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drcd and sixty-seven, and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, made by the governor in accordance with the laws of said Territory, be, and is hereby, declared legal and valid under the organic act.
’ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an election for members of the Eiqcfivn bv be
next legislative assembly, and for all township, county, and district 0in- 1;;;*1 ig7I§?"°m' cers, and for delegate to the Forty-second Congress of the United Sfates,’ Mshall be held upon the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and the governor shall order aB30E3S5g2x3 such election by proclamation to be issued not less than two months pre- ' V vious to said day. In said proclamation he shall declare the number of T members of each brunch of the legislature to which each county or disf trict of said Territory shall be entitled, and such apportionment shall be
- based upon the population as shown by the census to be taken in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy, under the law of the United States, and if
such census is not completed in time, then the apportionment shall be APP0¤`W>¤·
made according to the population as shown by the best information to be mgm' obtained. Said election shall be conducted in conformity to the laws of
T the Territory and of Congress; and the term of office of all township, T¤rm0f¢>iTi¢•·
county, and district officers shall expire upon the thirty-first day of Dc-
- cember, eighteen hundred and seventy, and that of all onicers elected as
herein provided shall begin upon the first day of January, eighteen bun-
§ dred and sevenby-ono.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the persons thus elected to the Nextlegis1a- nexc legislative assembly shall meet at the Capitol on the second Wednes- ”““‘blY· . . re to meet. day in January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. — Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the governor shall Hll by ap- G<>V€¤‘9<>¤‘ ma! » · · _ · _ · ·_ · · _ · B11 certain va-
- pointment all vaczinmes ID township, county, or district offices in said cmdés and
Territory, until the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and makeremovals. 4 seventy; and until the same time he may remove township, county, and
g district officers, and iill their places whenever in his judgment the public g interest will be promoted thereby. »¤ Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That justices of the peace in said_ Jurisdiction of Q Territory of Arizona shall not have jurisdiction of any matter in con- ;;§ ‘2g‘§1‘§l_;‘;‘gn& troversy where the title or boundaries of land may be in dispute, or ;;H}i;8d_ ~ where the debt or sum claimed shall exceed three hundred dollars. é Awnovmv, Mamcb 23, 1870. é CHAP. XXX.- An Act prescribing the Dugy of the Secretary of the Yieasury in ccriain March 25- 1870· K. Cases therezn named. 3 Be it enacted by the Senate and [base of Representatives of {hc United LI d
States of America an Congress assembled, That whenever any State shall from th; United
if have been, or may be, 111 default 1H the payment of mtcrest or prmcipal States to any ·· on investments in stocks or bonds issued or guaranteed by such State and Eg? £’cb‘;f"’“h' E held by the United States in trust, it shall be the duty of the Secretary gmté is fn dei of the Treasury to retain the whole, or so much thereof as may be neces- *°*;_“]* i¤ P¤·Ym¤¤*¤
sary, of any moneys due on any account from the United States to such griygglxsggr State, and to apply the same to the payment of such principal and inter- stocks, &¤. is-
? est, or either, or to the reimbursement, with interest thereon, of moneys ;gfid1; g§·.b5; i*· t Q advanced by the United States on account of interest due on such stocks by the Uégesus
or bonds. States. APPROVED, March 25, 1870. V CHAP. XXXI. —-An Act relating to Acknowledgments of Deeds or other Instruments of March 25, 1870.
5 WYiting in the District ay" Columbia. "`—";""
J Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
G wa m 0ng2ess assem e , at from and aftei the passage E»S2ates of Amer'O · bld Th · ~ · ~· i of this act; the acknowledgment of any deed, contract, bond, or power of m£f§Q?g;i%§' E attorney, concerning lands in the District of Columbia, herez.fter made &c.ofXa.ndin’
