face of leased

other coal lands by or under authority of the Government and for other purposes: Provided, That said Secretary, in, Disposal of surhis discretion, in making any lease under this act, may lands. reserve to the United States the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within such lease under existing law or laws hereafter enacted in so far as said surface is not necessary for use by the lessee in extracting and removing the deposits of coal therein. If such reservation is made, it shall be so determined before the offering of such lease.

That the said Secretary during the life of the lease is authorized to issue such permits for easements herein provided to be reserved, and to permit the use of such other public lands in the Territory of Alaska as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of coal washeries or other works incident to the mining or treatment of coal, which lands may be occupied and used jointly or severally by lessees or permittees, as may be determined by said Secretary.

Permits public lands.

for

washeries, etc., on

stricted.

workday.

for

SEC. 12. That no lease issued under authority of this Assignments react shall be assigned or sublet except with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. Each lease shall con- Conditions operating, safety, tain provisions for the purpose of insuring the exercise etc., required. of reasonable diligence, skill, and care in the operation of said property, and for the safety and welfare of the miners and for the prevention of undue waste, including a restriction of the workday to not exceeding eight hours Eight-hour in any one day for underground workers except in cases of emergency; provisions securing the workers complete freedom of purchase, requiring the payment of wages Wages. at least twice a month in lawful money of the United States, and providing proper rules and regulations to secure fair and just weighing or measurement of the coal mined by each miner, and such other provisions as are needed for the protection of the interests of the United Preventing moStates, for the prevention of monopoly, and for the safeguarding of the public welfare.

SEC. 13. That the possession of any lessee of the land or coal deposits leased under this act for all purposes involving adverse claims to the leased property shall be deemed the possession of the United States, and for such purposes the lessee shall occupy the same relation to the property leased as if operated directly by the United States.

nopoly, etc.

Property rights of lessees.

violations.

for

SEC. 14. That any such lease may be forfeited and Forfeiture canceled by appropriate proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction whenever the lessee fails to comply with any provision of the lease or of general regulations promulgated under this act; and the lease may provide for the enforcement of other appropriate remedies for breach Other remedies. of specified conditions thereof.

Coal lands hereafter subject to

SEC. 15. That on and after the approval of this act no lands in Alaska containing deposits of coal withdrawn this act from entry or sale shall be disposed of or acquired in any

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to be determined.

Pending cases manner except as provided in this act: Provided, That the passage of this act shall not affect any proceeding now pending in the Department of the Interior, and any such proceeding may be carried to a final determination in said department notwithstanding the passage hereof: Lessees to await Provided further, That no lease shall be made, under the on pending provisions hereof, of any land, a claim for which is pending in the Department of the Interior at the date of the passage of this act, until and unless such claim is finally disposed of by the department adversely to the claimant.

adverse decision

claims.

Sworn statements required.

SEC. 16. That all statements, representations, or reports required, unless otherwise specified, by the Secretary of the Interior under this act shall be upon oath and in such form and upon such blanks as the Secretary of Punishment for the Interior may require, and any person making false oath, representation, or report shall be subject to punishment as for perjury.

false oaths.

Regulations to be prescribed.

laws extended to Alaska.

lands.

SEC. 17. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe the necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this act.

SEC. 18. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, October 20, 1914 (38 Stat., 741).

HOMESTEADS.

An Act Extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Homestead That the homestead land laws of the United States and the rights incident thereto, including the right to enter surveyed or unsurveyed lands under provisions of law relating to the acquisition of title through soldiers' additional homestead rights, are hereby extended to the district of Alaska, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior; and no indemnity, Location of lieu deficiency, or lieu lands pertaining to any land grant whatsoever originating outside of said district of Alaska shall be located within or taken from lands in said disEntries on nav-trict: Provided, That no entry shall be allowed extendigable waters. ing more than eighty rods along the shore of any navigable water, and along such shore a space of at least eighty Alternate rods shall be reserved from entry between all such claims, and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made, or title to be acquired, to the shore of any navigable waters within said disLimit of home-trict: And it is further provided, That no homestead shall exceed eighty acres in extent.1

spaces reserved.

stead entry.

An Act To amend section one of the act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An act extending the homestead laws and providing for a right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska.

Restriction indemnity,

tries.

ter banks.

en

navigable waters.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Homestead of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Alaska. all the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States not in conflict with the provisions of this act, and all rights incident thereto, are hereby extended to the district of Alaska, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior; and no indemnity, deficiency, to or lieu-land selections pertaining to any land grant out- etc., selections. side of the district of Alaska shall be made, and no land scrip or land warrant of any kind whatsoever shall be located within or exercised upon any lands in said district except as now provided by law: And provided further, That no more than one hundred and sixty acres shall be Maximum entered in any single body by such scrip, lieu selection, or soldier's additional homestead right: And provided further, That no location of scrip, selection or right along any navi- Location on wa gable or other waters shall be made within the distance of eighty rods of any lands, along such waters, theretofore located by means of any such scrip or otherwise: And provided further, That no commutation privileges shall be Commutation. allowed in excess of one hundred and sixty acres included in any homestead entry under the provisions hereof: Provided, That no entry shall be allowed extending more than one hundred and sixty rods along the shore of any navi- Reservations on gable water, and along such shore a space of at least eighty rods shall be reserved from entry between all such claims; and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters within said district; and no patent shall issue hereunder until all the requirements of sections twenty-two hundred and ninetyone, twenty-two hundred and ninety-two, and twentythree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States have been fully complied with as to residence, improvements, cultivation, and proof, except as to commuted lands as herein provided: And it is further provided, That every person who is qualified under existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of Maximum enthe United States who has settled upon or who shall here- try increased. after settle upon any of the public lands of the United States situated in the district of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall, subject to the provisions and limitations hereof, be entitled to enter three hundred and twenty acres or a less quantity of unappropriated public land in said district of Alaska. If any of the land so settled upon, or to be settled upon, is unsurveyed, then Location on un the land settled upon, or to be settled upon, must be located in a rectangular form, not more than one mile in length, and located by north and south lines run accord

No entries of

shores.

Patent require

ments.

surveyed land.

filed.

ing to the true meridian; that the location so made shall be marked upon the ground by permanent monuments at each of the four corners of the said location, so that the boundaries of the same may be readily and easily traced; that the record of said location shall, within ninety days Records to be from the date of settlement, be filed for record in the recording district in which the land is situated. Said record shall contain the name of the settler, the date of the settlement, and such a description of the land settled upon, by reference to some natural object or permanent monument, as will identify the same; and if, after the expiration of the said period of five years, or at such date as the settler may desire to commute, the public surveys of the United States have not been extended over the Issue of patent. land located, a patent shall nevertheless issue for the land included within the boundaries of said location as thus recorded, upon proof to be submitted to the register and receiver of the proper land office, upon proof that he is a citizen of the United States, and upon the further proof required by section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States as heretofore and herein amended, and under the procedure in the obtaining of patents to the unsurveyed lands of the United States, as provided for by section ten of the act hereby amended, and under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior as hereinbefore provided, without the payment of any purchase price or other charges, except the ordinary office fees and commissions of the register and receiver, except one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre on land commuted: And provided always, That no title shall be obtained hereunder to any of the mineral or coal lands of the district of Alaska: And it is further provided, That the right of any homestead Transfers per- settler to transfer any portion of the land so settled upon, as provided by section twenty-two hundred and eightyeight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be restricted and limited within the district of Alaska as follows: For church, cemetery, or school purposes to five acres, and for the right of railroads across such homestead to one hundred feet in width on either side of the center Contracts vold- line of said railroad; and all contracts by the settler made before his receipt of patent from the Government, for the conveyance of the land homesteaded by him or her. except as herein provided, shall be held null and void. Approved, March 3, 1903 (32 Stat., 1028).

Payments.

Mineral.

mitted.

able.

LAND DISTRICTS.

An Act Extending the homestead laws and providing for a right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes.

SEC. 12. That the President is authorized and empowered, in his discretion, by Executive order from time to Land districts. time to establish or discontinue land districts in the Dis

trict of Alaska, and to define, modify, or change the boundaries thereof, and designate or change the location of any land office therein; and he is also authorized and empowered to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register for each land district he may Register and reestablish and a receiver of public moneys therefor; and the register and receiver appointed for such district shall, during their respective terms of office, reside at the place designated for the land office. That the registers and receivers of public moneys in the land districts of Alaska shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand five Salaries. hundred dollars and the fees provided by law for like officers in the State of Oregon, not to exceed, including such salary and fees, a total annual compensation of three thousand dollars for each of said officers.

at Sitka.

made applicable.

by Indians.

owned

SEC. 8. That the said District of Alaska is hereby created a land district, and a United States land office U.S. land office for said district is hereby located at Sitka. The commissioner provided for by this act, to reside at Sitka, shall be ex officio register of said land office, and the clerk provided for by this act shall be ex officio receiver of public moneys, and the marshal provided for by this act shall be ex officio surveyor-general of said district, and the laws of the Mining laws United States relating to mining claims, and the rights incident thereto, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be in full force and effect in said district, under the administration thereof herein provided for, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior, approved by the President: Provided, That the Lands Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them, but the terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress: And provided further, That parties who have located mines or min- Mines and mineral privileges therein under the laws of the United States applicable to the public domain, or who have occupied and improved or exercised acts of ownership over such claims, shall not be disturbed therein, but shall be allowed to perfect their title to such claims by payment as aforesaid: And provided also, That the land, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, at any station now occupied as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in said sec- Missionary station, with the improvements thereon erected by or for such socioties, shall be continued in the occupancy of the several roligious societies to which said missionary sta

ing claims.

tions.