_Assistant Adjutant-General_.
Under and in pursuance of the authority vested in the President of the
United States by the provisions of the second section of the act of
Congress approved on the 27th day of July, 1868, entitled "An act to
extend the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and
navigation over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to
establish a collection district therein, and for other purposes," the
port of Sitka, in said Territory, is hereby constituted and established
as the port of entry for the collection district of Alaska provided for
by said act; and under and in pursuance of the authority vested in him
by the fourth section of said act the importation and use of firearms,
ammunition, and distilled spirits into and within the said Territory,
or any portion thereof, except as hereinafter provided, is entirely
prohibited, under the pains and penalties specified in said last-named
section; _Provided, however_, That under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, in accordance with law, such
articles may, in limited quantities, be shipped coastwise from United
States ports on the Pacific coast to said port of Sitka, and to that
port only in said Territory, on the shipper giving bonds to the
collector of customs at the port of shipment, conditioned that such
articles will on their arrival at Sitka be delivered to the collector of
customs, or the person there acting as such, to remain in his possession
and under his control until sold or disposed of to such persons as
the military or other chief authority in said Territory may specially
designate in permits for that purpose signed by himself or a subordinate
duly authorized by him.
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of August, A.D. 1868,
and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-third.