Show vessels and their officers patrol of the sea will be effective rules and regulations to be em aloyed in seal during the closed season seattle wash may 5 the flagship mohican commander dark commanding the fleet the yorktown commander folger the bennington commander thomas the concord commander goodrich the marion commander mullen the Ranger Commander longnecker the alert commander morgan thu adams commander brice the lieutenant commander emery he albatross Alba trosa lieutenant commander drake and the revenue cutters hush corwin and bear will comprise not only a larger but more efficient fleet than lias heretofore been sent to patrol the behring sea this fleet consists of five ships of th 0 d and four of the new navy revenue and the fish commission commis aion vessel Alha trosa the old ships are not fast but their secondary battery of revolving cannon will he able to reach trespassing healers if they have any advantage ot speed over the war vessels these dealers will be glad to heave to and await search as eoon as they hear hotchkiss shell falling about them the new etnie have a great advantage of speed over any sealers that will be likely to venture within the sea their coal capacity is so large that they will be able to keep to yea for weeks at a time and they will be 80 placed that the chances are entirely against the sealers reaching the ben ring aea the system of patrolling pat roling the sea will be ejective enec tive the entire crew being blocked out each ship being allotted to a certain latitude bounding the blocks As the seals proceed north the ships will follow guarding the various passages through which the seals are known to pass on entering behring sea rules and washington may 5 the resident today signed and promulgated regulations to govern vessels employed in fur seal fishing during tho closed season of 1894 they are in part ae follows before the issuance of a special license the master of any bailine vessel proposing to engage in fur seal fishing shall produce satisfactory evidence to the collector of customs tha the bunt era employed by him are competent to use the weapons authorized by law fire arms neb or explosives shall not be used for the taking or killing of fur seals in that portion of behring aea described in the act approved april 1894 any vessel having a license to hunt fur seals in the north pacific east of degrees longitude bo fore elterine ent erine behring aea or at shall report to tho custom officers of the united states or an officer of the united states navy and have all arms and ammunition on board secured under seal such seal shall not be broken during the time fur sealing is prohibited in order to protect vessels found within the area of alie award between april 13 and august 1 but which have not violated the law for the improper seizure or detention the master thereof by applying to therom anander of any cruiser or to the custom officer and declaring that fahe intends to proceed to a home port have her sealing outfit secured under seal and the officer placing this ecal dull enter the same upon the log book with the number of sealskins and bodies of ecale then on board and eaid real shall not be broken during the time fur sealing is prohibited except at the home port vessels at in pursuit of for ecale and found not to have violated alie law and who have not cleared from any port on and after may 11 1894 will be seized solely on account of not having a special licence or a distinctive flag ev vessel employed in fur abal fleeing shall have in addition to the papers now required by law a special licence for far fishing the authority hereinbefore granted to united state consular officers customs and of ficera of the united states avy may be exercised by like officers in the service of the government of great britain except in ports of the united states the officers herein authorized to arav oat the provisions of the act ol 01 april 1891 will observe that the oh leet of these articles are to prevent irsai unnecessary seizure or loss sealing vessel already at aea in ignorance provisions of the act or unable strictly to comply with ite requirements regulations are intended to apply only to the closed of 1894 and are not to be regarded a a complete execution of the authority conferred on executive by an act of Con grese |