Fort Assinni. Time extension homesteaders on lands of abandoned. Interest payments. * ** nine, thirty, and thirty-one north, fifteen and sixteen Approved, September 7, 1916 (39 Stat. 739). An Act Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries of lands within the former Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation, in Montana' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who has made homestead entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February 11, 1915 (Thirty-eight Statutes at Large, page 807), entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of the for payments by Interior to survey the lands of the abandoned Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation and open the same to settlement," may obtain an extension of time for one year from the anniversary of the date of entry last preceding the passage of this Act within which to pay all of the installment then due or any part of any preceding installment, where payment has not yet been made and where an extension of time therefor is not authorized by any Act of Congress by paying interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum on the sums to be extended from the maturity of the unpaid installments to the expiration of the period of extension, the interest to be paid to the receiver of the land office for the district in which the lands are situated, within such time as may be prescribed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That any installment which becomes due within one year from the passage of this Act and for which an extension of time for payment is not otherwise authorized, may also be extended for a period of one year by paying interest thereon in advance at the said rate: Provided further, That any payment so extended may thereafter in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior be extended for a further period of one year in like manner: And provided further, That if commutation proof is submitted, all the unpaid payments must be made at that time. Provisos. Extension pay ments due within one year. Additional extension. Commutation payments. Forfeiture of entry on failure to make payments. SEC. 2. That the failure of any entryman to make any payment that may be due, unless the same be extended, or to make any payment extended either under the provisions hereof or other Act of Congress, at or before the time to which such payment has been extended, shall forfeit the entry and the same shall be canceled, and any and all payments theretofore made shall be forfeited. Approved, January 6, 1921 (41 Stat. 1086). Further extended by the act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 666), p. 11. Joint Resolution Providing an extension of time for payment by entrymen of lands on the Fort Assinniboine abandoned military reservation in the State of Montana Reservation, ments for lands Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives Fort Assinniboine of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Mont. That the Act of January 6, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1086), providing additional time for the Time further expayment of purchase money under homestead entries tended for pay within the former Fort Assinniboine Military Reserva- on abandoned. tion, in Montana, be, and the same is hereby, amended so Vol. 41, p. 1086, as to authorize extensions of time from year to year for the payment of all unpaid principal upon the payment of interest thereon in advance at the rate specified in the said Act, for not to exceed ten years from date of entry. Approved, June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 666). 11992-31- -2 amended. ALASKA NOTE. The act of May 17, 1884 (23 Stat. 24), providing a civil government for Alaska, in section 8, extended to Alaska "the laws of the United States relating to mining claims, and the rights incident thereto," but provided that "nothing contained in this act shall be construed to put in force in said district the general land laws of the United States." Similar provision is contained in sections 26 and 27 of the act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 321), which also made provision for a civil government for Alaska. However, in section 3 of the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 512), it was provided that the "Constitution of the United States, and all the laws thereof which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States." The express exception of the public-land laws, found in the earlier organic acts, was omitted in the act of August 24, 1912, supra. The general laws of the State of Oregon, then in force, were declared by section 7 of the act of May 17, 1884, supra, to be the law in the District of Alaska, so far as the same might be applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of that act or the laws of the United States.-EDITOR. COMMISSIONERS EX OFFICIO An Act Authorizing the designation of an ex officio Commission for Alaska for each of the executive departments of the United States, and for other purposes nated from em Interior, Agri Commerce, by Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Alaska. sembled, That the Secretaries of the Departments of the Commissioners Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce be, and they are for, to be desighereby, authorized and empowered, each for his own ployees of Dedepartment, to designate an employee thereof, employed partments of in and residing in Alaska, who shall be styled ex officio culture, and Commissioner for Alaska for the department from which Secretaries he is selected and who, from the date of his designation, thereof. shall reside and maintain an office in the capital of Alaska. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 5, sec. 119.) SEC. 2. That each of said Secretaries shall delegate Duties to be asand assign to the commissioner representing his department general charge of any or all matters in Alaska under the jurisdiction of such department, or of any bureau or agency thereof, to the extent, in the manner, and subject to such supervision and control as the Secretary may deem proper and expedient. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 5. sec. 120.) signed. Alaska placed supervision of SEC. 3. That, to the extent the respective Secretaries Employees in may determine, employees of the departments affected under direct by this Act who are stationed in Alaska shall be placed the commissioner under the direct supervision and control of the ex officio for the respeccommissioner for his department, herein provided for, together with any additional force which may be detailed by the Secretary of the Interior, Agriculture, or tive departments. Transfer of records, balances of appropria tions, etc. Any activity may be placed Commerce, from the personnel of his department, should necessity there for arise; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the employment of any additional personnel or to warrant the transfer of any clerk or other employee from one department to another, except in the manner provided by law. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 5, sec. 121.) SEC. 4. That the Secretaries named in section 1 hereof may transfer to the officer designated hereunder as his representative the records or transcripts of records, property (including office and field equipment), and unexpended balances of appropriations which they may deem necessary or proper to transfer to Alaska in order to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 5, sec. 122.) SEC. 5. That the President of the United States may, under one of the by order in writing, should he deem it conductive1 to commissioners by order of the President. Proviso. Road construc tion matters as of Road Com economical and effective administration, and with the concurrence of all the Secretaries of the respective departments involved, place under the supervision and direction of one of the three ex officio commissioners provided for in section 1 hereof, and subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act, any governmental activity relating to Alaska provided for by law now under the direction of the Secretaries named in section 1 hereof, and to transfer to the officer so selected, the necessary personnel, records, or transcripts of records, property (including office and field equipment), and unexpended balances of appropriations: Provided, That the charge and control of all matters relating to the construction signed to Board and maintenance of roads in Alaska which may now be under the jurisdiction of any other department, bureau, or agency of the Government, together with the records or transcripts thereof, the property including field and office equipment and the unexpended balances of appropriations pertaining thereto, may, with the concurrence of the Secretaries of the respective departments involved, be assigned and transferred to the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, created by and in pursuance of the provisions of section 2 of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons the District of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved Vol. 34, p. 192. January 27, 1905, as amended by the Act approved May 14, 1906. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 5, sec. 123.) missioners. Vol. 33, p. 616. Law enforcement. Examination and report on feasi. bility of consoll dating agencies for police and, to be submitted. in SEC. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to make an examination as to the feasibility and propriety of consolidating into a single force the police and law enforcement agencies of the Federal Government in Alaska, and to report to the next session of the Congress his conclusions with reference 1 Should read "conducive." Error occurred in the draft of the bill.EDITOR. |