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shall once each year, at such time as the council may direct, duly list and assess all the taxable property of the town at its just and fair value. He shall file such list and assessment as soon as completed with the clerk of the town, and shall serve a notice of the filing of the same upon each person residing in the town whose property has been assessed. The council may review and revise the assessment, and may, upon proper evidence and conformable to justice, increase or diminish the same in individual cases, and when so revised and reviewed, and finally approved by the council, the same shall be deemed to be the true basis for the levy and assessment of taxes. The municipal attorney shall be the legal adviser of the Attorney. council and the other town officials in reference to their official duties, and he shall represent the town as attorney in all civil and criminal prosecutions in which the town is interested. All officers appointed by the council shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, severally take an oath, in writing, to honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of their office, which oath shall be filed with the clerk of the town. The council shall, at the beginning of the term of each officer appointed by them, by ordinance fix his compensation for the term, which compensation when so fixed shall be neither increased nor diminished during the term, nor shall said officers be entitled to receive, in any form or shape, any other or additional compensation. Any officer of the town, whether elective or appointive, may be removed from office for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, by the district court, in proceedings initiated upon the complaint of a taxpayer, and in which the officer complained of shall have full opportunity to appear and defend himself.

Compensa

tion.

Removal from office.

Use of license funds.

SEC. 7. That all license moneys collected by the clerk of the district court from any person for any business, trade, or occupation carried on within the limits of any incorporated town in the district of Alaska pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to define and punish crimes in the district of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof, shall by said clerk be paid over to the treasurer of such town, to be used for school and municipal purposes within the town. The clerk shall take a receipt for such money in tripli- Receipts. cate, one of which receipts shall be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, one with the Attorney-General of the United States, and one shall be retained by the clerk.

SEC. 8. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent Repeal. with this Act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed; and the provisions of this Act shall apply to and govern all municipal corporations heretofore created in the district of Alaska.

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Apr. 28, 1904. CHAP. 1807.-An Act Providing for the removal of the port of [H. R. 1925.] entry in the customs collection district in Alaska from Sitka, [Public, No. Alaska, to Juneau, Alaska. 239.]

33 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 554.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Alaska cus-section twenty-five hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Juneau made Statutes of the United States, second edition, eighteen hunport of entry. dred and seventy-eight, be amended by striking out the

toms district.

Apr. 28, 1904.

word "Sitka" in the last line of the section and inserting in lieu thereof the word " Juneau." The collector of customs for the customs collection district of Alaska shall reside at Juneau, which is hereby made and constituted the port of entry for said district instead of Sitka.

CHAP. 1812.-An Act Authorizing the Union Pioneer Mining [H. R. 6789.] and Trading Company to construct and maintain a bridge across [Public, No. the Catalla Creek, in the district of Alaska. 244.]

33 Stat. L.,

Creek, Alaska.

and Trading

bridge.

pt. 1, p. 560. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Catalla the Union Pioneer Mining and Trading Company, a corUnion Pio-poration created and existing under and by virtue of the neer Mining laws of the State of California, be, and it is hereby, auCompany may thorized to construct and maintain a bridge across the Location. Catalla Creek, in the district of Alaska, to be located at such point as shall be approved by the Secretary of War. Wagon and Said bridge may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, and for the transit of animals, and for foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be fixed by said company and approved by the Secretary of War.

foot bridge.

Toll.

Drawbridge.

SEC. 2. That such bridge shall be constructed as a draw bridge, and the draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats. And whatever kind of bridge is constructed, the said company shall maintain thereon, at its own expense, from sunset to sunLights, etc. rise, during the season of navigation, such lights or other signals as the Light-House Board shall prescribe; and the United States shall have the right of way across said Telegraph, bridge and approaches for postal telegraph and other pur poses; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies, and said bridge shall be so constructed and operated as not to interfere with the navigation of said river: Provided, Lawful struc- That any bridge constructed under this Act and according ture and post to its limitations shall be a lawful structure and shall be

etc., rights.

Proviso.

route.

known and recognized as a post route, and the same is hereby declared to be a post route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transportation over the same of the mails, the troops, or munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for transportation over railroads or public highways leading to the said bridge.

etc.

SEC. 3. That the bridge authorized to be constructed Secretary of War to apunder this Act shall be located and built under and sub- prove plans, ject to such regulations for the security of the navigation of said creek as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the proposed bridge, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War, no work upon the bridge shall be commenced; and should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of construction, or after completion, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and any changes in said bridge which the Secretary of War may at any time deem necessary and order in the interests of navigation shall be made by the said corporation at its own expense.

SEC. 4. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of approval hereof.

SEC. 5. That Congress hereby expressly reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act.

Changes.

Time of construction.

Amendment.

RESOLUTIONS.

Apr. 8, 1904. [S. J. R. 61.] 99.]

[No. 18.] Joint Resolution Requesting the President of the. United States to negotiate and, if possible, conclude negotiations [Pub. Res., No. with the Government of Great Britain for a review and revision 18.] 33 Stats. L., of the rules and regulations which now govern the taking of fur pt. 1, p. 586. seals in the open waters of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, and so forth.

Alaskan fur seals.

Revision of

proposed.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to negotiate and, if possible, conclude negotiations with the Government of Great Britain for a review and revi- regulations of, sion of the rules and regulations which now govern the taking of fur seals in the open waters of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, pursuant to the treaty articles of the award of the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, made at Paris, August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; said review to determine what revision of these rules and regulations shall be made, if any can be devised and agreed upon, which will restore and preserve the fur-seal industry upon the Seal Islands of Alaska and abate the killing of nursing mother seals on the high seas, now permitted and conducted.

with Russia,

SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, re- Negotiation s quested to negotiate and, if possible, conclude negotia- Japan, etc. tions with the Governments of Russia and Japan and

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other maritime nations to the end of securing their adherence to and a common agreement with the terms of any satisfactory revision of the rules and regulations specified in section one of this Resolution which may be agreed upon by the Governments of Great Britain and the United States.

SEC. 3. That all expenses incident to said review, investigation, acquisition of authentic data, and the preparation of expert reports of the case of the United States, ordered and approved by the President, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, and which amounts are hereby appropriated.

FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION.

CHAP. 41.-An Act To aid the Western Alaska Construction Jan. 18, 1905. Company.

[S. 5088.] [Public, No. 10.] 33 Stats. L.,

Alaska Con

erate without

cense fee.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- pt. 1, p. 605. bled, That it shall be lawful for the Western Alaska Con- Western struction Company to hereafter operate its railroad in struction Comthe district of Alaska for a period of five years after the pany mahout passage of this Act without the payment of the license fee payment of 11of one hundred dollars per mile per annum on each mile Time limit. operated, as provided in section twenty-nine, chapter one, of the Act entitled "An Act for making further provisions for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred: Provided, however, That this exemption from said license fees is upon the condition that said company shall build at least ten miles of railroad each year; but if more than ten miles be built in any one year it shall be credited to the work of the succeding year.

Proviso. Condition of exemption.

CHAP. 277.—An Act To provide for the construction and main- Jan. 27, 1905. tenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools,. and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes.

[S. 3728.] [Public, No. 26.] 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 616.

etc., license

towns to con

aska fund."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys derived from and collected for Liquor, trade, liquor licenses, occupation, or trade licenses outside of the fees outside inincorporated towns in the district of Alaska shall be de- corporated posited in the Treasury Department of the United States, stitute the "Althere to remain as a separate and distinct fund, to be known as the "Alaska fund," and to be wholly devoted to the purposes hereinafter stated in the district of Alaska. One-fourth of said fund, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of public schools in said district; five per centum of said fund shall be devoted to the care and maintenance of insane persons in said district, or so much of said five per centum as may be needed; and all the residue of said. fund shall be devoted to the construction and maintenance of wagon roads, bridges, and trails in said district.

Division and use of fund.

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