70 THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1906. 



Sec. 4. That the collector of customs of the district of Alaska is hereby authorized 

 to search and seize every foreign vessel and arrest every person violating any provi- 

 sion of this act or any regulation made thereunder, and the Secretary of Commerce 

 and Labor shall have power to authorize officers of the Navy and of the Revenue- 

 Cutter Service and agents of the Department of Commerce and Labor to likewise 

 make such searches, seizures, and arrests. If any foreign vessel shall be found within 

 the waters to which this act applies, having on board fresh or cured fish and apparatus 

 or implements suitable for killing or taking fish, it shall be presumed that the vessel 

 and apparatus were used in violation of this act until it is otherwise sufficiently proved. 

 And every vessel, its tackle, apparatus, or imislements so seized shall l)e given into 

 the custody of the United States marshal of either of the districts mentioned in sec- 

 tion three of this act, and shall be held by him subject to the proceedings provided 

 for in section two of this act. The facts in connection with such seizure shall be at 

 once reported to the United States district attorney for the district to which the vessel 

 so seized shall be taken, whose duty it shall be to institute the proper proceedings. 



Sec. 5. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall have power to make rules 

 and regulations not inconsistent with law to carry into effect the provisions of this 

 act. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to enforce the 

 provisions of this act and the rules and regulations made thereunder, and for that pur- 

 pose he may employ, through the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretaiy of the 

 Navy, the vessels of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service and of the Navy: 

 Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed as affecting 

 any existing treaty or convention between the United States and any foreign power. 



Approved, June 14, 1906. 



PURE-FOOD LAW. 



Another important art, to prevent "the manufacture, sale, or 

 transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or dele- 

 terious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic 

 therein, and for other purposes," more commonly known as the ''Pure 

 food and drug law," which became a law June 30, 1906, affects 

 the Alaska canned products chiefly in its bearing upon misbranding, 

 a subject which is also covered by the new fishery law. The use of 

 deleterious substances and the packing of light-weight goods have 

 never been practiced ])y the canneries. The pure-food law, with the 

 regulations adopted thereunder, is too long to be quoted here. It 

 will be found in Circular No. 21, Office of the Secretary, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



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