Chapter 2537. To provide for the creation of additional land districts in the district of Alaska
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CHAP. 2537.— An Act To provide for the creation of additional land districts in the district of Alaska. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 25041](/us/bill/34/hr/25041).] [[Public, No. 196](/us/pl/34/196).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Nome and Fair-banks districts, Alaska, created.Vol. 30, p. 414. That there are hereby created two additional land districts, the boundaries of which shall be designated by the President, in the district of Alaska, to be known as the Nome land district and the Fairbanks land district, with the land offices located, respectively, at Nome, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Sec. 2. Registers and receivers.Clerks of court and marshals to act.That the clerks of the district courts at Nome and Fairbanks shall respectively be exofficio registers of the land offices at Nome and Fairbanks and the marshals of the said courts at Nome and Fair-banks shall be exofficio receivers of public moneys for the Nome and Fairbanks land districts. Said officers shall perform the several duties of register of the land office and receiver of public moneys for the land districts with all the powers incident to such offices to the same extent as now performed by the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys at Juneau, Alaska.
Sec. 3. Fees, etc.That the said officers shall, in addition to their present compensation as clerk or marshal as provided by law, receive all the fees and commissions allowed by law for their services as registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys for land districts under the *Provisos.*Surplus.land laws: *Provided,* That any fees or commissions in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum received by either such officials shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States: *Provided,* No other salary.That no other salary than aforesaid shall be paid such registers and receivers.
Sec. 4. Surveys.That the surveyor-general of the district of Alaska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall furnish the receivers of said land offices a sufficient quantity of numbers to be used in the different classes of official surveys that may be made in said Nome and Fairbanks land districts to meet the requirements thereof, and upon application by any person desiring to have an official survey made the receivers shall furnish a number or numbers for such survey or surveys, together with an order directing a qualified deputy surveyor to make the same, and such application, order, and the fee required to be paid to the surveyor-general in the district of Alaska *Proviso.*Approval.shall be transmitted to the surveyor-general: *Provided,* That all surveys thus made shall be approved by the surveyor-general as at present.
Sec. 5. In effect July 1, 1907,That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after July first, nineteen hundred and seven. Approved, March 2, 1907.