ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



APPENDIX A. 



NOTICE TO PACKERS 01 SALMON WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA. 



In conformity with instructions from the Treasury Department, I desire to refer 

 all firms or persons engaged in the taking of salmon within the limits of the District 

 of Alaska to the following: 



[Circular. 1892. Department No. 131, division of special agents.] 



PROTECTION OF THE SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 



Washington, I). C., August 10, 1892. 



To the officers of the custom* in the Territory of Alaska and all other persons concerned: 



The attention of the collector of customs and all officers of the United States in 

 the Territory of Alaska, as well as all other persons concerned, is called to the terms 

 of an act of Congress approved March 2, 1892, wherein it is provided: "That the 

 erection of dams, barricades, and other obstructions in any of the rivers of Alaska, 

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

 anadromons species to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared to be unlawful, 

 and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to establish 

 such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition 

 is strictly enforced and to otherwise protect the salmon fisheries of Alaska; and 

 every person who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this sec- 

 tion shall be fined not less than $250 for each day of the continuance of such obstruc- 

 tion ; " and also to an act approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber- 

 culture laws and for other purposes," which provides that the United States reserves 

 the right to regulate the taking of salmon and to do nil ether things necessary to 

 protect and prevent the destruction of salmon in all the waters of the lands granted 

 under said act and frequented by salmon. 



Officers of the customs service and officers appointed to enforce the provisions of 

 the law referred to are hereby directed to report all cases of infraction of said laws 

 to the United States attorney for the District of Alaska, with a view to the prose- 

 cution of offenders- 



A. B. NETTLETON, 



Acting Secretary. 



And also to the following extracts from the letter of instructions accompanying 

 my appointment : 



TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 



Washington, D. C., August 10, 1892. 



SIR: Having been appointed as a special agent for the preservation of the salmon 

 fisheries in Alaska, you are informed that it will bo your duty to ascertain and 

 report the location of every salmon cannery or saltery in Alaska; the capacity of 

 the same in cases, barrels, half barrels, and kits ; the pack in full for each season ; the 

 number of boxes of tin consumed and the cost of same; the number of employees in 

 each cannery or saltery, and the total thereof, segregating whites, natives, Chinese, 

 etc., male and female, adults and minors, and whether citizens or aliens. You should 

 also include in said report the codfish, herring, herring oil and guano, and other 

 such industries. 



I inclose herewith for your information a copy of a circular, this date, relating to 

 the provisions of the first section of the act approved March 2, 1889, entitled "An 

 act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska." It will be your 

 duty to enforce the provisions of said act, and to warn all persons who have erected 

 dams, or barricades, or other obstructions to remove the same forthwith, and in 

 default thereof you will report all the facts with the proper proofs to the United 

 States attorney for prosecution. 



At the close of the season you will submit a full report of your labors and the 



