The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-06-07

shall annually account TO the Secretary of
the Treasury of the United States for the
manner in which the aforesaid sum shall
have been expended.
| SEC. lo. find be 1T further enacted, That
the inhabitants of the said Territory shall
be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and
immunities heretofore granted and secured
to the Territory of Wisconsin and to its
inhabitants and the laws in force in the
Territory Of Wisconsin at the date of the
admission of the State of Wisconsin shall
continue to be valid and operative therein,
so far as the same be not Incompatible with
the provisions of this act, subject, neverthe-
less, to be altered, modified, or repealed, by
the Governor and legislative assembly of
the said Territory Of Minnesota; and the
laws of the United States are hereby extend
ed over and declared to be in force in said
Territory, so far as the same, or any pro-
vision thereof, may be applicable.
Sec. Is. find be 1T further enacted, That
the legislative assembly of the Territory Of
Minnesota shall hold its first session at Saint
Paul: and at said first session the Governor
and legislative assembly shall locate and
establish a temporary seat of government
for said Territory at such place they may
deem eligible and shall, at such time as
they shall see proper, prescribe by law the
manner of locating the permanent seat of
government of said Territory by vote Of
the people. And the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars. out of any money in thereas-
ury not otherwise appropriated, Is hereby
appropriated and granted 10 said Territory
of Minnesota, to be applied, by the Cover
nor and legislative assembly, to the erection
of suitable public buildings at the seat OF
government.
SEC. IA. find be IL further enacted, That
a delegate to the House of Representatives
/ of the United States, to serve for the term
of two years, may be elected by the voters
qualified to elect members of the legislative
assembly, who shall be entitled to the same
rights and privileges as are exercised and
enjoyed by the delegates from the several
other Territories Of the United States to the
said House of Representatives. The first
election shall be held at such times and
places, and be conducted in such manner, as
the Governor shall appoint and direct; and
at all subsequent elections, the times, places,
and manner of holding the elections shall
be prescribed by law. The person having
the greatest number of votes shall be de-
cIared by the Governor to he duly elected,
and certificate thereof shall be given ac-
cordlngly.
SEC. is. find be 1t further enacted, That
all suits, process, ami proceedings, civil and
criminal at law and in chancery, and all
indictments and informations, which shall
be pending and undetermined in the Courts
Of the Territory of Wisconsin, within the
limits of said Territory of Minnesota, when
this act shall take effect, shall he transferred
to be beard, tried, prosecuted, and deter
mined in the District Courts hereby estab-
lished, which may include the counties or
districts where any such proceedings may
he pending. All bonds, recognisances, and
obligations of every kind whatsoever; valid
under the existing laws within the limits of
said Territory, shall be valid under this act;
aud all crimes and mlsdemeanOrs against the
laws in force within said limits may be pros
ecuted, tried, and punished in the courts
established by this act and all penalties,
forfeiures, actions, and causes Of action,
may be recovered under this act, the same
as they would have been under the laws in
force within the limits composing SAID Ter
rtory at the time this act shall go into OPP
GRAFTON.
Sec. Is. Ind be 1T further enacted, That
all justices of the peace, constables, sheritts,
and all other judicial and ministerial officers,
who shall be in office within the Limits of
said Territory when this act shall take effect,
shall and they are hereby, authorized and re-
quired to continue to exercise andpertOrm the
duties of their respective offices as officers
of the Territory of Minnesota, temporarily,
and until they, or others, shall be duly ap-
pointed and qualified to ill their places IN
the manner herein directed, or until their
offices shall be abolished. q.
| SEC. II. find be 1T further enacted, That
the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the
same is hereby, appropriated, out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro-
prIated, to be expended by and under the
direction of the said Governor of the Ter
ritOry of Minnesota in the purchase of a
J library, to be kept at the seat of govern
ment, for the use of the Governor, legisla
tive assembly, Judges Of the supreme court,
secretary, marshal, and attorney of said
Territory, and such other persons and under
such regulations as shall be prescribed by
! law.
SEC. 10. find be 1T further enacted, That
when the lands in the said Territory shall
be surveyed under the direction of the Gov
eminent of the United States, preparatory
to bringing the same into market, sections
numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each
township in said Territory shall he, and the
same are hereby, reserved for the purpose
of being applied to schools in said Terrific
ry, and in the States and Territories here
after to be erected out of the same.
| Sec 10. find be al further enacted, That
temporarily, aud until otherwise provided
by law, the Governor of said Territory may
define the judicial districts of said Territory,
and assign the judges who may be appointed
for said Territory to the several districts,
aid also appoint the times and places for
holding courts in the several counties or sub
divisions in each Of said judicial districts, by
proclamation to be issued by him; but the
legislative, assembly, at their first or any
subsequent session, may organize, alter, or
modify such judicial districts, and assign the
Judges, and alter the times and places OF
holding the courts, as to them shall seem
proper and convenient.
SIC. 90. find be 1t further enacted. That