Year: 1861

ritory who may be duly commissioned and
qualified, which said oath or affirmation shall
be certified and transmitted by the person ia.
king the same % the secretary, to be by him
recorded as aforesaid; aud afterwards the like
oath or affirmation shall be taken, certified,
and recorded in such manner and form as may
prescribed by law. The governor shall receive
an annual salary Of fifteen hundred dollars as
governor, and one thousand dollars as superin.
tendent of Indian affairs the chief Justice
and associate Justices shall each receive an an.
nusl salary of eighteen hundred dollars the
secretary shall receive an annual salary Of eigh.
teen hundred dollars. The said ealaries shall
be paid quarter yearly at the Treasury Of the
United States. The members Of the legisla.
tive assembly shall be entitled to receive three
dollars each per day during their attendance
at the session thereof, and three dollars for
every twenty miles travel in going to and re.
turning from the said sessions, estimated &C.
cording to the nearest usually travelled route.
There shall be appropriated annually the sum
of one thousand dollars. to be expended by the
governor, to defray the contingent expenses Of
the Territory. There shall also be appropri.
ated annually a sufficient sum, to be expended
by the secretary Of the Territory, and upon an
estimate to be made by the Secretary of the
Treasury Of the United States, to defray the
expenses Of the legislative assembly, the print.
ing Of the laws, and other incidental expenses;
and the secretary of the Territory shall snnu-
ally account to the Secretary Of the Treasury
Of the United States for the manner in which
the aforesaid sum shall have been expended.


Sec. IL. And be il further enacted, That the
legislative assembly Of the Territory Of Colo
RADIO shall hold its first session at such time
and place in said Territory as the governor
thereof shall appoint and direct; and at said
first session, or as soon thereafter as they shall
deem expedient, the governor and Legislative
assembly shall proceed to locate and establish
the seat of government for said Territory at
such place as they may deem eligible; which
place, however, shall thereafter be subject to
be changed by the said governor and legislative
assembly.


Sec. i3. And be it further enacted, That a
delegate to the House of Representatives Of
the United States to serve during each Con.
gress Of the United States, may be elected by
the voters qualified to elect members of the
legislative assembly, who shall be entitled to
the same rights and privileges as are exercised
and enjoyed by the delegates from the several
other ! territories Of the United States to the
said House Of Representatives. The first elec-
ton shall be held at such time and places and
be conducted in such manner as the governor
shall appoint and direct; and at all subsequent
elections, the times, places, and manner of hold.
ing elections shall be prescribed by law. The
person having the greatest number Of votes
shall be declared by the governor to be duly
elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given
accordingly.


Sec. IA. And be it further enacted That when
the land in the said Territory shall be surveyed
under the direction Of 1.-THE Government Of the
United States, preparatory to bringing the
| same into market, sections numbered sixteen
and thirty-six in each township in said Terri
tory shall be and the same are hereby reserved
for the purpose Of being applied to schools in
the States hereafter to be erected out Of the
same.


Sec. Is. And be ii further enacted, That
temporarily, and until otherwise provided by
law, the governor of said Territory may define
the judicial districts of said Territory, and as.
sign the judges who may be appointed for said
Territory to the several districts, and also sp.
point the times and places for holding courts
in the several counties or subdivisions in each
of said judicial districts by proclamation to be
issued by him but the Legislative assembly 81
their first or any subsequent session may or.
ganize, alter, or modify such judicial districts,
and assign the judges and alter the times and
places Of holding the courts, as to them shall
seem proper and convenient.


Sec. l6. And be 1t further enacted, That the
Constitution and all laws of the United
States which are not locally inapplicable shall
have the same force and effect within the
said Territory of Colorado, as elsewhere with
in the United States.


Sec. II. And be il further enacted, That the
President Of the United States, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, shall be
and he is hereby authorized to appoint a sur
veyor general for Colorado, who shall locate
his Office at such place as the Secretary of the
Interior shall from time to time direct, anG
whose duties, powers, obligations, responsible
tiles, compensation, and allowances for clerl
hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses
shall be the same as those OF the surveyor
general of New Mexico, under the direction o
the Secretary Of the Interior, and such instruc
tions as he may from time to time deem it ad
visable to give him.


Approued, February 20, 1861.


CLAP, IX.-An Act to amend Act supplementary to a


Act approved March third eighteen hundred nty