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Page 517 - ... or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, found engaged in violation of this section shall be forfeited...
Page 412 - Supposing the object of the association to be laudable and lawful, or at least not unlawful, are these means criminal? The case supposes that these persons are not bound by contract, but free to work for whom they please, or not to work, if they so prefer. In this state of things, we cannot perceive that it is criminal for men to agree together to exercise their own acknowledged rights in such a manner as best to subserve their own interests.
Page 381 - found thousands of seaotter skins in the possession of chiefs, the animal has been almost exterminated, and there can be no doubt that, had it not been for the...
Page 381 - THE SEA OTTER. — The sea otter seems to exist chiefly on a line parallel with the Japanese current from the coast of Japan along the Kurile islands to the coast of Kamchatka, and thence westward along the Aleutian chain, the southward side of the Alaska peninsula, the estuaries of Cook inlet and Prince William sound, and thence eastward and southward along the Alaska coast, the Alexander archipelago, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. At the beginning of the present century large numbers...
Page 540 - Kuskokwim, and all over the delta lying between the mouths of these rivers, in the valleys of the Togiak and the Nushagak, and in nearly all parts of the Alaska peninsula and Unimak island, as well as on the Kadiak archipelago, the shores of Cook inlet, on the Kinik and Sushitna rivers emptying into the same, on Prince William sound, and on the Copper river. The traders report the land otter also along the whole coast from Mount St. Elias to the southern boundary, with the exception of the smaller...
Page 70 - The people of the State of New York, represented in the senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1.
Page 382 - ... convoy of schooners belonging to the trading firms. From the island of Umnak eastward the sea otters become more frequent, until they are found in their greatest abundance in the district of Sannak and Belkovsky. Here, within a radius of not more than 50 miles, over 1,000 sea otters are secured every year by the fortunate hunters, without any apparent decline in numbers. From this point in a northeasterly direction the coast of the Alaska peninsula is lined with hundreds of islands and reefs,...
Page 412 - As frequently applied, it is one of the most heartless and brutal manifestations of private revenge recorded in history, and is calculated to call forth the abhorrence and just reprehension of all men who respect law and love liberty.
Page 540 - ... purchased now where thousands appear on former records. The northern limit of the beaver seems to be but little to the southward of that of the land otter, considerably above the Arctic circle, being identical with the limit of trees. Skins are obtained from the natives living on the northern tributaries of the Yukon river, which have passed into the hands of the latter from the waters of the Colville and other rivers emptying into the Arctic.
Page 540 - Yukon river the beavers have frequently suffered from excessive and prolonged cold during the winter, the ice in rivers and ponds forming so rapidly and to such thickness that the animals found it impossible to keep open the approaches to their dwellings under water, and they died from starvation before the thaws of spring opened their prisons. The Indians of the Kinik and Tanana rivers state that after an extraordinarily cold winter they have frequently found the putrefying carcasses of hundreds...