The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-02


ing of the future legislatures from the
first Monday to the second Monday in
January, thereby causing the Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth aud Fifteenth
Legislatures to held their session over
the consecutive days, counting, from
the first January, which, if the change
was not legal, still remained the legal
day for their meeting: and.
Whereas, The Fifteenth Legislature
of said Territory gave the same COR
struction 10 said Act as given by the
first and eleventh, and passed several
important Acts after the end of the
consecutive days, and, among said
Acts, the Appropriation Bill for the
years 1889 and 1890, for the Territory
of Arizona: and,
Whereas, The Attorney General of
the United States, has, by an opinion
rendered March 16, 1889, and renewed
July 16, 1889, stated that all "pre-
tended laws" passed after the consecu-
tive days are "nugatory," and
Whereas, The said opinion of the
Acknowledgement of the United
States does cast very grave doubt on
the legality of what now constitutes
almost the entire laws of the Territory
of Arizona, causing great uneasiness
and uncertainty, III the legal, financial
and commercial affairs of said Terri
tory; therefore be it enacted, that all
acts doue within the legislative days,
by the 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 1888, and that
were acts otherwise legal and COM
petent for the Legislative Council, or
Assembly of said Legislatures to have
done, had they been in legal session,
are hereby approved, confirmed and
legalized, and are to have the same
force and effect as though done by the
Legislative Council, or Assembly, of
said Legislature i'll legal session.
Except that the act or acts, repeal
ing paragraph 1907, being Sec. u, of
Chap. Is, of the compiled laws of Ari-
IONA, of 1877, is hereby repealed and
and annulled, or so much thereof as
relates to said paragraph 1907, and
said paragraph 1907 is hereby re
enacted to have full force and effect.
Except that every officer, the mode
of whose appointment is not other
wise provided for by law, and
vacancy, by expiration of commission
or other vacancy 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 appointment and commission
shall expire at the end of the next
session of the Legislative Council, and
except, further, that the Act repeating
an Act supplemental to Chapter XIV
of Compiled Laws of Arizona, entitled
"Of General and Special Elections"
approved March II, 1885, is hereby
annulled: or so much thereof, as re-
lates to the above Act, and the Act
approved March II, 1885. and
known as No. 81, page 2l3, Session
Laws of the Thirteenth Legislature,
is hereby re enacted, and to have full
force and effect.
Except, further that the Act re
pealing the Militia Law, or so much
thereof as relates to the Militia, is
hereby annulled, AID the Militia Act,
known as Chapter XXI, of the Com
piled Laws of Arizona, pages 203 to
2l0 inclusive, is hereby established;
and to have full force ard effect, to-
gether with all Acts, or parts of Acts:
amendatory thereto, the same as
though said repeating Act had not
been had; and be it further enacted,
that paragraph l6, of section 1899,
Revised Statutes of Arizona, of 1887,
being as follows, to wit: "He (the
Governor) may convene the Legislature
by proclamation, on extraordinary
occasions, by consent of the President
of the United States" is hereby ap
proved and to have full force and
effect.
In explanation of the foregoing it
may be noted that section 1897 is the
one formerly giving the power of re-
| moval for cause, and Act No. 81, Laws
Of 1885, page 2l3, is the one dis