Volume 69 · 431
Public Law 84–201
To revise the boundary between the second and fourth judicial divisions of Alaska.
Approved August 1, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To revise the boundary between the second and fourth judicial divisions of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the third paragraph of section 4, chapter 1, title I, of the Act entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 322; 48 U. S. C., 1952 edition, sec. 101), as amended by section 1 of the Act of August 23, 1954 (68 Stat. 772), is further amended to read as follows:
“Division numbered 2 shall consist of all territory and islands lying north and west of a line beginning at a point in the Beaufort Sea latitude 70 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 147 degrees 30 minutes west; thence in a southwesterly direction to triangulation station ‘Delta’ latitude 70 degrees 12 minutes 50 seconds north, longitude 147 degrees 43 minutes 18 seconds west on the north shore of the mainland about 5½ miles south southeast of the north tip of Foggy Island; thence due west about 5 miles to the east edge of the delta of the Sagavanirktok River, at approximate latitude 70 degrees 12 minutes 50 seconds north, longitude 147 degrees 56 minutes west; thence southwest-erly along the southern and southeastern edge of the delta of the Sagavanirktok River to a point on the east bank of the river at approximate latitude 69 degrees 57 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 39 minutes west; thence in a meandering line in a generally southerly direction along the eastern main bank of the flood plain of the Sagavanirktok River to the junction with the Ivishak River, approximate latitude 69 degrees 32 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 29 minutes west; thence due west approximately 2 miles to the divide between the waters of the Sagavanirktok and the Tooliok Rivers approximate latitude 69 degrees 32 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes west; thence in a generally southwesterly direction following the height of land dividing the waters of the Tooliok, Kuparuk, and Itkillik Rivers from those of the Sagavanirktok River to a point on the Brooks Range Divide between the headwaters of the Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon River on the south at approximate latitude 68 degrees 9 minutes north, longitude 149 degrees 51 minutes west; thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, Kotzebue Sound, and the east end of Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude, thence along said meridian to latitude 61 degrees 30 minutes; thence southwesterly to latitude 61 degrees, longitude 165 degrees 30 minutes; thence south along the meridian of 165 degrees 30 minutes to latitude 58 degrees; thence west to the international boundary.”
Approved August 1, 1955.