Mar. 4, 1911. [H. R. 32909.] {Public, No. 525.]

36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1363.

CHAP. 285.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sundry civil That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, namely:

expenses appropriations.

Juneau, Alaska
Executive

mansion.

Post office, etc.

Juneau, Alaska, executive mansion: For site and completion of Territorial executive mansion, furnishings, library, and museum, under present limit, forty thousand dollars.

Juneau, Alaska, post office and customhouse: For site and commencement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars.

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.

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For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska;

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Compensation of surveyors.

The surveys and resurveys to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation not exceeding two hundred dollars per month as he may prescribe, except that the Secretary Supervisors of of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys whose compensation shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month each, and except

surveys.

Clerks, etc., in

specting mineral, coal, and timber

in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, as he may prescribe, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, examination Resurveys, etc. of unaccepted contract surveys heretofore made and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, the sum hereby appropriated to be immediately available: * **

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For the survey of the lands of the United States in the District of Alaska, fifty thousand dollars. Authority is hereby given for the expenditure during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve of not exceeding five thousand dollars from the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars. for surveying public lands in the District of Alaska, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, for the execution of the necessary office work on the returns of surveys filed under the said appropriation.

ands, etc.

Alaska surveys.

Allowance for

office work.

tors.

For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized by the Mine inspecAct approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, five thousand dollars; and said inspectors are hereby authorized to inspect coal and other mines in the District of Alaska, to which District the provisions of said Act, except so much as requires six months' residence in a Territory prior to appointment, are hereby extended and made applicable;

For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each while absent from their homes on duty, except while in Alaska, when such allowance shall be at the rate of five dollars per day, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, four thousand five hundred dollars;

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Per diem, etc.

Alaska.

Care of insane.

Education of natives.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

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Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the District of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fifty thousand dollars.

Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, two hundred thousand dollars; so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purLimit of pay. chase of supplies shall be immediately available: Provided, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from Services, Wash- his designated and actual post of duty: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding seven thousand dollars may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

Provisos.

ngton, D. C.

expenditures.

Supervision of All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

Reindeer.

Protection

game.

of

Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, twelve thousand dollars.

Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the provisions of an Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes," including salaries, travelling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Suppress - For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twelve thousand dollars.

ing liquor traffic.

by

disbursing clerk

The disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice is Advances authorized to take credit in his accounts for advances allowed. made by him from the foregoing appropriation by order of the Attorney General.

Alaska.

Incidental expenses, District of Alaska: For furniture, Incidental exfuel, books, and other incidental expenses, for the offices penses. of the marshals and attorneys, six thousand dollars.

perses.

Traveling expenses, District of Alaska: For the actual Traveling exand necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the District of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, six thousand dollars.

expenses.

For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be Miscellaneous authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That in so far as it may be Proviso. deemed necessary by the Attorney General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska.

Alaska.

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LABOR.

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Lincoln Rock Light Station, Alaska: For rebuilding and improving the present light and fog signal at Lincoln Rock, Alaska, on the present or an adjacent site, twentyfive thousand dollars.

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Aids to naviga

Aids to navigation, Alaska: For establishing additional Alaska. aids to navigation in Alaskan waters, sixty thousand dol- tion. lars.

Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at nine hun

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A fognak,
Alaska.

Division of
Alaska Fisheries.

ies.

ies.

dred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

Division of Alaska Fisheries: Chief of division, three Salaries. thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk of class two, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; agent, Fur-seal fisher- fur-seal fisheries, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; assistant agent, fur-seal fisheries, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, fur-seal fisheries, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; naturalist, fur-seal fisheries, three thousand dollars; janitor service, fur-seal fisheries, four hundred and eighty dollars; two physicians, Pribilof Islands, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two school-teachers, Pribilof Islands, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, Pribilof Islands, one Salmon fisher- thousand eight hundred dollars; agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspector, Alaska salmon fisheries, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, two thousand dollars; assistant agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, one thousand eight hundred dollars; warden, Alaska Service, one thousand two hundred dollars; four deputy wardens, Alaska Service, at six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.

Wardens.

Alaska Fisher

ies Service.

fisheries.

Food to natives, etc.

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Alaska Fisheries Service: For protecting the seal Protecting seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, and clothing and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees, purchase, hire, and maintenance of vessels, including crews for same, and for all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska and for other purposes; and for the protection of the Salmon fish salmon fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith," one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

eries.