The daily progressive-miner., 1916-04-10
BILL TO MAKE ALASKA ASTATE
INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS BY DELEGATE WICKERSHAM
 MARCH 30, 1916.
Continued from last issue.)

ses of Constitutional Convention That the sum of $100,000, or SC much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, and for defray- ing of the expenses of the election provided for in this Act and said convention and for the payment of the members thereof and their mile- age, under the same rules and reg ulations and at the same rate as are now provided by law for the payment of the Territorial Legis- lature of the said Territory of AL aska, and the disbursements of the money appropriated by this section shall be made by the Secretary of the Territory of Alaska.
 Sec. 8. Representatives in Con gress = Territorial Continuance That until otherwise provided by law the said State of Alaska shall be entitled to four Representatives in the House of Representatives of the United States, one to be elect ed from each of the four judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided by Act of Congress. And the aid Representatives, together with the governor and other of ficers provided for in said constitu- tion, shall be elected on the same day of the election for the rati- 1 fication or rejection of the Consti- tuition; and until said officers are elected and qualified under the pro- visions of such Constitution and the said State is admitted into the Union, the territorial officers of Alaska Territory shall continue to discharge the duties of their re- spective offices in said Territory
 Sec. g. Sections Sixteen and Thir- ty-six Granted for Common Schools. That upon the admission of the State into the Union sections num- bered sixteen and thirty-six in every township in Alaska Territory and all indemnity lands heretofore or hereafter selected in lieu there of are hereby granted to the State for the use and benefit of the com mon schools: Provided, That sec tions sixteen and thirty-six em- braced in permanent reservations for national purposes (excluding therefrom forestry reserves and withdrawals for classification or further legislation) shall not at any time be subject to the grant nor the indemnity provisions of this Act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military, or other res ervations (excluding therefrom for estry reserves and withdrawals for classification or further legislation) of any character, nor shall land owned by Indian tribes or individual members of any tribe be subjected to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this Act, until the reservation shall have been extin- guished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain; none of the lands mention ed in this section shall ever be sold for less than $10 per acre.
 Sec. 10. Appropriation of Fur Seal Fund-Public Roads-Public Schools.-That there is hereby ap- propriated, out of any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the total gross sum and amount, as shown by the accounts of the Treasury Department of the United States. received by the United States from rental and leases of fur-seal fish cries of the Pribilof Islands in AL aska, and from the sale of seals and skins therefrom, from the date of the purchase of Alaska from Russia by the United States to the date of the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union: that said total gross sum and amount shall be paid to the State of Alaska in twenty annual in- stallments or payments of equal amount, and shall be expended by the State of Alaska exclusively. one-third for the improvement of public roads in the State and two- thirds for the erection and equip ment of school buildings, the pay ment of teachers and the main tenance of common and graded pub lie schools in said State; that said annual installments or payments shall be divided equally between the four areas within said State described in the now existing four judicial divisions into which Alaska is divided by Act of Congress.
 Sec. II. Grant For Universities And so Forth.-That section num- bered thirteen in every township