All fees and rentals under this act shall 

 be paid to the commissioner of game and fish 

 and shall by him be tr.ansmitted to the state 

 treasurer, who shall credit the same to the 

 state fish revolving fund constituted under 

 the provisions of General Statutes 1923, 

 Section 560I4, and acts amendatory thereof 

 and supplementary thereto. In addition to 

 the purposes prescribed by said Section 

 ^OU, all moneys in said funds shall here- 

 after be available to pay the cost of ad- 

 ministration and enforcement of this act and 

 the cost of propagation and conservation of 

 fish in said lakes, and said moneys are 

 hereby appropriated therefor so far as may 

 be necessary. Said Section 560I4. is hereby 

 modified and amended, so far as inconsistent 

 herewith, so as to conform herewith. 

 Retained without change in Laws of 1939, 

 art. 76}7 



" 5592-7 . /Vets subject to penalty and 

 forfeitures of other acts. — This act shall 

 be part of the laws relating to wild animals, 

 and violations thereof shall be subject to 

 the same penalties and forfeitures as pre- 

 scribed for violations of such laws. 

 ^Retained without change in Laws of 1939, 

 art. 331^ 



" 5592-8. Acts supplementary . — This 

 act shall be supplementary to all other 

 laws applicable to the taking or disposition 

 of fish from said lakes, and shall not be 

 deemed to repeal or supersede any such other 

 law except so far as directly inconsistent 

 herewith." /Deleted in Lavfs of 1939^ 



On March 27, 1929, shortly after the en- 

 actn^ent of the above legislation, the Red Lake 

 Fisheries Association was organized and in- 

 corporated under the laws of Minnesota by the 

 Red Lake Tribe, in order that the commercial 

 fisheries of the Red Lakes might be exploited 

 judiciously and profitably by the Indians . 



The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, U. 

 S . Department of the Interior, authorized the 

 Red Lake Indians to engage in commercial fish- 

 ing on the waters of the Red Lakes within the 

 boundaries of the reservation and accorded of- 

 ficial sanction to the Red Lake Fisheries 

 Association. An agreement was reached between 

 the Association and the Minnesota Game and Fish 

 Commissioner whereby a lease was entered into 

 for a period of 5 years from 1929. Fishing 



operations were started in July 1929 and con- 

 tinued until November in that year . 



Not only did the Minnesota Commissioner 

 of Game and Fish grant the Association a lease 

 for the use of the fishery plant and equipment 

 but, according to Klancke (1931), he also agreed 

 to use the accumulated balance of some $27,000 

 in the State Fish Revolving Fund for the care 

 and maintenance of the fishery plant. 



Upon recommendation of the Superin - 

 tendent of the Red Lake Agency, the Commis- 

 sioner issued regulations that governed the 

 taking of fish and the conduct of the business of 

 the Association. The rules and regulations, 

 promulgated under date of March 10, 1930, 

 were: 



"It appearing that commercial fishing 

 profitably may be done in the waters of the 

 Red Lakes, on the Sed Lake Indian iteserva- 

 tion, in the State 01 Minnesota, and certain 

 Indians of said reservation having hereto- 

 fore organized and incorporated the iied Lake 

 Fisheries Association under the laws of the 

 State of Minnesota for the purpose of en- 

 gaging in the business of producing and 

 marketing fish, and the Bed Lake Heservation 

 being an unceded, unallotted Indian iteserva- 

 tion under the exclusive jurisdiction and 

 control of the United States, authority is 

 hereby granted said association to do com- 

 mercial fishing in the waters of the Red 

 Lakes on said reservation and to engage in 

 said business only in accordance with the 

 rules and regulations hereinafter contained: 

 Provided, That said association is recog- 

 nized only as an instrumentality of the 

 United States for the purpose of doing said 

 fishing and conducting said business in the 

 interest of said Indians; And Provided 

 Further , That the United States does not 

 surrender, relinquish, or modify its exclu- 

 sive jurisdiction and control over the Red 

 Lake Reservation, the Red Lake Indians or 

 their property, or concede or acknowledge 

 any right, power, or authority of the State 

 of Minnesota, its courts or officials, or 

 said association or any other agency, to in 

 any way supervise, control, or administer 

 the affairs of said reservation or said 

 Indians or their property; And Provided 

 Further , That the authority hereby granted 

 to engage in said business may at any time 

 be cancelled and withdrawn, and the follow - 

 ing rules and regulations likewise may be 



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