as applicable to such baggage. The circular referred to provides that in instances where a sufficient number of packages to fill an entire car is not available such baggage may be forwarded by bonded routes, when properly corded and sealed, in cars not secured by the prescribed customs fastenings. In all other respects the existing regulations relating to baggage are to be observed. Respectfully, O. L. SPAULDING, Acting Secretary. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York, N. Y. (24131.) Limiting the duration of the salmon fishing season in southeastern Alaska. [Circular No. 3.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 5, 1903. To officers and employees of the Treasury Department and others concerned: The instructions contained in the following letter, addressed to the agent for the protection of the salmon fisheries in Alaska, are published for the information and guidance of all persons concerned. O. L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1903. SIR: The Department has been advised that the perpetuity of the salmon-fishing industry of Alaska is endangered by the multiplication of establishments for canning and salting the fish and the fierce competition of their operators and employees, and that the depletion of the salmon fisheries is due to overfishing; that there is no restriction as to the number of canneries, the number of fisheries to be operated, or the number of boats, men, and gear employed; and that purse seines are now used in great numbers, one seine following the other in such quick succession that few fish can pass into the streams. Consideration has been given to measures necessary to permit the early arrivals of red salmon to ascend to the spawning grounds, and due notice was given, by publication, that, pursuant to section 181 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1899, entitled "An Act to define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska, and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said District," on Wednesday, the 19th day of November, 1902, at 12 o'clock m., a hearing would be had before the Secretary of the Treasury to determine whether the fishing season for the taking of salmon in the streams of southeastern Alaska, included between the parallels of 59 degrees and 30 minutes north and 54 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude, should be limited and not permitted in said streams until after the 4th day of July of each year, provided that the native Indians be allowed to take salmon for use as food for their own consumption during said closed season. Said hearing was duly held on the date named, and after due consideration of all the facts presented it is my judgment that the results of fishing operations on said streams of southeastern Alaska indicate that the number of salmon taken is larger than the capacity of the streams to produce, it having been ascertained that the persons engaged in catching salmon do not maintain fish hatcheries of sufficient magnitude to keep such streams fully stocked. It is therefore ordered that the duration of the fishing season in the streams of southeastern Alaska, between the parallels 59 degrees and 30 minutes north and 54 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude, and east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian, be limited and not permitted until after the 30th day of June of each year, provided that the native Indians be allowed to take salmon for use as food for their own consumption during the closed season thus established. You are directed to give due notice of this order to all persons, firms, and corporations interested in or affected thereby, and to take measures to secure its proper enforceYou should make prompt report of any violation thereof to the United States attorney for the district of Alaska, for proper action, and to the Department. LESLIE M. SHAW, Secretary. ment. Respectfully, Mr. H. M. KUTCHIN, Agent for Protection of Salmon Fisheries of Alaska, Washington, D. C. (24132.) Rules regulating the execution of official bonds required by law to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. [Circular No. 4.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 6, 1903. From and after this date the following rules will be enforced in the execution of all official bonds to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and no advances of money will be made to bonded officers unless notice is received from this office of the proper execution and approval of their bonds, and of the renewal and strengthening thereof, as provided by section 5 of the act of March 2, 1895: RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL OFFICIAL BONDS, EXCEPT AS HEREIN AFTER NOTED. 1. The Christian names of principal and sureties must be written in full in the body of the bond, but the signatures to the bond should conform with the customary signature. 2. The bond must bear date as of the day upon which it was actually executed. 3. The bond must be signed by the principal and sureties, and each signature must be made in the presence of two persons, who must sign their names as witnesses. 4. There must not be less than two individual sureties; but one corporate surety duly qualified under the act of Congress of August 13, 1894, may be accepted as sole surety. 5. A seal of wax or wafer must be attached to the signature of the principal and of each individual surety, but a corporate surety must affix its corporate seal. 6. A married woman will not be accepted as surety. 7. The sureties must justify in amounts the aggregate of which will be equal to at least twice the penalty of the bond. 8. The sureties must make and sign affidavits of the amounts they are worth over and above all their debts and liabilities, and such exemptions as may be allowed by law. 9. The sureties, other than corporate sureties, must state under oath that they are not responsible as sureties on the bond of any other official, or if so liable, the amount of such liability. 10. The affidavits of the sureties must be taken and subscribed before an officer authorized to administer oaths generally, who must certify that he administered the oaths and affix his official seal. In case such officer is not provided with a seal his authority to administer oaths, and his official character, must be duly certified. 11. A judge or clerk of a court of record, a United States attorney, or a United States commissioner must certify that the sureties are sufficient to pay the penalty of the bond; and except in the case of a judge of the United States, or a United States attorney, if the person certifying has no seal, his official character must be duly certified. (This rule does not apply to corporate sureties who have complied with Rule 7 hereof.) 12. Residence of principal and each of the sureties must be distinctly written in the body of the bond. 13. No surety can hold office under his principal. 14. Official oath to be of same or subsequent date to the bond. 15. All erasures and interlineations must be noted above the signatures of the witnesses as having been made before execution of the bond. SPECIAL RULES APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR BONDS. Bond of collector of internal revenue.-There must not be less than five individual sureties to the bond, but one corporate surety, duly qualified under the act of Congress of August 13, 1894, may be accepted as sole surety. See act of March 1, 1879, Stat. L., vol. 20, p. 327. (NOTE. This rule to be substituted for Rule 4 on the bond described.) A judge or attorney of the United States or a clerk of a United States court must certify that the sureties are sufficient to pay the penalty of the bond. (NOTE.-This rule to be substituted for Rule 11 on the bond described.) Bond of assistant treasurer of the United States.-A judge or attorney of the United States or a clerk of the United States court must certify that the sureties are sufficient to pay the penalty of the bond. (NOTE.-This rule to be substituted for Rule 11 on the bond described.) Bond of collector of internal revenue acting as disbursing agent.The sureties on this bond (if individuals) must be other than those on bond as collector; but a corporate surety, duly qualified, may be accepted as surety on both bonds. This bond must not be executed until after the collector has fully qualified as such by executing his bond as collector and taking the oath of office. (This rule does not apply to renewal bouds.) Bond of steamboat inspectors.-No one owning, or interested as an owner in, steamboats will be accepted as a surety. Bond of United States shipping commissioner.-The amount of the bond (which must not be less than $5,000) and the sufficiency of the sureties must be approved by a United States circuit judge of the district within which the office of United States shipping commissioner is located. (See sec. 4502, U. S. Rev. Stat.) Bonds of collectors, naval officers, and surveyors of customs.— Collectors, naval officers, and surveyors of customs must be sworn in the collection district to which they are appointed. The oath of office of the collector must be taken before a magistrate or a notary public. The oaths of office of naval officers, surveyors, and other officers of the customs must be taken before the collector of the district, or before an officer therein authorized to administer oaths generally. (See secs. 1757, 1758, 1778, 2617, Rev. Stat., and act of Feb. 8, 1875, 18 Stat. L., p. 307.) LESLIE M. SHAW, Secretary. (24133.) Drawback on glazed leather. Drawback on glazed and finished leather manufactured by Schoellkopf & Co., wholly from imported East India tanned skins. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 6, 1903. SIR: On the exportation of glazed and finished leather of various colors, produced by Messrs. Schoellkopf & Co., wholly from imported East India tanned skins, a drawback will be allowed equal in amount to the duties paid on the imported material so used, less the legal deduction of 1 per cent. The preliminary entry must show separately the marks and numbers of the shipping cases and the contents of each package, the gross, tare, and net weight. The drawback entry must show the total number of skins of each kind exported and the net weight. The said entry must further show, in addition to the usual averments, that the exported mer chandise was manufactured at the Mississippi or Perry street works of Schoellkopf & Co., Buffalo, N. Y., of the material and in the manner set forth in the manufacturer's sworn statement, dated October 10, 1902. As a part of the drawback entry and a prerequisite to the liquidation, the manufacturer shall file a certificate showing the weight of the skins as imported, and before the process of tanning and finishing is commenced the number of dozen skins, the color in which finished, gross weight after finishing, weight of trimmings or waste, number and weight of culls, and number and weight of perfect skins before packing and in condition as exported. In liquidation, the average weight of the original skins or "Indias" in condition as imported may be taken as the basis for the allowance of drawback, after official verification of the weight and number of dozen of skins exported, but in no case shall the weight allowance for each skin exported exceed .585 pounds per skin. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Buffalo, N. Y. O. L. SPAULDING, (24134.) Toy paints. Cheap paints, costing from 1 to 10 cents per box, and intended as playthings for children, dutiable as toys under paragraph 418, act of 1897, and not as paints under paragraph 58 of said act. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 6, 1903. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a letter from the Auditor for the Treasury Department concerning a lack of uniformity between your port and the port of Rochester, N. Y., in the classification of certain cheap paints, costing from 1 to 10 cents per box, and intended as playthings for children. It appears that at the port of Rochester articles of the above character are assessed for duty at 35 per cent ad valorem as toys, under paragraph 418, tariff act of July 24, 1897, while at your port similar articles are classified as paints under paragraph 58 of said act. The Department is informed that the articles in question are commercially known as toy paints, and therefore holds that they are dutiable under said paragraph 418, in accordance with the principles enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of Cadwallader v. Zeh (151 U. S. Reps., 171) and Maddock v. Magone |