Chapter 266. Authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior
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CHAP. 266.— An Act Authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior. March 3, 1909.[[S. 8058](/us/bill/70/s/8058)][[Public, No. 319](/us/pl/70/319).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Attorney-GeneralAlaska.School employees may be designated as special peace officers. shall have power to appoint, in his discretion, any person employed in the Alaska school service who may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior as a special peace officer of the division of the district of Alaska in which such person resides; and such special peace officerAuthorized to arrest persons violating Criminal Code. shall have authority to arrest, upon warrant duly issued, any native of the district of Alaska charged with the violation of any of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Alaska (Act March third, eighteen hundredVol. 30. p. 1258. and ninety-nine, second supplement Revised Statutes, page one thousand and three) or any amendment thereof, or any white man charged with the violation of any of said provisions to the detriment of any native of the district of Alaska; and such peace officer shallSummary arrests. also have authority to make such arrests, without warrant, for a crime committed or attempted in his presence, or when the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence, or when a felony has in fact been committed and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it; and any person so arrestedTrials. shall be taken, in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General, and without unnecessary delay, before a United States commissioner or other judicial officer for trial : *Provided, however*, That no person so appointed shall be entitled*Proviso.*Fees, etc., not allowed.Actual expenses. to any fees or emoluments of any character whatsoever for performing any of the services herein mentioned, but may be allowed, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, expenses actually and necessarily incurred in connection with such services. 838 Approved, March 3, 1909.