The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-23

.SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS
AND TERRITORY OF Alaska;
MUCH AID GIVEN N0RTHLAND
Sale of Timber, Minerals

Approval of Delegate Dimonds
bill to authorize the sale of tim
Der and minerals on Alaska school
lands now permits the Secretary
of the Interior to dispose of such
lands under the mining laws of
the United States and to sell TIM
Der on such lands, the proceeds
from such leases or sales to be set
apart as permanent funds" in the
Territorial treasury, ito be invest
ed and the income expended" for
the public schools of the Territory
and for the University of Alaska.
Sections numbered 16 and SO in
each township in Alaska are by
law reserved for the support of the
public schools, and sections num-
bered 33 in the townships in the
Tanana Valley are similarly re-
served for the use of the agricul-
tural college and school of mines
in the University of Alaska Title
to these reserved lands remains in
the Federal Government until the
Territory is admitted as a State,
and ursder previous law neither
the Territory nor the Government
could dispose of minerals in these
reserved sections, nor had the Ter
ritory authority to sell the timber
on its school lands. Under the law
as now amended it is probable that
some present benefits for edu-
cational purposes may be had from
these lands. Public Law No. 314,
10th Congress.
Postmasters as N0taries
Legislation introduced by Dele
gate Dimond to authorize postmas-
tiers in Alaska to act as notaries
public in administering oaths and
affirmations is expected to go far
in aiding those who live in isolated
places in obtaining Authorization
of documents, license applications,
and other papers for which an oath
or affirmation is required. This law
authorizes and directs postmasters
within the Territory of Alaska to
administer oaths and affirmations
and to take acknowledgements, and
to make and execute certificates
thereof, and to perform all other
functions of notary public within
said Territory, whenever an oath,
affirmation, or acknowledgement or
certificate thereof is authorized,
permitted, or required by any Act
or Acts of Congress"
Except as otherwise required by
Act of Congress, postmasters are
authorized to charge and receive the
fees prescribed by law for a notary
public for similar service in Alaska.
Public Law No. 294, 10th Congress.
Investigation, Alaska Fisheries
House resolutions authorizing an
investigation of the fisheries of AL
aska and providing the necessary
money to pay the cost of the inves-
tigation were approved in sufficient
time before the session closed to al
low the investigating committee to
be formed and to plan at least ten
tative schedule of hearings in the
Territory on the subject. The pro-
posed investigation was requested by
the Territorial Legislature during
its recent session and has been
sought by fishermen and others in
terested in the fishing industry as
providing at least the beginning to
solutions of some of the problems
they are faced with.
The investigation committee -
subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on Merchant Marine and Fish
cries under the leadership of
Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland, ex-
poets to depart from Seattle on
August 20 and to hold hearings at
Cordova, Anchorage, Kodiak, Sitka,
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, Craig,
and Ketchikan. Particular study will
be made of the use Of traps in TAX
ing salmon and whether or not their
use should be prohibited; advisable
.ity of maintaining or changing the
fishing season as at present pre-
scribed for taking salmon in the
several Alaska fishing areas; effect
of taking herring upon the salmon
fishery; and offshore fishing by for
eign nationals for both crabs and
salmon. Authority is also provided
to make inquiry into any other mat
tiers concerning the fisheries which
the committee may deem important,
and with respect to the merchant
marine in Alaska and the merchant
marine or fisheries of the United
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