so that the boundaries thereof may be easily traced, and the extent of such claim easily known, by the owner thereof placing or having placed within three months after the passage of this act, or thirty days after the taking of such claim, a post at each corner of said claim, having the name of the owner of such claim marked or written on said post or stakes, stating which corner of said claim said post is intended to designate, and no person shall be entitled to the provisions or protection of this act unless he or she be a citizen of this territory, unless he or she have improvements made on said claim every six months to at least the amount of twenty dollars, or has a crop growing on said claim, or resides upon the same.
Sect. 4. A neglect to occupy or cultivate such claim for the period of six months, shall be considered such an abandonment as to preclude the claimant from maintaining either of the aforesaid actions.
Sect. 5. This act shall take effect on and after its passage.
- Approved April 30, 1862.
RELIGION.
CHAPTER 68.
AN ACT TO FORM AND REGULATE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. It shall be lawful for all persons of full age belonging to any church, congregation, or religious society, not already incorporated, to assemble at the church or meeting-house, or other place where they statedly attend for divine worship, and by a plurality of votes elect any number of discreet persons of their church, congregation, or society, not less than three nor more than nine number, as trustees, to take charge of the estate and property belonging thereto, and to transact all affairs relative to the temporalities thereof.
Sect. 2. It shall be lawful for any such church, congrega-