rotected and preserved unimpaired, and it appears
that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving
said lands as a public reservation; and

Whereas the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries has
selected Afognak Bay, River, and Lake, with their tributary streams and
the sources thereof, and the lands including the same on said Afognak
Island and within 1 mile from the shores thereof, as a reserve for the
purpose of establishing fish-culture stations and the use of the United
States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the boundary lines of which
include the headsprings of the tributaries above mentioned and the lands
the drainage of which is into the same:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by sections 24 and 14 of the aforesaid
act of Congress and by other laws of the United States, do reserve and
do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from
occupation and sale and set apart as a public reservation, including use
for fish-culture stations, said Afognak Island, Alaska, and its adjacent
bays and rocks and territorial waters, including among others the Sea
Lion Rocks and Sea Otter Island: _Provided_, That this proclamation
shall not be so construed as to deprive any _bona fide_ inhabitant of
said island of any valid right he may possess under the treaty for the
cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United
States, concluded at Washington on the 30th day of March, 1867.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter upon or to
occupy the tract or tracts of land or waters reserved by this
proclamation, or to fish in or use any of the waters herein described or
mentioned, and that all persons or corporations now occupying said
island or any of said premises except under said treaty shall depart
therefrom.

In witness 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 24th day of December, A.D. 1892,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
seventeenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 24 of the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for
o