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Vol* 1
Moose Pass. Alaska - May 19. 1939
. No a 1.8.
ALASKA'S NEW STAKING
LAW EFFECTIVE JUNE 9.
Alaska's new staking law, enacted by
the recent session of the Territorial Leg
islature, governs the use of power of at
torney and size of claims# It becomes
effective June 9 but any stakings before
that date are governed by the old law.FUll
text of the new act follows*
Chapter 77
An Act
(H.B. 62)
To amend sections 3 and 5 of Chapter 76,
Session Laws of Alaska,1935, relating to
placer mining claims. BE IT ENACTED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA*
Section 1. That Section 3 of Chapter 76
of the Session Laws of Alaskal935 is here
by amended to read as follows*
Section 3. Association Claims.
No association placer mining claim
shall be located in excess of 40 acres,
and have a greater length than twenty
six hundred and forty feet(2640).
Section 2. Section 5 of Chapter 76 of
the Session Laws of Alaska 1935 is hereby
amended to read as follows*
Section 5. Location by Agent or
Attorney. No person shall locate
any placer mining claim in Alaska
as agent or attorney for another
unless he is duly authorized thereto
by a power of attorney in writing,
duly acknowledged and executed
within four years prior to the date
of location,and recorded in the
office of the Recorder of the
Recording District in which the
claim is located. No person shall
act as attorney in fact for more
than two principals in any one
recording district; if the attorney
in fact has two powers of attorney
he may locate one claim under each
and no more, and if he have one
power of attorney, he may locate
two claims thereunder and no more
during any one calendar month in
the same recording district.
Approved March 9, 1939.
President Roosevelt may visit Alaska
immediately after his visit to the Golden
Gate Exposition at San Francisco. While
he has announced that fore plans definitely
to visit the West Coast Fair, he has set
no date because of the uncertainty as to
when the present long-*drawn-out session
of Congress will end. He will leave
Washington for his trip immediately after ;
the adjournment of Congress. He wants
to visit Alaska so he probably will.
There will be a boat in Seward from
Seattle next Monday night.
MRS. JOHN A. NELSON DIES
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Nelson,
widow of John A. Nelson, occurred at 2*14
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, May 14,at
Anchorage. She was the mother of John
L. Nelson of Moose Pass, who was summoned
to her bedside last Friday and by flying
from Seward to Anchorage, reached her
bedside before she died. She had been
critically ill but a short time. Funeral
services were held Tuesday afternoon and
she was buried in Anchorage cemetery.
Mrs. Nelson came to Seward 32 years
ago , a bride. She and Mr. Nelson lived
in Seward two and one-half years before
moving to Anchorage, Mr. Nelson's
death occurred several years ago in the
States. They are survived by two sons
and one daughter - John L. Nelson of Moose
Pass, Mrs. Larry Bucy of Anchorage and
James S. Nelson of Seward. All were
with their mother when she died, James
S. Nelson flying to Anchorage with his
brother. Mrs. Nelson is survived by
four grandchildren - Joanne and Peggy
Nelson, children of Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Nelson,and Donald and David Bucy, child
ren of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bucy.
The King and Queen of England sailed
for America May 6th on board the newly
painted and shiny white SS Empress of.
Australia. Warships, shore batteries,
and cheering thousands bade them bon voy
age. But they experienced a stormy
crossing and were twice delayed by fog
in the iceberg zone 250 miles east of
Cape Race. They were two days late in
reaching Quebec.
The King wore the uniform of an ad
miral when they sailed and the Queen was
attired in pale blue, her favorite color.
The royal baggage included 20 personal
trunks and 20 others containing 50 of
the King'8 uniforms.
Secretary Ickes of the Department of
the Interior, has removed one of the
causes of contention in the Mntrnuska
Valley federal farm colony by instruct
ing the Alaska Rehabilitation Corpora
tion to transfer management of the col
onists' creamery, meat and produce de
partment to their own farmers' coopera
tive association.
Following the President's approval on
April 25 of the National Defense Act of
the Navy, containing authority for the
construction of a naval air base at Ko
diak and enlargement of the one already
initiated at Sitka, the director of the
Bureau of the Budget submitted to the
President a supplemental estimate of the
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