be; 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.

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Section 3 of the act entitled "An act to provide for the protection of
the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides that--

SEC. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States
is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the
United States in the waters of Bering Sea, and it shall be the duty of
the President at a timely season in 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) 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 section,
and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to
diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and seize all
vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the
laws of the United States therein.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
pursuant to the above-recited 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 provisions of said section 1956,
Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be or
have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States in
said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that
all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargoes,
will be seized and forfeited.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of March, 1890, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and fourteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State_.

PROCLAMATION.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1890.

_To whom it may concern_:

Whereas it has been represented to me that by reason of the drought
which has prevailed in the Indian Territory and in the adjoining States
the execution of my proclamatio