Excerpt from Alaskan Fur Seals: Diplomatic Negotiations for the Settlement of the Fur-Seal Question, and the Position of the United States and Foreign Governments With Respect to the Sealing Industry, 1867-1906 Oh July 1, 1870, it was further enacted by Congress that no per son should kill fur seal or other fur-bearing animals within the limits of Alaska Territory or in the waters thereof, which later, by the act of March 3, 1889, were expressly declared to include all the domin ion of the United States in the waters of ...
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Excerpt from Alaskan Fur Seals: Diplomatic Negotiations for the Settlement of the Fur-Seal Question, and the Position of the United States and Foreign Governments With Respect to the Sealing Industry, 1867-1906 Oh July 1, 1870, it was further enacted by Congress that no per son should kill fur seal or other fur-bearing animals within the limits of Alaska Territory or in the waters thereof, which later, by the act of March 3, 1889, were expressly declared to include all the domin ion of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea within the Russian cession. This act of July 1, 1870, further provided for the leasing of exclu sive sealing privileges on these islands by the Secretary of the Treasury under certain conditions and restrictions, and pursuant to such provisions a lease was made to the Alaska Commercial Com pany for twenty years from May 1 1870, and, upon the expiration of that lease, a similar lease was made to the North American Com mercial Company for twenty years from May 1, 1890. The Revised Statutes of 1873 reproduced the acts then in force relating to the fur seals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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