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{Inclosure 1 in No. 187.] 
(50th Congress, 2nd Session.—S. 3993.) 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Fresruary 25, 1889.—Mr. Stockbridge introduced the following Bill; which was read 
twice and referred to the Committee on Fisheries. 
A Bill to amend Section 1963 of the Revised Statutes, and to provide for the better Protec- 
tion of the Fur Seals and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, and for other Purposes. 
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled: that section 1963 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States be amended so as to read as follows: 
“Section 1963. Within one year prior to the time when the lease heretofore made 
by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Alaska Commercial Company, of the right 
to engage in taking fur seals on the islands of St. Panl and St. George, pursuant to 
the Act of the 1st July, 1870, cap. 189, or when any future similar lease expires, or 
is surrendered, forfeited, or terminated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
245 lease to proper and responsible parties, for the best advantage of the United 
States, having due regard to the interests of the Government, the native 
inhabitants, their comfort, maintenance, and education, as well as to the interests 
of the parties heretofore engaged in the trade and the protection of the fisheries, 
the right of taking fur seals on the islands herein named, and of sending a vessel 
or vessels to the islands for the skins of such seals, tor the term of twenty years, at 
an annual rental of not less than 50,000 dollars, to be reserved in such lease and 
secured by a deposit of United States bonds to that amount; and the additional 
sum of not less than 3 dol. 50 c. for each fur seal skin taken and shipped from the 
islands of St. Paul and St. George during the continuance of any lease, to be paid 
into the Treasury of the United States, and every such lease shall be duly executed 
in duplicate, and shall not be transferable; and the Secretary of the Treasury 
is empowered to make all needful regulations for the collection and payment of 
the same, and to secure the comfort, maintenance, education, and protection of 
the natives of those islands, and also to carry into full effect all the provisions 
of this chapter, except as otherwise prescribed. And he shall give at least sixty 
days’ notice of the letting of said lease, by publication in at least one daily paper 
published in the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, 
Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and San I'rancisco, inviting bids for the same.” 
Sec.2. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States was intended 
to include and apply, and is hereby declared to include and apply, to all the waters of 
Behring’s Sea in Alaska embraced within the boundary lines mentioned and described 
in the Treaty with Russia, dated 30th March, a. p. 1867, by which the Territory of 
Alaska was ceded to the United States; and it shall be the duty of the President, at 
a timely season in each year, to issue his Proclamation and cause the same to be 
published for one month in at least one newspaper published at each United States 
port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said territory 
and waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section; and he shall 
also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruize said waters, 
and arrest all persons, and seizeall vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in 
any violation of the Laws of the United States therein. 
Sec. 3. That section 1969 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the 
same is hereby, repealed. 
sec. 4. That the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the 
rivers of Alaska, with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of 
salmon or other anadromous species to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared 
to be unlawful, and the Seeretary 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 every person who shall be found guilty of 
a violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than 250 dollars 
for each day of the continuance of such obstruction. 
See. 5. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby empowered and 
directed to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and distribution of 
the salmon of Alaska, as well as the present conditions and methods of the fisheries, 
with a view of recommending to Congress such additional legislation as may be neces- 
sary to preveut the impairment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and placing 
them under regular and permanent conditions of production. 
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