Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-23
"AVAST, THERE!"
Harrison's Warning to Seal Poachers to
Stand AloOf.


Stand AloOf.
WASHINGTON, March 22d.-The following
proclamation was issued late this afternoon
by the President OF the United States ot
America;
PROCLAMATION.
The following provisions of the laws of the
United States are hereby published for the in
formation of all comers Section 1856 of the Re-
viSed Statutes, Chapters, Title 23 enacts that NO
person shall kill any otter mink, martin, sable or
fur seal, or other furbearing animal, within the
limit of Alaska Territory, or in the waters
thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall
for each ofenSe be fined not less than 500 nor
more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than
six months, or both and all vessels, their tackle
apparel. furniture and cargo found engaged in
the 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 ami
NAL, 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 of the Act entitled can Act to pro-
vide for the protection of the salmon fisheries
of Alaska" approved NJ arch q 1889, provides
that Section 81 section 1856 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States is hereby declared to
include and apply to all the dominion of the
United States in the waters of the Behring sea,
and 1t shall be the duty of the President, at a
timely season in each year, to issue his procla-
nation and cause the same to be published for
one month, at least, in one newspaper df 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 sec
ton, aud he shall also cause one or more YES
sells OF the United States to diligently cruise
said waters and arrest all persons and seize all
vessels found to be or which had been engaged
in any violation of the laws of the United States
therein
Now, therefore, !, Benjamin Harrison, Presi-
dent of the United 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 ,a56
of the Revised statutes; and 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 viii be arrested
and punished as above provided; and that all
vessels so employed, their tackle apparel fur
niture and cargoes will be seized and forfeited.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington
this ed day of March, 1889, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the both.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President: JAS. G. BLAINE, Secretary
of State.