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

berS OF the legislative assembly, who
shall be entitled to the same rights and
privileges as are exercised and enjoyed
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 Congress to-
which he shall be elected. The first cleo
ton shall be held at such time, and pla-
ces, and be conducted in such a manner,
as the governor shall appoint and direct
and at all subsequent elections the times,
places, and manner of holding the cleo
tions shall be prescribed by law. The
person having the greatest number of
votes shall be declared by the governor
to be duly elected and a certificate Their
of shall be given accordingly. That the
constitution, and all avs of the United
States which are not locally inapplicable,
shall have the same force and effect with
in the said Territory of Kansas as else
where 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 incon-
sistent with the principal of non-inter-
v~ention by Congress with slavery in the
States and Territories, as recognized by
the Legislation of eighteen hundred and
fifty, commonly called the comprrm mise,
measur is hereby declared imperative
and void; it being the true intent and
meaning of this act not to legislate sla-
very into any Territory or State, nor to
exclude it therefrom but to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, subject only to the consti-
tuition of the United States: PToUtded,
That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to revive or put in force any
law or regulation which may have exist
ed prior to the act of sixth of March,
eighteen hundred and twenty, either pro-
tecting, establishing, prohibiting or alb
olishing slavery.
Sec. 80. And be 1t further enacted,
That there shall hereafter be appropri-
ated, as has been customary for the ter
~ritorial governments a sufficient amount
to be expended under the direction of
the said governor of the Territory of
Kansas, not exceeding the sum hereto
fore appropriated for similar objects,
for the erection of suitable public bull
dings at the seat of government, and for
the purchase Of a library, to be kept at
the seat of government for the use of the
governor, legislative assembly, judges
of the supreme court, secretary, mar
shall, and attorney of said Territory, and
such other persons, and under such
regulations as shall be prescribed by law
Sec. "a. Ind he 1t further enacted,
That when the lands in the said Terrific
ry 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 Ter
ritory shall be, and the same are here
by, reserved for the purpose ofbeing ap-
piled to schools in said Territory and III
the States and Territories hereafter to be
erected out of the same.
Sec. 35. And be 1t further enacted,
That until otherwise provided by law,
the governor of said Territory may de-
fine the judicial districts of said Terri
tory, and assign the judges who may be
appointed for said Territory to the sever
al districts /; and also appoint the times
and places for holding courts in the sever
al counties or subdivisions in each of
said judicial districts by proclamation,
to be issued by him; but the legislative
assembly, at either their first or subse-
quent 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. Sc. And be 1t fl Mer enacted,
That all officers to be appointed by the
President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, for the Territory
of Kansas, who, by virtue of the pro-
visions of any lawnow existing, or which
may be enacted during the present Con-
gress, are required to give securities for
moneys that may be intrusted with them
for disbursement, shall give such securi-
ty, at such time and place, and in such
manner, as the Secretary of the Treas
ury may prescribe.
Sec. 81. Ind be 1t further enacted,
That all treaties, laws, and other engage
ments made by the government of the
United States with the Indian tribes in
habiting the territories embraced within
this act, shall be faithfully and rigidly
observed, Notwithstanding anything con-
tanned in thisact; and the existing agen-
eies and superintendeneies of said Indi-
ans be continued with the same powers
and duties which are now prescribed by
law, except that the President of the
United States may, at his discretion,
change the location of the Office of super
inteudent.