Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-11-10

Territory, who snail continue IN once LOT Tour
wears and until his successor shall be appoint
cd and qualified, unless sooner removed by the
President, and who shall receive the same
fees and salary as were provided by law for
the attorney of the United States for the late
Territory of Wisconsin. There shall also be
Il marshal for the Territory appointed, who
shall hold his office for four years. and until
his successor shall be appointed and qualified,
unless sooner removed by the President, and
who shall execute all processes issuing from
the said courts, when exercising their jurisdic
ton as circuit and district courts of the United
States. he shall perform the duties, be subject
10 the same regulation and penalties. and be
| entitled to the same fees. as were provided by
law for the marshal of the district court of the
United States for the present [Iate] Territory
of Wisconsin and shall, in addition, be paid
two hundred dollars annually as compensa-
ton for extra services.
SEC. H. And be it further enacted, That
the governor, secretary, chief justice and as
sociate justices, attorney, and marshal, shall
be nominated, and, by and with the advice and
consent Of the Senate, appointed by the PreSl-
dent of the United States. The governor and
secretary to be appointed as aforesaid shall,
before thew act as such, respectively take an
oath or affirmation, before the district judge,
or some justice of the peace in the limits OF
said Territory, duly authorized 10 administer
oaths and affrmations by the laws now in
force therein, or before the chief justice or
some associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, TO support the constu-
ton of the United States, and faithfully to dis
charge the duties of their respective offices
which said oaths, when so taken, shall be GER
tilted by the person by whom the same shall
have been taken. and such certificates shall be
received and recorded by the said secretary a.
mong the executive proceedings and the chief
justice and associate Justices, and all other CT
vii officers in said Territory, before they act
as such, shall take like oath or affirmation,
before the said governor or secretary. or some
Judge or justice OF the peace of the Territory.
who may be Only commissioned and qualified :
which said oath or affirmation shall be certified
and transmitted by the person taking the same,
to the secretary, TO be by him recorded as a
foresaid and, afterwards, the like oath or at
firmation shall be taken, certified. and record
ed, in such manner and form as may be pre-
scribed BY law. The governor shall receive
an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as
governor, and fifteen bundled dollars as SUI
perntendent of Indian affairs. The chief JUS
tice and associate justices shall each receive
an annual salary of two thousand doi!ars.-
The secretary shall receive an annual salary
of fifteen hundred dollars. The SAID salaries
shall be paid quarter yearly, from the dates OF
the respective appointments, al the treasury OF
the United States; hat no such payment shall
he made until said officers shall have entered
upon the duties of their respective appoint
ments. The members of the legislative as
sembly shall be entitled to receive three dol
lars each per day during their attendance at
the session thereof, and three dollars each sfor
every twenty miles travel in going to and re-
, turning from said sessions, estimated accord
+ ing 10 the nearest usually travelled route And
n chief clerk, one assistant clerk, sergeant
! alarms, and door keeper. may he chosen tor
each house and tie chief clerk shall receive
five dollars per day, and the said other officers
three dollars per day, during the session OF the
legislative assembly; but no other officers
shall be paid by the United States: Prorided
That there shall be but one session OF the le-
. gI<lature annually, unless, on an eXtraordIna,
ry occasion, the governor shall think proper
to call the Legislature together. There shall
be appropriated, annually, the sum OF IF
teen hundred dollars, to be expended by the
governor to defray the contingent expenses
of the Territory, including the salary of a
> clerk of the executive department; and there
e shall also be appropriated, annually, a sutti
Gent sum, to be expended by the secretary Of
the Territory, and upon an estimate to DC
made by the Secretary of the Treasury OF the
: United States, to defray the expenses OF the
legislative assembly, the printing of the laws
. and other inciC entail expenses; and the COVER,
nor and secretary of the Territory shall, IN
) the disbursement of all moneys intrusted tc
them, be governed solely by the instructions
OF the Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, and shall semi annually account to the
. said Secretary for the manner in which the
aforesaid [sum] moneys shall have been ex.
, pended and no expenditure, TO be paid out OF
money appropriated by Congress, shall be
made by said Legislative assembly for objects
not specially authorized by the acts of Con
gress making the appropriations, nor beyond
the sums thus appropriated for such objects.
: Sec. IL Ind be it further enacted, Thai
r the rivers and streams of water in said Terri
tory of Oregon in which salmon are found, OF
e 10 which they resort, shall not be obstructet
e by dams or otherwise, unless such dams OF
e distractions are SO constructed as TO allow
$ salmon to pass freel y up and down such riv.
| ers and streams.
> SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, Tha
the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and is
\ hereby appropriated, 10 be expended under the
:, direction of the President of the United States
! in payment for the services and expenses o
e such persons as have been engaged by the
> provisional government of Oregon in convey
, ing CO nmunications TO and from the United
States, and the purchase of presents for such
e of the Indian tribes as the peace and uetud'
E of the country requires.
. SEC. IA. Ind be it further enacted, Tha
. the inhabitants of said Territory shall be emit
y tied to enjoy all and singular the rights, priv
u leges, and advantages granted and secured tc
= the people of the territory of the United States
= = northwest of the river Ohio, by the articles o
u compact contained in the ordinance for th'
= government of said territory, on the thirteenth
. day OF July, seventeen hundred and eighty
seven and shall be subject to all the cnndi
g tons, and restrictions, and prohibitions in sal.
\ articles of compact imposed upon the peopi'
y of said territory; and the existing laws nov
! in force in the Territory of Oregon, under tn
:" authority of the provisional government es
y tablished by the people thereof, shall contin
~ ne to be valid and operative therein, so far a
II The same be not compatible with the con att
- tuition of the United States, AMI the principle
and provisions of this act subject, neverthp
- less, TO be altered. modified. or repealed, b.