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 rirrrrirrii concnnss. sms. 1. cus. 13-14. 1897. 215 country imposing partial discriminating tonnage duties upon American vessels, or partial discriminating import duties upon American merchandise, may enjoy in our ports the identical privileges which the same class of American vessels and merchandise may enjoy in said foreign country." · Approved, July 24, 1897. CHAP. 14.-An Act To amend section eight of the Act entitled “An Act providing July 24, 1897. a_civil government for Alaska," approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred an · eighty-tour, to create the office of surveyor-general fo1•’Alaska, and for other purposes. Civilgovernment of. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States caf America in Congress assembled, That section eight of an Act m$:;hgav¤l· 23· r- 26- entitl “An Act providing a civil government for Alaska" be, and the ' same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "the Commissioner provided for by this Act to reside in 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.” · Sec. 2. That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with v*1{'1:*¤l*:1_•:¤¤f mr the advice and consent of the Senate, a surveyorgeneral for the District °y g° ’ of Alaska, embracing one surveying district. $0. 3. That the surveyor-general of Alaska shall receive a salary at Sawy- the rate of two thousand dollars per annum. Sec. 4. The President is authorized and empowered, in his discretion, Qjjtjjig: :*1 Tglrrgw to divide said Territory into two land districts and to designate the him. °” '° boundaries thereof, and he is also authorized and empowered to appoint, Awemd mms. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register of said additional land office and receiver of public moneys therefor, and in case of the creation of such additional land district the surveyongeneral shall serve in both districts. Approved, July 24, 1897.