The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-05

! sea waters or AlaSKa (eXcluulHS IHOSe surrounding the Pribilof Islands), for the periods of five years with the priv ilege of renewal for a period of five years and thereafter for successive periods of five years, provided Cong ress or the Legislature of Alaska shall not alter, amend, or repeal this Act to such renewals, provided all the pro visions of this Act and all laws of Congress or the Territory of Alaska relating to the fisheries of Alaska, are compiled with during the period of such lease, and provided that the less ees of such locations shall pay into the Treasury of the United States cent for every salmon captured by such fish trap or pound net construct ed by virtue of such lease; reports un- der oath of all salmon so captured land payments therefor shall be made to the commissioner of fisheries for Alaska under such regulations as he may provide and all fees paid under this Act shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States; any failure to make such reports or pay ments or any act by lessee to inten- tionally defraud the United States of any moneys accrued under this sec tion shall forfeit such lease and there after prevent such lessee from again holding lease under this Act, or de- irving any benefits from any such lease.
 Locations for stake nets or set nets may be made under the same general requirements of this section by erect ing a permanent monument near, by driving a pile or securely anchoring buoy but no lease shall be granted for a stake net or set net for a period longer than one year.
 If any fish trap, pound net, trawl net, purse seine, stake net, gill or set net shall be held, claimed leased, trusteed. possessed, or controlled i'll any manner or by any device, perman- ently or temporarily, directly or indi- rectly, tacitly or otherwise, so as to form part of or in any way effect any combination in violation of law or of this act, or in anywise controlled by any combination in the form of an un- lawful trust, or shall form the subject
 Nfo at lirsof. traint of trade in the manufacture, canning, catching, dealing, or trading in fish or fishery products or of any holding of any such lease or leases by any individual, partnership, associat- ion, corporation, mortgage, stock own ership, or control, the title to each and every pound net or set net location shall be forfeited to the United States from the date when any court of com potent jurisdiction shall, by it's final judgment, find the said violation of law to have been begun or set on foot by the parties or their successors; and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States, or of any United States district attorney in Alaska, to institute such proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing the pro- visions of this section whenever there is reasonable ground to believe that any such violation has accrued or is attempted.
 Any citizen of the United States de- string to lease any location where it may be lawful to construct fish trap or pound net in the waters of Alaska shall post conspicuously above high water, where it may readily be observ- ed by person contemplating a fixed gear fishing location, location notice giving the date of location, the name or names of the locator or locators, description of the proposed trap, with it's approximate dimensions and direc- tions, accurately describe the location setting forth it's nearest prominent nat ural objects or permanent monuments --