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| SEe. 10. Awfhe IL further e,pac.ed, That there
shall be appointed an attorney for said Territory
who shall continue in office for four years, unless
sooner removed by the President, and who shall
receive the same fees and salary as the attorney
of the United States for the present Territory
Of Oregon. There shall also be a marshal for
the Territory appointed, who shall hold his Of
fee for four years, unless sooner removed by
the President and Yho shall execute all pro-
cesses issuing from the said courts, when exer-
cising their jurisdiction circuit aud district
courts OF the United states; he shall perform
the duties, be subject to the same regulation and
penalties, aud be entitled to the same fees MS the
marshal of the district court OF the United
States for the present Territory OF Oregon,
and shalt, in addition, be paid two hundred dol
lars annually rs a compensation for extra ser
vices satt t
SEC. III. And be IL further enacted, That the
governor, secretary, chief justice, aud associate
justices, attorney, and marshal, shall be nomi-
mated, and, by and with the advice aud consent
of the Senate, appointed by the President of the
United States The governor and secretary to be
appointed as aforesaid shall, before they 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 au-
thorizcd to administer oaths and affirmations 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 Constitution Of the United States, and faith
fully to discharge the duties of their respective
Offices which said oaths, when so taken, shall
be certified bi 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 proceedings; and the chief
Justice and associate justices, and all other civil
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 NAV
be duly commissioned and qualified, which said
oath or affirmation shall be certified and trans
mitted by the person taking the same, to the see
retary to be by him recorded as aforesaid; and
afterwards, the like oath or affirmation shall be
taken, certified, and recorded, in such manner and
form as may be prescribed by law. The governor
shall receive an annual salary Of fifteen hun
dred dollars as governor, and one thousand dol
lars as superintendent of Indian affairs Tne
chief justice aud associate justices shall each re-
ceive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dol
lars The secretary shall receive an annual sal
ary Of eighteen hundred dollars The said salaries
shall paid yearly, mt the Treasury of the
United States. The members Of the Legislative
assembly shall be entitled to receive three dol
lars each per day during their attendeuce at the
session, thereof and three dollars each for every
twenty miles travel in goicg TO and returning
from the said sessions, estimated according to
the nearest usually-travelled route. There shall
be appropriated aRullly the sum OF one thou
sand dollars, to be expended by the governor
to defray the contingent expenses Of the terrific
ry; there shall also be appropriated annually n
sufficient sum to be expended by the secretary
of the territory, and upon an estimate to be
made by the Secretary of the Treasury Of the
United States, to defray the expenses of the lc-
gislative assembly, tae printing of the laws, and
other incidental expenses; and the secretary of
the territory shall annually account to the Sec.
retary of the Treasury of the United States for
the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall have
been expended.
Sec. -. And be IL further enacted, That the
Legislative assembly of the territory of New
Mexico shall hold its first session mt such time
and place in said Territory as the governor there
of shall appoint and direct; and at first said SEES
sion, or as soon thereafter as they shall deem ex-
pedient, the governor and Legislative assembly
shall proceed to locate and establish the seat Of
government for said territory at such place as
they may deem eligible: which place, however,
| shall thereafter be subject to be changed by the
said governor and Legislative assembly.
SEC. l3 And be IL further enacted, That a
delegate to the House of Representatives of the
United States, to serve during each Congress of
the United States, may be elected by the voters
qualified to elect members of the Legislative as
sembly, who shall be entitled to the same rights
| and privileges as are exercised and enjoyed by
the delegates from the several other Territories
of tho I1uitoI Sf,foS M o,;d -
resentatyes The first election shall be held at
such time and places, and be conducted in such
manner as the governor shall appoint and di.
rect; and at all subsequent elections, the times
places, and manner ofholding the elections shall
be prescribed by law. The person having the
greatest number of votes shall be declared by the
governor to be duly elected, and certificate
thereof Shall be given accordingly: Prorided
That such delegate shall receive no higher sum
for mileage than is allowed by law to the Dele
gate from Oregon.
SEC. IA. And be Il further enacied. That when
the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed
under the direction of the Government Of the
United States, preparatory to bringing the same
into market, sections numbered sixteen and
thirty-six in each township in said Territory
shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for
the purpose OF being applied to schools in said
Territory, and in the said States and Territories
hereafter to be erected out of the same.
| SEC. l5 And be Il further enacted, That tem-
porarily, and 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 Ter
rltory to the several districts, and also appoint
the times and places for holding courts in the
several counties or subdivisions 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 as
sign the judges, and alter the times and places
of holding the courts, as TO them shall seem
proper and convenient.
SEC l6. And be il further enacted, That the
Constitution, and all the laws of the United
States, which are not locally napplcablc, shall
have the same force ard effect within the said
Territory of New Mexico as elsewhere within
the United States.
SEC IT. And be IL further enacted That the