The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-08
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Seventy seven 194l Alaska Session Laws were enacted by the 18th Territorial Legislature and signed by Gov. Ernest Gruening.
 Thirty-four of the new laws on the statute books are appropriation measures and six are revenue meas ures.
 Only about half a dozen of the new laws will ever have much im- pression on the average citizen of Alaska. Of interest to him are acts increasing the excise tax on liquor from 50 cents to $1 per gallon, pro- yiding for suspension of Alaska an- nual mine labor requirements whenever the national law is sus- pended. establishing a Territorial Department of Labor, requiring three days notice of intention to marry, providing for a $175,0O0 ad- dition to the Pioneers Home and establishing highway traffic regu- lations.
 Acts carrying an emergency clause went into effect as soon as they were signed Others will become effective 90 days after their, ap- proval by the Governor. In the fol- lowing list, those laws already in effect are designated by the word emergency"
 The 1941 Session Laws provide as follows:
 Chapter (HB 6)-Appropriating $1,0O0 for transportation of pioneers to the Pioneers Home. Emergency. Chapter 2 (CSHB 5)-Appropriat- ing $61 500 in deficiencies for the Registrar of Vital Statistics, hair seal bounties and general relief. En- ergency.
 Chapter 3 (HB D-Licensing en- balmers at $10 per year. Chapter (HB 23)-Appropriat- ing $50 to reimburse Joseph Picotte for an unused timber cutting per- init. Emergency.
 Chapter tSB l5)-Correcting a clerical error in the Compiled Laws. Emergency.
 Chapter 6 (HB 22)-Appropriating $1 300 to pay the Northern Conlmer- cial Company for diesel plant furnished the Griffin Memorial Hos- pital at Kodiak. Emergency.
 Chapter 2 (HB 4)-Requiring all persons selling insurance to have agents licenses, and passing the in- surance tax on gross instead of net premiums.
 Chapter 8 (HB 26) = Repeating sections dealing with Divisional Road Commissioners.
 Chapter g CHB 28)-Appropriat- ing $5,0OO to assist in equipping 3 hospital at Seldovia. Emergency.
 Chapter 10 tHB 20)-Increasing the excise tax on liquors of more than l9 percent alcohol by volume from 50 cents to $l per gallon. Chapter II (HB 2D--Requiring that applicants for licenses to prac- tice medicine or surgery must be United States citizens.
 Chapter 12 (HB 42)--Appropriat- ing $73O5 to reimburse Frank J Wadrnan for bank deposit escheat- ed to the Territory. Emergency. Chapter 13 (HB 52)--Appropriat- ing S34.17 to reimburse Attorney General James s. Truitt for money advanced by him for extra clerical help.
 Chapter IA (HB 16)-Providing for the creation of grazing districts to regulate the grazing of domestic animals.
 Chapter IS tHB 32) = Requiring Election Boards to send one copy of certificate of election results to the office of the Secretary of AL aSka.
 Chapter Is (SB 1O--Appropriat- ing $482.2O as partial refund of a liquor dispensary license to George Gilbertson of Fairbanks.
 Chapter IT (HB 61)-Appropriat- ing $120 for Lyle Airways for flying Jack Bishop, a seriously injured in digent, from Gakona to Cordova to hospital. Emergency.
 Chapter 18 (HB 43)-Penalizing employees by $l,000 fine or Six months imprisonment for misrepre- senting to an employee ability to pay.
 Chapter ls (SB 30) Providing for local option elections on petition of 35 percent of the voters, with the sale of liquor to be barred upon vote of majority.
 Chapter 20 (HB 49)-Appropriat- ing $8,0O0 to assist Valdez in the purchase of needed hospital equip ment Emergency.