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1336 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Ill. Ch. 429. 1899. General, prepare and promulgate a bill of fees and rates of mileage and allowances for jurors, witnesses, interpreters, and other officers or persons designated to serve process, whose fees, mileage, or other allowances are not specially provided for by law, which said rules, regulations, rates of mileage, allowances, and fees so Hxed, after they have been approved by the Attorney-General and promulgated by his authority, shall have the force and effect of law and the same may be modified

 or changed with the approval of the Attorney€General: Provided, That

in no case shall the fee , mileage, and allowances prescribed be in excess of double the fees, mileage, and allowances allowed for like services in the State of Oregon.

 •*°°¤¤°>"` Sec. 458. That wherever the words “district attorney " occur in this

' Act they shall be construed to mean the United States attorney for said District, or any division thereof. °,f§{ °' Sec. 459. That whenever the business of the courts in the District of ' » Alaska shall make it necessary, in the opinion of the Attorney·General, ior the clerk or marshal to furnish greater security than the official bond now required by law, a bond in a sum not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars shall be given when required by the Attorney-General, who shall fix the amount thereof. u_}`d*;°¤ ‘*¤¤*¤°·¤=¤** Sec. 460, That any person or persons, corporation or company pros- ` ecutin g or attempting to prosecute any of the foHowing lines of business within the District of Alaska shall nrst apply for and obtain license so to do froma district court or a subdivision thereof in said District and pay for said license for the respective lines of business and trade as follows, to wit: Abstract offices, fifty dollars per annum. Banks, two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Boarding houses having accommodations for ten or more guests, twenty-five dollars per annum. Brokers (money, bill, note, and stock),one hundred dollars per annum. _ Billiard rooms, twenty-five dollars per table per annum. Bowling alleys, twenty-five dollars per annum. Breweries, five hundred dollars per annum. Bottling works, two hundre dollars per annum. Cigar manufacturers, tweut -five dollars per annum. Cigar store or stand, twenty-il ve dollars per annum. Drug stores, fifty dollars per annum. Public docks, wharves, and warehouses, one hundred dollars per annum. Electric light plants, furnishing light or power for sale, three hundred dollars per annum. Fisheries: Salmon canneries, four cents per case; salmon salteries, ten cents per barrel; lish-oil works, ten cents per barrel; fertilizer works, twenty cents per ton. Freight and passenger transportation lines, propelled by mechanical power on inland waters, one dollar per ton per annum on net tonnage, custom·house measurement, of each vessel. . Gas plants, for heat or light, for sale, three hundred dollars per annum. Hotels, fifty dollars per annum. Halls, public, ten dollars per annum. Insurance agents and brokers, twenty-five dollars per annum. Jewelers, twenty-five dollars per annum. Mines: Quartz mills, three dollars per stamp per year. _ Mercantile establishments: Doing a busines of one hundred thousand dollars per annum, nve hundred dollars per annum; doing a business of seventyfive thousand dollars per annum, three hundred and . seventyfive dollars per annum; doing a business of fifty thousand dollars per annum, two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; doing a business of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum; doing a business of ten thousand dollars per annum, fifty dollars per annum; doing a business of under ten