Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1871-01-14

iect has been attained, and much good
has resulted from their use. / have
given instructions to require an agree
ment, with an indorser, from each
person receiving an arm, to return it
on demand to the Governor, or, failing
to do SO, forfeit and pay $40. After
an experience of one year and half,
I am not able to suggest a better plan
for the distribution of these arms.
SURVEYS.
We now have separate surveying
district, with the Land and Surveyor
Generals Offices in operation. The
sum of $40, 900 was appropriated at
the last session of Congress for sur
veys in this Territory. This is quite
inadequate for the extension of the
surveys as rapidly as the settlements
advance. Our farmers are generally
anxious to obtain titles to their lands,
and to enable them to do so, I trust q
more liberal appropriation will be
made.
TOWN SITES.
The Act of Congress regulating the
sale of town sites provides that land
upon which any town is located may
be entered for the use and benefit of
the people of said town by the county
Judge, or mayor of an incorporated
city, at $125 per acre. It is then
made tho duty of said Judge or may
or to deed the lots to the owners at
the pro rata price of the land, and
expense of the Iced. 1t is reserved to
the local Legislatures to esta blish
rules for the disposition of the lots.
I deem it a matter of Importance that
the people be enabled to obtain titles
to town property as speedily as posi-
BILE, in order that disputes may be OBJ
waited and that each owner may feel
secure in his possessions.
SELLING LIQUOR, ARMS AND AMMU-
| MILTON TO THE INDIANS.
Complaints are constantly made of
sales Of liquors, arms and ammunition
to Indians, and serious results are LA
BILE 20 occur in consequence. Severe
penalties should be enacted against
the sale Of liquor to any class of In
dians, and also against that of arms
and ammunition to any except those
known to be friendly to us, and hos
tile toward all of our enemies.
| AMENDMENTS To VARIOUS LAWS.
The Attorney General of the Terri
tory, in his report which will be laid
before you, has made suggestions rela-
tive to the statutes, to which your at
tention is directed. Since your last
session, Congress has enacted a law re-
stricting the Legislative Assembly to
biennial sessions. This has obviated
the necessity of annual elections, and
l would recommend that you extend
the term of officers elected at the last
general election in all cases you can
consistently with the Organic Act to
correspond with this change, ard that
hereafter our elections be held bienni-
ally.
Congress has also amended the Or
ganic Act Of the Territory, limiting the
Jurisdiction Of justices of the peace to
$500, instead Of 800. [ would recon-
mend that you amend our statutes so as
to give them the full amount author
lied by the Organic Act Under the
present law, justices Of the peace are
required to equality before clerk of the
district court. TODD so is often % source
Of great expense and inconvenience. l
would recommend that the law be so
changed as to authorize their qualifi-
cation before any officer qualified to
administer oaths.
Congress passed an act which became
a law January %, 1867, comforting the
elective franchise, in all the Territories,
to citizens thereof, irrespective of race,
color, or previous condition of servi-
tude," and the Fifteenth Amendment
to the constitution of the United
States makes said law common
throughout the United States, and
was proclaimed legally adopted as
part Of the organic law Of the coun-
try March 80, 1870. Congress also
passed an act entitled can act to en-
force the right Of citizenship of the
| United States to vote in the several