Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-27

Eoath or affirmation shall be certified and
transmitted by the person taking the same
10 the Secretary. to be by him recorded as
Eaforesaid; and, afterwards, the like oath or
affirmation shall be taken, certified, and re-
corded, IN such manner and form as may be
prescribed by law. The Governor shall
receive an annual salary of two thousand
five hundred dollars. The Chief Justice
and Associate Justices shall each receive
Ian annual salary of two thousand dollars.
The Secretary shall receive an annuat
salary of two thousand dollars
The said salaries shall be paid quarter
lYeeriYr from the dates IF the <espeesi<e app
pQlalnents, 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
each 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, estimated
according to the nearest usually travelled
route; and an additional allowance of three
dollars shall be paid to the presiding officer
| of each house for each day he shall so, pre-
side. And chief clerk, one assistant clerk,
a sergeant-at-arms, and doorkeeper, 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,
during the session of the Legislative As
sembly; but no other officers shall be paid
by the United States: Provided, That there
shall be but one session of the Legislature
annually, unless, on an extraordinary Oc-
casion, the Governor shall think proper to
call the Legislature together. There shall
be appropriated, annually, the usual sum,
to be expended by the Governor, to defray
the contingent expenses of the Territory,
including the salary of clerk of the Exc
appropriated, annually, sufficient sum, to
be expended by the Secretary of the Ter
rltory, and uponan estimate to be made by
the Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, to defray the expenses of the Leg
islatiye 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 governed solely by
the instructions. of the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, and shall,
semi-annualiy, account to the said Secre-
tary for the manner In which the aforesaid
moneys shall have been expended; and no
expenditure shall be made by said Legis-
latiye Assembly for objects not specially
authorized by the acts OF Congress, making
the appropriations, nor beyond the sums
thus appropriated for such objects.
SEC. 13. And be it 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 session, or as soon there.
after as they shall deem expedient, 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 Legis-
lative Assembly. ~. ~ r.
Sec. "A. And be it further enacted, That
a delegate to the House of Representatives
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 Legisla-
tive Assembly, who shall be entitled to the
same rights and privileges as are exercised
and enjoyed by the delegates from the sew
to the said house of Representatives, but
the delegate first elected shall hold his seat
only during the term of the Congress to
which he shall be elected. The first cleo
ton 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 elections the times, places,
an1 Ezanne<o of holding the elections, shall
b prescribed By lasE. The person having
- exea1ea nx1uzbez Of 4otes shall be de-
clares 5 <zoysl1o . he duly elected;
md . eslsiflcate tIieFe ed be gwen ac-
|coEdinel5 Tar kgke &oz1 and 20
Laws g <lze Unze6 S@ates ssi1isk ere - -
locally inapplicabIe, sAaH have the saazs
force and effect within the said Territe1y
of Nebraska as elsewhere within the Un5<
tied States, except the eighth section of the
act preparatory to the admissiono of Missouri
into the Union, approved March sixth,
eighteen hundred and twenty, which, be-
ing inconsistent with the principle of nom
in,errentioa9by Congress with slavery In
| the States and Territories, as recognized
by the Legislation of eighteen hundred and
fifty, commonly called the Compromise
Measures, is hereby declared imperative
and void; SIT being the true intent and mean
ing Of this act not to olegislate slavery into
any Territory or State, nor to. exclude it
ttherefrom, but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their
dafnestic institutions IN their own Way sub
| ject only toihe Constitution Of the United
States Prouided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shal be construed to revive or put in
force any law or regulation which may
have existed prior to the act of sixth March