ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES Ie 
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATION 
At its biennial session in 1939 the Alaska Legislature passed an act 
increasing the bounty on hair seals, which are destructive to salmon 
and other fishes in certain localities. The amount of the bounty is 
now $3 instead of $2 as formerly. No change was made with regard 
to the regions in which such bounty is applicable 
The sum of $60,000 was appropriated for bounties on hair seals, 
including unpaid bounties earned during the previous biennium, and 
$25,000 was appropriated for the clearing of salmon streams as pro- 
vided by law. An appropriation of $10,000 was made to defray ex- 
penses of a Joint Committee on Fisheries, to be chosen from the 
Territorial Legislature to assist a Congressional committee in an in- 
vestigation of the Alaska fisheries. 
The law of 1933 relative to the licensing of fishermen was amended 
to clarify the definition of the term ‘“‘resident fisherman.”’ 
An act was passed to protect women workers in Alaska, prohibiting 
the employment of a female person under the age of 16 in any mer- 
cantile or industrial business, establishing minimum wage rates for 
those over the age of 18 and maximum hours for women in domestic 
employment, makine it a misdemeanor to discriminate against an 
employee for testifying in any investigation relative to the enforce- 
ment of the act, and faces the penalty for violation of any provision 
of the act. 
TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX 
Fisheries license taxes were collected by the Territory under the 
general revenue law of 1921, as amended in subsequent sessions of the 
Territorial Legislature. A statement from Oscar G. Olson, Territorial 
Treasurer, under date of May 14, 1940, gives the collections made to 
the close of April for the year 1939, representing the taxes on opera- 
tions of the previous year. It was stated that collections under the 
several schedules were fairly complete, although several of the fishery 
companies had not yet made full settlement. 
Fishery license taxes collected by Territory for fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1939 









Division Division Division 
Schedule Now No. 2 No.3 Total 
BIalNON CaHneries. (ACK): 8) eA 2 me ES $83, 269. 04 $15. 20 |$346, 562.96 | $429, $47. 20 
iam canneries "(PACKS 252° 2) | see ear ALR ees Bee ase Ae eS 88.02 88.02 
SHU ee Oe ee ees oe ee a 1, 477. 50 60.74 1, 112.81 | 2, 651.05 
MatlGl -SUOESSG DIAN (SS =. 22 =. St eee oem ee ee eee TSR OOG heen tes See 10. 00 | 1, 185. 00 
Fish-oil works and fertilizer and fish-meal plants_______ S47 OG {00H eet See es 14, 669. 26 24, 375. 26 
LISS ty Oe ee Bea ee ae a Oe ee os DO OOO 00M ee ase 29, 500. 00 84, 500. 00 
Trap catches in excess of 100,900 fish_-_________________- BOSOM Dl eees seen 12, 224. 27 15, 809. 42 
(CHIR TY Rie eee en ae Se eg ee eee noone 507. 20 10. 00 4, 632. 00 5, 149, 20 
SVELN? OSS te apo a = Oa ene oe ee es S00 aU Wy nee ete ee 2,111.00 6, 061. 00 
Clam diggers: 
Resign fe x= 38 2. ve ee Sie gps 8 S| 22003 bee a eee 243.00 | 245. GO 
AVGTeEsidente soles Fee", CR ERe fe ee ee eee 2 TEN ee So2 are 30.00 | 30.00 
Fishermen: | 
TRATES TS PED Pe atl _ Fanci eR ey ter RNS we at eae 0 | eee ee 2, 542.00 | 5, 056. 00 
onnes dernties iby ts tee fared sey yi ete et 1 1940255000) se eee 60,400.00 | 79, 425.00) 
i hyayest glee Le ee) Se ao Es geet es > See eee 180, 210. 89 85.94 | 474, 125. 32 654, 422. 15 
Salmon canneries (net income) not possible of segrega- | 
MARA TONIC a OG IVISIOM- =a fa en es ee eee ees onn ae anne 8, 712. 83 
AARNE hea nO 2 ee eae eee) ee eee eee 663, 134. 98 
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