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consent Of the Senate. The governor and
secretary to be appointed as aforesaid shall
before they act as such, respectively, take
an oath or affirmation before the district
Judge, or some justice of the peace in the
limits Of said Territory, duly authorized to
administer oaths and aliirmations by the
laws now in force therein, or before the
Chief Justice or some associate Justice oi
the 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 certified BY the
person by whom the same shall have been
taken; and such certificates shall be re.
ceived and recorded b. the said secretary
among the executive proceedings; and the
chief Justice and associate justices, and all
civil officers in said Territory, before they
act rs such, shall take like oath or affir.
nation before the said Governor or secre-
tary, or some judge or Justice of the peace
of the Territory who may be duly commits.
stoned and qualified, or before the Chief
Justice or some associate Justice of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, which
said oath or affirmation shall be certified
and transmitted 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, certified, and
recorded in such manner and form as may
be prescribed by law. And any person
who has heretofore been appointed chief
justice or associate justice Of the Territory
Of Idaho, who has not yet taken the oath
Of Office, as rescribed by the act organiz-
ing said Territory, may take said oath or
affirmation before the Chic Justice or some
associate Justice of the Supreme Court Of
the United States. The Governor shall re.
ceivc an annual salary Of two thousand five
hundred dollars; the chief justice and asso.
ciate justices shall receive an annual salary
Of two thousand fiye hundred 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 Trea-
sury Of the United States; but no payment
snail be made until said officers shall have
entered upon the duties Of their respective
appointments. The members of the Leg
islative Assembly shall be entitled 20 re-
ceive four dollars each per day during their
attendance at the sessions thereof, and four
dollars each for every twenty miles travel
in going to and returning from said sessions,
estimated according to the nearest usually
travelled routes; and an additional allow.
ance of four dollars per day shall be paid
to the presiding officer Of each house for
each day he shall so preside. And CHIEF
clerk, one assistant clerk, one engrossing
and one enrolling clerk, sergeant-at arms
and dcorkeePer 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 Assembly; but
no other officers shall be paid by the United
States: PrOvided, That there shall be but
one session Of the Legislative Assembly
annually, unless, on an extraordinary occa.
sion, the Governor shall think proper to
call the Legislative Assembly together.
There shall be appropriated annually the
usual sum, to be expended by the Cover
nor, to defray the contingent expenses oi
the Territory, including the salary of the
clerk Of the executive department. And
there shall also be appropriated annually
J a sufficient sum, to be expended by the
secretary Of the Territory, and upon an es-
innate to be made by the Secretary of the
Treasury of tho United States, to defray
the expenses of the Legislative Assembly,
the printing of tho laws, and other lnciden.
tai expenses. And the Governor and sec.
retary Of the Territory shall, in the dis
bursement Of all moneys intrusted to them,
be governed solely by the instructions Of
the Secretary Of theTreasury Of the United
States, and shall semi-annually account to
the said Secretary for the manner in which
the aforesaid moneys shall have been ex-
pended; and no expenditure shall be made
II by said Legislative Assembly for objects
not specially authorized by the acts Of Con.
gress making the appropriations, nor beyond
the sums thus appropriated for such OBJ.
jects.
i Sec. IL. Aad Be IL further enacted, That
the Legislative Assembly of the Territory
of Montana shall hold its first session at
such time and place in said Territory as
the Governor thereof shall appoint and d.
rect; and at said first session, or as soon
thereafter Us they shall deem expedient, the
Governor and Legislative Assembly shall
proceed to locate and establish the seat oI
government for said Territory at such place
as they may deem eligible: Provided, That
the seat of government fixed by the Gov
ernor and Legislative Assembly shall moi
be at any time changed except by an act q