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Lease after com

terstate commerce laws if

property, which rates shall be equal and uniform, but no free transportation or passes shall be permitted except that the provisions of the interstate commerce laws relating to the transportation of employees and their families shall be in force as to the lines constructed under this Act; to receive compensation for the transportation of passengers and property, and to perform generally all the usual duties of a common carrier by railroad; to rier, duties. make and establish rules and regulations for the control and operation of said railroad or railroads; in his discretion, to lease the said railroad or railroads, or any portion thereof, including telegraph and telephone lines," after completion under such terms as he may deem proper, but no lease shall be for a longer period than twenty years, or in the event of failure to lease, to operate the same until the further action of Congress: Provided, That if said railroad or railroads, including Subject to intelegraph and telephone lines, are leased under the authority herein given, then and in that event they shall leased. Purchase of exbe operated under the jurisdiction and control of the isting lines. provisions of the interstate commerce laws; to purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire upon such terms as he may deem proper any other line or lines of railroad in Alaska which may be necessary to complete the construction of the line or lines of railroad designated or located by him; Provided, That the price to be paid in case of purchase shall in no case exceed the actual physical value of the railroad; to make contracts or agreements with any railroad or steamship company or vessel owner for joint transportation of passengers or property over the road or roads herein provided for, and such railroad carriers. or steamship line or by such vessel, and to make such other contracts as may be necessary to carry out any of the purposes of this Act; to utilize in carrying on the Use of Panama work herein provided for any and all machinery, equip- etc., for construc ment, instruments, material, and other property of any tion sort whatsoever used or acquired in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal, so far and as rapidly as the same is no longer needed at Panama, and the Isthmian Canal Commission is hereby authorized to deliver said property to such officers or persons as the President may designate, and to take credit there for at such percentage of its original cost as the President may approve, but this amount shall not be charged against the fund provided for in this Act.

Joint agreements with other

Canal machinery,

telegraph and

The authority herein granted shall include the power Operation of to construct, maintain, and operate telegraph and tele- telephone lines. phone lines so far as they may be necessary or convenient in the construction and operation of the railroad or railroads as herein authorized and they shall perform generally all the usual duties of telegraph and telephone lines for hire.

powers

vested in Presi

That it is the intent and purpose of Congress through Full this Act to authorize and empower the President of the dent.

Town sites authorized.

Public lands

vations for ter

way, etc.

United States, and he is hereby fully authorized and empowered, through such officers, agents, or agencies as he may appoint or employ, to do all necessary acts and things in addition to those specially authorized in this act to enable him to accomplish the purposes and objects of this Act.

The President is hereby authorized to withdraw, locate, and dispose of, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, such area or areas of the public domain. along the line or lines of such proposed railroad or railroads for town-site purposes as he may from time to time designate.

Terminal and station grounds and rights of way subject to reses through the lands of the United States in the Territory miñals, rights of of Alaska are hereby granted for the construction of railroads, telegraph and telephone lines authorized by this Act, and in all patents for lands hereafter taken up, entered or located in the Territory of Alaska there shall be expressed that there is reserved to the United States a right of way for the construction of railroads, telegraph and telephone lines to the extent of one hundred feet on either side of the center line of any such road and twenty-five feet on either side of the center line of any such telegraph or telephone lines, and the President may, in such manner as he deems advisable, make reservation of such lands as are or may be useful for furnishing materials for construction and for stations, terminals, docks, and for such other purposes in connection with Construction the construction and operation of such railroad lines as he may deem necessary and desirable.

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Limit of cost.

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Specified ceipts to be paid

SEC. 2. That the cost of the work authorized by this Act shall not exceed $35,000,000, and in executing the authority granted by this Act the President shall not expend nor obligate the United States to expend more than the said sum; and there is hereby appropriated, out of Appropriation. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000 to be used for carrying out the provisions of this Act, to continue available until expended. SEC. 3. That all moneys derived from the lease, sale, or into Treasury. disposal of any of the public lands, including town sites, in Alaska, or the coal or mineral therein contained, or the timber thereon, and the earnings of said railroad or railroads, together with the earnings of the telegraph and telephone lines constructed under this Act, above maintenance charges and operating expenses, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as other miscellaneous receipts are paid, and a separate account thereof shall be kept and annually reported to Congress.

Reports to be made.

SEC. 4. That the officers, agents, or agencies placed in charge of the work by the President shall make to the President annually, and at such other periods as may be required by the President or by either House of Congress, full and complete reports of all their acts and doings and

of all moneys received and expended in the construction of said work and in the operation of said work or works and in the performance of their duties in connection therewith. The annual reports herein provided for shall be by the President transmitted to Congress.

Approved, March 12, 1914 (38 Stat. 305).

Extract from the agricultural appropriation Act, approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1086-1100).

stone, and timber

That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture, under reg- Use of earth, ulations to be prescribed by him, is hereby authorized by Navy for railto permit the Navy Department to take from the national roads. forests such earth, stone, and timber for the use of the Navy as may be compatible with the administration of the national forests for the purpose for which they are established, and also in the same manner to permit the taking of earth, stone, and timber from the national forests for the construction of Government railways and other Government works in Alaska: Provided, That the Government Secretary of Agriculture shall submit with his annual estimates a report of the quantity and market value of Report. earth, stone, and timber furnished as herein provided.

An Act To amend an Act of Congress approved March 12, 1914, authorizing the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory 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, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes," be amended by inserting at the conclusion of section 2 the following:

works.

Alaska railroads.

Vol. 38, p. 307, amended.

authorized for

banks.

"Provided, That in order to complete on or before Additional sum December 31, 1922, the construction and equipment of the constructing, etc., railroad between Seward and Fairbanks, together with Seward to Fair necessary sidings, spurs, and lateral branches, the additional sum of $17,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, to be immediately and continuously available until expended."

Received by the President, October 7, 1919 (41 Stat. 293).

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The foregoing Act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated. within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

roads.

An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved March 12, 1914, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemAlaska rail- bled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Vol. 88, p. 307, President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved March 12, 1914, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end of section 2 a proviso to read as follows:

amended.

Additional sum authorized for

banks.

"Provided further, That in order to complete the conconstructing, etc., struction and equipment of the railroad between Seward Seward to Fair and Fairbanks, together with necessary sidings, spurs, Vol. 41, p. 293. and lateral branches, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all sums heretofore appropriated therefor, the sum of $4,000,000, to be immediately and continuously available until expended."

served for com.

surveyed.

Approved, November 18, 1921 (42 Stat. 221).

SCHOOL GRANTS.

An Act To reserve lands to the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemPublic lands re bled, That when the public lands of the Territory of mon schools when Alaska are surveyed, under the direction of the Government of the United States, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved from sale or settlement for the support of common schools in the Territory of Alaska; and section thirty-three in each township in the Tanana Valley between parallels sixty-four and sixty-five north latitude and between the one hundred and forty-fifth and the one hundred and fiftysecond degrees of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich) shall be, and the same is hereby, reserved from Agricultural sale or settlement for the support of a Territorial agricultural college and school of mines when established by the Legislature of Alaska upon the tract granted in section two of this Act: Provided, That where settlement with a view to homestead entry has been made upon any part of the sections reserved hereby before the survey thereof in the field, or where the same may have been sold or otherwise appropriated by or under the authority of any Act of Congress, or are wanting or fractional in Lieu selections quantity, other lands may be designated and reserved in lieu thereof in the manner provided by the Act of Congress of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hun

college and school of mines.

allowed.

Lease by Terri

tory permitted.

for benefit of

dred and ninety-one): Provided further, That the Territory may, by general law, provide for leasing said land in area not to exceed one section to any one person, association, or corporation for not longer than ten years at any one time: And provided further, That if any of said. sections, or any part thereof, shall be of known mineral Mineral lands. character at the date of acceptance of survey thereof, the reservation herein made shall not be effective or applicable, but the entire proceeds or income derived by Use of proceeds the United States from such sections sixteen and thirty- schools. six and such section thirty-three in each township in the Tanana Valley area hereinbefore described, and the minerals therein, together with the entire proceeds or income derived from said reserved lands, are hereby appropriated and set apart as separate and permanent funds in the Territorial treasury, to be invested and the income from which shall be expended only for the exclusive use and benefit of the public schools of Alaska or of the agricultural college and school of mines, respectively, in such manner as the Legislature of Alaska may by law direct.

Agricultural college and school

Sections re

SEC. 2. That section numbered six, in township numbered one south of the Fairbanks base line and range of mines. numbered one west of the Fairbanks meridian; section numbered thirty-one, in township numbered one north. of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered one west of the Fairbanks meridian; section numbered one, in township numbered one south of the Fairbanks base line served for site. and range numbered two west of the Fairbanks meridian; and section numbered thirty-six, in township numbered one north of the Fairbanks base line and range numbered two west of the Fairbanks meridian, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the Territory of Alaska, but with the express condition that they shall be forever reserved and dedicated to use as a site for an agricultural college and school of mines: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall he held to interfere with or destroy any legal claim of any person or corporation to any part of said lands under the homestead or other law for the disposal of the public lands acquired prior to the approval of this Act: Provided further, That so much of the said land as is now periment station used by the Government of the United States as an agricultural experiment station may continue to be used for such purpose until abandoned for that use by an order of the President of the United States or by Act of Congress. Approved, March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214).

SURVEYS.

Extract from the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1074-1098).

And the system of public land surveys is hereby extended to the district of Alaska.

Prior legal claims.

Government agricultural

continued.

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System of surveys extended to Alaska.