Sect. 50. And all legal voters in this territory, residing on ceded lands or unceded lands, shall have the right to vote for delegate to congress, at any election precinct established by law, in any organized county in this territory, and all legal voters living in unorganized counties shall vote in the organized counties to which their unorganized counties are respectively attached for election and representative purposes; and no soldier, officer, or private, other than those who resided in this territory previous to and at the time of their enlistment, shall be entitled to vote at any election in said territory.
Sect. 51. Every free white male person above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the territory ninety days prior to any election, and who is a citizen of the United States, or has declared on oath his intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, shall be entitled to vote; and all persons possessing the qualifications mentioned in this section, and who have resided in this territory nine months, shall be eligible to any office within said territory.
Sect. 52. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
- Approved May 15, 1862.
CHAPTER 33.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That the time for holding the general election, in the Territory of Dakota, shall be on the first Monday of September in each year.
Sect. 2. That at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, there shall be elected a delegate to serve in the Congress of the United States, after the term of the present delegate shall have expired, and every