The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-09

! snail continue in force for four wears, unle.
n sooner revoked by Congress. Ii shall be hi
uuty 10 Keep and preserve the acts and law
passed by the General Assembly, and publ
records OF the district, and of the proceedings O
e 'he Governor in his executive department, an
transmit authentic copies of such acts and pro
ceedings every six months to the Secretary o
Congress.
There shall also be appointed a court, to con
sist of three Judges, any two of whom shall form
court, who shall have Il common law iurisdic
uoh, whose commissions shall continue in fore,
during good behavior.
And, TO secure the rights Of personal Iibsrt,
and property TO the Inhabitants and others. mn
chasers Ia the said districts, it is hereby ordain
cu thht The inha5itans of such districts shall al
ways be entitled to the benefits of the act Of
habeds corpus and of the trial by ury
The governor and Judges, or minority Of
them, shall adopt and publish in the districts
such laws of the original States, criminal and
cWii, as may be necessary and best suited to the
circumstances of the district aud report them
10 congress from time TO time, which shall pre-
vaii In said district until the organization of the
GENERAL Assembly, unless disapprovcd of by
congress; but afterwards the General Assem-
ply shall have authority 10 alter them as they
shall think fit; provided, however, that said As
sehibiy shall have no power to create perpetui-
ties.
Ihe Governor for the time being shall be
lcommander- n-chief of the militia, and appoint
and commission all officers in the same below
the rank Of general officers; all officers of that
RANK shall be appointed and commissioned by
Congress.
Previous 70 the organization of the General
Assembly, the Governor shall appoint such ma
gistrates and other civil officers in each county
or township US he shall find necessary for the
preservation Of peace aud good order in the
same After the General Assembly shall be Or
ganized, the powers and duties of magistrates
anu other civil officers shall be regulated and de-
lined by the said Assembly; but all magistrates
and other civil officers, not herein otherwise di-
rected, shall, during the continuance Of this
temporary Government, be appointed by the
| Governor.
! The Governor shall, as soon Us may be- pro-
coed TO lay out the district into counties and
townships, subject, however, to such alterations
AS may thereafter be made by the Legislature
So soon as there shall be five thousand free male
inhabitants, OF full age, within the said district
| Upon giving due proof thereof TO the Governor,
| they shall receive authority, with time and
place, TO elect representatives from tn sir coun-
ties or townships as aforesaid, TO represent them
! in General Assembly: provided, that for every
hive hundred free male inhabitants there shall be
one representative, and so on progressively with
| the number of free male inhabitants shall the
| right of representation increase until the num-
| Der of representatiy amount TO twenty five;
after which the number and proportion of
representatives. shall be regulated by the Legisla-
ture: provided. that person shall be eligible
| or qualified 10 act as a representative unless he
shall be a citizen of one of the United States, or
have resided within such district three wears
and shall likewise hold, in his own right, in fee
simple, two hundred acres OF land within the
same: provided, also, freehold or life estate in
nifty acres of land in the said district, if Il cii-
| zen of any of the United States, and two years
residence, If foreigner, in addition. shall be
| necessary 10 qualify man eector for the
said representative.
The representatives thus elected shall serve
for the term of two years, and, in case of the
death of a representative, or removal from office,
| the Governor shall issue a writ 10 the county OF
| township for which he was a member 10 elect
other in his stead, 10 serve for the residue of
| the time.
The General Assembly shall consist Of the
Governor, Legislative Council. to consist Of
FIVE members, 10 be appointed nv the United
States in Congress assembled, TO continue in Of
hce during pleasure, any three of whom to be
| a quorum, and "A House OF Representatives, who
shall have legislative authority complete in all
cases for the good government OF said di-'''o''
| prov idod, that at Of the said General As
sembly shall be construed to affect any lands the
| property of the United States: and provided
further, that the lands of the non resident pro-
orieiors shall in no instance be- taxed higher
than the lands Of residents.
| All bills shall originate inditferently either in
the Council or House of Representatives, and
having been passed by majority in both Houses,
shall be referred TO the Governor for his assent,
after obtaining which they shall be complete
and valid; but no bill or Legislative act whatever
| shall be- valid of any force without his assent
| The Governor shall have power 10 convene,
| proroyue, and dissolve the General Assembly
when in his opinion it. shall be eXpcdent.
| The said inhabitants settlers shall be sub
ject 10 pay part Of the Federal debts, contract
ed or to be contracted, and TO beara proportional
part Of the burdens Of the Government, to be
appor,ioued on them by Congress, according to
| the same common rule and measure by which
| apportiopments thereof shall be made the
other States.
| The Governor, Judges, Legislative Council,
Secretary, and such other officers Congress
shall at any time think proper TO appoin, in such
| district. shall take oath affirmation of
| fidelity; the Governor before the President Of
Congress, and all other officers before the Gov
ernor prescribed on the 9th day Of January,
| 1873 10 the Secretary at War. mnfdfis muta nds.
| Whcnsoever any of the said States shall have
Of free inhabitants as many as arc equal in num-
Der 10 the one thirteenth part of the citizens of
| the original States, TO De computed from the last
enumeration, such State shall be admitted by its
delegates into the Congress Of the United States:
on an equal footing with the said original States;
provided the consent OF 80 many States in Con-
| gress 10 first obtained rs may at that time be
competent TO such admission.
| Resoired, That the resolutions of the 23d OF
| April, 1874, and the same are hereby annuled
aud repealed.
Such was the ordinance for the government OF
the Western Territory when il was ordered to a
third reading on the 10th of May, 1851. II
had then made further progress in the de-
yeopment of those great principles for which il
has since been distinguished as zone Of the
greatest monuments Of civil jurisprudence."-
II made no provision for the equal distribution
Of estates. Ii said nothing Of extending the
Fundamental principles of civil and religious
libcrty-nothing Of the rights of conscience
knowledge, or education. 1t did not contain the
articles of compact, which were to remain I'M
altered forever, unless by common consent
We now come to the time when these great
principles were first brought forward.
On the 9th of July, 1881, the ordinance wal
again referred. The committee now consisted
of Mr.. Carringtoh, of Virginia, Mr.. Dane. o.
Massachusetts, Mr.. r. H. Lee, Of Virginia, Mr.
Kean, of South Carolina, and Mr.. Smith, o.
New York. Mr.. Darlington, Mr.. Lee, and Mr.
Keau, the new members, were majority.
This committee did not sincerely revise the or