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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 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 every person who shall be found euilty 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 obstructions. 
Sec. 5. The Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby empowered and directed 
to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and distribution of the sal- 
mon 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 necessary 
to prevent the imp: Lirment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and placing 
them under regular and permanent conditions of production, 
APPENDIX (A). 
Extract from the “ Congressional Record,” 1889, p. 2788. 
FUR-SEAL AND SALMON FISHERIES. 
Mr. Dunn, from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, reported back 
with the amendments ordered by the House the Bill (H. R. 12432) to amend section 
1963 of the Revised Statutes, and to provide for the better protection of the fur-seal 
and salmon fisheries of Alaska and for other purposes, which was laid on the table 
for the present, and the bill and amendments and the accompanying Report ordered 
to be printed. 
APPENDIX (B). 
NOTICE. 
Section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides that no person 
shall, without the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, kill any otter, mink, 
marten, sable or fur-seal, or other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska 
territory, or in the waters thereof; and that any person convicted of a violation of 
that section shall, for each offence, be fined not less than 200 dollars or more than 
1,000 dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six mouths, or both; and that all ves- 
sels, with their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, found engaged in violation of 
that section, shall be forfeited. 
No fur-bearing animal will therefore be allowed to be killed by persons other than 
natives within the limits of the Alaska Territory. or in the waters thereof, except 
fur-seals taken by the Alaska Commercial Company, in pursuance of their lease. 
The use of fire-arms by the natives in killing otter during the months of May, June, 
July, August, and September, is hereby prohibited, No vessel will be allowed to 
anchor in the well-known otter- killing grounds, except those which may carry parties 
of natives to or from such killing erounds; and it will be the duty of the officers of the 
United States who may be in that loc ality to take all proper measures to enforce all 
the pains and penalties of the law against persons found guilty of a violation thereof. 
White men lawfully married to nativ es, and residing within the territory, are con- 
sidered natives within the meaning of this Order. 
