private taxpayer and citizen shall
receive any part of the sum re
covered by him except the costs
taxed, unless said officer so author
ized has failed for a period of
sixty days after he has been re
quested, in writing, to do so, start
such proceedings and to prosecute
the same with reasonable diligence.
Sec. 11. The attorney general
of Alaska shall have authority to
prosecute offenses denounced by
the legislature of the Territory of
Alaska, but this shall hot relieve the
United States Attorneys in the Ter
ritory from doing so: Provided,
however, That the attorney general
of the Territory shall not exercise
his authority under this Act ex
cept at the request of the gover
nor of the Territory.
Literacy Test
See. 12. The Legislature of the
Territory of Alaska is hereby auth
orized and empowered to enact a
uniform educational test for elect
ors.
Sec. 13 No person elected
to the Legislature of the
Territory of Alaska shall hold any
other office or employment under
the Federal or Territorial Govern
ment, nor shall he draw or receive
any money, salary, or compensation
from any department of the U
nited States Government or the Ter
ritorial government of Alaska for
any service rendered to either of
said governments during the period
of time for which such person is
elected to membership of the Alas
ka Territorial Legislature, except
his salary and traveling expenses
as provided by law.
The Saxman Camp of the A.
N. .B elected the following officers
for 1926: Joe Johnson, Chairman;
Charles Brown, Vice-Chairman;
George McKay, Secretary; Charles
T. Johnson, Treasurer; Joe Denny,
Sergeant at Arms. The Saxman
Camp reports that every man with
the exception of two now are
members of the Brotherhood in
good standing. This town has also
a very active Sisterhood.
The following officers were elec •
ted by the Kasaan Camp of the
Alaska Native Sisterhood at a
recent meeting: Mrs. William Ir
vine, President; Mrs. S. G. Davis
Vice-President; Mrs. Joe Jones,
Treasurer; Miss Mable Irvine,
Secretary; and Misa Pauline JoneJb
Sergeant at Arms*
ML TO CONGRESS FOR
JUSTICE TO THE NJITIVE
PEOPLE OF m
r EASTERN AUSKt |
Ketchikan, Alaska,
September 17, 1925,
Dear Sir:— We appeal to you
as a member of the American
Congress to use your influence
and your voting power to correct
the unbearable conditions that have
been imposed on the native people
of Southeastern Alaska by the de
partment of Commerce of the United
States in its administration of the
Alaskan fisheries.
From time immemorial our people
have subsisted by hunting, fishing
and trapping. Many of the islands
upon which our fathers hunted and
trapped have now been pre-empted
by white men for raising foxes.
The intensive hunting and trapping
by the Whites has almost destroyed
our fur supply. The sea otter upon
which we formerly relied for food
and clothing is now almost ex
tinct, while the restrictions placed
upon the killing of fur seal makes
our revenue from that source almost
nothing.
Our only remaining source of
revenue is salmon fishing and by
the ruthless, unfair and discrimin
atory policy of the Department of
Commerce we are now shut out
of that business and our wives and
children must suffer thereby.
We are a fishing people; our
food from generation to generation
has been the salmon that once
swarmed in our streams. Our right
to catch salmon in the many bays
and rivers of Alaska was first ex
ercised by our ancestors. Today
our fishing rights are ignored and
we have been ordered out of the
bays where our forefathers fished
and from favorable places for fish
ing with the form of fishing gear
to which we are accustomed while
the large cannery interests are
permitted to fish unrestrictedly in
the places that are favorable to
the use of their mammoth fishing
machines. The salmon that are
caught by these large machines
are migrating to our fishing grounds
but we are forbidden to take them
by the Secretary of Commerce.
Thfi Secretary of Comwarca
-• . ; . mi r «
says that this unjust policy is in
the interests of conservation. Wo
claim that this policy imposes the
entire burden of conservation upon
us and the few independent white
fishermen who use our - method of
fishing by nets and seines. The
people who are least able to bear
the burden of conservation are
compelled to bear it all.
....Our race occupies all the coastal
territory of North America from
Bering Sea to the Straits of Juan
de Fuca. When Russia was ceded
Alaska to the United States an
imaginary .dividing line ..was es
tablished on the North shore of
Dixons Entrance, and those of our
Wrangell Steam
Laundry
M. O. JOHNSON, Prop.
First Class Work
Telephone 28
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