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 980 1>n0oLAMATIoNs. NOS. 1, 2. All persons will take notice of the provisions of said Act, and of the conditions and restrictions therein contained, and be governed accordin l. 1·¤¤•1¤ www w Iiyiurthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that a cerhmmtain portion of the said Fort Berthold reservation not ceded and rel1n- quished by said agreement, is reserved for allotment to, and also as a reservation for, the said tribes of Indians; and all persons are, therefore, hereby warned not to go upon any of the lands so reserved, for any purpose or with any intent whatsoever, as no settlement or other right can be secured upon said lands, and all persons found unlawtully thereon will be dealt with as trespassers and intruders; and I hereby c declare all the lands sold, ceded, and relinquished to the United States _ under said agreement, namely; _ _ UESL? w the “All that portion of the Fort Berthold reservation, as laid down upon ' the official map of the" (then) "'I‘erritory of Dakota, pubhshed by the General Land Office in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, lying north of the forty-eighth parallel of north latitude, and also all that portion lying west of a north and south line six miles west of the most westerly point of the big bend of the Missouri River, south of the forty- eighth parallel of north latitude/’ open to settlement, and subject to disposal as provided in Section twenty-five of the Act of March third, W1- W- 1>·1¤¤i- eighteen hundred and ninety-one aforesaid. (26 Stats., p. 1035.) In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twentieth (20th) day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [ EAL.] ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President: BEM HARRISON Countersigned: WILLIAM F WHAnToN Acting Secretary of State. [No. 2.] BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMEEIOA. A PROULAMATION. June rt, mi. Whereas an agreement for a modus vivendi between the Government "i""""‘" of the United States and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, in relation to the Fur Seal Fisheries in Behring Sea, was concluded on the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight I’=¤¤·¤'¤l°· hundred and ninety-one, word for word as follows: AGIEEEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE GOVERNMENT on HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY Fo}: A MODUS VIVENDI IN EELATION TO THE FUR SEAL FISHERIES IN BEHRING SEA. A¤¤*¤¤¤¤’= vfehib- For the purpose of avoiding irritatin diderences and with a dew to i2T.$a'§°§1¤:iIu°“ "` promote the friendly settlement of thegguestions pending between the two Governments touching their respective rights in Behring Sea. and for the preservation of the seal species, the following agreement is made wiging prejiudice to the rights or claims of either party. By H,. m,;,,,,,-, _ _ er ajesty’s `overnment will prohibit, until Ma · next. seal ¤••¤=¤¤¤¤*~ killing in that part of Behring Sea lying eastward of the liine of demarcation described In Article No. 1 of the Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use its best etforts to ensure the observance of this prohibition by British subjects and vessels.