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Public Law 58–41
To aid the Western Alaska Construction Company.
Approved January 18, 1905
Statutory text
An Act
To aid the Western Alaska Construction Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be lawful for the Western Alaska Construction Company to hereafter operate its railroad
Alaska.
Western Alaska Construction Company may operate without payment of license fee.
Time limit.
Vol. 31, p. 831.
in the district of Alaska for a period of five years after the passage of this Act without the payment of the license fee of one hundred dollars per mile per annum on each mile operated, as provided in section twenty-nine, chapter one, of the Act entitled “An Act for making further provisions for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred: Provided
Proviso.
Condition of exemption.
however, That this exemption from said license fees is upon the condition that said company shall build at least ten miles of railroad each year; but if more than ten miles be built in any one year it shall be credited to the work of the succeeding year.
Approved, January 18, 1905.