Chapter 63. To amend section one of an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the. treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighte
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CHAP. 63.— An Act To amend section one of an Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, under the. treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals.”April 24, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,For seal fishery regulations.
That section one of the Act entitled “An Act to give effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal *Ante*, p. 53.of Arbitration, at Paris, under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concluded at Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the purpose of submitting to arbitration certain questions concerning the preservation of the fur seals,” approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be Error corrected.amended by striking out the word “exclusive” where it occurs in said section one and inserting the word “inclusive,” so that said section Killing, etc., of Heals forbidden.will read:
That no citizen of the United States, or person owing the duty of obedience to the laws or the treaties of the United States, nor any person belonging to or on board of a vessel of the United States, shall kill, capture, or pursue, at any time, or in any manner whatever, outside of territorial waters, any fur seal in the waters surrounding the Area included.Pribilov Islands within a zone of sixty geographical miles (sixty to a degree of latitude) around said islands, inclusive of the territorial waters.
Approved, April 24, 1894.