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 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 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 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 118-119 Asking the establishment of Montana as a separate military department, and the appointment of General Nelson A. Miles as commander thereof. 119-120 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 Asking Congress to make further appropriation to pay the expenses of the eleventh session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Montana. . 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 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 . Asking that the treaty between the United States and China be modified . 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 131-133 THE TERRITORIES. REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED TITLE XXIII. CHAPTER ONE. PROVISIONS COMMON TO ALL THE TERRITORIES. 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 States and such Indians, or to include any Territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without 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 Territory, 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 established, in any such Territory. SEC. 1841. The executive power of each Territory shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office. He Right of Inand property dians in person not impaired by this Title. &c.; boundaries, &c. Mont. 26 May, Veto power. 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, 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 |