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Ben Harrison: “After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed…”

On the recordDecember 8, 1891
After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed on the 15th of June, by which Great Britain undertook from that date and until May 1, 1892, to prohibit the killing by her subjects of seals in the Bering Sea, and the Government of the United States during the same period to enforce its existing prohibition against pelagic sealing and to limit the catch by the fur-seal company upon the islands to 7,500 skins.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana
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