The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-20
TPUBLIC No. 65. I

AN ACT amendatory of can act to provide a
temporary government for the Territory OF
Montana" approved May twenty-six, eighteen
hundred and sixty four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
SentatipeS ofthe United States of America in Congress-
assembled, That the legislative assemblies of the
several Territories of the United States shall not
after the passage of this act, grant private char
tiers or special privileges but they may by gene
raj incorporation acts permit persons to ociate
themselves together as bodies corporate for min-
ing, manufacturing, and otner Industrial pur
suits
SEC g. Anu be it further ennrted That the pro-
bate courts of the Territory of Montona ir their
respective counties, in addition to their probate
jurisdiction, are hereby authorized to hear and
determine civil causes wherein the damage or
debt claimed does not exceed five hundred dol
lars, and such criminal cases arising under the
laws OF the Territory as do not require the inter-
vention of grand jury: PiOrided That they
shall not have Jurisdiction in any matter in con-
troversy when the title right to the peaccahe
possession of land may be in dispute or chancery
or divorce causes: And rrODided further, That in
all cases an appeal may be taken from any order,
Judgment, or decree OF said probate court to the
district court
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
chief justice and associate justices of said Terri
tory and the Territory of Idaho shall each receive
an annual salary of thirty-tive hundred dol
lars.
SEC. 4. and be it further enacted, That the
Judges of the supreme court of said Territory, or
u majority of thcm shall, when assembled at the
seat of government of said Territory define the
judicial districts of sa Territory, and assign the
Judges who may be appointed for said Territory
to the several districts, and shall also fix and APP
point the times and places for holding the courts
in the several counties subdivisions in each of
said judicial districts, and alter the times and
places of holding the courts as 10 them shall seem
proper and convenient, but not less than two
terms shall be held at each place of holding court
each year.
SEC. ). Andbe it further enacted, That for the
purpose Of reviving the Legislative functions of
the Territory of Montana, llch have been ad
Judged therein to have lapscd, the governor of
said Tcrr tory be, and he is hereby, authorized,
on or before the first day of July, eighteen hun
dred and siXty-scven, to divide said Territory in
to Legislative districts for the election OF members
of the council and house of representatives,, and
to apportion among said districts the number of
members OF the Legislative assembly provided for
in the organic act of said Territory and the cleo
,ion of said members of the legislative assembly
shall he held at such time and shall be conducted
in the manner prescribed by the legislative as
sembly of said Territory at the session thereof
begun and holden at the city OF Bannack in egh-
teen hundred and siXty-tour and eighteen hun
dred and SiXty-tive, and the qualifications OF Vot-
ers shall be the same as that prescribed by said
organic act, saving and excepting the distinction
therein made on account OF race or color, and the
legislative assembly, so elected, shall convene at
the time prescribed by said legislative assembly
at the session last aforesaid. The apportionment
an enumeration of the qualified electors OF the
several Legislative districts as shall appear from
the election returns in the office of the secretary
of said Territory, and from such other sources
of information as will enable the governor with
out taking new census, 10 make an apportlon-
mrnt which shall fairly represent the people OF
the several districts in both houses OF the legsl-
tive assembly, but the legislature may at any time
change the Legislative districts OF the Territory as
fixed by the governor.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all
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legislative assembly OF the Territory of Montana,
held in eighteen hundred and slXty-SlX, are here
bv disanproved and declared null and avoid, eX-
ccpt such acts as the legislative assembly herein
authorized to be elected shall by special act in
each case e-enact POUed, hOaceger, That in all
claims of vested rights hereunder, the party
claiming the same shall not, by reason OF any
thing in this section contained be precluded
from making and testing said claim in the courts
of said Territory: And prOuided further, That no
legislation pretended legislation in said Terri
tory since the adjournment of the first Legislative
assembly shall be deemed valid until the election
of the legislative assembly herein provided Tor
shall take place
SEC. Z. and be it further enacted, That from
and after the first day of April next the salary OF
each of the judges OF the several supreme courts
in each of the organized Territories except Mon
tana and Idaho) shall be two thousand live hun
dred dollars.
SEC. s. And be it, further enacted, That all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
Approved, March 2, 1867