of the United States, where the value of the property, or the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by the oath or affirmation of either party, or other competent witness, shall exceed one thousand dollars; and each of the said District Courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, in all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, as is vested in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States; and the first six days of every term of said courts, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be appropriated to the trial of causes arising under the said Constitution and laws; and writs of error and appeal in all such cases shall be made to the Supreme Court of said Territory, the same as in other cases. The said clerk shall receive, in all such cases, the Fees of clerk. same fees which the clerks of the District Courts of the late Wisconsin Territory received for similar services. marshal: their ments. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be Attorney and appointed an attorney for said Territory, who shall con- fees and emolutinue in office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President, and who shall receive the same fees and salary as the attorney of the United States for the late Territory of Wisconsin received. There shall also be a marshal for the Territory appointed, who shall hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President, and who shall execute all processes issuing from the said courts, when exercising their jurisdiction as Circuit and District Courts of the United States; he shall perform the duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as the marshal of the District Court of the United States for the late Territory of Wisconsin; and shall, in addition, be paid two hundred dollars annually as a compensation for extra services. Governor, sec tices, attorney, pointed. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the governor, retary, enief and secretary, chief justice, and associate justices, attorney, associate jusand marshal, shall be nominated, and, by and with the and marshal, advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by the Presi- how to be apdent of the United States. The governor and secretary, Each to take ofto be appointed as aforesaid, shall, before they act as such, ficial oaths, &c. respectively take an oath or affirmation, before the district judge, or some justice of the peace in the limits of said Territory, duly authorized to administer oaths and affirmations by the laws now in force therein, or before the chief justice or some associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices; which said oaths, when so taken, shall be certified by the person by whom the same shall have been taken, and such certificates shall be received and recorded by the said secretary among the executive proceedings; and the chief justice and associate justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, before they act as such, shall take a like oath or affirmation, before the said governor or secretary, or some judge or justice of the peace of the Territory, who may be duly com ernor. and associate retary. of members of missioned and qualified, which said oath or affirmation shall be certified and transmitted, by the person taking the same, to the secretary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid; and afterwards, the like oath or affirmation shall be taken, certified, and recorded in such manner and form as may be prescribed by law. The governor shall receive an Salary of gov-annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as governor, and one thousand dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs. The chief justice and associate justices shall each receive Salaries of chief an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The secrejustices. tary shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred Salary of sec-dollars. The said salaries shall be paid quarter-yearly, at the treasury of the United States. The members of the Compensation legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive three dollegislative as-lars each per day during their attendance at the sessions thereof, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel in going to and returning from the said sessions, estimated according to the nearest usually traveled route. There shall be appropriated, annually, the sum of one Provision for thousand dollars, to be expended by the governor to defray contingent ex-the contingent expenses of the Territory; and there shall also be appropriated, 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 printing of the laws, and other incidental expenses; and the Secretary of the Territory shall annually account to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall have been expended. sembly. Denses, &c. be entitled to all privileges se Inhabitants to SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the inhabitants the rights and of the said Territory shall be entitled to all the rights, cured to inhab- privileges, and immunities heretofore granted and secured itants of Wiscon- to the Territory of Wisconsin and to its inhabitants; and Laws of Wis- the laws in force in the Territory of Wisconsin at the date consin to con- of the admission of the State of Wisconsin shall continue sin. tinue in force. ment for Territory. to be valid and operative therein, so far as the same be not incompatible with the provisions of this act, subject, nevertheless, to be altered, modified, or repealed, by the governor and legislative assembly of the said Territory of Minnesota; and the laws of the United States are hereby extended over and declared to be in force in said Territory, so far as the same, or any provision thereof, may be applicable. Seat of govern- SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the legislative said assembly of the Territory of Minnesota shall hold its first session at Saint Paul; and at said first session the governor and legislative assembly shall locate and establish a temporary seat of government for said Territory at such place as they may deem eligible; and shall, at such time as they shall see proper, prescribe by law the manner of locating the permanent seat of government of said Territory by a Appropriation vote of the people. And the sum of twenty thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated and granted to said for public build- Territory of Minnesota, to be applied, by the governor and legislative assembly, to the erection of suitable public buildings at the seat of government. Congress of the SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That a delegate to Delegate to the House of Representatives of the United States, to serve U. States to be for the term of two years, may be elected by the voters elected. 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 election shall be held at such times 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 holding the 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. ess, and proceed courts of Wiscon of said Territory, said Territory. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all suits, proc- All suits, proc. ess, and proceedings, civil and criminal, at law and in ings at law, &c.. chancery, and all indictments and informations, which pending in the shall be pending and undetermined in the courts of the sin, within limits Territory of Wisconsin, within the limits of said Territory transferred to of Minnesota, when this act shall take effect, shall be trans- District Courts of ferred 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. All bonds, recognizances, and obligations, of every kind whatsoever, valid under the existing laws within the limits of said Territory, shall be valid under this act; and all crimes and misdemeanors against the laws in force within said limits may be prosecuted, tried, and punished in the courts established by this act; and all penalties, forfeitures, actions, and causes of action, may be recovered under this act, the same as they would have been under the laws in force within the limits composing said Territory at the time this act shall go into operation. peace, consta are ap SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all justices of Justices of the the peace, constables, sheriffs, and all other judicial and bles, &c., continministerial officers, who shall be in office within the limits ued in office till of said Territory, when this act shall take effect, shall be, po them. pointed to sucand they are hereby, authorized and required to continue to exercise and perform the duties of their respective offices as officers of the Territory of Minnesota, temporarily, and until they, or others, shall be duly appointed and qualified to fill their places in the manner herein directed, or until their offices shall be abolished. Appropriation of $5000 for li SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, brary. out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by and under the direction of the said governor of the Territory of Minnesota, in the purchase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government, for the use of the governor, legislative assembly, judges of the Supreme Court, secretary, marshal, and attorney Reservation of schools. 1851, ch. 10. of said Territory, and such other persons and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That when the lands lands for use of in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same. Until otherwise provided by SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That temporarily, law the governor and until otherwise provided by law, the governor of said may define the Territory may define the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the and assign the judges who may be appointed for said Terjudges to them, ritory to the several districts, and also appoint the times judicial districts, &c. How laws shall legislative as proved by the governor. 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, at their first or any subsequent session, may organize, 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. 20. And be it further enacted, That every bill which be enacted by shall or may pass the council and house of representatives sembly and ap- shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor of the Territory; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it originated; which shall cause the objections to be entered at large upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two thirds. of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall also be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall become a law; but in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house, respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within three days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislative assembly, by adjournment, prevent it; in which case it shall not become a law. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. Act of September 9, 1850; 9 Stats., 446. CHAP. XLIX.-An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment_Sept. 9, 1850. of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said Boundaries, and of all her Claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial Government for New Mexico. when accepted, upon her and the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Propositions ofof the United States of America in Congress assembled, That fered to Texas, the following propositions shall be, and the same hereby to be binding are, offered to the State of Texas, which, when agreed United States. to by the said State, in an act passed by the general assembly, shall be binding and obligatory upon the United States, and upon the said State of Texas: Provided, The said agreement by the said general assembly shall be given on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty: Proviso. Texas defined. FIRST. The State of Texas will agree that her boundary Boundary on the north shall commence at the point at which the meridian of one hundred degrees west from Greenwich is intersected by the parallel of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, and shall run from said point due west to the meridian of one hundred and three degrees west from Greenwich; thence her boundary shall run due south to the thirty-second degree of north latitude; thence on the said parallel of thirty-two degrees of north latitude to the Rio Bravo del Norte, and thence with the channel of said river to the Gulf of Mexico. of SECOND. The State of Texas cedes to the United States Cession of territory to the all her claim to territory exterior to the limits and bound- United States. aries which she agrees to establish by the first article of this agreement. Texas relin States for liabil &c. THIRD. The State of Texas relinquishes all claim upon quishes all claim the United States for liability of the debts of Texas, and upon the United for compensation or indemnity for the surrender to the ity of her debts United States of her ships, forts, arsenals, custom-houses, or indemnity, custom-house revenue, arms and munitions of war, and public buildings with their sites, which became the property of the United States at the time of the annexation. FOURTH. The United States, in consideration of said establishment of boundaries, cession of claim to territory, five per cent. inand relinquishment of claims, will pay to the State of to Texas the sum of ten millions of dollars in a stock bearing for. five per cent. interest, and redeemable at the end of four $10,000,000 in stock bearing terest to be paid Texas there |