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ant agents the sum of six dollars each day while so employed; and 

 they shall also be allowed their necessary traveling expenses in going 

 to and returning from Alaska, for which expenses vouchers shall be 

 presented to the proper accounting oflflcers of the Treasury, and such 

 expenses shall not exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars each in 

 any one year. 



Sec. 1975. Such agents shall never be interested, directly or indi- 

 rectly, in any lease of the right to take seals, nor iu any proceeds or 

 profits thereof, either as owner, agent, partner, or otherwise. 



Sec. 1976. Such agents are empowered to administer oaths in all 

 cases relating to the service of the United States, and to take testi- 

 mony in Alaska for the use of the Government in any matter concern- 

 ing the public revenues. 



Chap. 64. — An act to amend the act entitled "An act to prev'^nt the extermination of 

 fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July tirst, eighteen hundred and seventy. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act 

 to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska," ap- 

 proved 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 iu which fur seals may be taken for their 

 skins on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, in Alaska, and in the 

 waters adjacent thereto, and the number to be taken on or about each 

 island respectively. 



An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska. 



Sec. 3. Thatsectionnineteenhundredandfifty-sixof the Revised Stat- 

 utes of the United States is hereby 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 ])roclamation 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, warning all persons 

 against entering said waters for the j)urpose 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 vio- 

 lation of the laws of the United States therein. 



Approved, March 2, 1889. 



action of the executive. 



certificate of authentication. 



United States of America, 



Treasury Department, July 30, 1892. 

 Pursuant to section 882 of the Eevised Statutes I hereby certify that 

 the annexed papers are true copies of regulations and instructions issued 

 and letters written by this Dej^artment relative to the Territory of 

 Alaska. 



