APPENDIX-FISHERY LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



The following laws relating to the fisheries and fur-bearing animals 

 of Alaska, and the regulations established thereunder, which are now 

 in force in the District, are published herewith for the guidance of 

 those interested : 



AN ACT for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That every person, company, or corporation carrying on the 

 business of canning, curing, or preserving fish or manufacturing fish products within 

 the territory known as Alaska, ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of 

 March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or in any of the waters of Alaska 

 over which the United States has jurisdiction, shall, in lieu of all other license fees 

 and taxes therefor and thereon, pay license taxes on their said business and output 

 as follows: Canned salmon, four cents per case; pickled salmon, ten cents per barrel; 

 salt salmon in bulk, five cents per one hundred pounds; fish oil, ten cents per barrel; 

 ertilizer, twenty cents per ton. The payment and collection of such license taxea 

 shall be under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to define and punish crimes in the district 

 of Alaska, and to provide a code of criminal procedure for the district," and amend- 

 ments thereto. 



Sec. 2. That the catch and pack of salmon made in Alaska by the owners of private 

 salmon hatcheries operated in Alaska shall be exempt from all license fees and taxa- 

 tion of every nature at the rate of ten cases of canned salmon to every one thousand 

 red or king salmon fry liberated, upon the following conditions: 



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 penalties thereof. 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 



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