FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
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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 trans- 
ferable 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, 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 pay- 
ment 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. 
While the efficiency and productiveness of the private salmon hatch- 
eries must be favorably certified to by the agents of this Department 
before they become eligible to participate in the provisions of the 
law, the passing upon the correctness of the returns made by the 
hatchery men, the issuance of the rebate certificates and their receipt 
later in payment of license fees or taxes are matters solely within the 
province of the clerk of the court of the judicial district in which the 
hatchery is located, the law merely requiring the owner to forward 
to the Department a sworn copy of his report to the clerk. 
The following table shows the name of owner, location of each 
private salmon hatchery operated during the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1909, the number of salmon (all reds) liberated, and the amount 
of rebate certificates due each hatchery : 
Rebates Credited to Private Salmon Hatcheries in 1909. 
Owner. 
Location. 
Salmon fry- 
liberated. 
Rebate 
due. 
Alaska Packers Association. 
Naha Stream 
22.785.000 
37. 105.000 
3,025,750 
8.143.000 
3.200.000 
$9,114 
14,842 
1,210 
3,257 
1,280 
Northwestern Fisheries Co 
Karluk Stream 
Quadra Lake 
North Pacific Trading and Packing Co 
Hetta Lake 
Klawak Lake 
Total 
74,258,750 
29,703 
In addition to the private salmon hatcheries the United States 
Bureau of Fisheries during the same period operated two hatcheries — 
one at Afognak, in central Alaska, and the other on Yes Lake, in 
