CHAP. 1759.-An Act Making appropriations for the service of Apr. 28, 1904. the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thir- [H. R. 13521.] tieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. [Public, No. Postal servappropria Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 429. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, ice appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Depart- tions. ment, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: * * * * OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. * * Alaska serv INLAND MAIL TRANSPORTATION: *: Provided, Proviso. That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General is ice. authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor. * * * * * CHAP. 1762.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil Apr. 28, 1904. expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thir- [H. R. 14416.] tieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. [Public, No. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 452. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are Sundry civil hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter ex-propriations. pressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, namely: UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. expenses ap preservation. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Re- Repairs and pairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Govern ies. Seal fisher ment on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska. * * * UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE * COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. (For field expenses, surveys, Alaska. See p. 220.) * * * eries, Alaska. Salmon fish- For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, including salaries of one agent, at two thousand five hundollars, and one assistant agent, at two thousand dollars, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be in lieu of any and all agents or inspectors now authorized by law for this purpose, seven thousand dollars. Agents. Alaskan seal fisheries. aries, etc. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. ALASKAN SEAL FISHERIES: For salaries and traveling Agents' sal-expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food for natives. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Surveys, rates. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven * * * and dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: * * * * REINDEER for ALASKA: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. * * * * UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. etc. Resurveys, Alaska rein deer. (Bringing home the remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports. See p. 63.) INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, five thousand dollars. TRAVELING EXPENSES, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Incidental expenses. Traveling ex penses. Apr. 28, 1904. 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 525. Coal-land en tries. eral lands. CHAP 1772.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or association of persons qualified to make entry under the coal-land laws of the United States, who shall have opened or improved a coal mine or coal mines on any of the unsurveyed public lands of Location of the United States in the district of Alaska, may locate developed min- the lands upon which such mine or mines are situated, in rectangular tracts containing forty, eighty, or one hundred and sixty acres, with north and south boundary lines run according to the true meridian, by marking the four corners thereof with permanent monuments, so that Boundaries. the boundaries thereof may be readily and easily traced. no- And all such locators shall, within one year from the passage of this Act, or within one year from making such location, file for record in the recording district, and with the register and receiver of the land district in which the lands are located or situated, a notice containing the name or names of the locator or locators, the date of the location, the description of the lands located, and a reference to such natural objects or permanent monuments as will readily identify the same. Filing tice. to Patents. years. acre. be made SEC. 2. That such locator or locators, or their assigns, who are citizens of the United States, shall receive a patent to the lands located by presenting, at any time Application within three years from the date of such notice, to the within three register and receiver of the land district in which the lands so located are situated an application therefor, accompanied by a certified copy of a plat of survey and field notes thereof, made by a United States deputy surveyor or a United States mineral surveyor duly approved Price perby the surveyor-general for the district of Alaska, and a payment of the sum of ten dollars per acre for the lands applied for; but no such application shall be allowed until after the applicant has caused a notice of the presenNotice to be tation thereof, embracing a description of the lands, to have been published in a newspaper in the district of Alaska published nearest the location of the premises for a period of sixty days, and shall have caused copies of Notices to be such notice, together with a certified copy of the official plat or survey, to have been kept posted in a conspicuous place upon the land applied for and in the land office for the district in which the lands are located for a like period, and until after he shall have furnished proof of such publication and posting, and such other proof as is required by the coal-land laws: Provided, That nothing Shores of herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize ennavigable tries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters within said district. published. posted claim. Proviso. ters. on wa Adverse claims. SEC. 3. That during such period of posting and publication, or within six months thereafter, any person or association of persons having or asserting any adverse interest or claim to the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be purchased shall file in the land office where such application is pending, under oath, an adverse claim, setting forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin an action to quiet title in a court of competent jurisdiction within the district of Alaska, and thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of such court therein. Proceedings. of existing SEC. 4. That all the provisions of the coal-land laws of Continuance the United States not in conflict with the provisions of laws. this Act shall continue and be in full force in the district of Alaska. CHAP. 1773.-An Act Supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred. Apr. 28, 1904. and Care custody of the Contracts to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p.526. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, in the month of November, nineteen hundred and four, and insane. from time to time thereafter, as in his judgment may be deemed advisable, advertise for and receive bids for the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, and thereafter, in behalf of the United States, shall contract, for one or more years, as he may lowest bidder. deem best, with a responsible asylum or sanitarium west of the main range of the Rocky Mountains submitting the lowest and best responsible bid for the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in said district of Alaska, the cost of advertising for bids, executing the contract, and caring for the insane to be paid, until otherwise provided by law, by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on accounts and vouchers duly approved etc. by the Secretary of the Interior, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with these provisions are hereby repealed. Payment of expenses. Accounts, Repeal. CHAP. 1778.-An Act To amend and codify the laws relating Apr. 28, 1904. to municipal corporations in the district of Alaska. [S. 3338.] [Public, No. 210.] 33 Stats. L., Incorpora Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- pt. 1. p. 529. bled, That any community in the district of Alaska hav- tion of towns ing three hundred or more permanent inhabitants may in. incorporate as a municipal corporation termed a town in the manner hereinafter provided. A petition praying for Petition. such incorporation shall first be presented to the judge of |