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Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter upon, or to occupy, the tract or tracts of land or waters reserved by this proclamation, or to fish in, or use any of the waters herein described or mentioned, and that all persons or corporations now occupying said Island, or any of said premises, except under said Treaty, shall depart therefrom.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
(Seal:)
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand, eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Inde-
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pendence of the United States, the one hundred and sixteenth. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President,
John W. Foster, Secretary of State.
SALMON PROTECTION AND REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.
March 2, 1889, page 939 and 944.
For the expense of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; shipchandlery and engineers' stores for the same; traveling expenses and officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Gov- ernment on the Seal Islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, contingent expenses, including wharfage. towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the establishment and maintenance of a refuge- station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arc- tic Ocean, fifteen thousand dollars.
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February 26, 1889, page 705 and 726. Alaska, Pay of Governor, etc.
Territory of Alaska: For salary of Governor, three thousand dollars; judge, three thousand dollars; at- torney, marshal, and clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars each; four commissioners, one thousand dol- lars each; four deputy marshals, seven hundred and fifty dollars cach; in all, twenty thousand five hun- dred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the terri- tory, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the Governor, two thousand dollars.
EDUCATION IN ALASKA.
March 2, 1889, page 939 and 962.
For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, with- out reference to race, fifty thousand dollars.
TRAVELING EXPENSES.
March 2, 1889, page 939 and 977.
Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars.
Rent and Incidental Expenses, Office of Marshal, Territory of Alaska: For rent of offices for the mar- shal, district attorney, and commissioners, furniture,
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fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.
March 2, 1889, page 905 and 921.
Education of Children in Alaska: To pay the sal- ary of John H. Carr, teacher in Government School at Unga, Alaska, for March, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and fifty dollars.
March 2, 1889, page 1008 and 1009.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America, in Con- gress assembled, That the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the rivers of Alaska, with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon or other anadromous species to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is here- by authorized and directed to establish such regu- lations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition is strictly enforced and to other- wise protect the salmon fisheries of Alaska; and every person who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars for each day of the continuance of such obstruction.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fish- eries is hereby empowered and directed to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and dis- tribution of the salmon of Alaska, as well as the pres-
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ent conditions and methods of the fisheries, with a view of recommending to Congress such additional legislation as may be necessary to prevent the impair- ment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and placing them under regular and permanent conditions of production.
Sec. 3. That section nineteen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States is here- by declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea; and it shall be the duty of the President, at a timely season in each year, to issue his proclamation and cause the same to be published for one month in at least one newspaper if any such there be published at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warn- ing all persons against entering said waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section; and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons, and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein.
March 2, 1889, page 939 and 949.
Alaska Boundary Survey: For expenses in carry- ing on a preliminary survey of the frontier line be- tween Alaska and British Columbia, in accordance with plans or projects approved by the Secretary of State, including expenses of drawing and publication
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of map or maps, twenty thousand dollars, said sum to continue available for expenditure until the same is exhausted.
Chapter IO. Bounty Lands, U. S., page 442, 1878 Revised Statutes of United States, second edition.
SALMON FISHERIES AND PROTECTION OF THE FISH.
United States Statutes at Large, 1895-1897, volume 29, page 316.
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to pro- vide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress, assembled, That the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fish- eries of Alaska" is hereby amended and re-enacted as follows:
That the erection of dams, barricades, fish-wheels, fences, or any such fixed or stationary obstructions in any part of the rivers or streams of Alaska, or to fish for or catch salmon or salmon trout in any manner or by any means with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon to their spawning grounds, is declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby author- ized and directed to remove such obstructions and to establish and enforce such regulations and surveil-
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lance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibi- tion and all other provisions of law relating to the salmon fisheries of Alaska are strictly complied with.
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful to fish, catch, or kill any salmon of any variety, except with rod or spear, above the tide waters of any of the creeks or rivers of less than five hundred feet in width in the Terri- tory of Alaska, except only for purposes of propaga- tion, or to lay or set any drift net, set net, trap, pound net, or seine for any purpose across the tide waters of any river or stream for a distance of inore than one- third of the width of such river, stream, or channel, or lay or set any seine or net within one hundred yards of any other net or seine which is being laid or set in said stream or channel, or to take, kill, or fish for salmon in any manner or by any means in any of the waters of the Territory of Alaska, either in the streams or tide waters, except Cook's Inlet, Prince William Sound, Bering Sea, and the waters tributary thereto from mid-night on Friday of each week until six o'clock ante-meridian of the Sunday following; or to fish for or catch or kill in any manner or by any appli- ances except by rod or spear, any salmon in any stream of less than one hundred yards in width in the said Territory of Alaska between the hours of six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morn- ing of the following day of each and every day of the week.
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Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury may, at his discretion set aside any streams as spawning grounds, in which no fishing will be permitted; and when, in his judgment, the results of fishing opera- tions on any stream indicate that the number of sal- mon taken is larger than the capacity of the stream to produce, he is authorized to establish weekly close seasons, to limit the duration of the fishing season, or to prohibit fishing entirely for one year or more; so as to permit salmon to increase;
Provided, however, That such power shall be exer- cised only after all persons interested shall have been given a hearing, of which hearing due notice must be given by publication;
And provided further, That it shall have been ascer- tained that the persons engaged in catching salmon do not maintain fish hatcheries of sufficient magni- tude to keep such streams fully stocked.
Sec. 4. That to enforce the provisions of law here- in, and such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas- ury may establish in pursuance thereof, he is author- ized and directed to appoint one inspector of fisheries at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and two assistant inspectors, at a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum, and he will annually submit to Congress estimates to cover the salaries and actual traveling expenses of the officers hereby autliorized and for such other ex-
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penditures as may be necessary to carry out the pro- visions of the law herein.
Sec. 5. That any person violating the provisions of this act or the regulations established in pursuance thereof, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprison- ment at hard labor for a term of ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court; and, further, in case of the violation of any of the provisions of section one of this Act and convic- tion thereof, a further fine of two hundred and fifty dollars per diem will be imposed for each day that the obstruction or obstructions therein are maintained.
Approved, June 9, 1896.
REVENUE SERVICE.
United States Statutes at Large, 1895-1897, volume 29, page 420. Revenue Cutter Service.
For expenses of the Revenue Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, firemen, coal passers, stew- ards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers' stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutations of quarters; protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of
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Alaska and in interest of the Government on Seal Islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; contingent expenses including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars;
Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to permit officers and others of the Revenue-Cutter Service to make allot- ments from their pay, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for the support of their families or relatives, for their own savings, or for other proper purposes, during such time as they may be absent at sea, on distant duty, or under other circumstances warranting such action.
For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for service on the Pacific Coast, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For constructing two revenue steamers of the first- class, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for services on the Great Lakes two hun-
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dred thousand dollars; and the total cost of said revenue steamers, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars each.
CUSTOMS, COMMERCIAL AND NAVIGATION LAWS.
United States Statutes at Large, 1867-1869, volume 15, page 240.
An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to Customs, Commerce and Navigation over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish a Collection District therein, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation be, and the same are hereby, extended to and over all the mainland, islands, and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia by treaty concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, so far as the same may be applicable thereto.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all of the said territory, with its ports, harbors, bays, rivers, and waters, shall constitute a customs collection district, to be called the district of Alaska for which said dis- trict a port of entry shall be established at some con-
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venient point to be designated by the President, at or near the town of Sitka or New Archangel, and a col- lector of customs shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall reside at the said port of entry, and who shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the usual legal fees and emoluments of the office. But his entire compen- sation shall not exceed four thousand dollars per an- num, or a proportionate sum for a less period of time.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secre- tary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, authorized to make and prescribe such regulations as he may deem expedient for the nationalization of all vessels owned by actual residents of said territory on and since the 20th day of June,"Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and which shall continue to have been so owned up to the date of such nation- alization, and that from any deputy collector of cus- toms upon whom there has been, or shall hereafter be, conferred any of the powers of a collector under and by virtue of the twenty-ninth section of the "Act further to prevent smuggling, and for other pur- poses," approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to require bonds in favor of the United States in such amount as the said Secretary shall pre- scribe for the faithful discharge of official duties by such deputy.
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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Presi- dent shall have power to restrict and regulate or to prohibit the importation and use of fire arms, ammu- nition, and distilled spirits into and within the said territory. And the exportation of the same from any other port or place in the United States when destined to any port or place in the said territory, and all such arms, ammunition, and distilled spirits, exported or attempted to be exported from any port or place in the United States and destined for such territory, in violation of any regulations that may be prescribed under this section; and all such arms, ammunition, and distilled spirits, landed or attempted to be landed or used at any part or place in said territory, in viola- tion of said regulations, shall be forfeited; and if the value of the same shall exceed four hundred dollars, the vessel upon which the same shall be found, or from which they shall have been landed together with her tackle, apparel and furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited; and any person wilfully violating such regu- lations shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. And bonds may be required for a faithful observance of such regulations from the master or owners of any vessel departing from any port in the United States having on board fire-arms, ammunition or distilled spirits, when such vessel is destined to any place in said territory, or if not so
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destined, when there shall be reasonable ground of suspicion that such articles are intended to be landed therein in violation of law; and similar bonds may also be required on the landing of any such articles in the said territory from the person to whom the same may be consigned.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the coast- ing trade between the said territory and any other portion of the United States shall be regulated in ac- cordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great districts.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or other fur- bearing animal, within the limits of said territory, or in the waters thereof; and any person guilty thereof shall, for each offence, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand, or imprisoned not more than six months or both at the discretion of the court, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, found engaged in violation of this act, shall be for- feited :
Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable, or other fur-bearing animal, except fur seals under such regulations as he may prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the said Secretary to pre-
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vent the killing of any fur seal, and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it shall be otherwise provided by law;
Provided, That no special privilege shall be granted under this act.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That until other- wise provided by law, all violations of this act, and of the several laws hereby extended to the said terri- tory and the waters thereof, committed within the limits of the same shall be prosecuted in any district court of the United States in California or Oregon or in the district court of Washington, and the col- lector and deputy collectors appointed by virtue of this act, and any person authorized in writing by either of them, or by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall have power to arrest persons and seize vessels and merchandise liable to fines, penalties, or forfeit- ures under this and the said other laws, and to keep and deliver over the same to the marshal of some one of the said courts; and said courts shall have original jurisdiction, and may take cognizance of all cases aris- ing under this act and the several laws hereby extended over the territory so ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia, as aforesaid, and shall pro- ceed therein in the same manner and with the like effect as if such cases had arisen within the district or territory where the proceedings shall be brought.
Sec. 8. Gives the Secretary of the Treasury power
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to mitigate or remit the forfeitures, penalties, and dis- abilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Sec- retary of the Treasury may prescribe all needful rules and regulations to carry into effect all parts of this act, except those especially intrusted to the President alone; and the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
ENACTMENT CONCERNING ALASKA STATISTICS.
United States Statutes at Large, volume 18, part 3, page 33, 1873-1875.
An act to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to gather authentic information as to the condition and importance of the fur trade in the Territory of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint some per- son qualified by experience and education a special agent for the purpose of visiting the various trading stations and Indian villages in the Territory of Alaska, the Seal Islands, and the large islands to the north of them, in Bering Sea, for the purpose of collecting and reporting to him all possible authentic informa- tion upon the present condition of the seal fisheries of Alaska; the haunts and habits of the seal, and the preservation and extension of the fisheries as a source
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of revenue to the United States; together with like in- formation respecting the fur-bearing animals of Alaska; generally, the statistics of the fur trade, and the condition of the people or natives, especially those upon whom the successful prosecution of the fisheries and fur trade is dependent; such agent to receive as compensation eight dollars per day while actually thus employed, with all actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred therein;
Provided, That the appointment made under this act shall not continue longer than two years. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, au- thorized to detail an officer of the navy to go in con- nection with the person above mentioned, who shall be charged with the same duties and shall make a like report upon all subjects therein named; and shall also require and report whether the contracts as to the seal fisheries have been complied with by the persons or company now in possession; and whether said con- tracts can be safely extended.
Approved, April 22, 1874.
United States Statutes at Large, volume 18, part 3, page 24, 1873-1875.
An act to amend the act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America, in Con-
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gress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to pre- vent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, and he is hereby author- ized, to designate the months in which fur-seals may be taken for their skins on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, in Alaska and in the waters ad- jacent thereto, and the number to be taken on or about each island respectively.
Approved, March 24, 1874.
THE BOUNDARY LINE.
United States Statutės at Large, 1895-1897, volume 29, page 464.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, That in view of the expediency of forthwith negotiating a convention with Great Britain for mark- ing convenient points upon the one hundred and forty- first meridian of west longitude where it forms, under existing treaty provisions, the boundary line between the Territory of Alaska and the British North Ameri- can Territory, and to enable the President to execute the provisions of such convention without delay when concluded, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the
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Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immedi- ately available, under the direction of the President, to defray the share of the United States in the joint ex- pense of locating said meridian and marking said boundary by an international commission.
Approved, February 20, 1896.
BOUNDARY LINE COMMISSION.
United States Statutes at Large, volunie 28, 1893- 1895, page 1200.
Whereas, a Supplemental Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, extend- ing, until December 31, 1895, the provisions of Article I of the Convention of July 22, 1892, relative to British possessions in North America, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at the city of Washington, on the third day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four which Supplemental Convention is word for word as follows:
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