The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-31

every bill, when passed by the house in which it shall have orig mated. or in which amendments thereto shall have originated, shall immediately be enrolled and certi- fled by the presiding officer and the clerk and sent to the other house for consideration.
 Sec. l6. That, except as here in provided, all bills passed by the legislature shall, in order to be valid, shall be signed by the gov ernor. That every bill which shall have passed the legislature shall be certified by the presiding off cer and secretary and clerk of the senate and house, respectively, and shall thereupon be presented to the governor. If he approved it he shall sign it, and it shall become a law at the expiration of ninety days after the adjournment of the legislature for the session. If the governor does not approve such bill, he shall return it to the house in which it originated, with his objections stated in writing He may veto any specific item or it. ems in bill which appropriates money for specific purposes, but shall veto other bills, if at all as whole. That upon the re ceipt of a veto message from the governor and the bill vetoed, in whole or in part, each house of the legislature, the one in which it originated first. shall enter the message at large upon it's journal and proceed to reconsider such bill or part of the bill that was vetoed noes, which shall be entered upon its journal. If, after such recon sideration, such bill or part of bill shall be approved by a two thirds vote of all the members to which such house is entitled, it shall thereby become law without the signature of the governor That if the governor neither signs nor vetoes bill within ten days, Sun. days excepted, after it shall have been delivered to him, the same shall become a law in like man. ner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature by it's adjournment prevents the return of the bill, in which case it shall not become a law: Provided, that the governor may sign a bill after the adjourn. ment of the legislature if he does so within ten days, Sundays ex. been delivered to him, and it shall thereupon become law in like manner as if he had signed it be- fore the adjournment of the legis- lature; Povided further, that the legislature may by two-thirds vote of each house, expressed by separate roll calls on that propo- sition, declare an emergency to ex- ist and direct that law shall become effective immediately upon it's passage and approval. In such case the declaration and direction must be set forth in the act it. self. At the beginning of each legislative session, and thereafter during the session whenever he deems it necessary or expedient, the governor shall, in writing or orally, at joint session, as he may elect, advise the legislature of the Territory upon conditions of the Territory and of his views upon needed legislation.
 Sec. IT. That there shall be an nually appropriated by the Con- gress sum sufficient to pay the salaries of the members of the leeslature and it's authorized em ployes, the printing of the laws and other incidental expenses there of; the said sums shall be dis bursed by the governor under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and he shall account quarterly to the Secretary of the Treasury for the manner in which said funds shall have been expend ed.
 Sec. IS. That the legislature of the Territory of Alaska shall at it's first session after the passage and approval of this act provide by a general law, form of county government, similar to that which obtained in other Territories of the United States and obtains in the various states, and is hereby authorized and empowered to pro- vide for the establishment of such county government in contiguous areas of the Territory wherever 1t deems the public interest may be subserved thereby. It shall be the duty of said legislature at it's first session after the passage and approval of this act to empower the people residing in any con tiguous area of the Territory of no. less than two thousand five hundred miles in extent and having population of not less than two thousand persons. excluding In dians who have not severed their tribal relations and are untaxed to establish such county govern ment whenever three-fifths of the