Stikeen River journal., 1899-06-17

tent jurisdiction within the District of Alaska, and therafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adju- dication of the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of the court.
 SEC. II. That the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regula- tions as he may prescribe, may cause to'be appraised the timber upon any part thereof upon public lands in the District of Alaska, and may from time no time sell as much thereof as he may deem proper for not less than the ap- praised value thereof, in such quanti- ties to each purchaser as he may prescribe, to be used in the District "f Alaska, but not for export theretrom. And such sales shall at all times be limited to actual necessities for con- sumption in the District from year to year, and payment for such timber shall be made to the receiver of public money of the .local land office of the land district in which said timber may be sold, under such rules and regula- tions as the Secretary of tue 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 of flee in sepcrate account, and shall be covered into the Treasury. The See retary of the Interior may permit, un- der regulations to be prescribed by him. the use of timber found upon the public lands in said District of Alaska by actual settlers, residents, individ- ual miners. prospectols for minerals, for tirewood, 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 auth orized and empowered, in his dlscre- tion 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 bonn- durics thereof. and designate OF change the location of any land office thcrcin: and he is also authorized and empow- cred to appoint by and with the ad- vioe of the Senate. a register for each land district he may establish and a rc- ceivcr of public moneys therefor: 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 moneys'in the land districts of Alaska shall receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars and the fees provided by law for like offices in the State of Oregon, not to exceed, in- eluding such salary and fees, a total annual compensation of three thousand dollars for each of said officers.
 SEC. l3 That netive-horn citizens of the Dominion of Canada shall b. d. corded in said District of Alaska the same mining rights and privileges ac- corded to citizens of the United States in British Columbia and the Northwest territories 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 intentions to become such may enjoy in said District of Alaska: and the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time promulgate and en- force rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect.
 SEN II. That under rule, and reg lations to b, prescribed by the Sec retary of the Treasury. the privilege of entering goods. Wa"as. and merchant disc in bond or of rllcin% them in bonded warehouses at any of the ports in the District of Ala i;l. ani of with- drawing the same for tXportatlon to any place in British Columbia OF thc Northwest Territories without payment of duty is hereby granted to the Cox ernment of the Dominion of Canada and it's citizens or citizens of the Unit ed States and to persons NtIo have de clared their intention to become such whenever and so long as it shall appear