Chapter 66. to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to gather full and authentic information as to the present condition and preservation of the fur-seal interests of the Government in the region of Alaska, as compared with its condition in eighteen hundred and seventy; also full information as to the impending
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CHAP. 66.— An Act to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to gather full and authentic information as to the present condition and preservation of the fur-seal interests of the Government in the region of Alaska, as compared with its condition in eighteen hundred and seventy; also full information as to the impending extinction of the sea-otter industry, and kindred lines of inquiry, and so forth.April 5, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alaska fur-seals and sea-otters.Secretary of Treasury may appoint special agent to examine and report upon condition of, etc.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint some person well qualified by experience and education a special agent for the purpose of visiting the various trading stations and native settlements on the seal islands, the Aleutian Archipelago, the peninsula of Alaska, and adjacent islands, for the purpose of collecting and reporting to him all possible authentic information upon the present condition of the seal fisheries of Alaska, the effect and extent of whatever injury has been inflicted upon them by pelagic sealing, the present status of the sea-otter industry, together with like information respecting the fur-bearing animals of Alaska generally; the statistics or this fur trade, and the condition of the people or natives of Alaska who are dependent upon the successful prosecution and perpetuation of the seal and sea-otter industries; such agent to Compensation.receive as compensation the sum of ten dollars per day while actually thus employed, and to remain thus employed only as long as the Secretary of the Treasury deems it best for the full development of this inquiry, with all actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred therein, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury of Appropriation.the United States not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 5, 1890.