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EXHIBIT H. 



A BILL to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of 



Alaska." 



/:< it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-nine, entitled ''An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of 

 Alaska." is hereby amended and reenacted, as follows: 



SECTION 1. Tluit the erection of dams, barricades, fish wheels, fences, traps, pound 

 nets, or any fixed or stationary obstructions in any part of the rivers or streams of 

 Alaska, or to tish for or catch salmon or salmon trout, in any manner or by any means, 

 with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon or salmon 

 trout to their spawning ground, is declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the 

 Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to remove such obstructions and to estab- 

 lish and enforce such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that 

 this prohibition and all other provisions of law relating to the salmon fisheries of 

 Alaska are strictly complied with. 



SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful to tish, catch, or kill any salmon or salmon trout 

 of any variety, except with rod or spear, above the tide waters of any of the creeks 

 or rivers of less than five hundred feet wide in the Territory of Alaska, or to lay or 

 set any drift net, set net, or seine for any purpose, across the tide waters of any river 

 or stream for a distance of more than one-third of the width of such river, stream, 

 or channel, or lay or set any seine or net witbin one hundred yards of any other net 

 or seine which is being laid or set in said stream or channel, or to take, kill, or fish 

 for salmon in any manner or by any means in any of the waters of the Territory of 

 Alaska, either in the streams or tide waters, from noon on Saturday of each week 

 until six o'clock post meridian of the Sunday following, or to fish for, or catch, or kill in 

 any manner, or by any appliances, except by rod or spear, any salmon or salmon trout 

 in any stream of less than one hundred yards in width in the said Territory of Alaska 

 between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening of the 

 same day of each and every day of the week. 



SK> . 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury may, at his discretion, set aside certain 

 streams as spawning grounds, in which no fishing will be permitted; and when, in 

 his judgment, the results of fishing operations on any stream indicate that the 

 number of salmon taken is larger than the capacity of the stream to produce, he is 

 authorized to establish weekly close seasons, to limit the duration of the fishing 

 season, or to prohibit fishing entirely for one year or more, so as to permit the 

 salmon to increase. 



SEC. 4. That to enforce the provisions of law herein, and such regulations as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury may establish in pursuance thereof, he is authorized and 

 directed to appoint one" inspector of fisheries at a salary of ten dollars per day, 

 and two assistant inspectors at a salary of eight dollars each per day, and he will 

 annually submit to Congress estimates to cover the salaries and actual traveling 

 expenses of the officers hereby authorized and for such other expenditures as may be 

 necessary to carry out the provisions of the law herein. 



SKC. 5. That any person violating the provisions of this act, or the regulations 

 established in pursuance thereof, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a 

 fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor for a term of 

 ninety days, or both such tine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court: 

 And provided further, That in case of the violation of any of the provisions of sec- 

 tion one of this act, and conviction thereof, a further fine of two hundred and fifty 

 dollars per diem will be imposed for each day that the obstruction or obstructions 

 therein are maintained after notice to remove the same. Said notice may be given 

 by any Government officer or private citizen. 



