Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-30

SeS sball oe printed, under his direction: !:
aud the sand codifiers shall each be paid
Tor their services out of the treasury of
the United States, at the rate of thrse
thousand dollars per year. And the
hoard of aldermen and common cornell
Of the city of Washington NAV together
elect five competent persons, and the
board of alder men and council of Geor,e.
town man elect two competent persons.
and the levy court of the county of
Washington may elect one competent
person, which parsons together shall
compose board, to consider, at conye.
nient seasons, the provisions of said
code, as it may be prepared; snd suy
three of said persons shall constitute a
quorum of said board; and the said
code, or such provisions thereof as NAV
be approved by q majority of said
board, shall be adopted, and become the
law of said District, as hereinafter pro-
vided. Aud it shall be the duty of the
said persons who may be appointed to
codify the said laws, to attend, and also
the said Attorney General may attend
the meetings of said board, TO explain
the several provisions of the said code.
And when the said code and the proyi-
sions thereof shall have been adopted by
the said board, or by majority thereof.
they shall certify the same to the Presi.
cent of the United States, who shall
thereupon cause it to be published in a
nest and convenient form, and to be SUBJ
stantia'ly lound; and he shall cause a
sufficient number of volumes of said
code to be printed and bound as may be
necessary for the amplest distribution of
the same among the people of said Dis
trict, and for the preservation of said
code; and copy thereof shall be fur
nlshed TO every justice Of the peace, and
every judge, to each court, to each clerk
of said court, to each coroner, to said
levy court, to each public school, to each
public library, to each public depart
ment OF government, and to the MAYORS
and each of the councils of Washington
and Georgetown, to be by them kept and
carefully preSer we'd, and transferred to
tneir several successors in Office. And
the said code so deposited with said clerks
of courts and justices ofthe peace shall at
times be open in their several offices for
the inspection and information of the
people of said District, and others who
may desire to consult the same. And
when the said code shall be printed and
distributed, the President of the United
States shall, by bis proclamation, ap-
point time and places in the said Dis
trlct tor taking the sense of the citizens
thereof, for or against the eadoption of the
said code, and he shall cause Judges to
be selected who shall preside at such cleo
ton, and he shall provide and proclaim
the mode and rules of conducting the
same, provided every free white male
citizen of the United States, above the
age OF twenty-one years, who has re-
sided in the said District for one wear
next preceding said election, shall be per-
mtted to vote thereat; and the result of
said election shall be reported to the said
President, and the same, with the said
code, be by him reported to Congress,
and when ratified and approved by the
same, he shall by his proclamation de-
clare it to be in force, from the day of the
date thereof, as the law of the said Dis
trict of Columbia; and the same, when so
proclaimed, shall thereafter be and Ie-
main as such, without any further act or
proceedings TO that effect, until altered
or repealed by the Congressof the United
States And the persons who may COM
pose said board, or such of them as may
act on the same, shall be paid out of the
treasury Of the United States a reasonable
compensation for their services, accord
ing to the time employed by them, re-
Spectively, upon the same: Provided,
That the said code shall be reported to
Congress on or before the first Monday in
December, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-seven.