Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-22
and binding without being submitted to

gether by proclamation on an extraordi
nary occasion, at any time, after pre-
sentlng the reasons therefor to the pres
ident of the United States, and his ap
proval thereof having been duly given
Sec. 10. That there shall be appro-
plated annually one thousand dollars, t,
be expended by the governor, to defra,
the contingent expenses of said territory
including the salary of the clerk in th,
executive department.
, Sec. l6. That there shall be appro
plated for said territory of North Dako,
to, annually, sufficient sum to be OK
pended by the secretary of said territory
! upon an estimate TO be made by the
secretary of the treasury, to defray the
expenses of the legislative assembly and
other incidental expenses; and the secre
tafy OF SAID territory shall annually sc.
count to the secretary of the treasury
Tor the manner in which such sum has
been expended.
Sec. IL. That the members cf the
legislative assembly of said territory
shall each receive three dollars for every
twenty miles travelled in going to and re.
turning from the sessions of their respec.
tive bodies, estimated according to the
nearest travelled route.
Sec. is. That sectlons numbered SIX
teen and thirty-six of the public lands
IN each township of said territory of
North Dakota shall be reserved for the
purpose of being applied to schools in
said territory, and IN tho states and ter
ritories hereafter to be erected out of
the same.
Sec, IS. That the inhabitants of the
said territory shall be entitled to all the
rights, privileges and immunities hereto
fore granted and secured to the territory
of Dakota and 10 its inhabitants; and
the laws in force in the said territory of
Dakota at the time of the passage of this
act, not locally inapplicabls, shall con-
tinue to be operative and valid in the
said territory of North Dakota, in so far
as the same may not be incompatible
with the provisions OF this act, until the
same shall be altered, modified, or re-
pealed by the governor and legislative
assembly Of the said territory of North
| Dakota.
Sec. 20. That all suits, process, and
proceedings. civil and criminal, and all
indictments and criminal proceedings
which shall be pending and undeter-
mined in the courts of the territory of
| ANoith /dhotut nlCl tule dCU Shuil tuhG
effect, shall be transferred to be heard,
tried, prosecuted, and determined in the
district courts hereby established which
may include the COUNTIES or districts
where any such proceedings may be
pending, ALI bonds, recognizances and
obligations of any kind whatsoever valid
under existing laws within said territory
.: nakata shall be valid nnder thls act !:
| the laws in force within said limits may
be prosecuted, tried and punished, and
all penalties, forfeitures, actions, and
causes of action may be recovered, tho
same as they would have been at the
time this act shall go into operation.
| Sec 81. That ali suits and actions
which have been removed from any
district court held within said limits,
by appeal or otherwise, to the supreme
court of the territory of Dakota, and
| which shall be undetermined there at
the time this act shall go into operation,
shall be certified by the clerk OF the
| supreme court and trans.
ferred to the supreme court
created by this act, there to be proceed
ed to final determination in the
same manner that they might have
been IN the supreme court of the terri
| tory of Dakota.
Sec. %. That there shall be appro-
priated the sum of three thousand dol
lars, out of any moneys III the treasury
not already appropriated, to be expend-
ed under the direction of the secretary
of the interior, for the purchase and
establishment of library in said terri
tory OF North Dakota,
Sec. %, That all that portion of the
said territory of Dakota lying west Of
the twenty fifth degree of longitude
west from Washington shall constitute
the first judicial district OF the territory
of Dakota; and the district court for
SAID district shall exercise jurisdiction
of circuit and district courts Of the
United States for SAID district. and for
that purpose shall. be held at Deadwood,
at the times fixed by the laws of the
said territory of Dakota for the general
terms of court in said county of
Lawrence.
Sec. a. That the counties OF Yank-
ton, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Hutcbin-
son, Douglas, Hansen, Dawson, Aurora,
Brule, Sanborn, and the following por-
tion of the Great Sioux reservation, to
wit: commencing at point on
the eastern bank OF the Missouri
river opposite the northern line of
Presho county; thence west to the
twenty fifty degres of longitude west
from Washington; thence south to
the southern boundary of the territory
of Dakota; thence east upon
said southern boundary to the eastern
bank of the Missouri riyer;thence up and
along said eastern bank to the place of
beginning, shall constitute the second
judicial district of the territory Of Dako-
ia; and the district court for said dis
| trict shall exercise jurisdiction of circuit
and district conrts of the United States
for said district, and for that purpose
rhall be held at YanktoD, at the times
| fxed by the laws of the said territory of
Dakota for the general terms of conrt in
said county Of Yankton.
SEQ. 25. That the counties OF Camp
| bell, Wslworth, Potter, Faulk, Edmnnds,
Mcpherson, Hyde, Hand, Sully, Hughes,
Buffalo, Jerauld and also the fol-
lowing portion of the Great Sioux
reservation; commencing ct the north
west corner of the county of Campbell;
| thence west to the twenty-tifth degree OF
longitude west from Washington,
thence south to point opposite the
north line OF the county of Presho, or to
a point where the extension of the north
line OF said county would intersect said
degree of longitude; thence east on said
lime to the eastern bank of the Missouri
river thence up and along said bank to
the place of beginning, shall constitute
the third judicial district Of the territory
OF Dakota: and the district court for
! said district shall exercise jurisdiction
of crcnit and diatrIct courts OF the Uni
Il ted States for said district, and for that
purpose shall be held at Pierre, at the
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