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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. 

 Duplicates 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, causing 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, com- 

 pany, corporation, 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 collecting 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 provided for. 



Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any dam, barricade, fence, 

 trap, fish wheel, or other fixed or stationary obstruction, except for purposes of fish 

 culture, in any of the waters of Alaska at any point where the distance from shore to 

 shore is less than five hundred feet, or within five hundred yards of the mouth of any 

 red-salmon stream where the same is less than five hundred feet in width, with the pur- 

 pose or result of capturing salmon or preventing or impeding their ascent to their 

 spawning grounds, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and 

 directed to have any and all such unlawful obstructions removed or destroyed. 



Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful to lay or set any drift net, seine, set net, pound net, 

 trap, or any other fishing appliance for any purpose except for purposes of fish culture, 

 across or above the tide waters of any creek, stream, river, estuary, or lagoon, for a dis- 

 tance greater than one-third the width of such creek, stream, river, estuary, or lagoon, 

 or within one hundred y^rds outside of the mouth of any red-salmon stream where the 

 same is less than five hundred feet in width. It shall be unlawful to lay or set any seine 

 or net of any kind within one hundred yards of any other seine, net, or other fishing 

 appliance which is being or which has been laid or set in any of the waters of Alaska, or 

 to drive or construct any trap or any other fixed fishing appliance within six hundred 

 yards laterally or within one hundred yards endwise of any other trap or fixed fishing 

 appliance. 



Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful to fish for, take, or kill any salmon of any sjiecies 

 in any manner or by any means except by rod, spear, or gaff, in any of the waters of 

 Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, except Cook Inlet, the Delta 

 of Copper River, Bering Sea, and the waters tributary thereto, from six o'clock post 

 meridian of Saturday of each week until six o'clock antemeridian of the Monday 

 following, or to fish for, or catch, or kill in any manner or by any appliances except 

 by rod, spear, or gaff, any salmon in any stream of less than one hundred yards in 

 width in Alaska between the hours of six o'clock in the evening 'and six o'clock in 

 the morning of the following day of each and every day ot the week. Throughout 

 the weekly close season herein prescribed the gate, mouth, or tunnel of all stationary 

 and floating traps shall be closed, and twenty-five feet of the webbing or net of the 

 "heart" of such traps on each side next to the "pot" shall be lifted or lowered in such 

 manner as to permit the free passage of salmon and other fishes. 



