Mr. Uhl to Sir
Julian Pauncefote.
Department
of State,
Washington, June 8,
1894.
Excellency: Referring to the Department’s note of
the 2d instant, transmitting copy of a bill which had passed both Houses of
Congress, and which was inadvertently stated to have been approved by the
President, entitled “A bill supplementary to au act approved April 6, 1894,
for the execution of the award rendered at Paris, August 15, 1893, by the
Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under the treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington,
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February 29, 1892, in relation to the preservation of
the fur seal,” I have now the honor to inclose three copies of the act as
approved by the President on June 5, 1894. It will be observed that the
words “securing the adhesion of such power to the regulations aforesaid,”
occurring in the sixteenth and seventeenth lines of the bill sent you
(second page), were not in the bill as passed, and do not appear in the
approved act.
I have, etc.,
Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.
[Inclosure.]
[Public—No. 76.]
An act supplementary to an act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, for the execution of the award rendered at Paris,
August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, by the Tribunal
of Arbitration constituted under the treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in relation to the
preservation of the fur seal.
Whereas by the seventh article of the treaty between the United States
and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in relation to the preservation of the
fur seal, the high contracting parties agree to cooperate in securing
the adhesion of other powers to such regulations as the arbitrators
under said treaty might determine upon for that purpose; and
Whereas by an act of Congress approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, provision has been lade by the United States for the
execution of the regulations so determined upon and for the punishment
of any infractions of said regulations: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the procedure and penalties provided by said
act, in case of the violation of the provisions of said regulations, are
hereby made applicable to and shall be enforced against any citizen of
the United States, or person owing the duty of obedience to the laws or
the treaties of the United States, or person belonging to or on board of
a vessel of the United States who shall kill, capture, or pursue, at any
time or in any manner whatever, as well as to and against any vessel of
the United States used or employed in killing, capturing, or pursuing,
at anytime or in any manner whatever, any fur seal or other marine
fur-bearing animal, in violation of the provisions of any treaty or
convention into which the United States may have entered or may
hereafter enter with any other power for the purpose of protecting fur
seals or other marine fur-bearing animals, or in violation of any
regulations which the President may make for the due execution of such
treaty or convention.
