Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20
PEMslNA TERRITORY.

FeW0IN tennluVnIs
Delegate Bshnett,s Bill Providing for
the Division OF Dakota.
The following is the bill introduced by
Delegate Bennett for the division Of Dakota
on the 46th parallel. and the creation Of the
territory of Pembina from the northern
half:
Be it enacted BY the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that all that
part Of the territory of the United States,
now constituting q portion Of the territory
of Dakota, and described as% follows, to-wit ;
commencing at a point on the Red river
of the North where the forty-nin,h degree
of north latitude crosses the same; thence
south along the Western boundary line Of
the state Of Minnesota to the forty sixth
degree of north latitude; thence west along
said forty-sixth degree to the eastern boun.
Diary line of the territory of Montana;
thence nsrth along said boundary line to
the forty -ninth degree of north latitude;
thence eastwardly along said degree to the
place of beginning, be, and:the same is here
bv, organized into . temporary government,
by the name of the territory of Pembina.
Sec. 2. That the said territory of Penn
bina and the several officers thereof shall
be invested with ali the rights, powers, aud
privileges, and shall be subject to all the
regulations, restrictions, and provisions con-
tanned in chapter one, of title twenty-three,
of the revised statutes of the United States,
and the amendments thereto, except as is
herein otherwise provided.
Sec. 8. The legislative council Of said
territory shall consist Of twelve members,
and the house of representatives thereof Of
twenty-four members.
Sec. 4. There shall be appointed, in
manner provided by law for the appoint-
ment of such officers, a surveyor general
for the said territory, who shall locate and
keep his Office at such place within said
territory as the secretary of the interior shall
from time to time direct, and whose duties,
powers, obligations, responsibilities, com
pensation, and allowance for clerk hire,
office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses
shall be the same as those Of the surveyor
Sec. s.. Justices Of the peace and all
tory shall be elected by the people in
BY law, and all other county.
township, district, and municipal officers.
not appointed by the president of the United
States, and all other officers not herein
enumerated, provided for by legislative en-
actment Of said territory, shall be appointed
or elected in such manner as may be pro.
vided by the governor and legislative
assembly Of eaid territory.
Sec. 6. All laws passed by the legisla
tive assembly and governor of said territory
shall be valid and binding without being
submitted to congress for its approval.
Sec. 4. The general laws of the United
States as to the punishment of Chimes in
any place within the sole and exclusive
jurisd 'ction of the United States, except the
District of Columbia, shall extend to all
that portion of said territory not embraced
in any organized county, SO long as the
same 30 remains, to the exclusion of the
criminal statutes of said territory; and the
courts of said territory, exercising the juris-
|~dictionsof United States district and circuit
courts, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to
try and punish all offences so committed
within said portions of said territory. And
If any offence be committed therein, which
is not prohibited, or the punishment there
of is not specially provided for by any law
of the United, States, such ofense shall be
liable to and receive the same punishment
~ the laws Of the said territory provide for
the like ofeense.
Sec. 8. No justice of the peace in said
territory shall have jurisdiction of any case
in which the title to laod, or the boundary
thereof, in any wise m in question nor
of any matter in controversy where the
debt or sum claimed exceeds one hundred
dollars.
Sec. 9. When the land in said territory
shall be surveyed, under the direction OF
the government of the United States, Sec
tions sixteen and thirty-six in each town
ship, except as hereinafter provided, shall
be, and the same are hereby, reserved for |
the purpose Of being applied to the support
of the public schools in the state or states I
hereafter to be erected out of said territory /;
and all the lands embraced within what are
known as the Fort Abraham Lincoln and
Fort Rice military reservations, in SAID
territory, not including that portion of the
latter lying within the Sioux Indian reser-
walton, and including the sixteenth and
sections that may fall therein, |
are hereby reserved and set apart, when
by the United States government
% military reservations, for the purpose of
founding and endowiDg an institution OF
within the state to be hereafter
erected out of said territory, or a portion
hereof embracing said reservations, to be
as the Cluster Memorial College,"
Sec. 10. That all that portion Of the
public lands lying within the limits of said
and the land Offices established
within said limits, shall be, and remain,
,nder, and be governed by, such laws,
rules, and regulations as may exist
relation thereto at the time of the pas.
age Of this act; and the registers and the
'~eceivers of the said land-ofices shall be,
they are hereby, authorized and requir.
d TO continue to exercise and perform the
lnties of their respective Offices, temporari.
y, under said laws. rules and regulations,
md III til they, or others, shall be duly
appointed and qualified to fill their places,
# until their Offices shall be abolished.
Sec. IL. That the inhabitants of the said
erritory shall be entitled to all the rights,
privileges, and immunities heretofore grant.
d and secured to the territory of Dakota
nd to its inhabitants and the laws in force
n the territory of Dakota at the time of the
'assage Of this act shall continue to be oper
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