of the sale to supervise the same and may fix his compensation and require him to give sufficient bond. Superintendent's authority.-Under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, the superintendent of the sale will be, and he is hereby authorized to make all appraisements of lots and at any time to reappraise any lot which in his judgment is not appraised at the proper amount or to fix a minimum price for any lot below which it may not be sold, and he may reject any and all bids for any lot and at any time suspend, adjourn, or postpone the sale of any lot or lots to such time and place as he may deem proper. Manner.-Bids may be made either in person or by agent, but not by mail nor at any time or place other than the time and place when the lots are offered for sale hereunder, and any person may purchase any number of lots for which he is the highest bidder. Bidders will not be required to show any qualifications as to age, citizenship, or otherwise. If any successful bidder fails to make the payment and file the application and other papers at the time and in the manner hereinafter required, the lot awarded to him may be reoffered for sale, and his right thereto will be forfeited. Nothing herein will prevent the transfer by deed of the interests secured by the purchase and the partial payment for the lot, but the assignee will acquire no greater right than that of the original purchaser, and the final entry and patent will issue to the original purchaser when all payments are made. No lot will be sold for less than $25, and no bid exceeding that amount will be accepted unless made in multiples of $5; the minimum of $25 on each lot sold for less than $75 must be paid in cash within the time hereinafter specified, and if the price bid is $75 or more one-third of the bid price must be paid in cash within said specified time; the remainder of the purchase price will be divided into five equal annual installments, payable in one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from the date of the register's certificate of sale, and no final certificate of entry will be issued until the expiration of said five years and until payment has been made in full for the lot, and no patent will be issued thereon during said period. The successful bidder will be given by the superintendent of sale a memorandum certificate for identification purposes, showing name and address of bidder, lot, and the amount of bid, and the bidder must file it with the superintendent of sale before the close of the next succeeding sale day, or the next business day if bid is accepted on last sale day, together with his application to purchase the lot properly filled, signed, and acknowedged before any officer authorized to administer oaths and using an official seal, and accompanied by the cash payment required by these regulations, all on the forms attached hereto respectively, and hereby approved and made a part of these regulations. The superintendent of sale will issue a memorandum receipt to the bidder for the money paid, describing the lot purchased, and he will as soon thereafter as possible deposit with the receiver of the proper local land office the money received, and file with its officers the papers deposited with him by said bidder, together with his certificate as to successful bidder. Thereupon, if no objection appears, the register will issue his certificate of sale in duplicate and transmit the duplicate copy to said bidder. If it be deemed advisable, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may direct the receiver of public moneys of the proper district to attend sales herein provided for, in which event the cash payment required shall be paid to said receiver who will issue his official receipt there for in lieu of the memorandum receipt of the superintendent of sale. Conditions and forfeitures.-If any lot or lots sold or any part thereof shall be used for the purpose of manufacturing, selling, or otherwise disposing of intoxicating liquors as a beverage or for gambling, prostitution, or any unlawful purpose before final payment is made and during a period of five years from the date of register's certificate of sale, or if the purchaser shall fail during said period to comply with any and all regulations and requirements which the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may make or authorize to be made for the improvement of streets, sidewalks, and alleys, promotion of sanitation and fire protection in the town site, all rights of the applicant under his purchase of said lot or lots shall terminate and a forfeiture thereof and of the payments theretofore made thereon may be declared by the Secretary of the Interior, and his finding of fact thereon shall be final. If any person who has made partial payment on the lot purchased by him fails to make any succeeding payment required under these regulations at the date such payments become due, the money deposited by such person for such lot will be forfeited and the lot, after forfeiture is declared, will be subject to disposition as provided herein. Lots remaining unsold at the close of sale, or thereafter declared forfeited for nonpayment of any part of the purchase price under the terms of the sale, will be subject to future disposition at public sale at such time and place as may thereafter be provided. Warning.-All persons are warned against forming any combination or agreement which will prevent any lot from selling advantageousy, or which will in any way hinder or embarrass the sale, and all persons so offending will be prosecuted under section 2373 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: Every person who, before or at the time of the public sale of any of the lands of the United States, bargains, contracts, or agrees, or attempts to bargain, contract, or agree, with any other person, that the last-named person shall not bid upon or purchase the land so offered for sale, or any parcel thereof, or who by intimidation or unfair management hinders or prevents, or attempts to hinder or prevent, any person from bidding upon or purchasing any tract of and so offered for sale, shall be fined not more than $1000 or imprisonment not more than two years, or both.3 3 In addition to the above, a number of Executive Orders have been issued from time to time relating to medical treatment of employees, administration of a system of workmens' compensation, withdrawal of land for townsite purposes, etc. Statements showing appropriations, receipts, expenditures and other financial data for a series of years constitute the most effective single means of exhibiting the growth and development of a service. Due to the fact that Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriations for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to represent data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in others financial data are almost wholly lacking. Careful study has in all cases been made of such data as are available, and the effort has been made to present the results in such a form as will exhibit the financial operations of the service in the most effective way that circumstances permit. Appropriations to the Alaskan Engineering Commission are made under the Act of March 12, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 305), authorizing the construction of the Alaskan Railroad and under the provisions of the subsequent amendments (41 Stat. L., 293). In the following table they are listed as of the year they are made. In all cases appropriations are available until expended. The figures showing costs apply equally to the disbursements of the Commission, with the exception of $329,426.68, the cost of equipment transferred from Panama, and $422,879.18, depreciation costs, a total of $772,305.86, which amounts arise from book charges only not requiring disbursements of funds, *Data from Digest of Appropriations. a Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, March 4, 1921. Expenditures United States Government Alaska Railroad; Showing Total Cost to October 31, 1920, and Estimated Total Cost on Completion * Data from House Hearings 1920, and Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1922, page 1926. a Includes $1,157,839.49, cost of purchase of Alaska Northern Railroad, and $457,532.12, cost of purchase and rehabilitation of the Tanana Valley Railroad. b Includes cost of equipment transferred from Panama amounting to $329,426.68. c Decrease. APPENDIX 6 BIBLIOGRAHY 1 EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the services, their work and problems. Nor do they include books or articles dealing merely with technical features other than administrative of the work of the services. In a few cases explanatory notes have been appended where it was thought they would aid in making known the character or value of the publication to which they relate. After the completion of the series the bibliographies may be assembled and separately published as a bibliography of the Administrative Branch of the National Government. ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION U. S. Alaska railroad commission. Publications relating to transportation and railway routes in Alaska. (In its Railway routes in Alaska. Washington, 1913. p. 167-72.) ["The Commission . . . made use of a large number of reports, articles, and maps relating to the resources, commerce, climate and population of Alaska, as well as those dealing more specifically with the different railway routes. The above list presents the most important of these."] 1 Compiled by M. Alice Matthews. |