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AI.ASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1919. 



shall be made as an operating expense on account of depreciation of machinery, 

 interest on bonds or money borrowed, or other taxes paid. 



(d) Fish traps, fixed or floating: one hundred dollars per annum, so-called dummy 

 traps included ; 



(e) Salteries: Ten cents per one hundred pounds on mild cured Red King Salmon; 

 Five cents per one hundred pounds on mild cured White King Salmon; 



Ten cents per one hundred pounds on salted Codfish; 



Two and one-half cents per one hundred pounds on all other salted and mild 

 cured fish, except Herring. 



7th: Cold Storage Plants: Doing a business of one hundred thousand dollars per 

 annum or more, five hundred dollars per annum; doing a business of seventy-five 

 thousand dollars per annum and less than one hundred thousand dollars, three hun- 

 dred and seventy-five dollars per annum; doing a business of fifty thousand and less 

 than seventy-five thousand dollars per annum, two hundred and fifty dollars per 

 annum; doing a business of twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand dollars 

 per annum, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum; doing a business of ten 

 thousand dollars and less than twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, fifty dollars 

 per annum; doing a business of four thousand and less than ten thousand dollars per 

 annum, twenty-five dollars per annum; doing a business of under four thousand 

 dollars per annum, ten dollars per annum. 



The "annual business" under this section shall be considered the gross amount 

 received for the product and for storage of produce for others. 



8th: (a) Fish oil works using herring in whole or in part in the manufacture of fish 

 oil, two dollars per barrel, (b) Fertilizer and fish meal plants manufacturing fertilizer 

 and fish meal in whole or in part from herring, two dollars per ton. 



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17ih: Whale Oil Plants or Stations: One dollar per barrel. 

 TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX. 



Information has been received from the Territorial treasurer of 

 Alaska in respect to tax collections made for the fiscal year ending 

 December 31, 1919, under the several fisheries schedules of the Terri- 

 torial tax law. The following statement is of date of May 22, 1920: 



Fishery License Taxes Collected by Territory for the Fiscal Year Ended 



Dec. 31, 1919. 



a Additional tax of 1 per cent of their annual net incomes collected from salmon canneries (not possible 

 to segregate by divisions). 



The Territorial treasurer, in reporting collections as above, made 

 the following comment: 



Several of the smaller salmon-cannery concerns have not yet made payment of 

 their 1919-pack taxes; hoM'ever, as the amount involved is not large and as it may be 

 some time before payment is made, it is not deemed advisable to longer delay in fur- 

 nishing your department the desired data. 



Referring to collections under Schedule "Clam canneries," same are not yet com- 

 plete for the year, but the amount involved is only a matter of possibly 1200 or there- 



