 
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, that section 1963 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States be amended so as to read as follows: 
“Section 1963. Within one year prior to the time when the lease heretofore made 
by the Secretary of the Treasury to ‘the Alaska Commercial Company’ of the right 
to engage in taking fur-seals on the islands of Saint Paul and St. George ,pursuant to 
the Act of the Ist July, 1870, chapter 189, or when any future similar lease expires 
or is surrendered, forfeited, or terminated, the Secretary of the ‘Treasury shall lease 
to proper and responsible parties for the best advantage of the United States, having 
due regard to the interests of the Government, the native inhabitants, their comfort, 
maintenance, and education, as well as to the interest of the parties heretofore 
engagedin the trade and the protection of the fisheries, the right of taking fur-seals 
on the islands herein named, and of sending a vessel or vessels to the islands for the 
skins of such seals, for the term of twenty years, at an annual rental of not less 
than 50.000 dollars, to be reserved in such lease and secured by a deposit of United 
States bonds to that amount; and the additional sum of not less than 3 dols. 50. for 
each fur-seal skin taken and shipped from the islands of St. Paul and St. George 
during the continuance of any lease to be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States, and every such lease shall be duly executed in duplicate and shall not be 
transferable; and the Secretary of the Treasury is empowered to make all need ful 
Regulations for the collection and payment of the same, and to secure the comfort, 
maintevance, education, and protection of the natives of those islands, and also 
270 ~=—to carry into full effect all the provisions of this chapter, except as otherwise 
prescribed. And he shall give at least sixty days’ notice of the letting of said 
lease by publication in at least one daily paper published in the cities of Boston, New 
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, W ashington, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and 
San Francisco, inviting bids for the same.” 
Sec. 2. 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 
of Behring’s Sea in Alaska embraced within the boundary-lines mentioned and 
described in the Treaty with Russia, dated the 30th March, A. p. 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 enter- 
ing 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 diligently 
eruize 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. 
Sec. 3. That section 1969 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the 
same is hereby, repealed. 
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