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Territorial Government. 



In 1884, a district government was created by Congress tor 

 Alaska, with a governor and a district court, which sits alternately 

 at Sitka and Wrangel. The laws are those of Oregon. ' There 

 is a land office at Sitka. Commissioner Hermann, ot the United 

 States General Land Office, on July 31, 1897, stated that the 

 mineral-land laws of the United States, the town-site laws (pro- 

 viding tor the incorporation ot town sites and acquirement ot title 

 thereto from the Government to the trustee ), and the law providing 

 for trade and manufactures, giving each qualified person 160 acres 

 of land in a square and compact form, are applicable in /\laska. 

 The coal-land regulations and the public-land laws do not extend 

 to Alaska, as the Territory is expressly excluded by the laws 

 themselves from their operation. 



The following is a list ot United States officers in Alaska, fur- 

 nished by the Department of the Interior, August 7, 1897: 



John G. Brady, governor, Sitka. 



Albert D. Elliot, clerk of the court, and ex officio secretary of 

 Alaska, Sitka. 



William L. Distin, surveyor-general, Sitka. 



John W. Dudley, register of the land office, Sitka. 



Ruswell Shelly, receiver of public moneys, Sitka. 



Caldwell W. Tuttle, commissioner at Sitka. 



Kenneth M. Jackson, commissioner at Wrangel. 



Lycurgus R. Woodward, commissioner at Unalaska. 



John Y. Ostrander, commissioner at Juneau City. 



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