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ACTS OF CONGRESS, TREATIES, AND PROCLAMATIONS

RELATING TO

NONCONTIGUOUS TERRITORY AND CUBA AND
INSULAR AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.

ALASKA.

FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.

CHAP. 160.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent Feb. 18, 1904. deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June [H. R. 10954.] thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for [Public, No. other purposes.

22.] 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 15.

ciencies appro

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are Urgent defihereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury priatious. not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

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Alaskan

To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary, boundary. and make the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, one hundred thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.

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NATIVES OF ALASKA

Alaska Exploration Com

others.

SUPPLIES FURNISHED DURING AN EPIDEMIC IN NINETEEN HUNDRED: To paypany and amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treas- Payment to, ury under the provisions of the deficiency Act of March for supplies third, nineteen hundred and three, on account of supplies titute Alasfurnished to destitute natives of Alaska during an epi

furnished des

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demic in the year nineteen hundred, as follows: Alaska Exploration Company, San Francisco, California, thirtythree dollars; Alaska Commercial Company, San Fransisco, California, twenty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifteen cents; North American Transportation and Trading Company, Seattle, Washington, one thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and forty cents.

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Franklin

Moses.

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To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two dollars and eight cents.

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To pay the salary due Franklin Moses as register of the Payment to. land office at Saint Michael, Alaska, from May thirty-first to July seventh, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirteen cents.

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For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, to continue available until close of fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, eighty thousand dollars.

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Protection of

PROTECTION OF SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA: To pay salmon fisher- amounts found due by the Auditor for State and other Departments on account of the appropriation for "Pro

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tection of salmon fisheries of Alaska" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-five cents.

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CHAP. 543.-An Act Making appropriations for the diplo- Mar. 12, 1904. matic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thir- [H. R. 11287.] tieth, nineteen hundred and five.

(Relief and protection of American seamen. 215.)

[Public, No. 48.]

See p. 33 Stats. L.,

pt. 1, p. 67.

CHAP. 716.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes.

Mar. 18, 1904. [H. R. 9480.] [Public, No. 57.] 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 85.

executive, and

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are Legislative, hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury judicial appronot otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the priations. service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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GOVERNMENT IN * * * THE DISTRICT OF
ALASKA.

DISTRICT OF ALASKA: For Governor, five thousand dollars; three judges, at five thousand dollars each; three attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; three marshals, at four thousand dollars each; three clerks, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the District, clerk hire, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, two thousand dollars.

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For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district of Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars.

For rent of office for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, books of reference for office use, furniture, fuel, lights, laundry, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

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Apr. 9, 1904.

CHAP. 1135.-An Act For the relief of the Western Alaska [H. R. 13740.] Construction Company's Railroad.

[Public, No. 95.1

pt. 1, p. 165.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa33 Stats Ltives of the United States of America in Congress asWestern Al-sembled, That the time of the Western Alaska Construction Company. tion Company to comply with the provisions of sections four and five of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of pleting rail-the laws of the United States entitled "An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in acquiring and completing its railroad now under construction in Alaska, is hereby extended as follows:

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Completion

First. The time to file the map and profile of definite location of its first section of at least twenty miles with the register of the land office in the district of Alaska, as provided in said sections four and five, is hereby extended to and including the thirty-first of December, nineteen hundred and four.

Second. The time to complete the first section of at least of first section. twenty miles of its railroad, as provided in said section five, is hereby extended to and including within one year after the filing and approval of the definite location of said section of said railroad as in said chapter and by this Act it is provided; and such railroad company shall be entitled to all the benefits conferred upon it by the provisions of such Act upon its due compliance with all the provisions thereof, excepting only the provisions thereof relating to the filing of the map and profile of definite location of its first section of not less than twenty miles of its road within twelve months after filing with the Secretary of the Interior a preliminary actual survey and plat of its proposed route, as prescribed in said sections four and five of said Act, and the provisions thereof relating to the completion of the said first section of its road within one year, as originally provided in section Proviso. five of said Act: Provided, That such railroad company for filing map shall file with the proper register of the land office for the of first section. district of Alaska a map and profile of the first section of Time of con- its road of at least twenty miles on or before December struction. thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, and shall com

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plete such section of its said road within one year after such definite location has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as provided in said section five of said Act.

CHAP. 1253.-An Act To authorize the Government of the United States to participate in celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the exploration of the Oregon country by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the years eighteen hundred and four, eighteen hundred and five, and eighteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.

(Alaska exhibit. See pp. 216, 217.)

Apr. 13, 1904. [S. 276.]

[Public, No. 111.] 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 175.

CHAP. 1485.-An Act Making appropriation for the support of Apr. 23, 1904. the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- [H. R. 10670.] dred and five, and for other purposes.

[Public, No.
149.]
33 Stats. L.,

(Alaska Military Cable; Retired enlisted men, allow- pt. 1, p. 259. ance for service in Alaska; Increase pay for enlisted men serving in Alaska; Roads and military trails in Alaska. See pp. 51-57.)

CHAP. 1486.-An Act Making appropriations for the Depart- Apr. 23, 1904. ment of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, [H. R. 11825.]

nineteen hundred and five.

[Public, No.
150.]
33 Stats. L.,

(Agricultural experiment stations in Alaska. See p. pt. 1, p. 276.

218.)

CHAP. 1622.-An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes.

Apr. 27, 1904. [H. R. 1220.]

[Public, No.

181.] 33 Stats. L.,

(Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, Sitka. See p. 61.) pt. 1, p. 324.

CHAP. 1629.-An Act To authorize the appointment of road Apr. 27, 1904. overseers and to create road districts in the district of Alaska, and [H. R. 13014.]

for other purposes.

[Public, No.
188.1
33 Stats. L.,

of road over

thorized.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 391. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner in Appointment each precinct in the district of Alaska, on the first Mon- seers, etc., auday in the month of April in each year, to appoint a road overseer for the precinct in which he resides, and create a road district in the inhabited part of said precinct, which said district shall not include incorporated cities and towns.

To fill all vacancies in the office of road overseer in his precinct.

To cause a record to be made defining the boundaries of said road district.

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Vacancies.

Record of

road boundaries.

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