72 Stat. 339 Public Law 85-508
 

    An act to provide for the admission of the State of
                  Alaska into the Union
 

  SEC. 1.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
  United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the
  provisions of this act, and upon issuance of the proclamation required
  by section 8 (c) of this Act, the State of Alaska is hereby declared to
  be a State of the United States of America, is declared admitted into
  the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects
  whatever, and the constitution formed pursuant to the provisions of the
  Act of the Territorial Legislature of Alaska entitled, "An Act to
  provide for the holding of a constitutional convention to prepare
  a constitution for the State of Alaska; to submit the constitution
  to the people for adoption or rejection; to prepare for the
  admission of Alaska as a State; to make an appropriation; and
  setting an effective date", approved March 19, 1955 (Chapter 46,
  Session Laws of Alaska, 1955), and adopted by a vote of the people
  of Alaska in the election held an April 24, 1956, is hereby found to be
  republican in form and in conformity with the Constitution of the
  United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence,
  and is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed.

  SEC. 2.
  The State of Alaska shall consist of all the territory, together with the
  territorial waters appurtenant thereto, now included in the Territory of
  Alaska.

  SEC. 3.
  The constitution of the State of Alaska shall always be republican in
  form and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United
  States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

  SEC. 4.
  As a compact with the United States said State and its people do
  agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to any
  lands or other property not granted or confirmed to the State or its
  political subdivisions by or under the authority of this Act, the right or
  title to which is held by the United States or is sub ject to disposition
  by the United States, and to any lands or other property, (including
  fishing rights), the right or title to which may be held by any Indians,
  Eskimos, or Aleuts (hereinafter called natives) or is held by the United
  States in trust for said natives; that all such lands or other property,
  belonging to the United States or which may belong to said natives,
  shall be and remain under the absolute juris diction and control of the
  United States until disposed of under its authority, except to such
  extent as the Congress has prescribed or may hereafter prescribe, and
  except when held by individual natives in fee without restrictions on
  alienation: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall recognize,
  deny, enlarge, impair, or otherwise affect any claim against the United
  States, and any such claim shall be governed by the laws of the United
  States applicable thereto; and nothing in this Act is intended or shall be
  construed as a finding, interpretation, or construction by the Congress
  that any law applicable thereto authorizes, establishes, recognizes, or
  confirms the validity or invalidity of any such claim, and the
  determination of the applicability or effect of any law to any such claim
  shall be unaffected by anything in this Act: And provided further, That
  no taxes shall be imposed by said State upon any lands or other
  property now owned or hereafter acquired by the United States or
  which, as hereinabove set forth, may belong to said natives, except to
  such extent as the Congress has prescribed or may hereafter
  prescribe, and except when held by individual natives in fee without
  restrictions on alienation.

  SEC. 5.
  The State of Alaska and its political subdivisions, respectively, shall
  have and retain title to all property, real and personal, title to which is
  in the Territory of Alaska or any of the subdivisions. Except as
  provided in section 6 hereof, the United States shall retain title to all
  property, real and personal, to which it has title, including public lands.
 

  SEC. 6.
  (a) For the purposes of furthering the development of and expansion
  of communities, the State of Alaska is hereby granted and shall be
  entitled to select, within twenty-five years after the date of the
  admission of the State of Alaska into the Union, from lands within
  national forests in Alaska which are vacant and unappropriated at the
  time of their selection not to exceed four hundred thousand acres of
  land, and from the other public lands of the United States in Alaska
  which are vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved at the time of their
  selection not to exceed another four hundred thousand acres of land,
  all of which shall be adjacent to established communities or suitable for
  prospective community centers and recreational areas. Such lands
  shall be selected by the State of Alaska with the approval of the
  Secretary of Agriculture as to national forest lands and with the
  approval of the Secretary of the Interior as to other public lands:
  Provided, That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing
  claim, location, or entry under the laws of the United States, whether
  for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or other purpose whatsoever, or
  shall affect the rights of any such owner, claimant, locator, or entryman
  to the full use and enjoyment of the land so occupied.

  (b) The State of Alaska, in addition to any other grants made in this
  section, is hereby granted and shall be entitled to select, within
  twenty-five years after the admission of Alaska into the Union, not to
  exceed one hundred and two million five hundred and fifty thousand
  acres from the public lands of the United States in Alaska which are
  vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved at the time of their selection:
  Provided, That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing
  claim, location, or entry under the laws of the United States, whether
  for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or other purpose whatsoever, or
  shall affect the rights of any such owner, claimant, locator, or entryman
  to the full use and enjoyment of the lands so occupied: And provided
  further, That no selection hereunder shall be made in the area north
  and west of the line described in section 10 without approval of the
  President or his designated representative.

  (c) Block 32, and the structures and improvements thereon, in the city
  of Juneau are granted to the State of Alaska for any or all of the
  following purposes or a combination thereof: A residence for the
  Governor, a State museum, or park and recreational use.

  (d) Block 19, and the structures and improvements thereon, and the
  interests of the United States in blocks C and 7, and the structures and
  improvements thereon, in the city of Juneau, are hereby granted to the
  State of Alaska.
 

  (e) All real and personal property of the United States situated in the Territory of Alaska which is
  specifically used for the sole purpose of conservation and protection of the fisheries and wildlife
  of Alaska, under the provisions of the Alaska game law of July 1, 1943 (57 Stat. 301; 48 U. S.
  C., secs. 192-211), as amended, and under the provisions of the Alaska commercial fisheries
  laws of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 478; 48 U. S. C., secs. 230-239 and 241-242), and June 6,
  1924 (43 Stat. 465; 48 U. S. C., secs. 221-228), as supplemented and amended, shall be
  transferred and conveyed to the State of Alaska by the appropriate Federal agency: Provided,
  That the administration and management of the fish and wildlife resources of Alaska shall be
  retained by the Federal Government under existing laws until the first day of the first calendar
  year following the expiration of ninety legislative days after the Secretary of the Interior certifies to
  the Congress that the Alaska State Legislature has made adequate provision for the
  administration, management, and conservation of said resources in the broad national interest:
  Provided, That such transfer shall not include lands withdrawn or otherwise set apart as refuges
  or reservations for the protection of wildlife nor facilities utilized in connection therewith, or in
  connection with general research activities relating to fisheries or wildlife. Sums of money that are
  available for apportionment or which the Secretary of the Interior shall have apportioned, as of
  the date the State of Alaska shall be deemed to be admitted into the Union, for wildlife
  restoration in the Territory of Alaska, pursuant to section 8 (a) of the Act of September 2, 1937,
  as amended (16 U. S. C., sec. 669g-1), and for fish restoration and management in the Territory
  of Alaska, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of August 9, 1950 (16 U. S. C., sec. 777k), shall
  continue to be available for the period, and under the terms and conditions in effect at the time,
  the apportionments are made. Commencing with the year during which Alaska is admitted into
  the Union, the Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of each fiscal year, shall pay to the State of
  Alaska 70 per centum of the net proceeds, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior,
  derived during such fiscal year from all sales of sealskins or sea-otter skins made in accordance
  with the provisions of the Act of February 26, 1944 (58 Stat. 100; 16 U. S. C., secs.
  631a-631q), as supplemented and amended. In arriving at the net proceeds, there shall be
  deducted from the receipts from all sales all costs to the United States in carrying out the
  provisions of the Act of February 26, 1944, as supplemented and amended, including, but not
  limited to, the costs of handling and dressing the skins, the costs of making the sales, and all
  expenses incurred in the administration of the Pribilof Islands. Nothing in this Act shall be
  construed as affecting the rights of the United States under the provisions of the Act of February
  26, 1944, as supplemented and amended, and the Act of June 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 325), as
  amended (16 U. S. C., sec. 772 et seq.).

  (f) Five per centum of the proceeds of sale of public lands lying within said State which shall be
  sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after
  deducting all the expenses incident to such sales, shall be paid to said State to be used for the
  support of the public schools within said State.

  (g) Except as provided in subsection (a), all lands granted in quantity to and authorized to be
  selected by the State of Alaska by this Act shall be selected in such manner as the laws of the
  State may provide, and in conformity with such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may
  prescribe. All selections shall be made in reasonably compact tracts, taking into account the
  situation and potential uses of the lands involved, and each tract selected shall contain at least five
  thousand seven hundred and sixty acres unless isolated from other tracts open to selection. The
  authority to make selections shall never be alienated or bargained away, in whole or in part, by
  the State. Upon the revocation of any order of withdrawal in Alaska, the order of revocation shall
  provide for a period of not less than ninety days before the date on which it otherwise becomes
  effective, if subsequent to the admission of Alaska into the Union, during which period the State
  of Alaska shall have a preferred right of selection, subject to the requirements of this Act, except
  as against prior existing valid rights or as against equitable claims subject to allowance and
  confirmation. Such preferred right of selection shall have precedence over the preferred right of
  application created by section 4 of the Act of September 27, 1944 (58 Stat. 748; 43 U. S. C.,
  sec. 282), as now or hereafter amended, but not over other preference rights now conferred by
  law. Where any lands desired by the State are unsurveyed at the time of their selection, the
  Secretary of the Interior shall survey the exterior boundaries of the area requested without any
  interior subdivision thereof and shall issue a patent for such selected area in terms of the exterior
  boundary survey; where any lands desired by the State are surveyed at the time of their selection,
  the boundaries of the area requested shall conform to the public land subdivisions established by
  the approval of the survey. All lands duly selected by the State of Alaska pursuant to this Act
  shall be patented to the State by the Secretary of the Interior. Following the selection of lands by
  the State and the tentative approval of such selection by the Secretary of the Interior or his
  designee, but prior to the issuance of final patent, the State is hereby authorized to execute
  conditional leases and to make conditional sales of such selected lands. As used in this
  subsection, the words "equitable claims subject to allowance and confirmation" include, without
  limitation, claims of holders of permits issued by the Department of Agriculture on lands
  eliminated from national forests, whose permits have been terminated only because of such
  elimination and who own valuable improvements on such lands.

  (h) Any lease, permit, license, or contract issued under the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25,
  1920 (41 Stat. 437; 30 U. S. C., sec. 181 and following), as amended, or under the Alaska
  Coal Leasing Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741; 30 U. S. C., sec. 432 and following), as
  amended, shall have the effect of withdrawing the lands subject thereto from selection by the
  State of Alaska under this Act, unless such lease, permit, license, or contract is in effect on the
  date of appproval of this Act, and unless an application to select such lands is filed with the
  Secretary of the Interior within a period of five years after the date of the admission of Alaska
  into the Union. Such selections shall be made only from lands that are otherwise open to selection
  under this Act, and shall include the entire area that is subject to each lease, permit, license, or
  contract involved in the selections. Any patent for lands so selected shall vest in the State of
  Alaska all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any such lease, permit, license, or
  contract that remains outstanding on the effective date of the patent, including the right to all
  rentals, royalties, and other payments accruing after that date under such lease, permit, license, or
  contract, and including any authority that may have been retained by the United States to modify
  the terms and conditions of such lease, permit, license, or contract: Provided, That nothing herein
  contained shall affect the continued validity of any such lease, permit, license, or contract or any
  rights arising thereunder.

  (i) All grants made or confirmed under this Act shall include mineral deposits. The grants of
  mineral lands to the State of Alaska under subsections (a) and (b) of this section are made upon
  the express condition that all sales, grants, deeds, or patents for any of the mineral lands so
  granted shall be subject to and contain reservation to the State of all of the minerals in the lands
  so sold, granted, deeded, or patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove
  the same. Mineral deposits in such lands shall be subject to lease by the State as the State
  legislature may direct: Provided, That any lands or minerals hereafter disposed of contrary to the
  provisions of this section shall be forfeited to the United States by appropriate proceedings
  instituted by the Attorney General for that purpose in the United States District Court for the
  District of Alaska.

  (j) The schools and colleges provided for in this Act shall forever remain under the exclusive
  control of the State, or its governmental subdivisions, and no part of the proceeds arising from the
  sale or disposal of any lands granted herein for educational purposes shall be used for the support
  of any sectarian or denominational school, college, or university.

  (k) Grants previously made to the Territory of Alaska are hereby confirmed and transferred to
  the State of Alaska upon its admission. Effective upon the admission of the State of Alaska into
  the Union, section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214; 48 U. S. C., sec. 353), as
  amended, and the last sentence of section 35 of the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 450; 30
  U. S. C, sec. 191), as amended, are repealed and all lands therein reserved under the provisions
  of section 1 as of the date of this Act shall, upon the admission of said State into the Union, be
  granted to said State for the purposes for which they were reserved; but such repeal shall not
  affect any outstanding lease, permit, license, or contract issued under said section 1, as amended,
  or any rights or powers with respect to such lease, permit, license, or contract, and shall not
  affect the disposition of the proceeds or income derived prior to such repeal from any lands
  reserved under said section 1, as amended, or derived thereafter from any disposition of the
  reserved lands or an interest therein made prior to such repeal.

  (l) The grants provided for in this Act shall be in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal
  improvements made to new States by section 8 of the Act of September 4, 1841 (5 Stat. 455),
  and sections 2378 and 2379 of the Revised Statutes (43 U. S. C., sec. 857), and in lieu of the
  swampland grant made by the Act of September 28, 1850 (9 Stat. 520), and section 2479 of the
  Revised Statutes (43 U. S. C., sec. 982), and in lieu of the grant of thirty thousand acres for each
  Senator and Representative in Congress made by the Act of July 2, 1862, as amended (12 Stat.
  503; 7 U. S. C., secs. 301-308), which grants are hereby declared not to extend to the State of
  Alaska.

  (m) The Submerged Lands Act of 1953 (Public Law 31, Eightythird Congress, first session; 67
  Stat. 29) shall be applicable to the State of Alaska and the said State shall have the same rights
  as do existing States thereunder.

  SEC. 7.
  Upon enactment of this Act, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, not later
  than July 3, 1958, to certify such fact to the Governor of Alaska. Thereupon the Governor, on or
  after July 3, 1958, and not later than August 1, 1958, shall issue his proclamation for the
  elections, as hereinafter provided, for officers of all elective offices and in the manner provided
  for by the constitution of the proposed State of Alaska, but the officers so elected shall in any
  event include two Senators and one Representative in Congress.

  SEC. 8.
  (a) The proclamation of the Governor of Alaska required by section 7 shall provide for holding of
  a primary election and a general election on dates to be fixed by the Governor of Alaska:
  Provided, That the general election shall not be held later than December 1, 1958, and at such
  elections the officers required to be elected as provided in section 7 shall be, and officers for
  other elective offices provided for in the constitution of the proposed State of Alaska may be,
  chosen by the people. Such elections shall be held, and the qualifications of voters thereat shall
  be, as prescribed by the constitution of the proposed State of Alaska for the election of members
  of the proposed State legislature. The returns thereof shall be made and certified in such manner
  as the constitution of the proposed State of Alaska may prescribe. The Governor of Alaska shall
  certify the results of said elections to the President of the United States.

  (b) At an election designated by proclamation of the Governor of Alaska, which may be the
  general election held pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or a Territorial general election, or
  a special election, there shall be submitted to the electors qualified to vote in said election, for
  adoption or rejection, by separate ballot on each, the following propositions: "(1) Shall Alaska
  immediately be admitted into the Union as a State? "(2) The boundaries of the State of Alaska
  shall be as prescribed in the Act of Congress approved _____________________ (date of
  approval of this Act) and all claims of this State to any areas of land or sea outside the
  boundaries so prescribed are hereby irrevocably relinquished to the United States. "(3) All
  provisions of the Act of Congress approved ____________ (date of approval) reserving rights
  or powers to the United States, as well as of this Act those prescribing the terms or conditions of
  the grants of lands or other property therein made to the State of Alaska, are consented to fully
  by said State and its people." In the event each of the foregoing propositions is adopted at said
  election by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the proposed constitution of the
  proposed State of Alaska, ratified by the people at the election held on April 24, 1956, shall be
  deemed amended accordingly. In the event any one of the foregoing propositions is not adopted
  at said election by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the provisions of this Act
  shall thereupon cease to be effective. The Governor of Alaska is hereby authorized and directed
  to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to insure the submission of said
  propositions to the people. The return of the votes cast on said propositions shall be made by the
  election officers directly to the Secretary of Alaska, who shall certify the results of the submission
  to the Governor. The Governor shall certify the results of said submission, as so ascertained, to
  the President of the United States.

  (c) If the President shall find that the propositions set forth in the preceding subsection have been
  duly adopted by the people of Alaska, the President, upon certification of the returns of the
  election of the officers required to be elected as provided in section 7 of this Act, shall thereupon
  issue his proclamation announcing the results of said election as so ascertained. Upon the
  issuance of said proclamation by the President, the State of Alaska shall be deemed admitted into
  the Union as provided in section 1 of this Act. Until the said State is so admitted into the Union,
  all of the officers of said Territory, including the Delegate in Congress from said Territory, shall
  continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices. Upon the issuance of said
  proclamation by the President of the United States and the admission of the State of Alaska into
  the Union, the officers elected at said election, and qualified under the provisions of the
  constitution and laws of said State, shall proceed to exercise all the functions pertaining to their
  offices in or under or by authority of the government of said State, and officers not required to be
  elected at said initial election shall be selected or continued in office as provided by the
  constitution and laws of said State. The Governor of said State shall certify the election of the
  Senators and Representative in the manner required by law, and the said Senators and
  Representative shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and to all the rights and
  privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States.

  (d) Upon admission of the State of Alaska into the Union as herein provided, all of the Territorial
  laws then in force in the Territory of Alaska shall be and continue in full force and effect
  throughout said State except as modified or changed by this Act, or by the constitution of the
  State, or as thereafter modified or changed by the legislature of the State. All of the laws of the
  United States shall have the same force and effect within said State as elsewhere within the
  United States. As used in this paragraph, the term "Territorial laws" includes (in addition to laws
  enacted by the Territorial Legislature of Alaska) all laws or parts thereof enacted by the
  Congress the validity of which is dependent solely upon the authority of the Congress to provide
  for the government of Alaska prior to the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union, and the
  term "laws of the United States" includes all laws or parts thereof enacted by the Congress that
  (1) apply to or within Alaska at the time of the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union,
  (2) are not "Territorial laws" as defined in this paragraph, and (3) are not in conflict with any other
  provisions of this Act.

  SEC. 9.
  The State of Alaska upon its admission into the Union shall be entitled to one Representative until
  the taking effect of the next reapportionment, and such Representative shall be in addition to the
  membership of the House of Representatives as now prescribed by law: Provided, That such
  temporary increase in the membership shall not operate to either increase or decrease the
  permanent membership of the House of Representatives as prescribed in the Act of August 8,
  1911 (37 Stat. 13) nor shall such temporary increase affect the basis of apportionment
  established by the Act of November 15, 1941 (55 Stat. 761; 2 U. S. C., sec. 2a), for the
  Eighty-third Congress and each Congress thereafter.

  SEC. 10.
  (a) The President of the United States is hereby authorized to establish, by Executive order or
  proclamation, one or more special national defense withdrawals within the exterior boundaries of
  Alaska, which withdrawal or withdrawals may thereafter be terminated in whole or in part by the
  President.

  (b) Special national defense withdrawals established under subsection (a) of this section shall be
  confined to those portions of Alaska that are situated to the north or west of the following line:
  Beginning at the point where the Porcupine River crosses the international boundary between
  Alaska and Canada; thence along a line parallel to, and five miles from, the right bank of the main
  channel of the Porcupine River to its confluence with the Yukon River; thence along a line parallel
  to, and five miles from, the right bank of the main channel of the Yukon River to its most
  southerly point of intersection with the meridian of longitude 160 degrees west of Greenwich;
  thence south to the intersection of said meridian with the Kuskokwim River; thence along a line
  parallel to, and five miles from the right bank of the Kuskokwim River to the mouth of said river;
  thence along the shoreline of Kuskokwim Bay to its intersection with the meridian of longitude
  162 degrees 30 minutes west of Greenwich; thence south to the intersection of said meridian with
  the parallel of latitude 57 degrees 30 minutes north; thence east to the intersection of said parallel
  with the meridian of longitude 156 degrees west of Greenwich; thence south to the intersection of
  said meridian with the parallel of latitude 50 degrees north.

  (c) Effective upon the issuance of such Executive order or proclamation, exclusive jurisdiction
  over all special national defense withdrawals established under this section is hereby reserved to
  the United States, which shall have sole legislative, judicial, and executive power within such
  withdrawals, except as provided hereinafter. The exclusive jurisdiction so established shall extend
  to all lands within the exterior boundaries of each such withdrawal, and shall remain in effect with
  respect to any particular tract or parcel of land only so long as such tract or parcel remains within
  the exterior boundaries of such a withdrawal. The laws of the State of Alaska shall not apply to
  areas within any special national defense withdrawal established under this section while such
  areas remain subject to the exclusive jurisdiction hereby authorized: Provided, however, That
  such exclusive jurisdiction shall not prevent the execution of any process, civil or criminal, of the
  State of Alaska, upon any person found within said withdrawals: And provided further, That such
  exclusive jurisdiction shall not prohibit the State of Alaska from enacting and enforcing all laws
  necessary to establish voting districts, and the qualification and procedures for voting in all
  elections.

  (d) During the continuance in effect of any special national defense withdrawal established under
  this section, or until the Congress otherwise provides, such exclusive jurisdiction shall be
  exercised within each such withdrawal in accordance with the following provisions of law: (1) All
  laws enacted by the Congress that are of general application to areas under the exclusive
  jurisdiction of the United States, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
  those provisions of title 18, United States Code, that are applicable within the special maritime
  and territorial jurisdiction of the United States as defined in section 7 of said title, shall apply to all
  areas within such withdrawals. (2) In addition, any areas within the withdrawals that are reserved
  by Act of Congress or by Executive action for a particular military or civilian use of the United
  States shall be subject to all laws enacted by the Congress that have application to lands
  withdrawn for that particular use, and any other areas within the withdrawals shall be subject to
  all laws enacted by the Congress that are of general application to lands withdrawn for defense
  purposes of the United States. (3) To the extent consistent with the laws described in paragraphs
  (1) and (2) of this subsection and with regulations made or other actions taken under their
  authority, all laws in force within such withdrawals immediately prior to the creation thereof by
  Executive order or proclamation shall apply within the withdrawals and, for this purpose, are
  adopted as laws of the United States: Provided, however, That the laws of the State or Territory
  relating to the organization or powers of municipalities or local political subdivisions, and the laws
  or ordinances of such municipalities or political subdivisions shall not be adopted as laws of the
  United States. (4) All functions vested in the United States commissioners by the laws described
  in this subsection shall continue to be performed within the withdrawals by such commissioners.
  (5) All functions vested in any municipal corporation, school district, or other local political
  subdivision by the laws described in this subsection shall continue to be performed within the
  withdrawals by such corporation, district, or other subdivision, and the laws of the State or the
  laws or ordinances of such municipalities or local political subdivision shall remain in full force and
  effect notwithstanding any withdrawal made under this section. (6) All other functions vested in
  the government of Alaska or in any officer or agency thereof, except judicial functions over which
  the United States District Court for the District of Alaska is given jurisdiction by this act or other
  provisions of law, shall be performed within the withdrawals by such civilian individuals or civilian
  agencies and in such manner as the President shall from time to time, by Executive order, direct
  or authorize. (7) The United States District Court for the District of Alaska shall have original
  jurisdiction, without regard to the sum or value of any matter in controversy, over all civil actions
  arising within such withdrawals under the laws made applicable thereto by this subsection, as well
  as over all offenses committed within the withdrawals.

  (e) Nothing contained in subsection (d) of this section shall be construed as limiting the exclusive
  jurisdiction established in the United States by subsection (c) of this section or the authority of the
  Congress to implement such exclusive jurisdiction by appropriate legislation, or as denying to
  persons now or hereafter residing within any portion of the areas described in subsection (b) of
  this section the right to vote at all elections held within the political subdivisions as prescribed by
  the State of Alaska where they respectively reside, or as limiting the jurisdiction conferred on the
  United States District Court for the District of Alaska by any other provision of law, or as
  continuing in effect laws relating to the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska. Nothing contained
  in this section shall be construed as limiting any authority otherwise vested in the Congress or the
  President.

  SEC. 11.
  (a) Nothing in this Act shall affect the establishment, or the right, ownership, and authority of the
  United States in Mount McKinley National Park, as now or hereafter constituted; but exclusive
  jurisdiction, in all cases, shall be exercised by the United States for the national park, as now or
  hereafter constituted; saving, however, to the State of Alaska the right to serve civil or criminal
  process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights
  acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State, but outside of said park; and
  saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and
  property on the lands included in said park; and saving also to the persons residing now or
  hereafter in such area the right to vote at all elections held within the respective political
  subdivisions of their residence in which the park is situated.

  (b) Notwithstanding the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union, authority is reserved in
  the United States, subject to the proviso hereinafter set forth, for the exercise by the Congress of
  the United States of the power of exclusive legislation, as provided by article I, section 8, clause
  17, of the Constitution of the United States, in all cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of
  land as, immediately prior to the admission of said State, are owned by the United States and
  held for military, naval, Air Force, or Coast Guard purposes, including naval petroleum reserve
  numbered 4, whether such lands were acquired by cession and transfer to the United States by
  Russia and set aside by Act of Congress or by Executive order or proclamation of the President
  or the Governor of Alaska for the use of the United States, or were acquired by the United
  States by purchase, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise: Provided, (i) That the State
  of Alaska shall always have the right to serve civil or criminal process within the said tracts or
  parcels of land in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred,
  or crimes committed within the said State but outside of the said tracts or parcels of land; (ii) that
  the reservation of authority in the United States for the exercise by the Congress of the United
  States of the power of exclusive legislation over the lands aforesaid shall not operate to prevent
  such lands from being a part of the State of Alaska, or to prevent the said State from exercising
  over or upon such lands, concurrently with the United States, any jurisdiction whatsoever which it
  would have in the absence of such reservation of authority and which is consistent with the laws
  hereafter enacted by the Congress pursuant to such reservation of authority; and (iii) that such
  power of exclusive legislation shall rest and remain in the United States only so long as the
  particular tract or parcel of land involved is owned by the United States and used for military,
  naval, Air Force, or Coast Guard purposes. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to
  lands within such special national defense withdrawal or withdrawals as may be established
  pursuant to section 10 of this Act until such lands cease to be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction
  reserved to the United States by that section.

  SEC. 12.
  Effective upon the admission of Alaska into the Union
  (a) The analysis of chapter 5 of title 28, United States Code, immediately preceding section 81 of
  such title, is amended by inserting immediately after and underneath item 81 of such analysis, a
  new item to be designated as item 81A and to read as follows: "81A Alaska";

  (b) Title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately after section 81 thereof a
  new section, to be designated as section 81A, and to read as follows: "(section) 81A. Alaska
  "Alaska constitutes one judicial district. "Court shall be held at Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau,
  and Nome.";

  (c) Section 133 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting in the table of districts
  and judges in such section immediately above the item: "Arizona * * * 2", a new item as follows:
  "Alaska * * * 1";

  (d) The first paragraph of section 373 of title 28, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is
  further amended by striking out the words: "the District Court for the Territory of Alaska,":
  Provided, That the amendment made by this subsection shall not affect the rights of any judge
  who may have retired before it takes effect;

  (e) The words "the District Court for the Territory of Alaska," are stricken out wherever they
  appear in sections 333, 460, 610, 753, 1252, 1291, 1292, and 1346 of title 28, United States
  Code;

  (f) The first paragraph of section 1252 of title 28, United States Code, is further amended by
  striking out the word "Alaska," from the clause relating to courts of record;

  (g) Subsection (2) of section 1294 of title 28, United States Code, is repealed and the later
  subsections of such section are renumbered accordingly;

  (h) Subsection (a) of section 2410 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out the
  words: "including the District Court for the Territory of Alaska,";

  (i) Section 3241 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking out the words: "District
  Court for the Territory of Alaska, the";

  (j) Subsection (e) of section 3401 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking out the
  words: "for Alaska or";

  (k) Section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is further amended by
  striking out from the first paragraph of such section the words: "the Territory of Alaska,";

  (l) Section 3772 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is further amended by
  striking out from the first paragraph of such section the words: "the Territory of Alaska," ;

  (m) Section 2072 of title 28, United States Code, as heretofore amended, is further amended by
  striking out from the first paragraph of such section the words: "and of the District Court for the
  Territory of Alaska";

  (n) Subsection (q) of section 376 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out the
  words: "the District Court for the Territory of Alaska,": Provided, That the amendment made by
  this subsection shall not affect the rights under such section 376 of any present or former judge of
  the District Court for the Territory of Alaska or his survivors;

  (o) The last paragraph of section 1963 of title 28, United States Code, is repealed;

  (p) Section 2201 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out the words: "and the
  District Court for the Territory of Alaska"; and

  (q) Section 4 of the Act of July 28, 1950 (64 Stat. 380; 5 U. S. C., sec. 341b) is amended by
  striking out the word: "Alaska,".

  SEC. 13.
  No writ, action, indictment, cause, or proceeding pending in the District Court for the Territory of
  Alaska on the date when said Territory shall become a State, and no case pending in an appellate
  court upon appeal from the District Court for the Territory of Alaska at the time said Territory
  shall become a State, shall abate by the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union, but the
  same shall be transferred and proceeded with as hereinafter provided. All civil causes of action
  and all criminal offenses which shall have arisen or been committed prior to the admission of said
  State, but as to which no suit, action, or prosecution shall be pending at the date of such
  admission, shall be subject to prosecution in the appropriate State courts or in the United States
  District Court for the District of Alaska in like manner, to the same extent, and with like right of
  appellate review, as if said State had been created and said courts had been established prior to
  the accrual of said causes of action or the commission of such offenses; and such of said criminal
  offenses as shall have been committed against the laws of the Territory shall be tried and punished
  by the appropriate courts of said State, and such as shall have been committed against the laws
  of the United States shall be tried and punished in the United States District Court for the District
  of Alaska.

  SEC. 14.
  All appeals taken from the District Court for the Territory of Alaska to the Supreme Court of the
  United States or the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, previous to the
  admission of Alaska as a State, shall be prosecuted to final determination as though this act had
  not been passed. All cases in which final judgment has been rendered in such district court, and in
  which appeals might be had except for the admission of such State, may still be sued out, taken,
  and prosecuted to the Supreme Court of the United States or the United States Court of Appeals
  for the Ninth Circuit under the provisions of then existing law, and there held and determined in
  like manner; and in either case, the Supreme Court of the United States, or the United States
  Court of Appeals, in the event of reversal, shall remand the said cause to either the State supreme
  court or other final appellate court of said State, or the United States district court for said
  district, as the case may require: Provided, That the time allowed by existing law for appeals from
  the district court for said Territory shall not be enlarged thereby.

  SEC. 15.
  All causes pending or determined in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska at the time of
  the admission of Alaska as a State which are of such nature as to be within the jurisdiction of a
  district court of the United States shall be transferred to the United States District Court for the
  District of Alaska for final disposition and enforcement in the same manner as is now provided by
  law with reference to the judgments and decrees in existing United States district courts. All other
  causes pending or determined in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska at the time of the
  admission of Alaska as a State shall be transferred to the appropriate State court of Alaska. All
  final judgments and decrees rendered upon such transferred cases in the United States District
  Court for the District of Alaska may be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States or
  by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the same manner as is now
  provided by law with reference to the judgments and decrees in existing United States district
  courts.

  SEC. 16.
  Jurisdiction of all cases pending or determined in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska not
  transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska shall devolve upon and
  be exercised by the courts of original jurisdiction created by said State, which shall be deemed to
  be the successor of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska with respect to cases not so
  transferred and, as such, shall take and retain custody of all records, dockets, journals, and files
  of such court pertaining to such cases. The files and papers in all cases so transferred to the
  United States district court, together with a transcript of all book entries to complete the record in
  such particular cases so transferred, shall be in like manner transferred to said district court.

  SEC. 17.
  All cases pending in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska at the time said Territory
  becomes a State not transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska shall
  be proceeded with and determined by the courts created by said State with the right to prosecute
  appeals to the appellate courts created by said State, and also with the same right to prosecute
  appeals or writs of certiorari from the final determination in said causes made by the court of last
  resort created by such State to the Supreme Court of the United States, as now provided by law
  for appeals and writs of certiorari from the court of last resort of a State to the Supreme Court of
  the United States.

  SEC. 18.
  The provisions of the preceding sections with respect to the termination of the Jurisdiction of the
  District Court for the Territory of Alaska, the continuation of suits, the succession of courts, and
  the satisfaction of rights of litigants in suits before such courts, shall not be effective until three
  years after the effective date of this Act, unless the President, by Executive order, shall sooner
  proclaim that the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, established in
  accordance with the provisions of this Act, is prepared to assume the functions imposed upon it.
  During such period of three years or until such Executive order is issued, the United States
  District Court for the Territory of Alaska shall continue to function as heretofore. The tenure of
  the judges, the United States attorneys, marshals, and other officers of the United States District
  Court for the Territory of Alaska shall terminate at such time as that court shall cease to function
  as provided in this section.

  SEC. 19.
  The first paragraph of section 2 of the Federal Reserve Act (38 Stat. 251) is amended by striking
  out the last sentence thereof and inserting in lieu of such sentence the following: "When the State
  of Alaska is hereafter admitted to the Union the Federal Reserve districts shall be readjusted by
  the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in such manner as to include such State.
  Every national bank in any State shall, upon commencing business or within ninety days after
  admission into the Union of the State in which it is located, become a member bank of the
  Federal Reserve System by subscribing and paying for stock in the Federal Reserve bank of its
  district in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall thereupon be an insured bank
  under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and failure to do so shall subject such bank to the
  penalty provided by the sixth paragraph of this section."

  SEC. 20.
  Section 2 of the Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 742; 48 U. S. C., sec. 433), is hereby
  repealed.

  SEC. 21.
  Nothing contained in this Act shall operate to confer United States nationality, nor to terminate
  nationality heretofore lawfully acquired, nor restore nationality heretofore lost under any law of
  the United States or under any treaty to which the United States may have been a party.

  SEC. 22.
  Section 101 (a) (36) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 170, 8 U. S. C., sec. 1101
  (a) (36)) is amended by deleting the word "Alaska,".

  SEC. 23.
  The first sentence of section 212 (d) (7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 188, 8
  U. S. C., sec. 1182 (d) (7)) is amended by deleting the word "Alaska,".

  SEC. 24.
  Nothing contained in this Act shall be held to repeal, amend, or modify the provisions of section
  304 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 237, 8 U. S. C., sec. 1404).

  SEC. 25.
  The first sentence of section 310 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 239, 8 U.
  S. C., sec. 1421 (a)) is amended by deleting the words "District Courts of the United States for
  the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska" and substituting therefor the words "District Court of the
  United States for the Territory of Hawaii".

  SEC. 26.
  Section 344 (d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. (66 Stat. 265, 8 U. S. C., sec. 1455 (d))
  is amended by deleting the words "in Alaska and".

  SEC. 27.
  (a) The third proviso in section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (46 U. S. C.,
  sec. 883), is further amended by striking out the word "excluding" and inserting in lieu thereof the
  word "including".

  (b) Nothing contained in this or any other Act shall be construed as depriving the Federal
  Maritime Board of the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore conferred on it over common carriers
  engaged in transportation by water between any port in the State of Alaska and other ports in the
  United States, its Territories or possessions, or as conferring upon the Interstate Commerce
  Commission jurisdiction over transportation by water between any such ports.

  SEC. 28.
  (a) The last sentence of section 9 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the leasing of coal
  lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes", approved October 20, 1914 (48 U. S.
  C. 439), is hereby amended to read as follows: "All net profits from operation of Government
  mines, and all bonuses, royalties, and rentals under leases as herein provided and all other
  payments received under this Act shall be distributed as follows as soon as practicable after
  December 31 and June 30 of each year: (1) 90 per centum thereof shall be paid by the Secretary
  of the Treasury to the State of Alaska for disposition by the legislature thereof; and (2) 10 per
  centum shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous
  receipts."

  (b) Section 35 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale,
  gas, and sodium on the public domain", approved February 25, 1920, as amended (30 U. S. C.
  191), is hereby amended by inserting immediately before the colon preceding the first proviso
  thereof the following: ", and of those from Alaska 52 1/2 per centum thereof shall be paid to the
  State of Alaska for disposition by the legislature thereof".

  SEC. 29.
  If any provision of this Act, or any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or individual
  word, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the
  remainder of the Act and of the application of any such provision, section, subsection, sentence,
  clause, phrase, or individual word to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected
  thereby.

  SEC. 30.
  All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act, whether passed by the
  legislature of said Territory or by Congress, are hereby repealed.

  Approved July 7, 1958.