Vol. 25, p. 1009. clared to include States. thousand 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 killing 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 Secretary 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: Laws prohibiting "Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United killing of fur-bearing animals in Alaska de- States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion waters of Behring Sea of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea, and it shall be in dominion of United 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 at least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering such 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." Persons warned against entering Beh violate laws. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United ring Sea intending to States, pursuant to the above recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Behring Sea within the dominion. of the United States, for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956, Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim, 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 fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE Secretary of State. BENJ HARRISON |