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 21st day of March, 1889, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

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