stence of the natives), and will
promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this
prohibition by United States citizens and vessels.

ART. III. Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in
the said waters of Bering Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits
of the United States may be seized and detained by the naval or other
duly commissioned officers of either of the high contracting parties,
but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities
of the nation to which they respectively belong, who alone shall have
jurisdiction to try the offense and impose the penalties for the same.
The witnesses and proof necessary to establish the offense shall also
be sent with them.

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,
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 1936 of the Revised Statutes and of the said
articles of said convention, 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 or of the provisions of said convention in said waters
will be arrested, proceeded against, and punished as above provided.

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 8th day of April, 1893, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3,
1891, entitled "An act to amend Title LX, chapter 3, of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act
"shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation
when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United
States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same
basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign state or nation is a
party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in
the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United
States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement;"
and

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