Chapter 859. To amend section two hundred and three of title three of the Act entitled “An Act making further provisions for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes.” March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Ala
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CHAP. 859.— An Act To amend section two hundred and three of title three of the Act entitled “An Act making further provisions for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes.” March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alaska.Incorporation of towns.Officers. That section two hundred and three of title three of the Act entitled “An Act making further provisions for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” be amended so as to read as follows:
Treasurer; bond and qualifications.The treasurer of the corporation shall be ex officio treasurer 6f the school board, and shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed by law and execute bonds to the corporation in an amount to be determined by the judge of the district court, which bond shall be approved by the council and the judge of the district court and tiled in the office of the recorder of the corporation, and he shall give such additional bond as the council or judge of the district court may from time to time direct, but in no event shall such bonds be less than twice the amount of money in the hands of the treasurer at any one time, to be determined by the tax rolls and license books of the corporation, of the corporation clerk, and the clerk of *Provisos*.—payments to, of half of license moneys for schools.Vol. 30, p. 1336.the district court: *Provided.* That fifty per centum of all license moneys provided for by Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen Hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to detine and punish crimes in the district of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district,” and any amendments made thereto, required to be paid by any resident, person, or corporation for business carried on within said corporation, shall be paid over by the clerk of the United States district court receiving the same to the treasurer of said corporation upon taking his receipt therefor in duplicate, one of which duplicate receipts shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States by the clerk as a voucher in lieu of cash, and the other receipt shall be retained by the clerk.
The money received by the treasurer of the corporation from the clerk of the court for licenses shall be used, under the direction of the council, for —expenditure of accumulated surplus authorized.school purposes: *Provided,* That where it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the district court that the whole amount heretofore or hereafter received by the treasurer of the corporation from the clerk of the court is not required for school purposes, the court may from time to time, by orders duly made and entered with a statement of the facts upon which they are based, authorize the expenditure of the accumulated surplus, or any part thereof, for any of the municipal —expenditures for schools outside incorporated towns.purposes enumerated in this chapter.
Fifty per centum of all license moneys provided for by said Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and any amendments made thereto, that may hereafter be paid for business carried on outside incorporated towns in the district of Alaska, and covered into the Treasury of the United States, shall be set aside to be expended, so far as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, within his discretion and under his direction, for school purposes outside incorporated towns in said district of Alaska.
Approved, March 3, 1901.