TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF IOWA. delegate to the house of representatives of the United States, to serve for the term of two years, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly who shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges as have been granted to the delegates from the several territories of the United States to the said house of representatives. The first election shall be held at such time and place or places, and be conducted in such manner as the governor shall appoint and direct. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given to the person 80 elected. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That all suits, process, and proceedings, and all indictments and information, which shall be undetermined on the third day of July next, in the district courts of Wisconsin territory, west of the Mississippi river, shall be transferred to be heard, tried, prosecuted and determined in the district courts hereby established, which may include the said counties. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That all justices of the peace, constables, sheriffs, and all other executive and judicial officers, who shall be in office on the third day of July next, in that portion of the present territory of Wisconsin, which will then, by this act, become the territory of Iowa, shall be, and are hereby authorized and required to continue to exercise and perform the duties of their respective offices, as officers of the territory of Iowa, temporarily, and until they or others shall be duly appointed to fill their places by the territorial government of Iowa, in the manner hereby directed; provided, that no officer shall hold or continue in office by virtue of this provision, over twelve months from the said third day of July next. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That all causes which shall have been or may be removed from the courts held by the present territory of Wisconsin, in the counties west of the Mississippi river, by appeal or otherwise, into the supreme court for the territory of Wisconsin, and which shall be undetermined therein on the third day of July next, shall be certified by the clerk of the said supreme court, and transferred to the supreme court of said territory of Iowa, there to be proceeded in to final determination, in the same manner that they might have been in the said supreme court of the territory of Wisconsin. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by, and under the direction of the governor of said territory of Iowa, in the purchase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government, for the accommodation of the governor, legislative assembly, judges, secretary, marshal, and attorney of said territory, and such other persons as the governor and legislative assembly shall direct. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day named in this act for the organization of the territory of Iowa, the term of the members of the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, shall be deemed to have expired, and an entirely new organization of the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, as constituted by this act, shall take place as follows: As soon as practicable, after the passage of this act, the governor of the territory of Wisconsin shall apportion the thirteen members of the council, and twenty-six members of the house of representatives among the several counties or districts comprised within said territory, according to their population, as nearly as may be, (Indians excepted.) The first election shall be held at such time as the governor shall appoint and direct, and shall be conducted, and returns thereof made, in all respects, according to the provisions of the laws of said territory, and the governor shall declare the person having the greatest number of votes to be elected, and shall order a new election when there is a tie between two or more persons voted for, to supply the vacancy made by such tie. The persons thus elected shall meet at Madison, the seat of government, on such day as he shall appoint, but thereafter, the apportioning of the representation in the several counties to the council and house of representatives, according to population, the day of their election, and the day for the commencement of the session of the legislative assembly shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That temporarily, and until otherwise provided by law of the legislative assembly, the governor of the territory of Iowa may define the judicial districts of said territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for said territory, to the several districts, and also appoint the time for holding courts in the several counties in each TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF IOWA. district, by proclamation to be issued by him; but the legislative assembly, at their first, or any subsequent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts, and assign the judges, and alter the times of holding the courts, or any of them. APPROVED, JUNE 12, 1838. AMENDMENTS TO THE ORGANIC LAW. AN ACT to alter and amend the organic law of the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That every bill which shall have passed the council and house of representatives of the territories of Iowa and Wisconsin shall, before it become a law, be presented to the governor of the territory; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of that house it shall become a law. But, in all such cases, the voters of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journals of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within three days (Sundays excepted,) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the assembly by adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be so construed as to deprive congress of the right to disapprove of any law passed by the said legislative assembly, or in any way to impair or alter the power of congress over laws passed by said assembly. APPROVED, MARCH 3d, 1839. AN ACT to authorize the election or appointment of certain officers in the territory of Iowa and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the legislative assembly of the territory of Iowa, shall be, and are hereby authorized to provide by law for the election or appointment of sheriffs, judges of probate, justices of the peace, and county surveyors, within the said territory, in such way or WISCONSIN AND IOWA. manner, and at such times and places as to them ry may elect a delegate to serve from the said may seem proper; and after a law shall have twenty-seventh day of October to the fourth day been passed by the legislative assembly for that purpose, all elections or appointments of the above named officers thereafter to be had or made shall be in pursuance of such law. of March thereafter, at such time and place as shall be prescribed by law by the legislative assembly, and thereafter a delegate shall be elected, at such time and place as the legislative assembly may direct, to serve for a congress, as members of the house of representatives are now Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the term of service of the present delegate for said territor of Iowa shall expire on the twenty-elected. seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and forty; and the qualified electors of sail territo APPROVED, MARCH 3d, 1889. ADMISSION OF IOWA. AN ACT for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union. city, thence due south to the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, thence eastwardly following that boundary to the point at which the same intersects the Des Moines river, thence by the middle of the channel of that river to the place of beginning. WHEREAS, the people of the territory of Iowa a meridian line, seventeen degrees and thirty did, on the seventh day of October, eighteen minutes west of the meridian of Washington hundred and forty-four, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State government; and whereas, the people of the territory of Florida did, in like manner, by their delegates, on the eleventh day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the form for themselves a constitution and State said State of Iowa shall have concurrent jurisgovernment, both of which said constitutions diction on the liver Mississippi, and every other are republican; and said conventions having river bordering on the said State of Iowa, so far asked the admission of their respective terri- as the said rivers shall form a common boundatories into the Union as States, on equal foot-ry to said State, and any other State or States ing with the original States: now or hereafter to be formed or bounded by the Be it enacted by the senate and house of rep-same: Such rivers to be common to both: resentatives of the United States of America in | And that the said river Mississippi, and the navcongress assembled, That the States of Iowa igable waters leading into the same, shall be and Florida be, and the same are hereby de- common highways, and forever free as well as clared to be States of the United States of Amer- to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other ica, and are hereby admitted into the Union on citizens of the United States, without any tax, equal footing with the original States, in all re- duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the spects whatsoever. said State of Iowa. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following shall be the boundaries of the said State of Iowa, to wit: Beginning at the mouth of the Des Moines river, at the middle of the Mississippi, thence by the middle of the channel of that river to a parallel of latitude passing through the mouth of the Mankato, or Blue Earth river, thence west along the said parallel of latitude to a point where it is intersected by Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it is made and declared to be a fundamental condition of the admission of said State of Iowa into the Union, that so much of this act as relates to the said State of Iowa shall be assented to by a majority of the qualified electors at their township elections, in the manner and at the time prescribed in the sixth section of the thirteenth article of the constitution adopted at Iowa |