The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-14

| for the duration of the war and three years thereafter all tin pro duced in the United States, includ- ing Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, at the purchase price of at least $1 per pound A bill to authorize the Alaska Legislature to grant portions of land of the Pioneers Home at Sitka, AL aska, to the City of Sitka for street purposes.
 A bill authorizing the Russian Or thodox Greek Catholic Church of North America to purchase land on Spruce Island, Alaska.
 A bill to revise the Alaska Game Law which reenacts most of the law but changes it in several particulars. It treats the assignment to military service in Alaska as taking up of residence there so that at the ex- piration of one year of military service in the Territory members are eligible for resident hunting licenses. The bill also clarifies the status of Filipinos so that they shall be treated as citizens of the United States for the purposes of the game laws.
 A bill for the relief of Sigurd J. E. i Wallstedt in full settlement of claims against the government for injuries sustained on July IT, 1941, at Seward, Alaska, while passenger in United States Army vehicle.
 A bill for the relief of James w Kelly of Anchorage, in full settle ment for the loss of his personal effects in the fire which destroyed building owned and operated by the Alaska Railroad, at Healy, or May g, l941.
 f A bill to place the office of the Secretary of the Territory of Alaska under the classified civil service cov- ering the present secretary. Va cancies shall be filled by appoint ment by the President. but no per son shall be eligible who has not been a bonafide resident of Alaska for the period of at least three years immediately preceding the date of appointment The bill also fixes the salary of the secretary at not less than $500 a year.
 A bill providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on all mining claims held by location in the United States, including Alaska, for the duration of the war.
 A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior, because of the war, to defer or waive payments under mineral leases of public lands in Alaska when proper showing is made that normal activities on such leased land is impossible because of the war
 A bill authorizing the Secretaryzof the Interior to incur obligations. for the benefit of natives of Alaska in advance of the enactment of leg islation m aking appropriations therefor *z A bill authorizing the construction of military supply highway to AL aska, from Prince George, B. C., Canada, to Whitehorse, Y. T., Can ada, along the general vicinity of the A" Route recommended by the Alaskan International Highway Commission, and authorizing the appropriation of $25,000. 900 for such construction.
 A bill to amend the Hatch Act, thus permitting the employees of the government, including the em- ployees of the Alaska Railroad, re- siding in municipalities on the line of the railroad, to take an active part in political management or political campaigns involving the municipality in which they reside.
 A bill providing for a 25 per cent increase in salary of every employee of the Post Office Department in Alaska over that paid employees of the Post Office Department occupy ing similar positions and performing similar duties in the States