Chapter 109. To provide assistance to persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 109.— An Act To provide assistance to persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, and for other purposes.March 3, 1913.[[S. 267](/us/bill/62/s/267).][[Public, No. 411](/us/pl/62/411).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alaska fund.Vol. 33, p. 616. That section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred Vol. 34, p. 192, amended.Vol. 35, p. 601.and five, as amended by an Act approved May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and as further amended by an Act approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Section 1. Liquor, trade, etc., license fees outside of incorporated towns to constitute Alaska fund.That all moneys derived from and collected for liquor licenses, occupation or trade licenses, outside of the incorporated towns in the Territory of Alaska, shall be deposited in the Treasury Department of the United States, there to remain as a separate and Uses.distinct fund, to be known as the ‘Alaska fund,’ and to be wholly devoted to the purposes hereinafter stated in the Territory of Alaska.
Public schools.Twenty-five per centum of said fund, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be devoted to the establishment and maintenance Relief of indigent, etc.of public schools in said Territory; ten per centum of said fund shall be, and is hereby, appropriated and authorized to be expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated Roads, bridges, etc.through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident; and all the residue of said fund shall be devoted to the construction and maintenance *Proviso*.Collection of fees.of wagon roads, bridges, and trails in said Territory: *Provided*, That the clerk of the court of each judicial division of said Territory is authorized, and he is hereby directed, whenever considered necessary, to call upon the United States marshal of said judicial division to aid in the collection of said license moneys by designating regular or special deputies of his office to act as temporary license inspectors, and it shall be the duty of said United States marshal to render such aid; and the said regular or special deputies while actually engaged in the performance of this duty shall receive the same fees and allowances and be paid in the same manner as when performing their regular duties.
Division of fund for indigent.“That at the end of each fiscal quarter the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall divide the amount of said ten per centum of said fund so received during the quarter just ended into four equal parts, and transmit to each of the four United States district judges in Alaska one of said equal amounts. Distribution by judges.“That each of said judges is hereby authorized to expend so much of the money received by him under this Act as may, in his discretion, be required for the relief of those persons in his division who are incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, and *Provisos*.Vouchers, etc.who are indigent and unable to assist and protect themselves: *Provided*, That each judge shall quarterly submit to the Secretary of the Treasury an itemized statement, with proper vouchers, of all expenditures made by him under this Act, and he shall at the time transmit Use of unexpended balances.a copy of said statement to the governor of the Territory: *Provided further*, That any unexpended balance remaining in the hands of any judge at the end of any quarter shall be returned to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and by him deposited in the said ‘Alaska fund,’ and the said sum shall be subsequently devoted, first, to meeting any actual requirements for the care and relief of such persons as are provided for in this Act in any other division in said Territory wherein the amount allotted for that purpose has proved insufficient; and, second, if there shall be any remainder thereof, said remainder shall be devoted to the construction and maintenance of wagon roads, bridges, and trails in said Territory.
” " Approved, March 3, 1913.