Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-10-30
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 Aitken's. l A ceod Measure.
 In order to straightsn out the inc on.
 gruitiss of tho Texas Code. given to
 this territory by Governor Zulick, du. l ring the fourteenth legislative session,
 Governor woldey has sent the fellow
 ing recommendation to Secretary Ne
 ble, for enactment by congress:
 | WHEREAS, The first legislature of
 Arizona Territory construed the act of
 congress limiting the length of territo.
 rial legislatures. to mean legislative days, and passed many of its most i'm.
 portant laws after the end of the cen.
 secutivs days. and
 WHEREAS, The eleventh legislature of said territory gave the same con- struction to said congressional act, and passed many of its most important laws after the end of the consecutive days, and, among others, a law chang ing the time for the legal meeting of the future legislatures from. the fret
 Monday 10 the second Monday in Jan uary, thereby causing the twelfth. thir- teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth lsgis- latures to hold their session over the consecutive days, counting from tho first Monday in January, which, ii the change was not legal, still remained the le gal day for their meeting; and WHEREAS, The fifteenth legislature of said territory gave tho same con- struetion to said act as given by the first and eleventh, asd passed several importan. acts after the and of the con secutive days, and, among said acts, the Appropriation bill for the years 1889 and 1890, for tho territory of Ari- zona; and
 WHEREAS, The Attorney General of the United States has, by an opinion rendered March l6th, 1889, and re- newed July 10th, 1889, stated that all "pretended laws" passed after the con- sscutivs days are nugatory." and
 WHEREAS, The said opinion of the Attorney General of the United States does cast A very grave doubt on the legality of what now constitutes almost the entire laws ot the territory of Ari- zona, causing great uneasiness and uA. certainty, in the legal, financial and commercial affairs of said territory therefore he it enacted, that all acts done within the legislative days, by the 1 said first, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth legislatures of Arizona Territory, as shown by their official session laws and journals, and by the revised statutes of Arizona of 1887, and that were acts otherwise legal l and compstent for the legislative coun- cil, or assembly Of said legislatures to h Va done. had they been in legal ses- sion, are hereby approved, confirm ed | and legaliEed, and are to have the same | force and effect as though done by the legislative council, or assembly, of said legislature in legal sessiOn.
 Except that the act or acts, repeating paragraph r. %, being Sec. ls of chap ter i3. of the compiled laws of Arizona, l of 1877, is hereby repealed and annsl- led, or SO much thereof as relates to said paragraph l,o97, and said para graph l,O97 is hereby re-enactsd to have full force and effect.
 Except that every officer, the mode of whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by law, and vacancy, by expiration of commission or other va. cancy in office, the filling of which is not otherwise provided for by law. shall be by appointment and commission by the Governor: and the said appoint ment and commission shall expire at the end of the next session of the legis- lative council, and except further, that the sc, sup lsmental to chapter XXIV of compiled laws of Arizona, entitled "Of General and Special Elections" approved March F. 1885, and known as No. ST. page 2l3. session laws of the thirteenth legislature, is hereby re- enacted, and to have fall force and effect.
 Except, further, that the act repeal jag the Militia Law, or SO much thereof as relates to the militia, is hereby an nnlled, and the Militia Act, known as chapter XXI, of the compiled lave of Arizona, pages 2O3 to 210 inclusive. is hereby re-established, and Co have full force and effect, together with all acts, or parts of acts, amendatery thereto, the same as though said repeating act had not been had: and bs it further enacted, that paragraph l6, of section 2939. revised statates of Arizona, of 1887. being as follows, to wit: "Hs ((the Govsrnor) may convene the legis- lsture by proclamation, on extraordi' nary occasions, by consent of the presi- dent of the United States" is hereby approved and to have full force and effect.
 In explanation to the foregoing, 1t may be noted that section l097 is the | one formerly giving the power of re- movsl for cause, and Act No. S7. Laws of 1885. page 2lS, is the one disfr an chising Mormons for certain overt ac ts tavoring pslygsmy.