Chapter 1082. To redivide the district of Alaska into three recording and judicial divisions
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CHAP. 1082.— An Act To redivide the district of Alaska into three recording and judicial divisions. June 13, 1902.[[Public, No. 157](/us/pl/57/157).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the district of Alaska Alaska.Recording and judicial divisions established.Vol. 31, p. 326. be, and the same is hereby, divided into three recording and judicial divisions, as follows: The first division shall include all that portion of said district east First. of the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude.
The second division of said district shall consist of all that territory Second. lying west, northwest, and north of that certain line described as follows: Commencing at the mouth of the Colville River, on the north coast of the district of Alaska; thence following the Colville River south and west to a point where said river crosses the one hundred and fifty-fourth meridian line the second time; thence following the one hundred and fifty-fourth meridian line south to the west side of 386 Tohtankella Mountain and to the Yukon River; thence in a southeasterly direction to the western side of Mount McKinley; thence in a southwesterly direction to the most northern point of Lake Clark; thence along the northwest side of Lake Clark to the sixtieth degree of north latitude; thence west along said degree of latitude to Kuskokwim Bay.
This division shall also include the mainland west of said bay and all the islands north of the fifty-ninth degree of north latitude. Third. The third division shall consist of all that portion of the district of Alaska not included within the first or second divisions of said district as hereinbefore described. Effect. This Act shall take effect and be enforced from and after July first, nineteen hundred and two. Approved, June 13, 1902.