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![handle is hein.animal/lwsrgspw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Regulatory Announcement 4 _ Issued December 1941
LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION
OF WALRUSES AND SEA LIONS IN ALASKA
PROTECTION OF WALRUSES IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
[Act of Aug. 18, 1941, Pub. 219-77th Cong.]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That whoever, within the Territory of Alaska
or in or on any of the waters thereof, shall take, possess, sell, barter, purchase,
or exiort; at any time or in any manner, any walrus, alive or dead, or any part
thereof, except as hereinafter in this section provided, shall be fined iot more
than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both: Provided, That
walruses may be taken at any time by natives for food and clothing for them-
selves and by miners or explorers or any other person when in need of food and
other food is not available, and the skins, hides, tusks, or ivory of walruses so
taken may be possessed, sold, bartered, or purchased in theTerritory and said
tusks or ivory, when carved or otherwise manufactured or processed in the Terri-
tory, may be exported therefrom: Provided further, That the Secretary of the
Interior is authorized to permit the taking, possession, and export of walruses or
parts thereof for scientific or educational purposes under special permits to be
issued by him under such restrictions and conditions as he shall prescribe.
SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of all marshals and deputy marshals, collectors
and deputy collectors of customs, officers of the Coast Guard, and law-enforce-
ment officers of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Game Commission
of the Department of the Interior to enforce this Act and they shall have, with
respect to such enforcement, all the powers and authority conferred by the second
paragraph of section 5 of the Alaska Game Law of January 13, 1925 (43 Stat.
739), as amended by the Acts of February 14. 1931, and June 25, 1938 (46 Stat.
1111 and 52 Stat. 1169, respectively), upon the officers therein mentioned ; and all
guns, traps, hets, boats, dogs, sleds, implements, or other paraphernalia used in
or in aid of a violation of this Act, and any walrus, or part thereof, taken, pos-
sessed, sold, bartered, purchased, or exported contrary to this Act, shall be seized
by the officers aulhorized to enforce this Act, and upon conviction of the offender
or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were being used
or were taken, possessed, sold, bartered, purchased, or exported contrary to the
provisions of this Act, shall be forfeited to the United States and disposed of as
directed by the court having jurisdiction, and if sold the proceeds of sale, less
any expenses incurred in and about the seizure and forfeiture thereof, shall be
deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
SEC. 3. That as used in this Act whoever includes individuals, associations.
partnerships, and corporations; take includes also pursue, hunt, shoot, wound,
kill, capture, trap, or willfully molest or disturb ; export means transportation
or offering for transportation from the Territory of Alaska or any of the waters
thereof to any place outside said Territory or waters; and natives means
Eskimos, Aleuts, and other aborigines of one-half or more Eskimo, Aleut, or other
aborional blood.
SEc. 4. That all other acts or parts of acts insofar as they relate to walruses
in the Territory of Alaska or in or on any of the waters thereof are hereby
repealed.
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