The North-Carolina standard., 1849-03-21


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 jurisdiction cr
cuit and district Of the United States he shall
perform the duties, be subject to the same regulation
and penalties, and be entitled to the fees, as
were provided by law for the marshal of the district
court of the United States for the present Eate Ter
ritory of Wisconsin; and shall, in addition, be paid
two hundred dollars annually as compensation for
extra services. 4og
Sec IL. and be it, further enacted, That the gov
erner secretary, chief Justice and associate usces
attorney, and marshal, shall be nominated, and, by
and with the consent of the Senate appointed BY the
secretary be appointed as aforesaid shall before
they as such, respectively take oath or affirmation,
before the district judge, or some Justice of the peace
in the limits of said Territory, duly authorized to ad-
minister oaths and afirnations by the laws now in
force therein before the chief justice or some as
sociate justice of the Supreme Court OF the United
States, to support the constitution OF the Umted
Staes and faithfully discharge the duties of their
respective offces which said oaths, when taken,
shall be certified by the person by whom the same
shall have been taken, and such certificates shall be
received and recorded by the said secretary among
the executive preceedings and the chief justice and
associate iustices and all other civil officers in said
Territory before they act as such, shall take like
oath or afFmation before the said governor or sec
reary, or Judge justice of the peace OF the
Territory, who may be duly Commissioned and quail
and transmitted by the person taking the same to the
secretary, be by him recorded aforesaid; and,
afterwards, the like oath affirmation shall be taken,
certified, and recorded, in such manner and form as
may be prescribed by law. The governor shall re-
ceiye an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars
governors and fifteen hundred dollars superintendent
of Indian affairs. The chief justice and associate
justices shall each receive an annual salary OF two
thousand dollars. The secretary shall receive an
annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. The said
salaries shall be paid quarteryeary, from the dates
of the respective appointments at the treasury OF the
United States; but such payment shall be made
until said officers shall have entered upon their re-
spective appointments. ..,....-
The members of the legislative assembly shall be
entitled to receive three dollars each per day during
their attendance at the session thereof and three dol
lars each for every twenty miles travel In going TO
and returning from said sessions, estimated accord
ing to the nearest usually travelled route. And
chief clerk, one assistant clerk, sergeantat-arms
and doorkeepeF, may be chosen for each house; and
the chief clerk shall receive five dollars per day. and
the said other officers three dollars per day, during
the session of the Legislative assembly bat other
officers shall be paid by the United States Provided,
That there shall be but session Of the Legislature
annually, unless, on an extraordinary occasion, the
governor shall think proper 10 call the Legislature to-
gether. There shall be appropriated, annually, the
of fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended by the
governor to defray the contingent expenses of the
Territory, including the salary of clerk Of the ex-
ecutve department and there shall also be appropr-
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the secretary of the Territory, and upon estimate
be made by the Secretaty of the Treasury Of the
United States, to defay the expenses of the egis.
ative assembly, the printing of the laws, and other
incidental expenses and the governor and secretary
Of the Territory shall, In the disbursement of all mo-
neys intrusted them, be governed solely by the in
structons Of the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, and shall sem-annuay account to the
said Secretary for the in which the aforesaid
sum moneys shall have been expended and no
.Yn In he naid mt 0f cd
,y Congress, shall be made by said legislative as
embly for objects not specially authorized by the
cts of Congress making the appropriations, nor be-
'ond the sums thus appropriated for such objects.
SEC. IL. find be further enacted, That the rivers
md streams of water in said Territory of Oregon in
which salmon are found, OF to which they resort,
shall not be obstructed by dams otherwise, unless
uch dams obstruction constructed to al
ow salmon to pass freely up and down such rivers
md streams.
SEC. Is. find be IL further enacted, That the sum
f ten thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriat
d, to be expended under the direction Of the Presi
ent of the United States, in payment for the services
nd expenses of such persons as have been engaged
" the provisional government of Oregon in convey
NC communications TO and from the United States,
nd the purchase of presents for such of the Indian
ribes as the peace and quietude of the country re-
ures.
SEC. H. find be II further enacted, That the inhab
tants of said Territory shall be entitled to enjoy all
nd singular the rights, privileges, and advantages
ranted and secured the people Of the territory of
he United States northwest of the river Ohio, by the
rcles of compact contained in the ordinance for the
government of said terrtory on the thirteenth day OF
uly, seventeen hundred and eighty seven; and shall
e subject to all the conditions, and restrictions,
nd prohibitions in said articles of compact impos-
upon the people of said territory and the exist
ng laws now in force in the Territory Of Oregon,
nder the authority of the provisional government
established by the people thereof, shall continue
o be valid and operative therein, so far as the
be not incompatible with the constitution Of the
United States, and the precples and provisinos of
his act subject, nevertheless to be altered, modified
repealed, by the legislative assembly Of the said
erritory of Oregon but all laws heretofore passed
said Territory making grants of land, or otherwise
fected or incumbering the title to lands shall be,
nd are hereby declared to be, null and void and
he laws of the United States hereby extended
yer, and declared be in force in, said Territory
far as the same or any provision thereof, may be
pplicable.
SEC. Is. find be hfi,rtAer enacted That the legis-
ative assembly of the Territory of Oregon shall hold
IS first session at such time and place in said Terri
Dry as the governor thereof shall appoint and di-
ect and at said first session, thereafter
8 they shall deem expedent, the legislative assem-
ly shall proceed to locate and establish the seat of
government for said Territory at such place as they
nay deem eligible; which place, however, shall
hereafter be subject to be changed by said legisla
i've assembly. And the sum Of five thousand dol
ars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
pproprated, is hereby appropriated and granted to
aid Territory Of Oregon, to be there applied by the
overnor, to the erection of suitable buildings the
eat of government.
SEC. l6. find be 1t further enacted That delegate
the House of Representatives of the United States
D serve for the term OF two years, who shall be