The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-07
AGED PROSPECTORS' HOME
Text of Bill Introduced by Delegate to Provide
 for Its Upkeep and Other Purposes

all Chinameu. Japanese and other
 foreigners who shall engage as em- playee or otherwise in any part of the
 said work ar at all. except Indians
 residen, of Alaska. shall pay road
 poll tax of three dollars per day for
 'Ro days. and every person. company
 or corporation employing any such person in Alaska shall make state
 nent under oath. in writing. To the
 Jerk of the district court in that division to recover the same: and in
 Ployed setting forth in detail the
 number of persons so employed. and
 shall retain from the wages or sums
 due to each of such employees the
 said sum of six dollars. and shall
 pay the same to the said clerk; and every such person, company or cor
 poration shall be held liable 10 the
 government and shall pay to said clerk the sum of six dollars in pay
 ment for said road poll tax. and upon
 failure to so pay the same upon de
 mand the district attorney for the division in which the said employee shall have worked shall bring a suit or suits in the district court in that division to recover the same; and in | bringing said suit or suits the total sum due on account of all employees | for which the said person. company. or corporation may be liable may be ! joined in one or more suits al the | discretion Of the district attorney. All sums recovered shall be paid to 1 he clerk of the court. and all sums ! received by the clerk on that account ! shall. at the time that fish-liCeuse | axes are forwarded 10 the treasury 1 department of the United States. be i forwarded to and deposited in the l 'reasury department of the United 1 States and there added to the Alas
 ka fund" created and described in 1 amended section one of An Act to
 amend an Act entitled An Act to 1 provide for the construction and l maintenance of schools. and the care | and support of insane persons in the i district of Alaska, and for other pur- 1 poses which amendatory Act was 1 approved May Fourteenth. nineteen l hundred and six (Thirtyfourth Stat
 utes al Large. page one hundred and ninety-two), and expended for the uses provided in said section one
 as therein enacted
 Sec 6. That in addition to the IT,
 cense tax imposed upon trades and l business by the twenty-ninth sec l ton of the Act of Congress entitled
 An Act making further provision
 for civil government for Alaska. and for other purposes" approved
 June sixth. nineteen hundred, and
 the Acts amendatory thereof any person or persons company or cor i boratiOn prosecuting or attempting
 o prosecute any of the following 1 ines of business within the territory
 of Alaska shall first apply for and obtain license so to do from a dis 'rict court or a subdivision thereof
 in said Territory. and pay for said l license for the respective lines of i business and trade as follows. to
 wit:
 Barber shops. five dollars per an l mum.
 Dredges. operating any part of the season. one-half of one per centum | of the gross amount of gold or other mineral secured during the year
 Electric-light plants furnishing light ! or power for sale; In towns or com
 munities of less than five hundred
 population, fifty dollars per annum; in towns or communities of five hun ! dred or more and less than one i thousand population, one hundred and | fifty dollars per annum in towns or | communities of one thousand or more ! population. three hundred dollars per annum.
 Lodging and road houses. fifteen | 3ollars per annum.
 Mines Coal, one cent per ton for each ton m;ned copper. ten cents per ton each ton mined; gold. one
 half of one per centum of the gross amount of gold secured from any quartz mine during the year ! Telegraph and telephone lines, ! five dollars per annum for each mile of line in operation: Provided: That the said additional license tax de- cleared in this section shall be col lected and paid into the Treasury | department of the United States and expended for the uses and in the manner declared in the Acts to which this section is amendatOry and addi- tional
 Sec. :. That any person who, prior to the passeage of this Act, has made entry upon homestead laws in any State or Territory except Alaska, may nevertheless, make an additional homestead entry in Alaska of not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres of agricultural land under and in accordance with the terms and provisions of An Act to amend sec ! tion one of the Act of Congress ap- proved May fourteenth. eighteen hun dred and ninety-eight, entitled An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the district of Alas Sa,'" approved March third, nineteen hundred and three. l Sec. 8. That in so far as the pro- visions of this act shall conflict with other and prior Acts of Congress. the | other and prior acts shall be held to | be modified and amended thereby. Mixed. Bess-When Jack and I were in