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 880 r1iooLAMArIoNs. Nos. 12, 13. I have caused the foregoing laws specially to be proclaimed to the end that their provisions may be known and observed. mY*•>l_·;¤{·:;¤H¢:f IH; I hereby proclaim that every person guilty of a violation of the prosuigmbs pumgnea. visions of said laws and of any other provisions of the statutes of the United States so far as the same may be applicable relative to the protection of furbearing animals within the limits of Alaska or in the waters thereof, will be arrested and punished as therein provided, and all vessels so engaged, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, will be seized and forfeited. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety- [SEAL.] six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twentieth. GROVE}?. CLEVELAND By the President: RICHARD OLNEY Secretary of State. [No. 13.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on AMERICA A PROCLAMATION y ${,'§Q'},f·m,,_ Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3 1891, entitled “An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Iievised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act “ shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a. party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement;” And whereas it is also provided by said section that *‘the exi tence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require;" And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in the Republic of Chile the law permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of that Republic:. Qgmug 2;;;:*;: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States acute. of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the citizens of the Republic of Chile. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of May, one [SEAL ] thousand eight hundred and ninety-six and of the Independ- ' ence of the United States the one hundred and twentieth. Gnovim CLEVELAND By the President: Biciunn OLNEY Secretary of State.