District court established. authorized. visions created. No. 1. No. 2. a civil government for Alaska and for other purposes,' approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4. That there is hereby established a district court for the district of Alaska, with the jurisdiction of circuit and district courts of the United States and with general jurisdiction in civil, criminal, equity, and adFour judges miralty causes; and four district judges shall be apSalary, resi- pointed for the district, each at an annual salary of seven dence, etc. thousand five hundred dollars, who shall during their terms of office reside in the divisions of the district to which they may be respectively assigned by the President. Recording di- The court shall consist of four divisions, which shall also Division be recording divisions. Division numbered one shall consist of all that part of the district of Alaska lying east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longiDivisiontude. Division numbered two shall consist of all that teritory lying west of a line commencing on the Arctic coast at the one hundred and forty-eighth meridian; thence extending south along the easterly watershed of the Colville River to a point on the Rocky Mountain divide between the headwaters of Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Chandlar on the south; thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, the Kotzebue Sound, and Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence along said meridian to the Kuskokwim River; thence southwesterly along the center of the channel of said Kuskokwim River to Bering Sea; the said division to include all the islands lying Division north of the fifty-ninth parallel of north latitude. Division numbered three shall consist of all that territory lying south and west of the line starting on the coast of the Gulf of Alaska at the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude; thence northerly along said meridian to a point due east from Mount Kimball; thence west to summit of Mount Kimball; thence southwesterly along the southerly watershed of the headwaters of Tanana River; thence westerly along the divide between the waters of the Gulf of Alaska on the south and the waters of the Yukon on the north to the summit of Mount McKinley; thence continuing westerly along the divide between the waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay on the south and the waters of the Yukon and Kuskokwim on the north to the one hundred and fifty-ninth meridian of west longitude; thence northwesterly to the Kuskokwim River on the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence southwesterly along the center of said river to Bering Sea; said division to include the Alaska peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and all islands along the coast of this district No. 3. Division Terms. Juneau. Valdez. Fairbanks. south and west of the said district and all lying south of the fifty-ninth parallel of north latitude. Division numbered four shall consist of all that part of the district of No. 4. Alaska lying east of the second division and north of the third division. One general term of court shall be held each year at Juneau, and such additional terms at other places in the first division as the Attorney-General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Nome, and such additional terms at other places in the Nome. second division as the Attorney-General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Valdez, and such additional terms at other places in the third division as the Attorney-General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Fairbanks, and such additional terms at other places in the fourth division as the Attorney-General may direct. Each of, Special the judges is authorized and directed to hold such special terms of court as may be necessary for the public welfare or for the dispatch of the business of the court at such times and places in their respective districts as any of them, respectively, may deem expedient, or as the Attorney-General may direct; and each shall have authority Interpreters, to employ interpreters and to make allowances for the etc. necessary expenses of his court, and to employ an official court stenographer at such compensation as shall be fixed by the Attorney-General. At least thirty days' notice shall be given by the judge, or the clerk, of the time and term. place of holding the several terms of the court." terms. Notice of authorized. SEC. 3. That section seven of said chapter one of title one is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 7. That four clerks shall be appointed for the Four clerks court, one of whom shall be assigned to each division thereof, and during his term of office shall reside at such place in the division as the Attorney-General may direct. Each clerk shall, in his division of the district, perform the duties required or authorized by law to be performed by clerks of United States courts in other districts, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the laws of the United States relating to the district of Alaska. He shall preserve copies of all laws applicable to the district and shall preserve all records and record all proceedings and official acts of his division of the court. He shall also Receipt, etc., collect and receive all moneys arising from the fees of his office, from licenses, fines, forfeitures, judgments, or on any other account authorized by law to be paid to or collected by him, and shall apply the same, except the money derived from licenses, to the incidental expenses of the proper division of the district court and the allowance thereof as directed in written orders, duly made and signed by the judge, and shall account for the same in Accounting. detail, and for any balances on account thereof, under oath, quarterly, or more frequently if required, to the of fees, etc. Moneys not court expenses. regular bal ances. court, the Attorney-General, and the Secretary of the Proviso. Treasury: Provided, That moneys accruing from violaavailable fortions of the customs laws, civil customs cases, or internalrevenue cases, moneys, not including costs, accruing from civil post-office suits, fines in criminal cases for violations of the postal laws, the net proceeds of sales of public property under section thirty-six hundred and eighteen, Revised Statutes as amended, and any other moneys the disposition of which is otherwise specially provided for by law, shall not be available for the expenses of the court, but shall be paid over or deposited as provided by law Deposit of for other districts. And after all payments ordered by the judge shall have been made, any balances remaining in the hands of the clerk shall be by him deposited to the credit of the United States and be covered into the Treasury of the United States at such times and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treas ury may prescribe. The clerk shall be ex officio recorder of instruments as hereinafter provided and also register of wills for the division, and shall establish secure offices for the safe-keeping of his official records where terms Deputies, etc. of his division of the court are held. He may appoint necessary deputies and employ other necessary clerical assistance to aid him in the expeditious discharge of the duties of his office, with the approval and at compensation to be fixed by the court or judge, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General. Any person so appointed or employed shall be paid by the clerk on the order of the judge, as other court expenses are paid." Other duties, etc. Four district attorneys authorized. Duties. Salaries. Assistants. Vacancies. SEC. 4. That section eight of said chapter one of title one is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 8. That four district attorneys shall be appointed for the district, one of whom shall be assigned to each division and shall reside at such place in the division as the Attorney-General shall direct. They shall each perform the duties required to be performed by United States district attorneys in other districts, and such other duties as may be required by law; and they shall each receive a salary of five thousand dollars per annum and shall not while in office accept retainers or engage in any other law business in the district than that pertaining to the duties of their office. The Attorney-General may, upon the recommendation of the district attorney, appoint and at pleasure remove one or more assistant district attorneys and one or more clerical assistants, who shall receive such compensation as the Attorney-General may fix, to be paid as other assistant United States district attorneys and clerical assistants are paid. In the case of the death or disability of a district attorney the judge may appoint a suitable person to fill the office until his successor is appointed and qualified or until the disability is removed." SEC. 5. That section eleven of chapter one, title one, of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: commissioners statement to "SEC. 11. That an accurate detailed account of all fees Accounts of earned and expenses incurred by commissioners and dep-and deputy uty marshals shall be prepared in duplicate quarterly,' duly verified by the oath of the commissioner or deputy marshal rendering the account, and forwarded to the clerk for the proper division of the district court and approved by the judge thereof, if found to be in accordance with law. After approval by the judge the original of Quarterly each such account shall be forwarded by the clerk to the Department of Department of Justice for revision and the duplicate filed in the court. All net fees earned in excess of the sum of three thousand dollars per calendar year or in excess of that rate for a less period, by any commissioner or deputy marshal, shall be annually paid to the clerk of the proper division of the court to be available for incidental expenses of the district court of the proper division, such payment of such incidental expenses to be accompanied by a verified detailed statement of said clerk." Justice. Excess of fees to clerk. Four mar SEC. 6. That four United States marshals shall be ap-shals" author pointed for the district, one of whom shall be assigned to ized. each division, and shall reside at such place in the division as the Attorney-General shall direct. SEC. 7. That section seven hundred and twenty-eight of chapter seventy-four, title two, of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: clerks. "SEC. 728. That each deputy clerk has the power to Deputy perform any act or duty relating to the clerk's office that his principal has, and his principal is responsible for his conduct and for all money received by him in his official capacity." present officers Officers in third division. SEC. 8. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to Terms of limit or terminate the term of office of any of the judges, not affected. district attorneys, or marshals now serving in Alaska; but each shall serve out the term for which he was appointed unless sooner removed. The judge, district attorney, and marshal now serving in the third division of said district shall hereafter have their residence and hold their respective offices in the fourth division created by this Act: Provided, That the President may, in his discretion, change the assignment of any of said officers from one division to another. SEC. 9. That section seven hundred and seventy-one of chapter eighty, title two, of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Attorney-General is authorized and directed to prescribe a schedule of fees for the services rendered by the United States commissioners acting as ex officio probate judges. Proviso. Schedule of fees repealed. commissioners' Vol. 31. p. 454, repealed. Schedule to be prepared. of time for accounts al SEC. 10. That when, in the opinion of the Attorney- Modification General, it will be impossible for the accounts of any transmitting court official or other person whose accounts pertain to lowed. the United States courts in Alaska to be transmitted to the Department of Justice within the period prescribed In effect July 1, 1909. Repeal. by law, the Attorney-General may modify, as he may deem proper, any requirement of law concerning the time when such accounts shall be rendered and transmitted. SEC. 23. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and nine. In so far only as the provisions of this Act are in conflict with other or prior Acts the other or prior Acts are hereby repealed. Mar. 4, 1909. [H. R. 23464.] [Public, No. 326.] 35 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 847. CHAP. 297.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. 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 hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Alaska. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. 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, clerk hire, not to exceed two thousand dollars; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; rent of office and quarters in Juneau, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the gov ernor, five thousand five hundred dollars. |