Excerpt from Memorandum History of the Department of the Interior Under the act of March (17 Stat., it was provided that the Secretary of the Interior should thereafter exercise all the powers and perform all the duties relating to Territories that were, prior to March 1, 1873, by law or by custom exercised or performed by the Secretary of State. Under this enactment all the organized Territories created or existing since 187 3 have been under the general supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, and that 0 icer has also had supervision of affairs pertaining to Alaska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.