100 ACTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal 

 of the Treasury Department to be affixed, on tlie day and year first 

 above written. 



[SEAL.] Charles Foster, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Regulations issued by the United States Treasury Department relative to 



the Prihilof Islands. 



Treasury Department, February 8, 1870. 

 The attention of collectors and other officers of the customs is di- 

 rected to the following Executive order: 



Executive Mansion, 

 Washington, D. C, February 4, 1S70. 

 Under aud iu pursuance of the authority vested in me by the provisions of the sec- 

 ond section of the act of ConRxess, approved on the 27th day of July, 1868, entitled 

 "An act to extend the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and 

 navigation over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish a 

 collection district therein, and for other purposes," the importation of distilled spir- 

 its into and within the district of Alaska is hereby prohibited, and the importation 

 and use of firearms and ammunition into and within the islands of St. Paul and St. 

 George, in said district, are also hereby prohibited, under the pains and penalties of 



law. 



U. S. Grant, 



PreakJent. 



In conformity with the foregoing order of the President, and to in- 

 sure its faithful execution, collectors of customs are hereby instructed 

 to refuse clearance to all vessels having on board distilled spirits for 

 ports, places, or islands within the territory and collection district of 

 Alaska. 



Vessels clearing for any port or place intending to touch, trade, or 

 pass within the waters of Alaska, with distilled spirits or firearms and 

 ammunition on board, will be required to execute and deliver to the 

 collector of customs, at the portof clearance, a good and sufficient bond 

 in double the value of tlie articles so laden, conditioned that said spirits, 

 or any part thereof, shall not be landed upon or disposed of within tie 

 Territory ot Alaska, or that said arms and ammunition, or any part 

 thereof, shall not be landed, disposed of, or used upon either of the 

 islands of St. Paul or St. George, in said district. 



Geo. S. Bout^\t3ll, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Treasury Department, September 10, 1870. 

 The following Execn live order relating to the importation of arms 

 into the islands of St. Paul and St. George, within the district of 

 Alaska, is published for the information of officers of the customs: 



Executive Mansion, 

 Washington, D. C, Septemhir 9, IS70. 

 So much of Executive order of February 4, 1870, as prohibits the importation and 

 use of firearms and ammunition into and within thf islands of St. Paul and St. 

 George, Alaska, is hereby modified so as to permit tlie Alaska CoMimercial Company 

 to take a limited quantity of firearms an<l aimuunition to said islands, subject to 

 the directions of the rt venue officers there, and such regulations as the St'crefary of 

 the Treasury may prescribe. 



U. S. Grant, 



I'lisHlent. 



