AUTHENTICATION. DAKOTA TERRITORY, Secretary's Office, Yankton. S I DO hereby certify, that the laws contained in this volume are true and correct copies of the original enrolled bills, passed by the Legislative Assembly, at the first session thereof, begun and held at Yankton, March 17th, A. D. 1862, now on file in my office. Witness my hand and the seal of the territory hereunto affixed, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. L. S. JOHN HUTCHINSON, Secretary of Dakota Territory. PRIVATE LAWS. CITIZENSHIP CONFERRED. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT CONFERRING THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP UPON Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: Certain persons SECTION 1. That James McBride, John McBride, Robert declared citizens. McBride, Charles Papin, Nicholas Angie, Collin Lamont, Collin Campbell, Lewis Lacompt, J. B. Laplant, Benj. Cadotte, Alexis Dicou, and Frank La Fromboise, residents of the Territory of Dakota, be, and are hereby, declared to be citizens of the Territory of Dakota, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens of this territory. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its sage. Approved May 15, 1862. Take effect, pas when. W. JAYNE, Governor. 1 |