48 U.S.C. § 23

[Water Pollution Control Act; amendment.]

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(a)(1) Subsection (h) of section 5 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, relating to Federal share for purposes of program operation grants, is amended by striking out ‘continental United States’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘United States’, by striking out ‘(including Alaska)’, and by striking out, in clause (B) of paragraph (1), ‘for Hawaii shall be 50 per centum, and’.“(2) Such subsection is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs:

“ ‘(3) As used in this subsection, the term “United States” means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.

“ ‘(4) Promulgations made before satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce for a full year on the per capita income of Alaska shall prescribe a Federal share for Alaska of 50 per centum and, for purposes of such promulgations, Alaska shall not be included as part of the “United States.” Promulgations made thereafter but before per capita income data for Alaska for a full three-year period are available for the Department of Commerce shall be based on satisfactory data available therefrom for Alaska for such one full year or when such data are available for a two-year period, for such two years.’

“(b) Subsection (d) of section 11 of such Act, relating to definition of ‘State’, is amended by striking out ‘Hawaii,’.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 32 cases, 1914–1985 · leading case: United Bldg. & Constr. Trades Council of Camden Cty. v. Mayor & Council of Camden, 465 U.S. 208 (1984).
United Bldg. & Constr. Trades Council of Camden Cty. v. Mayor & Council of Camden, 465 U.S. 208 (1984). · cites it 2× “512 , 48 U. S. C. § 23 . And § 9 extends the legislative power of the Territory to `all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, .”
Yosh Sakamoto v. Duty Free Shoppers, Ltd., 764 F.2d 1285 (9th Cir. 1985). “512 (codified at 48 U.S.C.A. § 23 (1952)). The distinction between incorporated territories which are thought of as future states, see Granville-Smith v.”
Mullaney v. Anderson, 342 U.S. 415 (1952). “512 , 48 U. S. C. § 23 . And § 9 extends the legislative power of the Territory to “all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, .”
Anderson v. Mullaney, Comm'r of Taxation of Territory of Alaska, 191 F.2d 123 (9th Cir. 1951). · cites it 2× “Appellants have argued that § 3 of the Organic Act for Alaska which provides that the Constitution of the United States *134 “sliall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States”, 48 U.S.C.A. § 23 , operated to make the Territorial…”
Alton v. Alton, 207 F.2d 667 (3rd Cir. 1953). “Alaska and Hawaii, 48 U.S.C. §§ 23 , 495), it does contain a Bill of Rights which includes a due process and equal protection clause.”
Alaska S.S. Co. v. Mullaney, Comm'n of Taxation, 180 F.2d 805 (9th Cir. 1950). “16 It therefore appears that whether we were to hold that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to Alaska in the same way, and for the same reasons that the Fifth Amendment does, or whether the limitations stated in this amendment have been made applicable to territorial legislation…”
Tynan v. United States, 297 F. 177 (9th Cir. 1924). “Section 3 of the Organic Act of the territory, supra ( 48 U.S.C.A. §§ 23 , 24, 80), provides that all laws of the United States, theretofore passed, establishing the executive and judicial departments in Alaska, shall continue in full force and effect, until amended or repealed…”
Alaska Pac. Fisheries v. Territory of Alaska, 236 F. 52 (9th Cir. 1916). “We find also that by section 3 of the Organic Act ( 48 U.S.C.A. §§ 23 , 24, 80), the power was curtailed with respect to the then existing game and fish laws of the United States applicable to Alaska by express declaration that the general authority conferred was not extended to…”
Abbate v. United States, 270 F. 735 (9th Cir. 1921). “48 U.S.C.A. § 23 . A similar statute, enacted by Congress February 21, 1871, respecting the District of Columbia, provided as follows : “The Constitution and all laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said…”
Forno v. Coyle, 75 F.2d 692 (9th Cir. 1935). “It must be remembered, of course, that 48 US CA § 23 provides in part: “All the laws of the United States passed prior to August 24, 1912, -establishing the executive and judicial .”
James K. Tallman v. Stewart L. Udall, Sec'y of the Interior, 324 F.2d 411 (D.C. Cir. 1963). “512 , 48 U.S.C. § 23 , 43 C.F.R. 51.1; otherwise, the order would not have included the two acts specifically mentioned.”
Grant v. Pilgrim, 95 F.2d 562 (9th Cir. 1938). “They assign as error the court’s overruling of such objections. The Seventh Amendment to the Federal Constitution guarantees the right to jury trials in all common-law actions involving more than $20, and this provision is effective in the Territory of Alaska, as it is in other…”
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