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Your proceedings, as reported in that despatch, and the terms of 
your note to Mr. Blaine of the 8th February, are approved by Her 
Majesty’s Government, 
Iam, &e. (Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 231. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received March 5.) 
WASHINGTON, February 23, 1892. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to report that on the 15th instant the 
President issued the usual Behring’s Sea Proclamation in the same 
terms as heretofore. : 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
[Inclosure in No. 231.] 
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A Proclamation. 
The following provisions of the Laws of the United States are hereby published 
for the information of all concerned: 
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 every person guilty 
thereof shall, for each offence, be fined pot less than 200 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 kill- 
ing 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 Secre- 
tary to prevent the killing of any fur seal, and to provide for the execution 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 March 2, 1889, provides that: 
“Section 3. 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 Behring’s Sea; and it shall be the duty of the President, at a timely sea- 
son 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 Pacitic 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 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.” 
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 dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating 
the provisons of said section 1956, Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim 
153 += 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 15th day of February, 1892, and of the Inde- 
pendence of the United States the 116th. 
(Signed) BrENJ. HARRISON. 
By the President: 
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. 
