The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-11

tory of Alaska relating to the fish cries of Alaska, are complied with during the period of such lease, md provided that the lessees of such locations shall pay into the Treasury of the United States l cent for every salmon captured by such fish trap or pound net con structed by virtue of such lease; reports under oath of all salmon so captured and payments therefore shall be made to the commissioner )f fisheries for Alaska under such regulations as he may provide and II fees paid under this Act shall >e covered into the Treasury of he United States; any failure to make such reports or payments or my act by a lessee to intentionally iefraud the United States of any moneys accrued under this section hall forfeit such lease and there fter prevent such lessee from again lolding a lease.
 Locations for stake nets or set iets may be made under the same eneral requirements of this section " erecting a permanent monument
 ear, by driving a pile or, securely
 nchoring buoy, but no lease hall be granted for a stake net or
 set net for period longer than
 ne year.
 If any fish trap, pound net, trawl let, purse seine, stake net, gill or ct net shall be held. claimed, leas- q, trusteed, possessed or controlled T any manner or by any device,
 ermanently or temporarily, direct or indirectly, tacitly or other wise, so as to form part of or in
 ny way effect any combination in
 iolation Of law or of this act, or anywise controlled by any com lination in the form of an unlaw- Ill trust, or shall form the subject f any contract or conspiracy in re- traint of trade in the manufacture, anning, catching, dealing, or trad ng in fish or fishery products or
 any holding of any such lease leases by any individual, part
 ership, association, corporation, lortgage, stock ownership, or con rol the title to each and every ound net or set net location shall
 Q forfeited to the United States rom the date when any court of ompetent jurisdiction shall, by it's
 nal judgment, find the said vio- ation of law to have been begun set on foot by the parties or heir successors; and it shall be he duty of the Attorney General of he United States, or of any United ,tates district attorney in Alaska, o institute such proceedings in any ourt of competent jurisdiction for he purpose of enforcing the pro-
 isions of this section whenever here is reasonable ground to be- ieve that any such violation has ccrued or is attempted.
 Any citizen of the United States iesiring to lease any location where IL IUdN DP Id Iil to 'photluCl d fish trap or pound net in the Wa ters Of Alaska shall post conspic- uously above high water, where it may be readily observed by per son contemplating a fixed-gear fish ing location, 8 location notice giv- ing the date of location, the name or names of the locator or locators, a description of the proposed trap. with it's approximate dimensions and directions, accurately describe the location setting forth it's near est prominent natural objects or permanent monuments, so that the location may be readily identified. together with statement that the locator or locators desire to obtain a lease for it's operation, and all such location notices notices shall contain the names of two witness es. The locator or locatoPs shall within thirty days after posting mo- tice of location file tYN notices