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2nd. Div. Senator
Summarizes Bills
17 tli. Legislature
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By Senator Howard Lyng
Contrary to what you may hear
from some of those disgruntled
persons who expect each session,
of the Legislature to completely!
revamp the economic and finan
cial structure of the Territory,
the 17th Session of the Alaska
Legislature will go down in Terr
itorial history as the most pro
| gressive and constructive one
| since the Alaska Legislature was
established in 1912.
The following legislation was i
enacted into law:
A permanent Department of'
Health was created, setting up!
a Board of 5 members, with the ^
Governor as Chairman, and one
member from each of the 4 Div
j
isions. Mrs. Katherine Kehoe,
wife of District Judge Jos. Kehoe,,
was appointed the 2nd Division
member. This Board, at their
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1 first meeting, will hire a full
j time Director, who shall proceed
to reorganize the present inade
quate set-up.
The Territorial Housing Auth- j
ority, which extends the Federal
Housing to Alaska and sets up a
Board of 5 members, with the
Governor as Chairman, and one
member from each af the 4 Div
isions, -Rev. Paul J. O’Connor SJ.
appointed the 2nd Div. member.
The Alaska Development Board
- A Referendum on Statehood at
the next General Elction - A new
Act to replace the original Act
setting up the Department of Lab
or, increasing the powers and du
ties of the Commissioner of Labor
- creation of a Department of
Agriculture, with a full-time
Commissioner to administer the
act - creation of the ofice of Tax
Commissioner, removing the col
lection of taxes, from the Treas
urer’s office - extension of th Un
employment Compensation Act re
placing the former provision of
8 or more - establishment of the
Teachers Retirmnt Fund - the
raising of the maximum pension
grant from $45 to $60 - the Anti
discrimination Act, sometimes re
ferred to as the “Epual Rights
Bill, said by the Governor to be
“Epoch making” - the Land Reg
istration Act, which requires that
all patented lands be registered
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and that a fee be paid, under the
time limits of the Act, if not, the
lands revert fn the Territory and
are sold to the highest bidder,
sale to occur in the Division in
located - increased appropriation
for Tuberculosis control - an ap
propriation of $359,340 for the
University of Alaska, only $50,000
of which is for building pur
poses, making it one of the larg
est grants ever made to the Univ
ersity - the extension af the Aid
to Dependent Children Act to in
clude both white and native child
ren - the extension of the Juv
enile Code to include both native
and white juvenile delinquents -
raising all Territorial officials sal
aries to $5,600 a year - raising
all Territorial employees salaries
15 percent over the 1943 scale -
a 1 cent tax per gallon on all
gasoline shipped into the Terri
tory and collected at the source
of shipment - an excise tax on
hard liquor from $1 to $1.60 per
gallon -and last but not least, the
highest General Appropjriation
Bill in the history of the Legis
lature, amounting to $5,631,822.
Explanation of some of the
more important measures will be
published in subsequent issues
of the NUGGET.
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