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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 183-JULY 1, 1943 Compensation. "Members of the Commission, other than the executive officer, shall receive no compensation for their services as members thereof, except a per diem of $10 for each member for each day going to and from and in actual attendance at meetings of the Commission, but the total salary or per diem compensation of the member from the second judicial division shall not exceed the sum of $1,500, and that of any of the other members, except the executive officer, the sum of $900 Reimbursement of in any one fiscal year, and each such member in addition shall have expenses. reimbursed to him actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses incurred or made in the discharge of his official duties, in accordance with the fiscal regulations of the Department of the Interior, which shall be paid on proper vouchers from the appro- Pay, etc., of execu- priation for the enforcement of the Alaska game law. The executive tiveoofficerfficer shall be paid his salary and shall have reimbursed to him all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements in accordance with the fiscal regulations of the Department of the Interior from the appropriation for the enforcement of the Alaska game law and from such other appropriations for the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Territory as the Director may designate. Principal offee. "The Commission shall maintain and have its principal office in the capital of the Territory. Quocrum; investi- "A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All investigations, inquiries, hearings, and decisions of a commissioner shall be deemed to be the investigations, inquiries, hearings, and decisions of the Commission, when approved by it and entered by it in its minutes, and every order made by a commissioner, when approved and confirmed by the Commission and ordered filed in its office, shall be, and be deemed to be the order of eal. the Commission. The Commission shall have an official seal. "SEC. 5. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION, WILDLIFE AGENTS, Power to arrt. AND OTHER PERSONS.- That each member of the Commission, any employee of the Department of the Interior authorized by the Sec- retary to enforce this Act, any marshal, deputy marshal, collector or deputy collector of customs, shall have power, in or out of the Territory, andt it shall be his duty to arrest without warrant any per'son committing a violation of this Act in his presence or view, alnd to take such person immediately for examination or trial before I,:lcltion of war- an officer or court of competent jurisdiction; he shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent jurisdiction for the enforcement of the provisions of this Authority tosearch. Act; and he shall have authority, with a search warrant, to search any place at any time. Any officer or other person empowered to enforce this Act shall have authority without warrant to search any camp, camp outfit, fish creel, pack or pack animals, automobile, air- craft, wagon, or other vehicle, sled, or any boat, vessel, or other craft in the territorial waters of the United States, or any boat, vessel, or other craft of the United States on the high seas when such officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe that such camp, camp outfit, fish creel, pack or pack animals, automobile, aircraft, wagon, or other vehicle, sled, boat, vessel, or other craft has therein or thereon any of the animals, birds, or fishes, or parts thereof, or nests or eggs of birds, protected by this Act taken, possessed, sold, intended Issuanceofw nts for sale, or transported contrary to law. The several judges of the courts established under the laws of the United States and United States commissioners may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants naia o paher. minall such cases. All guns, traps, nets, fishing tackle, boats, aircraft, wagons or other vehicles, dogs, sleds, and other paraphernalia used 304 [57 STAT.

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