Stikeen River journal., 1899-06-17
HOMESTEAD LAWS
 TOR ALASKA,

An Act Extending The Homeste ad
 Laws and providing for Right
 of Way for Railroads in
 the District of Alaska, and
 For other Purposes.
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress As sembled. That the Homestead laws of the United States and the rights incid- ent thereto, including the right to en- ter surveyed or nnsurveyed lands un- der the provisions of law relating to the acquisition of title through soldiers additional homestead rights. are here by extended to the District of Alaska. sulleet to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior: and no indemity. deficiency. or lien lands pertaining to any land grant whatsoever originating outside of said District of Alaska shall be located within or taken from lands in said Dis trict: Provided. That no entry shall be allowed extending more than eighty rods along the shore of any navigable water. and along such shore a space of at least eighty rods shall be reserved from entry between all such claims. and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made. or title to be acquired, to the shore of.any navigable waters within said District: And be it further pro- vided. That no homestead shall exceed eighty acres in extent.
 SEC. To. That any citizen of the United States twenty-one years of age, or any association of such citizen. or corporation incorporated under th9 laws of the United States or of any State or Territory now authorized by law to hold lands in the Territories, hereafter in the possession of and oc- cupying public lands in the District of Alaska in good faith for the purposes of trade, manufacture, or other produc- tive industry. may each purchase one claim only not exceeding eighty acres or such land for any one person. asso- clation. or corporation, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, upon submiss- ion of proof that said area embraces Improvements of the claimant and is needed in the prosecution of such trade. manufacture or other productive indus try, such tract of land not to include mineral or corl lands. and ingress and egress shall be reserved to the public on all waters of .ali streams, whether navigable or otherwise: Provided. That no entry be allowed under this Act on lands abutting on navigable waters of more than eighty rods: Pro- vided further, That there shall be re- served by the United States space of eighty rods in width between tracts sold or entered ander the provisions of this Act on lands abutting on any nav igpble stream inlet, gulf bay or sea- shore, and that the Secretary of the Interior may grant the use of such re- served lands abutting on the water front to any citizen or association of citizens, or to any corporation incor- porated under the laws of the United States or under the laws of any State or Territory, for landings, and wharves with the provision that the public shall have access to and proper use of such wharves, and landings, at reasonable rates of toll to be prescribed by said Secretary, and a roadway sixty feet in width, parallel to the shore line as may be practicable, shall be reserved for the use of the public as a highway: Provided further. That in case more than one person, association, or corpor- ation shall claim the same tract of land
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