The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-09
President Issues the Annual
Bering Sea Proclamation.
THE sAYwARD CASE POSTPONED.
Celebration Of the Centennial of the
American Patent System.
The Cruiser San Francisco Dispatched to
Chiie-Giaring Frauds In the Man
aSement Of the Mare Island Navy
Yard-Thc Aiert's Repairs.

WASHINGTON CRY, April s.-The prcsi-
oent has issued the following prociama-
ton:
me following provisions Of the laws OF the
tnitcd states are hereby Published for the infer
nation OF all concerned: section $50 oil the Re-
vsed Statutes. chapter -. title - enacts that no
person Shall kill any otter, mink, mayten, sable
or i'ir seal or other fur bearing animal within
the limits OF Alaska territory or within the
waters thereof, aud any person guilty thereof
shall Tor each oifense be fined not hiss than
$2o' nor more than 81 900 or imprisonment not
more than six months. or both. and the
vessels, their tackle, apparel. furniture and
cargo, found engaged in the violation of this
secfion shall be forfeited, but the secretary o;
the treasury shall have power TO authorize the
HiLius oil any such mink. otter, marten. sable or
other fur-aearirg animal except fur seals under
sich regulations he may prescribe. and il
shall be the duty OF the secretary to prevent the
killing OF sny fur seal and provide for the exc
cution of the provisions OF this section until il
Is otherwise provided by law. Nor shall he
grant any sfe@i-l privilege under section OF
the act entitled AN act to provide for
the protection Ct the salmon fisheries in
Alaska. approved March =. lssa. (which pro-
vidcs that section 1,a56 Of the Revised statutes
is hereby declared TO include and apply TO all the
dominion of the United States in the waters of
bcitu SCH. dHu II SHdl &c the duty OF the prfSg
dent at timely season in each year to issue his
proclamation and cause the same to be pub
lished for one month at least in one newspaper,
II any there be. published at each United States
port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all
peraans against entering such waters for the
purIssse of violating the provisions OF said sec
ton. and he shall cause one or more vessels of
the United Ssres to diligently cruise these
waters and arrest ssi perseas and seize all vessels
found TO have been engaged In any violation OF
the laws of the United States therein.
Now. therefore, ]. Bsnj.nin Harrison. presi-
dent OF the United States, pursuant to the above
Revised Statutes. hereby warn all persons against
entering the waters of Bering sea within the
dominion of the United States for the purpose
Of violating the proyis' of said section la5s;,
Of the revised statutes, snd ! hereby proclaim
that all persons found to be. or to have been en-
gagcd in any violation OF the laws of the United
States in said waters will be arrested and pun
ishcd as above provided. and that all vessels so
employed, their tackle, their apparel, furniture
aud cargoes, will be seized and forfeited
Argument before the United States
supreme court in the case of the schooner
Sayward. involving the Question of juris-
diction of the United States over Bering
sea, was postponed until the 18th inst,
and will not take place next Monday. The
government could not have the case ready.