Volume 52 · 608
Public Law 75–312
To amend section 5 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616).
Approved June 1, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 5 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last three
Alaska, schools.
sentences of section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved January 27,
1905 (33 Stat. 616), are hereby amended to read as follows:
“The Governor shall assign and set apart to each school district
Funds for construction, etc.
established and organized under the provisions of this section a sum, not less than $300 nor more than $1,000, in proportion to the numberof pupils in the district, for the construction and equipment of a
Payment to territorial treasurer.
schoolhouse, which sum shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the treasurer of the Territory of Alaska upon the order and voucher of the Governor out of that portion of the said Alaska fund set apart for the establishment and maintenance of public
Wages of teachers.
schools. The residue of said portion of said fund, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall by the Governor be apportioned among the several school districts established under the provisions of this section in amounts sufficient for each district to pay the wages of a teacher or teachers, together with the expense of fuel and light, supplies,
Payment.
and janitor service for nine months’ school in each year. And the amounts so apportioned to each school district shall be paid to the treasurer of the Territory of Alaska by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the order and voucher of the Governor out of the said portion of said fund.”
Approved, June 1, 1938.