Pub. L. 84-830, tit. III, sec. 301

Sec. 301. (a) Such of the following Acts or parts thereof as the Governor by proclamation shall declare to be superseded by a law or laws hereafter enacted by the Territorial legislature are repealed as of the effective date (specified in such proclamation) of such superseding law or laws, or as of the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later: (1) Section 8 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616, 619; 48 U. S. C. 47); (2) The first sentence of section 7 of the Act of February 6, 1909 (35 Stat. 600, 601), as amended by section 2 of the Act of October 14, 1942 (56 Stat. 782; 48 U. S. C. 46); (3) The Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat 852; see 48 U. S. C. 46b); (4) The Act of April 24, 1926 (44 Stat. 322), as amended by sections 4 and 5 of the Act of October 14, 1942 (56 Stat. 782, 783; 48 U. S. C. 50, 50a); and (5) Sections 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the Act of October 14, 1942 (56 Stat. 782, 783–785; 46 U. S. C. 46c, 47a, 47b, 47c, 48, 48a). (b) (1) The Acts and parts of Acts listed in subsection (a), except the Act of June 25, 1910, are, pending their repeal as provided in subsection (a), amended (A) by striking out the words “Secretary”, “United States”, “Congress”, and “Department of the Interior” wherever these words appear, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Governor of Alaska or his designee”, “Territory of Alaska”, “the Legislature of Alaska”, and “Territory of Alaska”, respectively; (B) by inserting immediately before the word “Treasury”, wherever it appears, the word “Territorial”; (C) by striking out the word “Federal”; and (D) by amending section 1 (a) of the Act of October 14, 1942, to read as follows: “‘Governor’ means the Governor of Alaska or his designee;”: Provided, That the words “United States” where 70 Stat. 713they appear as a part of the term “United States Veterans’ Bureau facility” in section 6 of the Act of October 14, 1942, shall not be struck. (2) The amendment, by this subsection, of any Act or part of Act specified in subsection (a) shall take effect on the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act and shall cease to be effective upon the repeal of the Act or part of Act which it amends, as provided in subsection (a). (c) Effective upon the date of enactment of this Act, section 3 of the Act approved August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 512; see 48 U. S. C. 24), entitled “An Act to create a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other purposes”, is amended by inserting the following at the end of the first sentence of such section, immediately before the period: “or to prevent the legislature from altering, amending, modifying, or repealing section 8 (relating to commitment of insane persons) of the aforesaid Act approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five”. (d) (1) Any vested rights or liabilities existing, and any commitment proceeding commenced, under any Act or part thereof prior to the effective date of the amendment or repeal of such Act or part thereof by this section shall not be affected by such amendment or repeal. (2) With respect to the money or property of any patient who has died or eloped prior to the enactment of this Act, or who will have died or eloped prior to the two hundred and tenth day following such enactment, the functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of April 24, 1926, as amended (48 U. S. C. 50, 50a), and the requirement of certification of the claim to Congress if established more than five years after such death or elopement, shall remain in effect notwithstanding the amendment or repeal of such Act by this section.