Chapter 150. to extend to the North Pacific Ocean the provisions of the statutes for the protection of the fur-seals and other fur-bearing animals
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CHAP. 150.— An Act to extend to the North Pacific Ocean the provisions of the statutes for the protection of the fur-seals and other fur-bearing animals.February 21, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fur seals. That whenever the Government of the United States shall conclude an effective international Extension of protection to North Pacific Ocean.arrangement for the protection of fur seals in the North Pacific 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 twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and so long as such arrangement shall *Post*, p. 941.[R.
S. 1956, p. 343](/us/rs/t/s1956/p343).continue, the provisions of section nineteen hundred and fifty-six 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 Proclamation by President when international arrangement effected.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 with respect thereto shall be conclusive.
During the Prosecution of violations.extension as aforesaid of said laws for the protection of fur seals and 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. Approved, February 21, 1893.