The herald., 1896-04-30
LEGAL NOTICES

FBBR SEAL FISHER1Es.) BY THE
PRESIDENT of the United States of
provisions of the law of the United States
are pHlsished hereby for the information
G. St,al az eonserned ss seGtion 1886 Revised
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
9nense, be fined not less than two hun
ored nor more than Cne thousand dollars,
or imprisonment not more than six months
or both; and all vessels, their tackle, APP
parei furniture and cargo, found engaged
IN violation of this section shall be for
feited: 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.
der such regulations as he may prescribe:
and 1t shall be the duty of the Secretary
to provide for the execution of the provis
ions OF this section until it is otherwise pro-
,lf vided by law nor shall he grant any spec
lal privileges under this section Sec
tion 8 of the Act entitled IAN act to pro-
vide for the projection of the salmon fish
provides: Sec. g. That section nineteen
hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Stat
utes OF the United States is hereby declared
OF the United States in the waters OF Ber-
ing Sea; and it shall be the duty of the
President, at timely season 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 pub
lished. at each United States port of entry
on the Pacific Coast warming all persons
against entering said waters for the pur-
| pose of violating the provisions of said sec
/ vessels of the United States to diligently
cruise said waters and arrest all persons.
and seize all vessels found to be- or to
nave been, engaged In any violation of the
I laws Of the United tSates therein" The
Act entitled IAN Act to extend to the North
/ PACIFIC Ocean the provisions of the stat
] protection fur-gpAlS
and other fur-bearing animals" approved
/ February 21, 1893 provides: That when
shall conclude an effective International
4 arrangement for the protection of fur
seals in the North Pacific Ocean, by agree
ment with any power, or as result of the
decision of the tribunal of arbitration un-
der the convention concluded between the
twenty ninth, eighteen hundred and nine
ty-tWo, and so long as such arrangement
shall continue, the provisions Of section
Vlsed Statutes, and all other provisions of
the Statutes of the United States, SO far
as as the same may be applicable; relative to
the protection of fur-seals and other fur
bearing animals within the limits of Alas
ka, or in the waters thereof. shall be ex-
Tended to and over all that portion of the
Pacific Ocean included in such interna-
tlonal arrangement. Whenever an effec-
tive international arrangement is conclud-
ed as aforesaid, 1t shall be the duty of the
President to declare that fact by proclama-
lion, and to designate the portion of the
|
that this Act has become Operatives and
| likewise, when such arrangement ceases.
to declare that fact and that this Act has
become imperative, and his proclamation
in respect thereto shall be conclusive. Dur
I Ing the extension aforesaid of said laws
for the protection of fur-seals or other
fur-bearing animals, all violations thereof
IN said designated portion of the Pacific
Ocean shall be held to be the same as if
the waters thereof. but they may be prose-
| cuted in the District Court of Alaska. or in
any. District Court Of the United States
arrangement having been made for the pro-
| lection of fur-seals as result of the dec!s-
| ion of the tribunal of arbitration under the
convention concluded as aforesaid, Febru-
ary. 20, 1892, which prohibits the killing Of
seals at any time within radius of sixty
| May. June and July in each year, in thar
I portion of the Pacific Ocean, inclusive of
Bering Sea, situated to the. north. of the
35th degree Of North Latitude. and East
ward of the 1S0th degree of Longitude from
| Greenwich until it strikes the water bound
ary described in Article One Of the Treaty
! of 1867 between the United States and Rus
/ sia, and following that line up to Bering
Straits; Now, therefore, be it known that
United States of America. hereby declare
that the said Act of Congress Of February
2l. 1S93 has become Operatives that. in ac-
cordance Herewith, SECTION 1856 of the
Revised Statutes is applicable to the wat
! ers above mentioned, included in the
| Award of the Tribunal at Paris given un-
| der the said convention of February 20,
| 1892, and that 1 have caused the foregoing
| laws specially to be proclaimed to the end
| observed. hereby proclaim every person
guilty of violation of the provisions of
I said laws and of other provisions of the
Statutes Of the United States, SO far as the
same may be applicable relative to the
| protection of fur-bearng animals within
| of, will be arrested and punished as there
| in provided, and all vessels SO engaged,
! their tackle apparel, furniture and cargo.
| will be seized and forfeited. In testimony
| whereof, have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of the United States to be
| this fourteenth day of April, in the year of
| Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| ninety-six. and of the Independence of the
! United States the one hundred and twen-
| tictn GROVER CLEV ELAND.
BY the President: RICHARD OLNEY,
| 5-24 e cd Secretary of State.