IES OF ALASKA, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
th& United States of America in
Congress assembled, That sec
8 of the Act of Congress of June
6, 1924, entitled “An Act for the
protection of the fisheries of
Alaska, and for other purposes,”
is amended so that it will read
as follows:
section o. Nothing m this Act
contained, nor any powers here
in conferred upon the Secretary
of Commerce, shall abrogate or
curtail the powers granted the
Territorial Legislature of Alaska
to impose taxes or licenses, nor
limit or curtail any powers
granted the Territorial Legisla
ture of Alaska by the Act of
Congress approved August 24,
1912 “To create a legislative as
sembly in the Territory of Alas
ka, to confer legislative power
thereon, and for other purposes;’
<a) that the Secretary of Com
merce is hereby authorized to
license fishing for salmon with
traps, on sites suitable therefor
in the coastal waters of Alaska,
where the same are now au
thorized to be located by law by
any person, association, firm or
corporation, subject to the laws
of the United States and the
terms, limitations and restric
tions herein after mentioned;
(b) that no license shall be is
sued for any period longer than
four years, and may be renewed
from time to time for any period
not to exceed a term of four
years, provided, THAT THE
RIGHT IS HEREBY RESERVED
BY THE UNITED STATES TO
REVOKE THE SAID LICENSE
AND ALL RIGHTS GRANTED
THEREBY OR CLAIMED
THEREUNDER, AT THE END
OF ANY YEAR Af^ER THAT IN
WHICH THE LICENSE IS IS
SUED, UPON THIRTY DAYS
NOTICE GIVEN BY THE UNIT
ED STATES TO THE SAID LI
CENSEE OF ITS INTENTION SO
TO REVOKE THE SAID LI
CENSE; (c) and thereupon the
license shall vacate the said trap
site and remove its trap and
other property therefrom with
in thirty days after the last
day of the year in which such
notice was served; (d) that an
annual license fee snail be paid
by the licensee for the use and
occupation of every such trap
site, in addition to his or its
other licenses and taxes, of fifty
dollars for every fifty thousand
salmon caught in said trap;
(e) trap sites shall be consider
ed to be abandoned by the li
censee and shall be open to be
licensed to another person, as
sociation, firm or corporation
upon failure of the licensee or
his assignee to operate or to use
the trap site described in the
license for the season or some
fart thereof during the year; or
by failure to pay the annual li
cense fee in full during the year
for which "the license was issued
(f) that in issuing trap site li
censes under this Act the Sec
retary of Commerce shall give
any person, association, firm or
corporation who was in the ac
tual and bona fida use and oc
cupation of any trap site oper
ating a trap thereon during the
reason of 1927, the preference
right to have and receive a li
cense thereon and the use and
occupation of said trap site un
der this Act; (g) that any li
cense issued and any trap site
leased to any licensee under
the provisions of this Act and
other laws of the United States
may be bought, sold, assigned,
mortgaged or otherwise trans
ferred by the holder thereof,
subject always to the provisions
of this Act and other laws of the
United States and the rules and
regulations issued by the Sec
retary of Commerce thereunder;
(h) in event any fish trap cover
ed by a license is prohibited
irom Ashing, by regulation of
the Secretary of Commerce and
such area is again open to fish
ing, the last licensee shall have
the Arst right to reoccupy the
said site subject to the provi
sions of this Act if the said li
censee shall apply therefor
within ninety days after the
same shall have been thrown
open; (i) nothing in this Act
shall be construed to limit, cur
tail or restrict the right, power
and authority of the Secretary
of Commerce to change or modi
fy any regulation or restriction
now authorized to be imposed
upon the fishing industry by
law, or to promulgate any rule or
regulation in aid of the protec
tion and conservation thereof;
(j) that the Secretary of Com
merce is hereby authorized and
required to make and enforce
rules and regulations to prevent
traps, piles and other structures
erected in the coastal waters of
Alaska from becoming or re
maining a menace to navigation,
at the expense of the person, as
sociation, firm or corporation
erecting the same; and (k)
nothing in this Act or in any li
cense issued under its provisions
shall be held to prevent Con
gress from amending , modify
ing or repealing this Act and re
voking all licenses and rights
held or claimed thereunder.”
“Slavery and virtue are in
compatible. Slavery breaks all
the ties that connect man with
his fellow-creatures.”
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“Tyranny equally debases him
who exercises it and those
whom it enslaves; with it all lose
the* sentment of truth, the idea
of justice, and the taste of
good ”
“The reign of the general will
is the only reign that maintains
public felicity.”