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be fishing. Complaint was entered before the United States com- 

 missioner at Cordova, and the case tried on August 6. The com- 

 pany AA'as acquitted. 



The Carlisle Packing Co. was accused in a complaint filed l)efore 

 the commissioner at Cordova of fishing with a trap at Porcupine 

 Point during the weekly close season on Saturday', Jul}' 10. The 

 case was tried August 6 at Cordova, but the jury failed to agree on 

 a verdict. On motion of the assistant United States attorney the 

 case was dismissed. 



At the October term of the district court at Valdez the grand jury 

 indicted the Kenai Packing Co. and the Copper River Packing Co. 

 for the wanton waste of salmon. The Copper River Packing Co. 

 was also indicted for not opening the heart walls of its trap in 

 Prince of AVales Passage during the weekly close season on August 

 15. The cases Avill not l3e tried until 1921. 



On July 27 the Bristol Bay Packing Co. was accused in a com- 

 plaint made in the United States commissioner's court at Koggiung 

 of fishing on July 5 with a gill net in Naknek RiA'er, contrary to 

 tlie closing order of December 18, 1920. A plea of guilty was en- 

 tered and a fine of $38.60, being the co.sts of the prosecution, was 

 imj^osed. 



On July 28 another complaint, charging that two boats belonging 

 to the Bristol Bay Packing Co. and the Red Salmon Canning Co. 

 were fishing in Xaknek River on the night of July 12. was entered 

 before the commissioner at Koggiung. The accused pleaded guilty 

 and were fined tlie costs of the prosecution, amounting to $G6.60. 



On July 29 a complaint filed before the commissioner at Kog- 

 giung alleged that the Alaska Packers Association had fished with 

 a drift gill net in Naknek River on July 5. When the case was 

 called a plea of guilty was entered, and a fine of $10 and costs of 

 $43.60 was imposed. 



The Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, sitting at 

 San Francisco, affirmed the sentence and judgment imposed on 

 the Canoe Pass Packing Co. and the Northwestern Fisheries Co., 

 jointl}'^ indicted in October, 1918, and convicted in the district court 

 at Valdez in October, 1919. These companies wore indicted on four 

 violations of the regulations afferting fishing in Copper River by 

 having set four nets in Miles Lake, which is a part of the river, 

 within the prohibited distance of other nets previously set. The 

 trial court imj)osed a fine of $1,000 and costs against each company, 

 or $250 for each count in the indictment. 



TERRITORIAL TAX LAW UPHELD. 



In October, 1919, an action was brought in tlie Supreme Court of 

 the United States on writ of error from a judgment of the District 

 Court for the District of Alaska, Division Nunil^er One, dismissing 

 the suit of the Alaska Fish Salting & By-Products Co., plaintifi' in 

 error, against AValstein G. Smith, treasurer of Alaska, defendant in 

 error, to recover money paid as taxes by the plaintiff to the defendant 

 for the tax years 1917 and 1918 under cha})ter 74, Alaska Session 

 Laws. 1917, enacted by tlie Alaska Territorial Legislature. 



There were originally two suits. The first one was brought in 

 1918 to recover the 1917 tax of $2 per barrel on 4,112 barrels of fish 



