Chapter XXXI. supplementary to the Act entitled “An Act to prevent the Extermination of fur-bearing Animals in Alaska.”March 5, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1870, ch. 189
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CHAP. XXXI.— An Act supplementary to the Act entitled “An Act to prevent the Extermination of fur-bearing Animals in Alaska.”March 5, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1870, ch. 189.Vol. xvi. p. 180.Secretary of Treasury to appoint agent and assistante to manage the seal fisheries in Alaska; the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint one agent and three assistant agents, who shall be charged with the management of the seal fisheries in Alaska, and the performance of such other duties as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the eaid agent shall receive the sum of ten dollars each day, one assistant agent the eum of eight dollars each day, and two assistant agents the sum of six dollars each day while so employed;their pay and travelling expenses.Agents not to be into rested in right to take seals. and they shall also be allowed their necessary travelling expenses in going to and returning from Alaska, for which expenses vouchers shall be presented to the proper accounting officers of the treasury, and such expenses shall not exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars each in any one year: *Provided,* That such agents shall never be interested, directly or indirectly, in any lease of the right to take seals, nor in any proceeds nor profits thereof, neither as owner, agent, partner, or otherwise.
Sec. 2. ThatDwelling-houses for agents. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to erect a dwelling-house upon each of the islands of St. Paul and St. George, for the use of said agents, the cost of both not to exceed six thousand dollars. Sec. 3. ThatAgents may administer certain oaths and take testimony. the said agents be, and they are hereby, empowered to administer oaths in all cases relating to the sendee of the United States, and to take testimony in Alaska for the use of the government in any matter concerning the public revenues.
Approved, March 5, 1872.