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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235, 236, 257. 1868. 188 Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That sections numbered sixteen School lands and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to public schools in the State or States hereafter to be erected out of the same. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That temporarily and until oth- Jndicialdiswise provided by law the governor of said Territory may define the ju- ;!`i°':]:“?(;." dicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be j£ge,_n appointed for the said Territory to the several districts, and also appoint the times 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 Erst 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. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Constitution and all laws Constitution of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the §‘}‘£tk‘d"'§§;;‘%0 same force and effect within the said Territory of Wyoming as elsewhere be in rome, em, within the United States. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted That this act shall take efeet When act from and after the time when the executive and judicial officers herein ”k°° °lf°°“· provided for shall have been duly appointed and qualified: Provided, That all general territorial laws of the Territory of Dakota in force in L¤W¤ °*` D? any portion of said Territory of Wyoming at the time this act shall take $$59 °f,°;}'f§°°° effect shall be and continue in force throughout the said Territory until Gro. A ' repealed by the legislative authority of said Territory, except such laws as relate to the possession or occupation of mines or mining claims. A1>1>1z0v1•:1>, July 25, 1868. CHAP. CCXXXVI. —-An Actin Addition to an Act passed March twenty-sixth, efgh- July 25, 1868. wen hundred and jbur, entitled "An Act in Addition to an Act entitled ‘ An Act for the Pemishment of certain Crimes against the United States.' “VOL u2_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United $g?4fi° ‘ gg}, States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall be prose- Indigtinlents ` cuted, tried, or punished for the capital offences set forth in the act. to £°¤‘ **°?¤°¤»m¤*E which this act is in addition, unless the indictment for the same is found c:;gi,{’é’:‘$,Q.°° by a grand jury within five years after such capital offence is committed. vessels to be Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from f‘;‘;;_g ‘"“““ H" and after its passage, and its provisions shall be applicable equally to y warm act offences committed within three years before and offences committed ¤¤k<>¤ <>f’f¤<>¤, Md after its passage. 3i:p§,l.{,:;°;°}f APPROVED, July 25, 1868. fences. . XXXVII-An Act to rovide or a fin therlssuco tem a LoanC'er- 8 8.

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oompoun Interest Notes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the sole purpose of Tempqpry redeeming and retiring the remainder of the compound interest notes LZTQDSQQEQ we outstanding, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and di- amount, authorrected to issue an additional amount of temporary loan certificates, not £g)t;<L§gg¤¤¤ exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars ; said certificates to bear interest compouudéln. at the rate of three per centum per annum, principal and interest pay- west rwtvpable in lawful money on demand, and to be similar in all respects to the 8sf”° °f“‘*°" certificates authorized by the act entitled "An act to provide ways and 1867,eh.194. means for the payment of compound interest notes," approved March VOL xl'- P- B58- second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and the said certificates may May rm-m constitute and be held by any national bank holding or owning the same Pfw of Fiiefvc as a. part of the reserve, in accordance with the provisions of the above- g,2ESf°° mentioned act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, July 25, 1868.