acific Ocean by agreement with any power or as a result
of the decision of the Tribunal of Arbitration under the convention
concluded between the United States and Great Britain February 29,
1892, and so long as such arrangement shall continue, the provisions
of section 1956 of the Revised Statutes and all other provisions of the
statutes of the United States, so far as the same may be applicable,
relative to the protection of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals
within the limits of Alaska or in the waters thereof shall be extended
to and over all that portion of the Pacific Ocean included in such
international arrangement. Whenever an effective international
arrangement is concluded as aforesaid it shall be the duty of the
President to declare that fact by proclamation and to designate the
portion of the Pacific Ocean to which it is applicable and that this
act has become operative, and likewise when such arrangement ceases
to declare that fact and that this act has become inoperative; and
his proclamation in respect thereto shall be conclusive. During the
extension as 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
committed within the limits of Alaska or in the waters thereof, but
they may be prosecuted either in the district court of Alaska or in
any district court of the United States in California, Oregon, or
Washington.

An arrangement having been made for the protection of fur seals as
a result of the decision of the Tribunal of Arbitration under the
convention concluded as aforesaid February 29, 1892, which prohibits
the killing of seals at any time within a radius of 60 miles around the
Pribilof Islands or during May, June, and July of each year in that
portion of the Pacific Ocean, inclusive of Bering Sea, situated to the
north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude and eastward of the
one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude from Greenwich until 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:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States of America, hereby declare that the said act of Congress
of February 21, 1893, has become operative; that in accordance there