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(c) The United States Commissioner and Deputy 

 Commissioner, although ofiBcers of the United States 

 Government, shall receive no compensation for their 

 services. (Aug. 9, 1950. ch. 653, § 3. 64 Stat. 421.) 



§916b. Acceptance or rejection by United States Gov- 

 ernment of regulations, etc.; acceptance of reports, 

 recommendations, etc., of Commission. 



The Secretary of State is authorized, with the 

 concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to 

 present or withdraw any objections on behalf of the 

 United States Government to such regulations or 

 amendments of the schedule to the convention as 

 are adopted by the Commission and submitted to 

 the United States Government in accordance with 

 article V of the convention. The Secretary of State 

 is further authorized to receive on behalf of the 

 United States Government reports, requests, recom;- 

 mendations, and other communications of the Com- 

 mission, and to act thereon either directly or by 

 reference to the appropriate authority. (Aug. 9, 

 1950, ch. 653, § 4, 64 Stat. 422.) 



§ 916c. Unlawful acts. 



(a) It shall be unlawful for any person subject to 

 the jurisdiction of the United States (1) to engage 

 in whaling in violation of the convention or of any 

 regulation of the Commission, or of this chapter, or 

 of any regulation of the Secretary of the Interior: 

 (2) to ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale. 

 Import, export, or have in possession any whale or 

 whale products talcen or processed in violation of the 

 convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, 

 or of this chapter, or of any regulation of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior: (3) to fail to malce, keep, submit, 

 or furnish any record or report required of him by 

 the convention, or by any regulation of the Commis- 

 sion, or by any regulation of the Secretary of the 

 Interior, or to refuse to permit any officer authorized 

 to enforce the convention, the regulations of the 

 Commission, this chapter, and the regulations of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, to inspect such record or 

 report at any reasonable time. 



(b) It shall be unlawful for any person or vessel 

 subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to 

 do any act prohibited or to fail to do any act required 

 by the convention, or by this chapter, or by any reg- 

 ulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regu- 

 lation of the Secretary of the Interior. (Aug. 9, i950, 

 ch. 653, I 5, 64 Stat. 422.) 



§916d. Licenses. 



(a) Issuance. 



No person shall engage In whaling without first 

 having obtained an appropriate license or scientific 

 permit. Such licenses shall be issued by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior or such officer of the Department 

 of the Interior as may be designated by him: Pro- 

 vided, That the Secretary, in his discretion and by 

 appropriate regulation, may waive the payment of 

 any license fee or the requirement that a license 

 first be obtained, in connection with the salvage of 

 any "Dauhval" or unclaimed dead whale found 

 floating or stranded. 



(b) Licenses and fees required. 



The following licenses and fees shall be required 

 for each calendar year or any fraction thereof and 



shall be nontransferable except under such condi- 

 tions as may be nrescribed by the Secretary : 



(1) Land-station license for primary processing 

 of whales, $250. 



(2) Land-station license for secondary proc- 

 essing of parts of whales delivered to it by a land 

 station licensed as a primary processor, $100. 



(3) Factory-ship Ucense for primary proc- 

 essing of whales delivered by whale catchers, 

 $250. 



(4) License for any vessel used exclusively for 

 transporting whale products from a factory ship 

 to a r>ort during the whaling season, $100. 



(5) Whale-catcher Ucense, $100. 



(c) Disposition of fees. 



All moneys derived from the issuance of whaling 

 licenses shall be covered into the Treasury of the 

 United States, and no license fee shall be refunded 

 by reason of the failure of any person to whom a 

 license has been issued to utilize the facility In whal- 

 ing for which such license was issued. 



(d) Application; conditions precedent. 



Any person, in making application for a license 

 to operate a whale catcher, must furnish evidence or 

 affidavit satisfactory to the Secretaiy of the Interior 

 that, m addition to conforming to other applicable 

 laws and regulations, (1) the whale catcher is ade- 

 quately equipped and competently manned to en- 

 gage in whaling in accordance with the provisions 

 of the convention, the regulations of the Commis- 

 sion, and the regulations of the Secretary of the 

 Interior; (2) gunners and crews will be compensated 

 on some basis that does not depend primarily on the 

 number of whales taken: and (3) no bonus or other 

 partial remuneration with relation to the number of 

 whales taken shall be paid to gunners and crews in 

 respect of the taking of any whales, the taking of 

 which is prohibited. 



(e) Same; additional conditions. 



Any person, in making application for a license to 

 operate a land station or a factory ship must furnish 

 evidence or affidavits to the satisfaction of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior that, in addition to conforming 

 to other applicable laws and regulations, such land 

 station or factory ship Is adequately equipped to 

 comply with provisions of the convention, of the 

 regulations of the Commission, and of the regula- 

 tions of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 

 the processing of whales or the manufacture of 

 whale products. (Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 6, 64 

 SUt. 422.) 



RKruMD or LiCKNSE FxEs Paid Under Former SEcnom 

 901 — 915 or This Title 

 Section 18 of act Aug. 9, 1950, provided In part that 

 the Secretary of the Interior Is authorized to refund any 

 part of a license fee paid under former section 908 of this 

 title that la In excess of the license fee required under this 

 section. 



§916e. Failnre to keep returns, records, reports. 



Any person who fails to make. keep, or furnish any 

 catch return, statistical record, or any reiiort that 

 may be required by the convention, or by any regu- 

 lation of the Commission, or by this chapter, or by 

 a regulation of the Secretary of the Interior, or any 



