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On the recordJune 14, 1891
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 shall alone have jurisdiction to try the offense and impose the penalties for the same.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana
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Proclamation 306—Modus Vivendi Respecting the Fur-Seal Fisheries

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