Sect. 22. Each officer, before he enters upon the discharge of his duty, shall take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States, the provisions of this act, and the act organizing the Territory of Dakota, and to faithfully and impartially discharge his duty, to the best of his ability.
Sect. 23. Officers and privates shall be tried for misdemeanors and offences in the same manner as provided in the army regulations of the United States.
Sect. 24. This act to take effect from and after its passage, and approval by the governor.
- Approved May 8, 1862.
MORTGAGES.
CHAPTER 61.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE FILING OF CHATTEL MORTGAGES.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. Any mortgage of personal property, or a copy thereof, may be filed in the office of the register of deeds of any county where the mortgagor executing the same resides; or, in case he is a non-resident of the territory, then in the office of the register of the county where the property mortgaged may be at the time of executing such mortgage; and such register shall indorse on such instrument or copy the time of receiving the same, and shall record the same in a book kept for the purpose of recording chattel mortgages.
Sect. 2. Such register of deeds shall also enter, in a book to be provided by him for that purpose, the names of note time of all the parties to such instruments, arranging the names of