4 LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO FUR-SEAL FISHING. 
of the act of April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety -four, but the 
limitations prescribed in said Act shall remain in full force. 
Sec. 7. That this Act shall not affect in any way the killing or taking 
of fur seals upon the Pribilof Islands, or the laws of the United States 
relating thereto. 
Sec. 8. That any officer of the Naval or Revenue Cutter Service of 
the United States, and any other officers duly designated by the Presi- 
dent, may search any vessel of the United States in port or on the high 
seas suspected of having violated or of having an intention to violate 
the provisions of this Act, and may seize such vessel and the offending 
officers and crew and bring them into the most accessible port of the 
States and Territory mentioned in section five of this Act for trial. 
Sec. 9. That the importation into the United States by^ any person 
whatsoever of fur-seal skins taken in the waters mentioned in this Act, 
whether raw, dressed, dyed, or manufactured, is hereby prohibited, and 
all such articles imported after this Act shall take effect shall not be 
permitted to be exported, but shall be seized and destroyed by the 
proper officers of the United States. 
Sec. 10. That the President shall have power to make all necessary 
regulations to carry this Act into effect. 
Approved, December 29, 1897. 
Under the provisions of the foregoing act of Congress it is unlawful 
for any citizen of the United States or any vessel thereof to engage in 
pelagic sealing at any time or in any manner , in the waters of the 
Pacific Ocean north of the thirty -fifth degree of north latitude, in the 
Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk, and it shall be the duty of vessels 
of the Revenue Cutter Service of the United States to seize any United 
States vessel found violating this law, whether during the open or 
dosed season prescribed in the regulations of the Paris Arbitration 
Tribunal, and to send or bring such vessel, her officers and crew into 
the most accessible port of the United States for trial. 
Regulations of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration. 
Whereas the following articles of the award of the Tribunal of 
Arbitration constituted under the treaty concluded at Washington the 
twenty-ninth of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, between 
the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, were delivered to the agents of 
the respective Governments on the fifteenth day of August, eighteen 
hundred and ninety-three: 
Article 1. 
The Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall forbid 
their citizens and subjects, respectively, to kill, capture, or pursue at 
any time, and in any manner whatever, the animals commonly called 
fur seals, within a zone of sixty miles around the Pribilof Islands, 
inclusive of the territorial waters. 
The miles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are geographical 
miles, of sixty to a degree of latitude. 
