PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 951 
That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may from time to time, and on the 
application of the hatchery owner shall, within a reasonable time thereafter, cause 
such private hatcheries to be inspected for the purpose of determining the character 
of their operations, efficiency, and productiveness, and if he approve the same shall 
cause notice of such approval to be filed in the office of the clerk or deputy clerk of the 
United States district court of the division of the District of Alaska wherein any such 
hatchery is located, and shall also notify the owners of such hatchery of the action 
taken by him. The owner, agent, officer, or superintendent of any hatchery the 
effectiveness and productiveness of which has been approved as above provided 
shall, between the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December of each 
year, make proof of the number of salmon fry liberated during the twelve months 
immediately preceding the thirtieth day of June, by a written statement under oath. 
Such proof shall be filed in the office of the clerk or deputy clerk of the United States 
district court of the division of the District of Alaska wherein such hatchery is located, 
and when so filed shall entitle the respective hatchery owners to the exemption as 
herein provided; and a false oath as to the number of salmon fry liberated shall be 
deemed perjury and subject the offender to all the pains and penaltiesthereof. Dupli- 
cates of such statements shall also be filed with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 
It shall be the duty of such clerk or deputy clerk in whose office the approval and 
proof heretofore provided for are filed to forthwith issue to the hatchery owner, caus- 
ing such proofs to be filed, certificates which shall not be transferable and of such 
denominations as said owner may request (no certificate to cover fewer than one 
thousand fry), covering in the aggregate the number of fry so proved to have been 
liberated; and such certificates may be used at any time by the person, company, cor- 
poration, or association to whom issued for the payment pro tanto of any license fees 
or taxes upon or against or on account of any catch or pack of salmon made by them 
in Alaska; and it shall be the duty of all public officials charged with the duty of col- 
lecting or receiving such license fees or taxes to accept such certificates in lieu of 
money in payment of all license fees or taxes upon or against the pack of canned 
salmon at the ratio of one thousand fry for each ten cases of salmon. No hatchery 
owner shall obtain the rebates from the output of any hatchery to which he might 
otherwise be entitled under this act unless the efficiency of said hatchery has first 
been approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the manner herein pro- 
vided for. 
Of recent years so much objection has been raised to the system 
of hatchery’rebates that the matter of the Federal Government 
taking over all private hatcheries in Alaska, at a fair valuation, and 
operating same, is being favorably considered. 
In 1901 the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. established two small 
hatcheries—one on Nagel Stream, which enters the northern side of 
Quadra Lake, on the mainland of southeast Alaska, and one on a 
stream entering Freshwater Lake Bay, Chatham Strait. Both were 
closed down in 1904 when the company failed. In 1908 the North- 
western Fisheries Co., which had acquired the Quadra plant, removed 
it to a small stream entering the head of the lake and has operated 
it ever since. 
In 1901 the Alaska Packers Association erected a hatchery on 
Heckman Lake, the third of a series of lakes on Naha Stream, Revilla- 
gigedo Island, and about 8 miles from Loring, where the association 
has a cannery. This is without question the largest and costliest 
salmon hatchery in the world, having a capacity of 110,000,000 eggs, 
