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[No. 17.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section twenty four of an Act approved March the third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, entitled an act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes: "that the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and limits thereof."

Now therefore, I Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby make known

March 30, 1891.

Ante, p. 1103.

and proclaim that there has been and is hereby reserved from entry Forest reservation, or settlement and set apart for a public forest reservation all that Wyoming. tract of land situate in the State of Wyoming contained within the

following described boundaries.

Beginning at a point on the parallel of forty four degrees fifty Boundaries. minutes, where said parallel is intersected by the meridian of one hundred and ten degrees west longitude, thence due east along said parallel to the meridian of one hundred and nine degrees and thirty minutes west longitude; thence due south along said meridian to the forty fourth parallel of north latitude; thence due west along said parallel to its point of intersection with the west boundary of the State of Wyoming; thence due north along said boundary line to its intersection with the south boundary of the Yellowstone National Park.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

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

Done at the City of Washington this 30th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety [SEAL.] one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE

Secretary of State.

[No. 18.]

BENJ HARRISON.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby published for the information of all concerned.

Section 1956, Revised Statutes, Chapter 3, Title 23, enacts 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 offence, be fined not less than two hundred nor more than one

Reserved from settlement.

April 4, 1891.

R.S., sec. 1956, p. 343,

Fur-bearing animals, Alaska.

Vol. 25, p. 1009.

clared to include

States.

thousand Dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, found engaged in violation of this Section shall be forfeited, 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, under such regulations as he may prescribe, 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:

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Laws prohibiting Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United killing of fur-bearing animals in Alaska de- States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion waters of Behring Sea of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea, and it shall be in dominion of United 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 at least in 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."

Persons warned against entering Behviolate laws.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United ring Sea intending to States, pursuant to the above recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Behring 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 to 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.

Done at the City of Washington, this fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. BENJ HARRISON

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE
Secretary of State.

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Vol. 25, p. 1009.

Laws prohibiting
killing of fur-bearing

clared to include

States.

thousand Dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both,
and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, found en-
gaged in violation of this Section shall be forfeited, 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,
under such regulations as he may prescribe, 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 other-
wise 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:

"Section 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United
animals in Alaska de- States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion
waters of Behring Sea of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea, and it shall be
in dominion of United 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 at
least in 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 pro-
visions of said section, and he shall also cause one or more vessels of
the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all per-
sons and seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any
violation of the laws of the United States therein."

Persons warned
against entering Beh-
violate laws.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United
ring Sea intending to States, pursuant to the above recited statutes, hereby warn all per-
sons against entering the waters of Behring 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 to have been engaged in any violation of the
laws of the United States, in said waters, will be arrested and pun-
ished 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.

Done at the City of Washington, this fourth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde-
[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and
fifteenth.

By the President:

JAMES G. BLAINE
Secretary of State.

BENJ HARRISON

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