of the United States or person above described
in section 1 of this act, nor any person belonging to or on board of a
vessel of the United States, shall kill, capture, or pursue in any
manner whatever during the season extending from the 1st day of May to
the 31st day of July, both inclusive, in each year any fur seal on the
high seas outside of the zone mentioned in section 1, and in that part
of the Pacific Ocean, including Bering Sea, which is situated to the
north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude and to the east of
the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude from Greenwich till it
strikes the water boundary described in Article I of the treaty of 1867
between the United States and Russia, and following that line up to
Bering Strait.

SEC. 3. No citizen of the United States or person above described in the
first section of this act shall during the period and in the waters in
which by section 2 of this act the killing of fur seals is not
prohibited use or employ any vessel, nor shall any vessel of the United
States be used or employed, in carrying on or taking part in fur-seal
fishing operations, other than a sailing vessel propelled by sails
exclusively and such canoes or undecked boats propelled by paddles,
oars, or sails as may belong to and be used in connection with such
sailing vessels; nor shall any sailing vessel carry on or take part in
such operations without a special license obtained from the Government
for that purpose and without carrying a distinctive flag prescribed by
the Government for the same purpose.

SEC. 4. That every master of a vessel licensed under this act to engage
in fur-seal fishing operations shall accurately enter in his official
log book the date and place of every such operation, and also the number
and sex of the seals captured each day; and on coming into port and
before landing cargo the master shall verify on oath such official log
book as containing a full and true statement of the number and character
of his fur-seal fishing operations, including the number and sex of
seals captured; and for any false statement willfully made by a person
so licensed by the United States in this behalf he shall be subject to
the penalties of perjury, and any seal skins found in excess of the
statement in the official log book shall be forfeited to the United
States.

SEC. 5. That no person or vessel engag