Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-22

ously for at least sixty days, and there after any person, corporation or asso- citation, having or asserting any adverse interest in, or claim to, the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be pur- chased, may file in the land office where such application is pending under oath an adverse claim setting forth the ma tnre and extent thereof, and such ad- verse claimant shall, within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin action to quiet title in court of competent jurisdiction within the Dis trict of Alaska, and thereafter no pat ent shall issue for such claims until the final adjudication of the rights of parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final de- cree of the court.
 SEC II. That the secretary of the in terior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may cause to be appraised the timber or any part there of upon public lands in the District of Alaska, and may from time time sell so much thereof as he may deem proper for not less than the appraised value thereof, in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the District of Alaska, but not for export thercfrom. And such sales shall at all times be limited to actual necessities for consumption in the district from year to year, and payments for such tim Der shall be made to the re ceiver of public moneys of the local land office of the land district i'll which said timber may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the secretary of the interior may prescribe, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the receiver of such land office to the commissioner of the general land office in n separate account, and shall be covered into the treasury. The sec retary of the interior may permit. un- der regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber found upon the pub lie lands in the District of Alaska by actual settlers, residents, individual miners, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings. min ing, prospecting and for domestic pur- poses, as may actually be needed by such persons for such purposes.
 SEC. l2. That the president is au- thoriZed and empowered, in his discre- ton, by executive order from time to time to establish or discontinue land districts in the district of Alaska, and to define, modify, or change the bound aries thereof, and designate or change the location of any land office therein; and he is also authorized and empow- cred to appoint, by and with the con sent of the senate, register for each land district he may establish and a re- ceiver of public moneys thereof; and the register and receiver appointed for such district shall. during their respec- tive terms of office, reside at the place designated for the land office. That the registers and receivers of public mon eys in tEe land districts of Alaska shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand and five hundred dollars and the fees provided by law for like otfi cers in the state of Oregon, not to eX- ceed, including such salary and fees. total annual compensation of three thousand dollars for each of said off cers.
 SEC l3. That native born citizens of the Dominion of Canada shall be ac- corded iu said district of Alaska the same mining rights and privileges ac- corded to citizens of the United States in British Columbia and the Northwest Territory by the laws of the Dominion of Canada or the local laws. rules, and regulations; but no greater right shall be thus accorded than citizens of the United States or persons who have de- clared their intention to become such may enjoy in said district of Alaska; and the secretary of the interior shall from time to time promulgate and ell force rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect.
 SEC H. That under rules and regu- lations to be prescribed by the secreta- " of the treasury, the privilege of en- tering goods, wares aud merchandise in bond or of placing them in bonded warehouses at any of the ports in the district of Alaska, and of withdrawing the same for eXportation in any place in British Columbia or the Northwest Territory without payment of duty, is hereby granted to the government of the Dominion of Canada and it's citi- Zens or citizens of the United States and to persons who have declared their intention to become such whenever and so long as it shall appear to the satisfaction of the president of the United States. who shall ascertain and declare the fact by proclamation, that corresponding privileges have been and are being granted by the government of the Dominion of Canada in respect of goods, wares and merchandise pass ing through the territory of the Domin- ion of Canada to any point ill the dis trict of Alaska from any point in said district.
 Approved, May II, 1898.