Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-22
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AN ACT TO improve the laws Of the District Of Coum

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AN ACT TO improve the laws Of the District Of Column
bia and to eodify the
Be IL enact By the Senate and HOHss of Representa-
tires 81 the United States Of 7aerea an Congress
SeMbitd, That The President OF the United States j.
hereby authorized 10y and with the advice and consent
of the Senate to appoint two persons, learned In the
said District rules and principles of prae
tice, of peadings, Of evidence and cOnyeyaneng, and
also 10 add thereto and eodif such laws Of State OF
Maryland as may he or become in force during the prep
arton OF said code and applicable the circumstance
and condition Of said District aud the said code shall
be constructed according TO a simple method and be ex
pressed in language concise and plain and far as
siblbe, be made level To the understanding Of person
0.Opiinary intelligence and education and shall con-
tain full and particular index to all its eOntents and
the preparation Of the said code shall be made under
the superintendent and revision Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, and the progresses
shall be printed under his direction and the said cOd
her shall each be paid for their services out Of the
treasury Of the United States, AT the of three thou
sand dollars year. Aud the board of aldermen and
council at the city of Washington NAV together
elect live competent persons, and the board of alder
men ami council of Georsetown NAV elect two comn-
tent persons, AMI the levy court Of the county Of Wash
ngtOn may elect one competent person, which persons
together shall compose board 10 consider at convent
en seasons, the provisions of said code, may b..
prepared; ana any three of said persons shall consii
utc quorum of said board and the said code or such
pro, si"n> thereof as may be approved 10y majority of
>aii p'aru shall Dc adopted and become the law OF
said District, as hereinafter provided. And il shall he
the dni! Of the said persons Who he appointed to
eodfy the said laws Ia Attend and also the said Attorney
plain the several Of the said code And when
the said code and the prov isOns thereof shall
adopted by the said board, by majority thereof they
shall certify the same 10 the President Of the United
States, who shall thereupOn il be published ia
neat and convenient FORM aud Ia be bound
and he shall cause sufficient number Of volumes OF
said code 10 b. print ID and bound may be necessary
for the amples distribution of the same among the Deo
pie said District aud fr the preservation of said code
and copy thereof shall be furnished every Justice
the peace and every judge, la each court each clerk
of said court To each coroner Ia said levy eourr 4; eaeh
public school, 10 each public library, to each public de-
partment of g< rmet and TO the mayors and each Of
the councils of Washington and Georgetown, 10 be by
them kept and carefully preserved, and transferred
their several successors in Office And the said code
deposited said clerks courts aud Justices of the
peace, shall at all times he open in their Offices
for the inspection and information Of the people Of said
District. and others who desire consult the
And when the said code shalt he printed distributed
the President of the United States SHALL by his prOela
nation, appoint time and places in the said District for
taking The of the citizens thereof for or against
the adoption of the said code and he shall Judges
TO be selected who shall preside such election and he
shall vide and proclaim the mode and rules ofeonduc
ting the same, provided every free white male citizen of
The United States, above the age of twentyone wears.
who has resided in the said District for year next
preceding said election shalt be permitted 10 vote there
at and the result Of said election shall be reported 10
the said President, and the with the s=d code,
by him reported Ia Congress- and when ratified and APP
proved by the same he shall. by his proclamation, de-
clare 10 De IN force. from the day OF the date thereof
the law of the said District Of Columba and the
same, when proclaimed, shall thereafter he and
main such, without any further act proceedings
that effect until altered or repealed by printed, and shall
transmit the To the Congress of the United States.
And the persons who may compose said board such
of them as act on the shall be paid Of the
treasury OF the United States reasonable compensation
them respectively, upon the Preceded, That the
said code shall be reported Congress before
first Monday in December, In the year eighteen hundred
and hfty-seven.
! Approved March J, 1855.