ALASKA. Act of August 1, 1912, Ch. 269, 14. Sec. 1. Association Placer-mining Claims Limited --Assessment Required, 2. Location by Attorneys- Restriction, 14. 3. Number of Locations Limited - Ownership, 14. 4. Area of Claims, 14. 5. Effect of Violations, 14. Act of August 24, 1912, Ch. 373, 15. Sec. 1. Killing, etc., Seals in North Pacific Ocean Forbidden-Sea Otters, 15. 2. Equipping, etc., Vessels - Use of Ports, etc.—Vessels Excluded, 15. 3. Killing by Natives, 15. 4. Importing Illegally Taken Skins, 16. 5. Regulations to be Made by the President, 16. 6. Punishment for Violations, 16. 7. Vessels Presumed to be Violating Law, etc., 16. 8. Prosecutions, 16. 9. Naval, etc., Guard to be Maintained-Right of Seizure, 16. 10. Seizure Outside of Territorial Jurisdiction-Delivery to Proper 11. Killing Fur Seals on Pribilof Islands Suspended for Five Years, 17. 13. Effect and Duration, 18. Act of August 24, 1912, Ch. 387, 18. Sec. 1. Alaska Territory Organized, 18. 2. Capital at Juneau, 19. 3. Constitution and Laws of United States Extended, 19. 5. Election of Members of the Legislature, 20. 6. Convening and Sessions of Legislature, 20. 7. Organization of the Legislature, 20. 8. Enacting Clause-Subject of Act, 21. 9. Legislative Power - Limitations, 21. 10. Rules, Quorum and Majority, 22. 11. Legislator Shall Not Hold other Office, 22. 12. Exemptions of Legislators, 22. 13. Passage of Laws, 23. 14. The Veto Power, 23. 15. Payment of Legislative Expenses, 23. 16. Laws Transmitted to President and Printed, 23. 17. Election of Delegates, 24. 18. Creating Railroad Commission, 24. Sec. 19. Laws Relating to Alaska - Compilation to be Made, 24. 20. Laws Shall be Submitted to Congress, 25. Act of December 1, 1913, Ch. 39, 25. Assessment Work on Mining Claims, Seward Peninsula, 25. Act of March 3, 1913, Ch. 109, 25. Alaska Fund, 25. CROSS-REFERENCE. See also AGRICULTURE. An Act To modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes. [Act of August 1, 1912, ch. 269.] assessment re [SEC. 1.] [Association placer-mining claims limited quired.] That no association placer-mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska in excess of forty acres, and on every placer-mining claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, including the year of location, for each and every twenty acres or excess fraction thereof. [37 Stat. L. 242.] SEC. 2. [Location by attorneys restriction.] That no person shall hereafter locate any placer-mining claim in Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any recorder's office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so authorized may locate placer-mining claims for not more than two individuals or one association under such power of attorney, but no such agent or attorney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer-mining claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and no placer-mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the limitations of this Act. [37 Stat. L. 243.] SEC. 3. [Number of locations limited ownership.] That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be located, for himself more than two placer-mining claims in any calendar month: Provided, That one or both of such locations may be included in an association claim. [37 Stat. L. 243.] SEC. 4. [Area of claims.] That no placer-mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law, nor which is longer than three times its greatest width. [37 Stat. L. 243.] SEC. 5. [Effect of violations.] That any placer mining claim attempted to be located in violation of this Act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may be located by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made. [37 Stat. L. 243.] An Act To give effect to the convention between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia for the preservation and protection of the fur seals and sea otter which frequent the waters of the north Pacific Ocean, concluded at Washington July seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven. [Act of August 24, 1912, ch. 373.] Whereas the plenipotentaries of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia did, on the seventh day of July, anno Domini nineteen hundred and eleven, enter into a convention for the preservation and protection of the fur seals and sea otter which frequent the waters of the north Pacific Ocean, which convention was subsequently ratified by the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia and the exchange of ratifications thereof was effected on the twelfth day of December, nineteen hundred and eleven: Now, therefore, sea [SEC. 1.] [Killing, etc., seals in north Pacific Ocean forbidden otters.] That no citizen of the United States, nor person owing duty of obedience to the laws or the treaties of the United States, nor any of their vessels, nor any vessel of the United States, nor any person belonging to or on board of such vessel, shall kill, capture, or pursue, at any time or in any manner whatever, any fur seal in the waters of the north Pacific Ocean north of the thirtieth parallel of north latitude and including the seas of Bering, Kamchatka, Okhotsk, and Japan: nor shall any such person or vessel kill, capture, or pursue sea otter in any of the waters mentioned beyond the distance of three miles from the shore line of the territory of the United States. [37 Stat. L. 499.] SEC. 2. Equipping, etc., vessels - use of ports, elc., - vessels eccluded.] That no citizen of the United States, nor person above described in the first section, shall equip, use, or employ, or furnish aid in equipping, using, or employing, or furnish supplies to any vessel used or employed, or to be used or employed, in carrying on or taking part in pelagic sealing or in sea-otter hunting in said waters, nor shall any of their vessels nor any vessel of the United States be so used or employed; and no person or vessel shall use any of the ports or harbors of the United States, or any part of the territory of the United States, for any purposes whatsoever connected with the operations of pelagic sealing or sea-otter hunting in the waters named in the first section of this Act; and no vessel which is engaged or employed, or intended to be engaged or employed, for or in connection with pelagic sealing or sea-otter hunting in such waters shall use any of the ports or harbors or any part of the territory of the United States for any purpose whatsoever. [37 Stat. L. 500.] SEC. 3. [Killing by natives.] That the provisions of the first and second sections of this Act shall not apply to Indians, Aleuts, or other aborigines dwelling on the American coast of the waters mentioned in the first section of this Act who carry on pelagic sealing in canoes or undecked boats propelled wholly by paddles, oars, or sails, and not transported by or used in connection with other vessels, and manned by not more than five persons each, in the way hitherto practiced by the said Indians, Aleuts, or other aborigines, and without the use of firearms: Provided, however, That the exception made in this section shall not apply to Indians, Aleuts, or other aborigines in the employment of other persons or who shall kill, capture, or pursue fur seals or sea otters under contract to deliver the skins to any person. [37 Stat. L. 500.] SEC. 4. [Importing illegally taken skins.] That the importation or bringing into territory of the United States, by any person whatsoever, of skins of fur seals or sea otters taken in the waters mentioned in the first section of this Act, or of skins identified as those of the species known as Callorhinus alascanus, Callorhinus ursinus, and Callorhinus kurilensis, or belonging to the American, Russian, or Japanese herds, whether raw, dressed, dyed, or manufactured, except such as have been taken under the authority of the respective parties to said convention, to which the breeding grounds of such herds belong, and have been officially marked and certified as having been so taken, is hereby prohibited; and all such articles imported or brought in after this Act shall take effect shall not be permitted to be exported, but shall be seized and forfeited to the United States. [37 Stat. L. 500.] SEC. 5. [Regulations to be made by the President.] That the President shall have power to make regulations to carry this Act and the said convention into effect, and from time to time to add to, modify, amend, or revoke such regulations, as in his judgment may seem expedient. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the direction of the President, to see that the said convention, the provisions of this Act, and the regulations made thereunder are executed and enforced; and all officers of the United States engaged in the execution and enforcement of this Act are authorized and directed to cooperate with the proper officers of any of the other parties to the said convention in taking such measures as may be appropriate and available under the said convention, this Act, or the regulations made thereunder for the purpose of preventing pelagic sealing as in this Act prohibited. [37 Stat. L. 500.] SEC. 6. [Punishment for violations.] That every person guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of said convention, or of this Act, or of any regulation made thereunder, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both; and every vessel, its tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, at any time used or employed in violation of this Act, or of the regulations made thereunder, shall be forfeited to the United States. [37 Stat. L. 501.] SEC. 7. [Vessels presumed to be violating law, etc.] That if any vessel shall be found within the waters to which this Act applies, having on board fur-seal skins or sea-otter skins, or bodies of seals or sea otters, or apparatus or implements for killing or taking seals or sea otter, it shall be presumed that such vessel was used or employed in the killing of said seals or sea otters, or that said apparatus or implements were used in violation of this Act, until the contrary is proved to the satisfaction of the court, in so far as such vessel, apparatus, and implements are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. [37 Stat. L. 501.] SEC. 8. [Prosecutions.] That any violation of the said convention, or of this Act, or of the regulations thereunder, may be prosecuted either in the district court of Alaska, or in any district court of the United States in California, Oregon, or Washington. [37 Stat. L. 501.] SEC. 9. [Naval, etc., guard to be maintained right of seizure.] That it shall be the duty of the President to cause a guard or patrol to be maintained in the waters frequented by the seal herd or herds and sea otter, in the pro tection of which the United States is especially interested, composed of naval or other public vessels of the United States designated by him for such service; and any officer of any such vessel engaged in such service and any other officers duly designated by the President may search any vessel of the United States, in port, or in territorial waters of the United States, or on the high seas, when suspected of having violated, or being about to violate, the provisions of said convention, or of this Act, or of any regulation made thereunder, and may seize such vessel and the officers and crew thereof and bring them into the most accessible port of the Territory or of any of the States mentioned in the eighth section of this Act for trial. [37 Stat. L, 501.] delivery to proper SEC. 10. [Seizure outside of territorial jurisdiction officials seizures by other than United States officers proclamation to issue.] That any vessel or person described in the first section of this Act of fending or being about to offend against the prohibitions of the said convention, or of this Act, or of the regulations made thereunder, may be seized and detained by the naval or other duly commissioned officers of any of the parties to the said convention other than the United States, except within the territorial jurisdiction of one of the other of said parties, on condition, however, that when such vessel or person is so seized and detained by officers of any party other than the United States such vessel or person shall be delivered as soon as practicable at the nearest point to the place of seizure, with the witnesses and proofs necessary to establish the offense so far as they are under the control of such party, to the proper official of the United States, whose courts alone shall have jurisdiction to try the offense and impose the penalties for the same: Provided, however, That the said officers of any party to said convention other than the United States shall arrest and detain vessels and persons, as in this section specified, only after such party, by appropriate legislation or otherwise, shall have authorized the naval or other officers of the United States duly commissioned and instructed by the President to that end to arrest, detain, and deliver to the proper officers of such party vessels and subjects under the jurisdiction of that Government offending against said convention or any statute or .regulation made by that Government to enforce said convention. The President of the United States shall determine by proclamation when such authority has been given by the other parties to said convention, and his determination shall be conclusive upon the question; and such proclamation may be modified, amended, or revoked by proclamation of the President whenever, in his judgment, it is deemed expedient. [37 Stat. L. 501.] SEC. 11. [Killing fur seals on Pribilof Islands suspended for five years.] That from and after the approval of this Act all killing of fur seals on the Pribilof Islands, or anywhere within the jurisdiction of the United States in Alaska, shall be suspended for a period of five years, and shall be, and is hereby, declared to be unlawful; and all punishments and penalties heretofore enacted for the illegal killing of fur seals shall be applicable and inflicted upon offenders under this section: Provided, That this prohibition shall not apply to the annual killing on the Pribilof Islands of such male seals as are needed to supply food, clothing, and boat skins for the natives on the islands, as is provided for in article eleven of said convention; the skins of all seals so used for food shall be preserved and annually sold by the Government, and proceeds of such annual sales shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States: Provided further, That at the expiration of the said five years' suspension of F. S. A. Supp.-2. 17 |