The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

the chief justice or some associate Justice
of tbe Supreme Court of the United
States, to support the constitution of the
United States, and faithfully to discharge
| the duties of their respective Offices which
said oaths, when So taken, shall be Ger.
tiled by the person BY whom the same
shall 5s.ve been taken and such certif.
catesxsAall be received and recorded by
e 80 secretary among the executive
e. sdings; and the chief justice and
At Fate justice, and all other civil Off
GERS N said Territory, before they act as
such, shall take like oath or affirma-
ton before the said governor or secreta-
ry, or some judge or justice of the peace
of the Territory who mny be duly COM
missioned 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, certi-
fed, and recorded, in such manner and
form as may be prescribed by law. The
governor shall receive an annual salary
Of two th6dsand fSe hundred dollars.
The chief justice and associate justices
shall each receive an annual salary of
two Thousand dollars. The secretary
shall receive an annual salary Of two
thousand dollars. The said Salaries
shall be paid quarter-yearly, from the
dates of the respective appointments, at
the treasury of the United States; but
no such payment shall be made until
said officers shall have entered upon the
duties of their respective appointments
The.members of the legislative assembly
shall be entitled to receive three dollars
per day during their attendance at the
sessions thereof, and three dollars each
for every twenty miles travel in going to
and returning from the said sessions, es-
timated according to the nearest usually
travelled route; and an additional allow
ance of three dollars shall be paid to the
presiding officer of each house for each
dayshe shall SO preside.-And chief
clerk, one assistant clerk, sergeant-at-
arms, and door keeper, may be chosen
for each house; and the chief clerk shall
receive four dollars per day, and the said
other officers three dollars per day, du-
ring the session of the legislative assem-
bly,; bnt no other officers shall be paid
by the United States: ProUided, That
there shall be but one session of the leg
islature annually unless, on an extraor-
binary occasion, the governor shall think
proper to call the legislature together.
There shall be appropriated, annually,
the usual sum, to be expended by the
-goSes<1ols5 so Sf9sfsssS {thsz.ssG1ingeat
penses of the Territory, including the
salary of clerk of the executive depart
ment; and there shall also be appropri-
ated, annually, a sufficient sum, to be
expended by the secretary of the Terri
tory, and upon an estimate to be made
by the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, to defray the expenses of
the Legislative assembly, the printing of
the laws, and other incidental expenses !;
and the governor and secretary of the
Territory shall, in the disbursement of
all moneys intrusted to them, be govern
ed solely by the instructions of the Sec
retary of the Treasury of the United
States, and shall, semi annually, account
to the said Secretary for the manner in
which the aforesaid moneys shall have
been expended and no expenditure shall
be made by said legislative assembly
for objects not specially authorized by
the acts. of Congress making the appro-
priations, nor beyond the sums thus ap-
for such objects.
Sec. l3. And be 1t further enacted,
That the legislative assembly of the
Territory of Nebraska shall hold its first
session at such time and place in said
Territory as the governor thereof shall
appoint and direct; and at said first ses-
sion, or as soon thereafter as they shall
deem expedient, the governor and legis-
lative 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 as
sembly.
Sec. IA. Asd be 1t further enacted,
That delegate to the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States, to serve
for the term of two years, who shall be
a citizen of the United States, 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 en-
ioyed by the delegates from the several
other Territories Of the United States to
the said House of Representatives, but
the delegate first elected shall hold his
seat only during the term of the Con-
gress to which he shall be elected. The
first election shall be held at such time
and places, and be conducted in such
manner, as the governor shall appoint
and direct; and at all subsequent cleo
tions the times, places, and manner of
holding the elections, shall be prescribed
by law. The person having the great
est number of votes shall be declared by
the governor, to be duly cleo: ed, and
certificate thereof shall be given accord
ingly. That the constitution, and all
laws of the United States which are not
locally inapplicable, shall have the same
force and effect within the said Territory
of Nebraska as elsewhere within the
United States, except the eighth section
of the act preparatory to the admission
of Missouri into the Union, approved
March SIXTH. eighteen hundred and
twenty, which, being inconsistent with
the principle of non-intervention by Con-
gress with slavery in the States and Ter
ritories, as recognized by the legislation
of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly
called the compromise measures, is here
by declared imperative and void it be-
ing the true intent and meaning of this
act not to legislate slavery into any Ter
ritory or State, nor to exclude it there
from, but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their
domestic institutions in their own way,