The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-31

limit the Acts of Congress to pre- vent and punish gambling, and all gambling implements shall be seized by United States marshal or any of his deputies, or any constable or police officer, and destroyed: Pro- yided, That nothing herein shall be held to limit the power of the leg
 islature from passing laws for the more effectual suppression of gam icating liquors be manufactured or sold, except under such regulations and restrictions as Congress shall provide: Provided further, That nothing herein shall be held to linn it the power of the legislature from passing laws to submit to a vote of the people of Alaska the prohibition of the sale and manufacture of in toxicating liuqor in the Territory; nor shall any public money be ap- propriated by the Territory or any county or municipal corporation therein for the support or benefit of any sectarian, denominational, or private school, or any school not under the exclusive control of the Government; nor shall the govern ment of the Territory of Alaska, or any political or municipal corpora tion or subdivision of the Territory. make any subscription to the capi- tai stock of any incorporated com pany, or in any manner lend its credit for the use thereof; that all authorized indebtedness shall be paid in the order of it's creation ; no tax shall be levied for Territorial purposes in excess of one per cen tum upon the assessed valuation of nor shall any incorporated town or municipality levy any tax, for any purpose, in excess of two per cen tum of the assessed valuation of property within the town in any one year, nor shall any county in any one year levy any tax for any purpose in excess of two per centum of the assessed valuations: And pro- vided further, That the legislature may provide for the levying of ad- litional Territorial, municipal, or county taxes by vote of the people, in which case the purpose for which the money is desired to be expended shall be stated in the call for the election and expressed on the ballot in such manner as to make the purpose clear to the electors. In addition to the powers which the Territory has heretofore been authorized to exercise it's leg islative power shall extend to and over the fish and fisheries of the Territory of Alaska and the waters thereof, and all wild animals and birds therein, and the legislature may pass laws for the protection. conservation, and regulation there of and may control the domestica- ton of all wild animals and birds Df the Territory: And provided fur ther, That the territorial legislature shall not exercise any control over the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands: And provided further, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the courts now existing or that may hereafter be created in said Territory from enforcing with in their respective jurisdictions all laws passed by the legislature with in the power conferred upon it, the same as if such laws were passed by Congress, nor to prevent the legislature passing laws imposing additional duties not inconsistent with the present duties of their re. 5pective offices upon the governor
 narshals, deputy marshals, clerks of
 he district courts, the United States commissioners acting as jus. tices of the peace, judges of pro- bate courts, recorders, and coron- CTS, and providing the necessary ex- penses of performing such duties, md inthe prosecution of all crimes denounced by Territorial laws the cost shall be paid the same as now or may hereafter be provided by Act of Congress providing for the prosecutions of criminal offenses in said Territory, except that in pros cautions growing out of any reve- nue law passed by the legislature the costs shall be paid as in civil actions, and the prosecutions shall be in the name of the Territory.
 Sec. 13. That the senate and house of representatives shall each choose it's own officers, determine the rules of it's own proceedings not inconsistent with this Act, and keep l journal of it's proceedings; that the ayes and noes of the members of either house on any question shall, at the request of one-ffth of the members present, be entered up- on the journal, that majority of the members to which each house is entitled shall constitute quorum of such house for the conduct of business. of which quorum a ma jority vote shall suffice, except up- ,n the final passage of a bill, which must receive majority of each house before it can become a law that a smaller number than a quor-