, 1866-03-02
Tbs New Election Law.
The late Legislature passed an election law
which contains provisions not founu 10 previous
laws Among these is


which contains provisions not found in previous
laws. Among these is
tbs REGISTRY LAW
SEcrfox /. The county assessors of tue respec-
tive counties instead of the time named IN an act
euttled an act to amend an act entltleu an & ac'
10 proyide for the assessing and collecting Ter
rit6rial and county revenue" approved January
alst. 1855. shall, on or before the twentieth day
Of April. of every year, make, or cause to be
made alphabetical lists OF the legal voters IN
each precinct noting those who shall nave paiu
their poll-tax, and also those who may De ex-
.emut bv reason of being over fifty years OF age,
which alphabetical lists shall be posted IN each
precinct at least twenty days before the elec-
fion, and one copy of which shall be transmitted
to the Secretary of the Territory, and be by him
filed as the census of legal voters which county
assessors are annually required by law to make
SEC. 2 County assessors, or those performing
such duties under the law, shall attend at the
Office of the county auditor the week terminating
twenty days before the election, for the purpose
of correcting such assessment lists and adding
thereto any names of legal voters who, from
any cause, have been omitted therefrom, and
the said extra assessment list alphabetically ar
ranged shall be posted in like manner with the
assessment list, and no person shall be allowed
to vote in any precinct except such persons as
are borne upon one or the other OF said assess
ment lists, or those who may be between twenty
one and TWENTY-FIVE years of age, who shall be
allowed to vote without paying poll-tax, if
the Judges are satisfied that they are in all
other respects entitled to the elective fran
else PROVIDED, that the foregoing section
shall not be so construed as to exclude from
voting certain classes designated and described
in section two, chapter one, or persons engaged
in the navigation of the waters of this Territory
or of the United States, or of the high seas,
SEC g. Any county assessors willfully failing
to comply with the provisions of this act by
emitting to assess, or by presenting names not
entitled to vote, shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars nor less than fifty dollars.
The general elections, as under the previous
law, are to be held on the first Monday of June
in each year. On being challenged, voters are
required to take the following
! OATH.
"You do swear or affirm, that you will truly
| and fully answer all such questions as shall be
put to you, touching your place of residence
and qualifications as an elector; and that you
| have never voluntarily borne arms against the
| United States since you have been citizen
thereof that you have voluntarily given no aid,
countenance, council or encouragement to per-
sons engaged in armed hostilities thereto; that
| you have neither sought nor accepted nor at
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whatever, under any authority or pretended au-
thority, in hostility to the United States that
you have not yielded voluntary support to any
pretended government, authority, power or con-
stitution W thin the United States, hostile in
| imical thereto: And you do further -, that,
to the best of your knowledge and ability, you
will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic that you will bear trug. faith and al
legiance to the same; that you take this obliga-
tign freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion, so help you Cod"
THE MONTANA FEvER.-Our California e1chan-
ge' 20 filed with references to the Montana
fever, which promises to swallow up all other
excitements. The S F. Call has the following
in relation to the prevailing excitement:
at appears that our large floating population
lA-~--s~;- h--~--ias afiiicted with the tramp
fever, which begins to rage about the middle of
February and expands for a month or two, and
finally wears itself our for want Of material to
feed upon. Montana is the haven this time and
if we are permitted to judge from the way peoI lie
talk, we should be justified in saying that many
an one in San Francisco had an attack of the
disease. Letters from pioneers to friends who
stayed behind have been received, containing
| the most glowing accounts, and others who have
| come here to spend the winter and a portion of
| their DUST declare that Montana offers in
| ducements equal to California in 49, and that
there is just good a chance in that region for
! miDers and prospectors as there ever has been ;
and that the country not be duly prospected
next season, no matter how many miners go
| there"
| In the same strain, the Sacramento Union saws
California was founded under the influence of
| q gold fever, and large portion of her popula-
tion, including many who have abandoned min
| ing and engaged in other pursuits, remain pre-
disposed to suffer periodical attacks, The pre-
mouitory symptoms, familiar to those who
| have at last overcome the credulous tendency,
are beginning to manifest themselves once more
| Somewhere about the headwaters of the Mis-
souri, river, where snow and ice establish block
ade for FIVE months of the year, and bread and
bacon and staples of daily fare, command such
prices as will pay for transportation from seven
| hundred to thousand miles through a wilder
| ness-rich placers have been discovered and af-
| ter one season Of flush success, Montana sends
her messengers east and west. to scatter thsii
gold dust in the eyes of people who work ha7d
and yet have not achieved a competence ond
stir the vagrants of the Pacific coast ~
adventure. This year, we surmisa. all the road.
of emigration will lead to Montana. as Ali roaJ,
were said TO lead to Rome, 'O''0'
AHE BRANCH MINT.-We have already chroni
cled the fact that Mr.. Henderson, of Oregon,
had introduced bill providing for the location
of the Branch Mint at Portland. The following
is the preamble and resolution introduced by
Mr.. HOlbrOok, of Idaho, on the same subject
WHEREAS, The recent discoveries of the vas
and extensive mineral fields of the interior
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