The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-31

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 day of October in each year to the President of the United States Of his official acts and doings and the condition of the Territory with ref erence to it's resources, industries, population, and the administration of civil law therein
 Sec. 4. That there shall be sec retary of said Territory who shall reside therein. He shall be ap- pointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President he shall record and pre- serve all the laws and proceedings of the legislature of the Territory hereinafter constituted, and all acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department; he shall transmit two copies of the laws and journals of the two branches of the legislature to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the lse of Congress within ninety days after each session of the legislature. he shall perform such other duties IS he may be required to perform by Congress or the legislature of the Territory, and in case of the ieath, removal, resignation, or nee essary absence of the governor from the Territory, the secretary shall execute all the powers and perform all the duties of the governor during such vacancy or absence, or until another governor is appointed and qualified. It shall be the duty of the surveyor general, upon the pas sage and approval of this Act, to turn over to the secretary of the accounts, moneys, and property which have come into his posses sion as ex officio secretary of the Territory.
 Sec 5. That the legislative power md authority of the Territory shall be vested in the governor and legis- lature of the Territory. The legis- lature of the Territory shall con- sist of a senate and house of rep resentatives. The next legislature 70 convene after the passage of this Act shall consist of the same num- Der of members and be elected and organized under the laws hereto fore in force in Alaska. Beginning with the second legislature to be chosen after the passage and ap- 1roval of this Act, the senate shall consist of fifteen members and the house of representatives shall con sist of thirty members. Twelve of said senator and twenty-fOur of said representatives shall be elected from legislative districts to be created as hereinafter provided, and three of said senators and six of said repre- sentatives shall be elected from the duty of the legislature at next ses- sion after the passage and approval of this Act, and at each session thereafter, to divide the Territory into twelve legislative districts of as nearly equal population as possi- ble and of contiguous territory, and each district shall be entitled to elect one senator and two repre- sentatives Provided, That where it would otherwise be necessary to ,,,;J ,,n;r l place parts of it in different legis- lative districts, but not otherwise, the legislature may include two or more legislative districts in one. and apportion thereto the propor- tionate number of senators and rep resentatives. The terms of sena- tors elected from legislative districts shall be four years, and the terms of those elected at large and the terms of all representatives shall be for two years. Those senators elect ed under the laws heretofore in force at the election of nineteen hundred and eighteen shall serve four years, their terms and the ItIUlS Ol tMO Ol tut oCndtOIo lO DC elected in nineteen hundred and twenty from legislative districts, to be selected by lot, shall expire af- ter the election to be held in nine teen hundred and twenty-two. 9th erwise, all senators elected from districts shall be for four years: Provided, That if it should occur that two of the four senators elect ed in nineteen hundred and eight cen should be residents of dis trict formed at the subsequent ap portionment, that is entitled to but one Senator, then only one of them shall be considered a senator from that district and the other shall be considered senator at large in which event the. number of sena tors to be elected at large at the election to be held in nineteen hun dred and twenty shall be reduced accordingly. All senators and rep resentatives elected from legislative districts must have been resident. of the districts from which selected for not less than two years immed lately preceding their election. Al