Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-09-19

Is such, respectively, take an oath or affirmation
before the district Judge, or some justice Of the
peace in the limits of said Territory, duly autho-
rixed 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 Con
stitution Of the United States, and faithfully to
discharge the duties of their respective offices ;
which said oaths, when so taken, shall be GER
titled 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 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 may
be duly commissioned and qualified, which said
oath or affirmation shall be certified and trans
mitted, by the person taking the same, to the
secretary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid /;
and afterwards, the like oath or affirmation shall
be taken, certified, and recorded, in such man.
ner and form as may be prescribed by law. The
governor shall receive an annual salary OF fifteen
hundred dollars as governor. and one thousand
dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs. The
chief justice and associate justices shall each
receive an annual salary OF eighteen hundred
salary of eighteen hundred dollars. Tie said
salaries shall be paid quarteryeary, at the trea-
sury of the Umed States. The members of the
legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive
three dollars each per day during their attend
ance at the sessions thereof, and three dollars
each for every twenty miles travel in going to
and returning from the said sessions, estimated
according 10 the nearest usually travelled route.
There shall be appropriated annually the sum Of
one thousand dollars to be expended by the gov
ernor, to defray the contingent expenses of the
Territory there shall also be appropriated an
nualy sufficient sum, to be expended by the
Secretary of the Territory, and upon an estimate
10 be made by the Secretary of The Treasury III
the United States, TO detray the expenses of the
Legislative Assembly, the printing of The la VS.,
ana other incidental expenses and the Secreta-
ry of the Territory shall! annually account TO the
Secretary Of the Treasury vi the United States
for the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall
have been expended.
SEC. -. .4nd be II further enacted, That the
legislative Assembly OF the Territory of New
Mexico shall hold lis first session al such time
and place in said Territory as the Governor
thereof shall ,pp int and direct ard at said first
session, or as soon thereafter as tn shall deem
expedient. the Governor and Legislative Assem-
bly, shsll proceed 10 locate and establish the seat
OF government for sal Territory ut such place
as they may decm eligible; which place, how
ever, shall thereafter be subject 10 be changed
by The SAID Governor and Legislative Assembly.
SIC. IA. find be II further enacted, That del
egaie to the House of Representatives Of the
United States. TO serve dunng each Congress Of
the United Staics may be elected by the voters
qualified To elect members of the Legislative As
sembly, who shll be entled TO The same rights
aud privileges as are exercised and enjoyed by
the delegates from The several other Territories
Ut the United S aies to the said House of Rep
resentatIves- The first election shsll be held a,
such time and Places and be conducted 10 such
manner as the Governor shall appoint and dlrecr;
and at all sub>equen, elections, the times places
and manner of holding the elections, shall be
prescribed by law. The person having the
greatest runber of votes shall be declared by
the Governor to be duly elected, and certificate
thereof -shill DE gwen accordingly; Prorided,
That such delegate snail receive no higher sum
FOR mileage than is allowed by law to the del
egate f,on Oregon.
SEC. Is. .4nd be Il further enacted, 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 thir
iy-sx IN each township IN sud Territory shall
be. aud the sane are hereby reserved for the
purpose OF being applied to schools in SAID Ter.
Titory, and In the States and Territories he eai-
ter 10 be erected out If the same
SEC. 10. Ind be II further enacied, That tenn
porarily, and until Otherwise provided by law,
the Govenor OF SAID Territory may define the
judicial districts Of said Territory, AID asst
HE Judges who may be appointed for said Terri
tory 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 hun; but The legislative assembly, at their
first or any subsequent session, may organize,
alter, or notify such Judicial districts, and as
sign the judges, and alIer the times und places
OF holding the courts as to them shall seem pro
per ard Convenient
SEC. IL. fad be II further enaeied, That the
Constitution. and all laws IF the United States
which are not locally lnapplicabe, shall have the
same force aud effect within the said Territory
of New Mexico as elsewhere within the United
States.
SEC. IS. And be IL further eracied, That the
provisions Of this act be, and they are hereby
sus pended until the boundary between the UNI
ted States and the State Of Texas shall be adj
justed and when such adjustment shall have
been eff cled, the President of the United States
shall Issue h PROCLAMATION, declaring this act
To be in full force and operation, and shall pro-
coed to appoint the officers herein provided to
be appointed in and Tor said Territory.
SEC. 10. find be II further cnncied, That no
citizen of The United States shall be deprived of
his Iife, liberty, or property, IN said errltory,
except by the jud ,ment OF his peers and the
laws Of the land.
Approved, Sc ptember 8, 1850.