278 FUR-SEAL FISHEEIES OF ALASKA. 



Sec. 1975. Such agents shall never be interested, directly or indirectly, in any lease 

 of the right to take seals, nor in any proceeds or profits thereof, either as owner, 

 agent, partner, or otherwise. 



Skc. 1976. Such agents are emi>o\vered to administer oaths in all cases relating to 

 the service of the United States, and to take testimony in Alaska for the use of the 

 Government in any matter concerning the public revenues. 



Sec. 'J591. There shall be in the Territory of Alaska one collection district, as fol- 

 lows: Tbe district of Alaska; to comprise all the Territory of Alaska; in which Sitka 

 shall be the port of entry. 



Sec. 2592. There shall be in the collection district of Alaska a collector, who shall 

 reside at Sitka. 



Sec. 4140. The Secretary of the Treasury may make such regulations as he may 

 deem expedient for the nationalization of all vessels owned by actual residents of the 

 Territory of Alaska, on the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, 

 and which continued to be so owned up to the date of such nationalization. 



Chap. 64.— An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing 

 animals in Alaska," approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Eepresenfatwes of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the act entitled •' An act to prevent the extermination of 

 fur-bearing animals in Alaska," approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, 

 is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, and he is hereby 

 authorized, to designate the months in which fur-seals may be taken for their skins 

 on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, in Alaska, and in the waters adjacent 

 thereto, and the number to be taken on or about each island respectively. 



Treasury Department, February 8, 1870. 

 The attention of collectors and other officers of the customs is directed to the fol- 

 lowing Executive order : 



Executive Mansion, 

 Washington, D. C, February 4, 1870. 

 Under and in f»ursuance of the authority vested in me by the provisions of the sec- 

 ond section of the act of Congress, 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 Rutisia; to establish a 

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

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

 use of fire-arms 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, 



President. 



In conformity with the foregoing order of the President, and to insure its faithful 

 execution, collectors of customs are hereby instructed to refuse clearance to ail 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 fire-arms and ammunition on board, will be 

 required to execute and deliver to the collector of customs, at the port of clearance, 

 a good and sufficient bond in double the value of the articles so laden, conditioned 

 that said spirits, or any part thereof, shall not be landed upon or disposed of within 

 the Territory of Alaska, or that said arms and ammunition, or any part thereof, shall 

 not be lauded, disposed of, or used upon either of the islands of St. Paul or St. George, 

 in said district. 



Geo. S. Boutwell, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



