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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 was acquitted. 
The Carlisle Packing Co. was accused in a complaint filed before 
the commissioner at Cordova of fishing with a trap at Porcupine 
Point during the weekly close: season on Saturday, July 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 Wales Passage during the weekly close season on August 
15. The cases will not be 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 River, contrary to 
the closing order of December 18, 1920. A plea of guilty was en- 
tered and a fine of $38.60, being the costs of the prosecution, was 
imposed. 
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 Naknek River on the night of July 12, was entered 
before the commissioner at Koggiung. The accused pleaded guilty 
and were fined the costs of the prosecution, amounting to $66.60. 
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., 
jointly indicted in October, 1918, and convicted in the district court 
at Valdez in October, 1919. These companies were indicted on four 
violations of the regulations affecting 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 imposed 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 the Supreme Court of 
the United States on writ of error from a judgment of the District 
Court for the District of Alaska, Division Number One, dismissing 
the suit of the Alaska Fish Salting & By-Products Co., plaintiff in 
error, against Walstein 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 chapter 74, Alaska Session 
Laws, 1917, enacted by the 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 
