for their services under such regulations as shall be fixed by the Attorney General. § 1894. The compensation, as well as the expense incident to the subsistence and employment of offenders against the laws of the United States, who have been, or may hereafter be, sentenced to imprisonment in such penitentiary, shall be chargeable on, and payable out of, the fund for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States; but nothing herein shall be construed to increase the maximum compensation now allowed by law to those officers. § 1895. Any person convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in a territory for a violation of the laws thereof, and sentenced to imprisonment may, at the cost of such territory, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by such rules anb regulations, be received, subsisted and employed in such penitentiary during the term of his imprisonment, in the same manner as if he had been convicted of an offense against the laws of the United States. That the legislative assemblies of the several territories of the United States may make such provision for the care and custody of such persons as may be convicted of crime under the laws of such territory as they shall deem proper, and for that purpose may authorize and contract for the care and custody of such convicts in any other territory or state, and provide that such person or persons may be sentenced to confinement accordingly in such other territory or state, and all existing legislative enactments of any of the territories for that purpose are hereby legalized; Provided, That the expense of keeping such prisoners shall be borne by the respective territories, and no part thereof shall be borne by the United States. [Part of act approved June 16, 1880. § 1944. The seat of government of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona and Wyo-. ming, may be changed by the Governors and Legislative Assemblies thereof respectively. 1946. Sections numbered 16 and 36 in each township of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, shall be reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in the several territories herein named, and in the states and territories hereafter to be erected out of the same. That if any timber cut on the public lands shall be exported from the territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found. [Part of act approved April 30, 1878. Resolved, etc, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to the territories, and the states bordering thereon, such arms as he may deem necessary for their protection, not to exceed one thousand to said states each; Provided, That such issues shall only be from arms owned by the government, which have been superseded and no longer issued to the army; Provided, however, That said arms shall be issued only in the following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely: Upon the requisition of the Governors of said states or territories, showing the absolute necessity of arms for the protection of the citizens and their property against Indian raids into said states or territories; also that militia companies are regularly organized and under the control of the Governors of said states or territories, to whom said arms are to be issued, and that said Governor or Governors shall give a good and sufficient bond for the return of saic arms or the payment of the same at such time as the Secretary of War may designate. [Resolution approved July 3, 1876. Resolved, etc., That the joint resolution approved July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms to the territories and the states bordering thereon, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the words, "each of said territories," the words, "and ammunition for the same, not to exceed fifty ball-cartridges for each arm." [Approved, March 3, 1877. Be it enacted, etc., That a joint resolution, approved July third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms," be amended as follows: By inserting in the fifth line, after the word "states," and before the word "each," the words "and territories," and by striking out after the word " each," in said fifth line, and before the word "provided," in sixth line, the words " and not more than five hundred to each of said territories." Provided, That the quota to the states now authorized by law shall not hereby be diminished. [Approved, May 16, 1878. Be it resolved, etc., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to each of the territories of the Unite States, (in addition to arms and ammunition the issue of which has been heretofore provided for), such arms, not to exceed one thousand in number, as he may deem necessary, and ammunition for the same, not to exced fifty ball-cartridges for each arm; vided, That such issue shall be only from arms owned by the Government of the United States, which have been superseded and no longer issued to the army; And provided, further, That said Pro arms shall be issued only in the following manner, and upon the following conditions, namely: Upon the requisition of the Governors of said territories, showing the absolute necessity for arms for the protection of citizens and their property against hostile Indians within or of Indian raids into such territories; And provided further, That the said Governor or Governors of said territories to whom the said arms may be issued, shall give good and sufficient bond or bonds for the return of said arms, or payment therefor, at such time as the Secretary of War may designate, as now provided for by law. [Approved, June 7, 1878. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER 3.-An act to create a Territorial Department of Agriculture and relating to agricultural societies and agricultural fairs, and AGRICULTURAL CODLEGE. CHAPTER 4.-An act to revive and re-enact chapter four of the session laws of 1883, entitled "An act to locate and establish the North Dakota territorial agricultural college," approved March 9, 1883, CHAPTER 5.-Joint resolution providing for the printing of the report of the regents of Brookings agricultural college...... CHAPTER 6.—An act to authorize the county commissioners of Min- nehaha, Lake, Miner and Kingsbury, Faulk, Hyde, Richland, Beadle, Sully, Aurora and Potter counties to aid certain persons CHAPTER 7.-An act to amend section (414) four hundred and four- teen of chapter (XVI) sixteen of the Code of Civil Procedure of CHAPTER 9.—An act making appropriations for the maintenance of charitable, penal and educational institutions of the Territory, |