LAWS ENACTED BY CONGRESS. 



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Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That tlie Congress may at any time 

 hereafter alter, amend, or repeal this act. 

 Approved July 1, 1870. 



REVISED STATUTES RELATING TO ALASKA. 



Chapter III. — Provisions relating to the unorganized Territory of 



Alaska. 



Sec. 



1954. Customs, etc., laws extended to 



Alaska. 



1955. Importation of firearms and dis- 



tilled spirits may be prohibited. 



1956. Killing of fnr-beariug animals pro- 



hibited. 



1957. What courts to have jurisdiction of 



oftenses. 



1958. Remission of fines, etc. 



1959. St. Paul and St. George islands de- 



clared special reservations. 



1960. Killing of seal upon them prohib- 



ited except in certain months. 



1961. Killing of certain seal prohibited. 



1962. Limit to number of seals to be 



killed. 



1963. Right to take seal may be leased. 



Sec. 



1964. Bond. 



1965. Who may lease. 



1966. Covenants in lease. 



1967. Penalty. 



1968. Penalty u])()n leases. 



1969. Tax upon seal skins. 



1970. Lease may be terminated. 



1971. Lessees to furnish copies to masters 



of their vessels. 



1972. Certain sections may be altered. 



1973. Agents and assistants to manage 



seal fisheries. 



1974. Their pay, etc. 



1975. Not to be interested in right to take 



seals. 



1976. Agents may administer certain 



oaths and take testimony. 



Sec. 1954. The laws of the United States relating to customs, com- 

 merce, and navigation, are 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, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, so 

 far as the same may be ai)plicable thereto. 



Sec, 1955. The President shall have the power to restrict and regu- 

 late or to prohibit the importation and use of tirearms, ammunition, 

 and distilled spirits iuto and within the Territory of Alaska; the ex- 

 portation of the same from any other i)ort or place in the United States, 

 when <lestined to any port or place in that Territory, and all such arms, 

 ammunition, and distilled spirits exported or attempted to be exported 

 from any port or jilace in the United States and destined for such Ter- 

 rftory 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 port or place in the 

 Territory, in violation of such regulations, shall be forfeited; and if 

 the value of the same exceeds four hundred dollars, the vessel upon 

 which the same is found, or from which they have been landed, together 

 with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited; 

 and any person willfully violating such regulations shall be fined not 

 more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months. 

 Bonds may be rexuired for a faithful observance of such regulations 

 from the master or owners of any vessel departing from any j)ort in the 

 United States having on board firearms, ammunition, or distilled spirits, 

 when such vessel is destined to any place in the Territory, or if not so 

 destined, when there is reasonable ground of suspicion that such arti- 

 cles 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 

 Territory from the person to whom the same may be consigned. 



