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at San Francisco examine all game. We have arranged so that the 
game trophies must be sent to those ports, and must be so packed that 
they can be examined, and through cooperation with the Treasury officials 
we know what game is landed there. They can not kill any game 
without a permit, and we furnished last year 105 permits—not last 
year, but since the game law of Alaska went into effect. That is, we 
have issued 105 permits altogether. Last year we issued 11 to for- 
eigners and about 94 to citizens of the United States and Alaska, mainly 
out there in Alaska, to the men who live there. 
Mr. Scorr. Can no one kill that game lawfully without a permit 
from your office? 
Mr. Merriam. He can not bring it out, if he does. You or I could 
not go up there and kill a moose or a sheep—a mountain sheep—and 
bring it out of that country without a permit. Nobody can. 
Mr. Scotrr. Does everybody who applies for a permit receive it? 
Mr. Merriam. That depends on who he is, and what we know about 
his record and about him. If he is a taxidermist who is after trophies 
to sell, we will not grant him a permit; but if he is a respectable man 
we will give him a permit to bring out what the law allows, except in 
regard to the Kenai Peninsula. That peninsula is so accessible that a 
man can in twenty-four hours get into the finest hunting country, 
where the largest moose in the world are to-day, and where he will 
see 500 sheep in a day. 
The attractions of that country—the moose, and the sheep, and the 
great big brown bears, and the caribou—are such that we have had to 
restrict and cut off hunting in that particular place. We tell them that 
they can kill anything that the law allows in other parts of Alaska, 
but that they can not kill in the Kenai Peninsula. The caribou are so 
easily gotten at that they are almost exterminated already. 
The CHarrman. Is there anything further that you want to speak to 
us about? 
Mr. Merriam. Not unless there are some further questions that 
some member wishes to ask. 
The Cuarrman. Are there any further questions? 
(There was no response.) 
Thereupon. at 3.40 o’clock p. m., the committee adjourned. 
JANUARY 13, 1904—10.30 o’cLOCK A. M. 
Hon. James W. Wadsworth in the chair. 
STATEMENT OF GEORGE WILLIAM HILL, EDITOR AND CHIEF OF 
THE DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
The CHarrman. Mr. Hill, we have asked you to appear before us in 
regard to certain changes. The committee will turn to page 21 of the 
estimate. A change in your estimate is ‘‘one editor, who shall be 
assistant chief of division, $2,500.” 
Mr. How. Yes, sir. 
The CuatrMan. That is absolutely new. Kindly tell the committee, 
in your own way, what the necessity for that is? 
Mr. Hitz. It is a plea for help on the part of myself, Mr. Wads- 
