Alaska forum., 1901-02-07


 for the purpose of dividing the district of Alaska into three recording divisions, to designate the divisions of the cour. to be supervised by each, and to define the boundaries there of as prOvid- ed in section thirteen fsaid act. And after due consideration and de!iberaton the following boundaries were fixed and determined upon to- witt
 The order heretofore and the thrteth day of June, 1900, made and signed by the Ion. Arthur II. Moves, jud se of the second division of said district of Alaska, and the Hon. James Wickersham judge of the third division of said district fixing the boundary line between the second and thlrd divisions is i'll all things here by approved and confirmed;
 The line dividing the first and third divisions of the said district i, fixed follow s to-wt; Beginning oil the line fixed in the order of June 30, 1900, and signed by the udges of the district court of Alaska, where the same crosses Mt.Mc- Kinley near the headwattrs of the Shushtna River the line shall run thence Ia ,tward along the divide between the htadW aterS of the said Shushitna and Panama Rivers, and thence East ward along the divide between the headwater, of the Copper River and the said Tanana River, and thence Soltherly along the divide between the rivers running westwardly into the Copper River and other rivers running eastwardly into the Yukon River, and thence Soutlward along said divide to Mt st. Elias and thence following the national boundary line of South eastern Alaska between the British and Ameri- can Territories to Dixon Entrance.
 And 1t is hereby ordered that all that DOT tion of the di strict of Alaska lying South and West of the above described line and all that DOT tion of the district of Alaska lying south and
 
 eth aforesaid and being South of Mt. Mckinley, the initial point above named, shall constitute the first judicial division of the district of Alaska.
 And it is further ordered that all that DOT tion of the district of Alaska lying North and East of the watersheds of the said Shushitn and Copper Rivers as above described, and ly ing west of the boundary line between the dis trict of Alaska and the Yukon territory and ly- ing East of the line running Northerly from Mt. Mckinley, and fixed by the order of June thirti- [ shall of the district of Alaska
 It is further ordered that all that portion of the district of Alaska lying West of the line fix ed ia the order of June thrteth aforesaid and including all of the Aleutian Island, lying to the Westward of ofOsanotski Straits shall constitute the second division of the district of X Alaska.
 It is further ordered that as soon as 1t shall be ascertained that convenient way exists of reaching Valdez and the mouth of the Copper River country from Eagle City so that the public business may be more economically managed from the court at Eagle City that encouragement shall be made whereby the said Copper River country may be placed i'll the third division of said district.
 It is further ordered that this order be attached to the order of June 30, 1900, and the map attached to that order, and 1 that this order and the said order of June 1 30, 1900, and the said map, shall constitute one order, and that said map shall be re- ferred to for more particular indication of said lines and that both of the said or ders shall be recorded at large in the re- cords of each division of said court, and that the map attached to the same shall be safely filed with the said orders and retained for reference with the clerks of each division.
 This order shall be executed in trip licate and and copy forwarded to the ~1, Cfo