AN ACT to amend sections 535 and 555 of the Act relating to probate courts and estates of deceased persons, approved February 9th, 1877. .. OFFICERS-DUTIES AND PENALTIES. AN ACT prescribing the duties of certain officers and prescribing a penalty for non-performance of their duties . AN ACT to amend an Act providing for the collection of revenue . AN ACT to repeal section 6 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the col- 65-68 68–70 AN ACT to authorize the governor to contract for the keeping and maintenance of the Territorial convicts in the United States penitentiary at Deer AN ACT to incorporate the town of Butte.. AN ACT to provide for the codification of the general laws of Montana Ter- AN ACT to provide for the refunding of the overdue bonds of Missoula county, with accrued interest, and for other purposes. AN ACT for the redemption of the funded debt of Gallatin county, Montana. AN ACT to provide for the funding of the outstanding twelve per cent. bonds of Jefferson county, Montana Territory . AN ACT concerning the county of Custer. AN ACT to enable Meagher county to remove the county seat . AN ACT to enable the county of Gallatin to erect a court house and jail in AN ACT to amend the Helena incorporation act.. AN ACT to provide for the payment by Deer Lodge county of certain ex- penses incurred during the Nez Perces war of 1877. . AN ACT to authorize the probate judge of Deer Lodge county, Montana Ter- ritory, to convey certain property. . AN ACT to provide for the support and maintenance of the Philipsburg fire AN ACT to pay certain indebtedness AN ACT to provide compensation for the fire warden for the town of Helena. AN ACT providing for a county jail at Butte city, in Deer Lodge county . . AN ACT to establish a public highway in township in, county of Lewis and AN ACT to provide compensation for certain printing. . AN ACT for the relief of St. John's Hospital . . . AN ACT to change the name of Sarah A. Merrell to Sarah A. Murdock . AN ACT to change the name of Sing On to the name of George Taylor. Appropriating money to pay clerks . Declaring valid the organization of Custer county, and acts of officers thereunder. 117–118 Authorizing certain committees to employ clerks . Appointing committee to accept printing proposition. Asking the establishment of Montana as a separate military department, and the appointment of General Nelson A. Miles as commander thereof . Referring to information concerning Montana . Requesting the county clerk of Missoula county to furnish a statement of the Asking the establishment of a cavalry post at, or near, Henry's lake . In relation to the enlargement of the United States penitentiary of Montana 123 Asking Congress to make further appropriation to pay the expenses of the eleventh session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana. . 124 In relation to the improvement and repair of the Mullan wagon road, built by the Government of the United States during the years 1859 and 1861, extend- ing from Walla Walla, in the Territory of Washington, to Fort Benton, in the Territory of Montana.. 124-126 Remonstrating against any radical change in the present system of land surveys. 126-127 Petitioning for the erection of the two military districts of Montana into a mili- tary department under the command of Brevet Major General Miles . 127-129 Asking that the treaty between the United States and China be modified . 129-130 Asking the transfer of the management of Indian affairs to the war department. 130–131 Asking modification of the law imposing a penalty for driving stock over an Indian reservation . 131-133 In relation to military telegraph . 133-134 Asking for additional improvements on the Yellowstone and upper Missouri rivers. 134-135 Asking for the establishment of a United States land office at Miles City, Custer county, Montana Territory 135-136 In relation to restoring a portion of the Crow Indian reservation to the public domain 136-137 In relation to a public highway from the head of navigation to and through the National Park . 137-138 Asking Congress to pass an enabling act for Montana Territory 138-140 THE TERRITORIES. REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. TITLE XXIII. CHAPTER ONE. PROVISIONS COMMON TO ALL THE TERRITORIES. Mont. 26 May, 1864. SEC. 1839. Nothing in this Title shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property pertaining to the Indians in any Territory, so long as such rights remain unextinguished by treaty between the United Right of InStates and such Indians, or to include any Territory and property which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without this Title, &c. ; boundaries, &c. the consent of such tribe, embraced within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory; but all such Territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of any Territory now or hereafter organized until such tribe signifies its' assent to the President to be embraced within a particular Territory. SEC. 1840. Nor shall anything in this Title be construed to affect the authority of the United States to make any regulations respecting the Indians of any ins. regulate InTerritory, their lands, property, or rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, in the same manner as might be made if no temporary government existed, or is hereafter estab· lished, in any such Territory. SEC. 1841. The executive power of each Territory shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President. He shall reside in the Territory for which he is appointed, Authority to Ibid. Executive power. Ibid. Ibid. and shall be commander-in-chief of the militia thereof. He may grant pardons and reprieves, and remit fines and forfeitures, for offenses against the laws of the Territory for which he is appointed, and respites for offenses against the laws of the United States, till the decision of the President can be made known thereon. He shall commission all officers who are appointed under the laws of such Territory, and shall take care that the laws thereof be faithfully executed. SEC. 1842. Every bill which has passed the legislative assembly of any Territory shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor. If he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it originated, and that house shall enter the objections at large on its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, Veto power. 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 votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for or against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house. If any bill is not returned by the governor within three days, Sundays excluded, except in Washington and Wyoming, where the term is five days, Sundays excluded, after it has been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislative assembly, by adjournment sine die, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law : [Provided, That so much of this section as provides for making any bill passed by the legislative assembly of a Territory a law, without the . approval of the governor, shall not apply to the Territories of Utah and Arizona.] SEC. 1843. There shall be appointed a secretary for each Territory, who shall reside within the Territory for which he is appointed, and shall hold his office for four |