96 ALASKA. 



commissioner provided for by this act to reside at Sitka shall be ex officio register 

 of said land office, and the clerk provided for by this act shall be ex officio receiver 

 of public moneys and the marshal provided for by this act shall be ex officio 

 surveyor-general of said district and the laws of the United States relating to 

 mining claims, and the rights incident thereto, shall, from and after the passage 

 of this act, be in full force and effect in said district, under the administration 

 thereof herein provided for, subject to such regulations as may be made by the 

 Secretary of the Interior, approved by the President: Provided, That the 

 Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession 

 of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them, but the 

 terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for 

 future legislation by Congress: And provided further , That parties who have 

 located mines or mineral privileges therein under the laws of the United States 

 applicable to the public domain, or who have occupied and improved or exer- 

 cised acts of ownership over such claims, shall not be disturbed therein, but shall 

 be allowed to perfect their title to such claims by payment as aforesaid: And 

 provided also, That the land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres at any 

 station now occupied as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in said 

 section, with the improvements thereon erected by or for such societies, shall be 

 continued in the occupancy of the several religious societies to which said mis- 

 sionary stations respectively belong until action by Congress. But nothing 

 contained in this act shall be construed to put in force in said district the general 

 land laws of the United States. 



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Approved May 17, 1884. (23 Stat., 24.) 



AN ACT making appropriations for sundrj' ci\nl expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 

 ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, ***** 



No person who shall, after the passage of this act, enter upon any of the 

 public lands with a view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land 

 laws shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty 

 acres in the aggregate, under all of said laws, but this limitation shall not operate 

 to curtail the right of any person who has heretofore made entry or settlement 

 on the public lands, or whose occupation, entry, or settlement is validated by 

 this act: Provided, That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any 

 of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this 



