538 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



Suggestions for the new rules that should he adopted and enforced by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury for the land killing, in lieu of the existing order and conduct of affairs, when- 

 ever said land killing is again permitted by the Government. 



REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE DRIVING AND KILLING OF MALE FUR SEALS ON THE 

 PRIBILOV ISLANDS OF ALASKA. 



1. No herd of male or killable fur seals shall be driven over a greater distance than 

 one-half mile from the hauling ground upon which it is found and from which it is 

 talien by the drivers. 



2. At a distance of a half mile from the borders of the several hauling grounds of 

 the killable fur seals on the Pribylov Islands, and well back from the sea margin, 

 killing grounds shall be established; so that each and every locality known on the 

 islands of St. Paul and St. George (of the Pribylov group) as a hauling ground shall 

 have its own slaughtering field, and upon which all seals killed for tax and shipment, 

 driven from said localities, must be killed and skinned. 



3. All male fur seals that are driven in these herds up to these killing grounds 

 from the hauling grounds adjacent, as above specified in regulations 1 and 2, shall 

 be killed without culling out any save those which are under 1 year of age, known 

 as "short yearlings," and over 4 years of age, known as " wigs." These two classes, 

 under and over age, may be culled out and rejected, and those only. 



These regulations, when enforced, will prevent any injury from redriv- 

 ing and culling the herds. Their language is too plain for any Govern- 

 ment agent to fail to understand, and their evasion is only possible 

 by the collusion of everybody on the islands — natives, ofticials, and 

 employees of the lessees — a fairly improbable event, and one that can 

 not take place without swift detection, even if such collusion were 

 undertaken. 



The topography of the islands makes the location of these killing 

 grounds, as above ordered, entirely practicable and proper. 



