Chapter 486. To authorize the purchase of certain lands in the district of Alaska
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CHAP. 486.— An Act To authorize the purchase of certain lands in the district of Alaska. May 21, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Karluk Packing Company may purchase certain land in Alaska. That the Karluk Packing Company, claiming under amended survey numbered twenty-four, in the district of Alaska, or its successor in interest, may purchase the 181 land embraced in said survey: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved *Proviso*.
Reservation of highway. to the United States for the use of the public as a highway a strip of land sixty feet in width, parallel with and as near as may be practicable to the shore line of Shellikoff Straits; and for the purpose of allowing access by the public to the waters of Shellikoff Straits, a strip of land fifty feet in width across said survey shall also be reserved, to be located, as near as practicable, between corners seventeen and thirty of said survey, extending from Shellikoff Straits to the Karluk River, and not to interfere with any existing improvements; and upon payment of the Patent. price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for said land, and submission of proof that said land embraces improvements of the claimant and is needed in the prosecution of its business, patent shall issue as in other Vol. 30, p. 413. cases under section ten of the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes;” but the limitation in said Exemption, etc.
Act, that no entry shall extend along the water front for more than one hundred and sixty rods, shall not be held to apply to such entry of the Karluk Packing Company. Approved, May 21, 1900.