Chapter 110. To amend section 4, chapter 1 of Title I of an Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1900, as heretofore amended by section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 86 of an Act to provide a government for the
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CHAP. 110.— An Act To amend section 4, chapter 1 of Title I of an Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1900, as heretofore amended by section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 86 of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes,” approved March 3, 1909, and for other purposes. March 2, 1921. [[S. 4205](/us/bill/66/s/4205).] [[Public, No. 354](/us/pl/66/354).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Alaska civil government.Vol. 31, p. 322.Vol.35, p. 839, amended.
That section 4 of chapter 1 of Title I of the Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1900, as amended by section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 86 of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes,” approved March 3, 1909, which section also constitutes section 363 of the Compiled Statutes of the Territory of Alaska, 1913, be, and the same hereby is, further amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 363. There is hereby established a districtDistrict court established. court for the District of Alaska, with the jurisdiction of district courts of the United States and with general jurisdiction in civil, criminal, equity, and admiralty causes; and fourFour judges authorized.Salary, residence, etc. district judges shall be appointed for the district, each at an annual salary of $7,500, who shall during their terms of office reside in the divisions of the district to which they may be respectively assigned byRecording divisions. the President.
The court shall consist of four divisions, which shall also be recording divisions. “Division numbered one shall consist of all thatDivision No. 1. part of the District of Alaska lying east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude. “Division numbered two shall consist of all thatDivision No. 2. territory lying west of a line commencing on the Arctic coast at the one hundred and forty-eighth meridian; thence extending south along the easterly watershed of the Colville River to a point on the Rocky Mountain divide between the headwaters of Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Chandlar River on the south; thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, Kotzebue Sound, and Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence along said meridian to a point midway between the Yukon River and the Kuskokwim River; thence southwesterly to the point of intersection of the sixty-first parallel of north latitude with the shore of Bering Sea; the said division to include all the islands lying north of the fifty-eighth parallel of north latitude and west of tne one hundred and forty-eighth meridian of west longitude, excepting Nelson Island, all islands in Kuskokwim Bay, all islands in Bristol Bay, and all islands in the Gulf of Alaska, north of the fifty-eighth parallel of north latitude.
“Division numbered three shall consist of all thatDivision No. 3. territory lying south and west of the line starting on the coast of the Gulf of Alaska at the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude; thence northerly along said meridian to a point due east from Mount Kimball; thence west to the summit of Mount Kimball; thence southwesterly along the southerly watershed of the headwaters of Tanana River; thence westerly along the divide between the waters of the Gulf of Alaska on the south and the waters of the Yukon on the north to the summit of Mount McKinley; thence continuing southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Kuskokwim River and Bay on the north and west and the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay on the south to the westerly point of Cape Newenham; the said division to include the Alaska Peninsula, the Aleutian and 1204Pribilof Islands, and all islands along and off the coast of this division, between Cape Newenham and the point where the one hundred and forty-first meridian, west longitude, intersects the northern line of the territory.
Division No. 4.“Division numbered four shall consist of that part of the district of Alaska lying east of the second division and north of the third division, and all islands along the north coast of said division, east of the one hundred and forty-eighth meridian of west longitude, also Nelson Island and all islanas in Kuskokwim Bay. Terms of court.Juneau.“One general term of court shall be held each year at Juneau, and such additional terms at other places in the first division as the Nome.Attorney General may direct.
One general term of court shall be held each year at Nome, and such additional terms at other places in the second division as the Attorney General may direct. Valdez.One general term of court shall be held each year at Valdez, and such additional terms at other places in the third division as the Attorney Fairbanks.General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Fairbanks, and such additional terms at other places in the fourth division as the Attorney General may direct.
Each of the Special terms.judges is authorized and directed to hold such special terms of court as may be necessary for the public welfare or for the dispatch of the business of the court at such times and places in their respective districts as any of them, respectively, may deem expedient, or as Interpreters, etc.the Attorney General may direct; and each shall have authority to employ interpreters and to make allowances for the necessary expenses of his court and to employ an official court Notice of terms.stenographer at such compensation as shall be fixed by the Attorney General.
At least thirty days’ notice shall be given by the judge, or the clerk, of the time and place of holding the several terms of the court.” " Approved, March 2, 1921.