the territory in cases of general elections for delegate to congress, and county and other officers. Every qualified elector of the territory at the date of said election shall be entitled to vote thereat. Said election shall be conducted in all respects, in the same manner as provided by the laws of the territory for general elections, and the returns thereof shall be made to the canvassing board hereinafter provided for. SEC. 11. The governor, secretary of the territory and president of this convention, or a majority of them, shall constitute a board of canvassers to canvass the vote of such election for member of congress, all state and district officers and members of the legislature. The said board shall assemble at the seat of government of the territory on the thirtieth day after the day of such election (or on the following day if such day fall on Sunday) and proceed to canvass the votes for all state and district officers and members of the legis lature, in the manner provided by the laws of the territory for canvassing the vote for delegate to congress, and they shall issue certificates of election to the persons found to be elected to said offices, severally, and shall make and file with the secretary of the territory an abstract certified by them of the number of votes cast for each person, for each of said offices, and of the total number of votes cast in each county. SEC. 12. All officers elected at such election, except members of the legis lature, shall, within thirty days after they have been declared elected, take the oath required by this constitution, and give the same bond required by the law of the territory or district, and shall thereupon enter upon the duties of their respective offices; but the legislature may require by law all such officers to give other or further bonds as a condition of their continuance in office. SEC. 13. The governor-elect of the state, immediately upon his qualifying and entering upon the duties of his office, shall issue his proclamation conVEDing the legislature of the state at the seat of government, on a day to he named in said proclamation, and which shall not be less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date of such proclamation. Within ten days after the organization of the legislature, both houses of the legislature, in joint ses sion. shall then and there proceed to elect, as provided by law, two senators of the United States for the state of Wyoming. At said election the two person who shall receive the majority of all the votes cast by said senators and representatives shall be elected as such United States senators, and shall be s declared by the presiding officers of said joint session. The presiding officers of the senate and house shall issue a certificate to each of said senators certifying his election, which certificates shall also be signed by the governor ai attested by the secretary of state. SEC. 14. The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to carry into effect: the provisions of this constitution. SEC. 15. Whenever any two of the judges of the supreme court of the state, elected under the provisions of this constitution, shall have qualifieì in their offices, the causes then pending in the supreme court of the territory. and the papers, records and proceedings of said court, and the seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the supreme court of the state; and until so superseded the supreme court of the territory and the judges thereof shall continue with like powers and juris diction, as if this constitution had not been adopted. Whenever the judge of the district court of any district, elected under the provisions of this constitution, shall have qualified in office, the several causes then pending in the district court of the territory, within any county in such district, and the records. papers and proceedings of said district court and the seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and posssesion of the dis trict court of the state for such county; and until the district courts of this territory shall be superseded in the manner aforesaid, the said district courts and the judges thereof shall continue with the same jurisdiction and power te be exercised in the same judicial districts respectively as heretofore constiture! under the laws of the territory. SEC. 16. Until otherwise provided by law the seals now in use in the su reme and district courts of this territory are hereby declared to be the seals the supreme and district courts, respectively, of the state. SEC. 17. Whenever this constitution shall go into effect, records and pers and proceedings of the probate court in each county, and all causes nd matters of administration and other matters pending therein, shall pass to the jurisdiction and possession of the district court of the same county, nd the said district court shall proceed to final decree or judgment order or ther determination in the said several matters and causes, as the said probate ourt might have done if this constitution had not been adopted. SEC. 18. Senators and members of the house of representatives shall be hosen by the qualified electors of the several senatorial and representative stricts as established in this constitution, until such districts shall be changed law, and thereafter by the qualified electors of the several districts as e same shall be established by law. SEC. 19. All county and precinct officers who may be in office at the time the adoption of this constitution, shall hold their respective offices for the all time for which they may have been elected, and until such time as their ccessors may be elected and qualified, as may be provided by law, and the ficial bonds of all such officers shall continue in full force and effect as ough this constitution had not been adopted. SEC. 20. Members of the legislature and all state officers, district and sureme judges elected at the first election held under this constitution shall hold eir respective offices for the full term next ensuing such election, in addition the period intervening between the date of their qualification and the comencement of such full term. SEC. 21. If the first session of the legislature under this constitution shall - concluded within twelve months of the time designated for a regular session ereof, then the next regular session following said special session shall be nitted. SEC. 22. The first regular election that would otherwise occur followg the first session of the legislature, shall be omitted, and all county and ecinct officers elected at the first election held under this constitution shall old their office for the full term thereof, commencing at the expiration of the rm of the county and precinct officers then in office, or the date of their alification. SEC. 23. This convention does hereby declare on behalf of the people of e territory of Wyoming, that this constitution has been prepared and subitted to the people of the territory of Wyoming for their adoption or rejecon, with no purpose of setting up or organizing a state government until ch time as the congress of the United States shall enact a law for the mission of the territory of Wyoming as a state under its provisions. ORDINANCES. The following article shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United cates and the people of this state: SECTION 1. The state of Wyoming is an inseparable nion and the constitution of the United States is the nd. part of the Federal supreme law of the SEC. 2. Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no habitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on account his or her mode of religious worship. SEC. 3. The people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that they rever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying ithin the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned held by any Indian or Indian tribes, and that until the title thereto shall ve been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain bject to the disposition of the United States and that said Indian lands shall main under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the nited States; that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States residing ithout this state shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belongg to residents of this state; that no taxes shall be imposed by this state on lands or property therein, belonging to, or which may hereafter be purchased SEC. 4. All debts and liabilities of the territory of Wyoming shall be assumed and paid by this state. SEC. 5. The legislature shall make laws for the establishment and maletenance of systems of public schools which shall be open to all the children the state and free from sectarian control. Done in open convention, at the city of Cheyenne, in the Territory of Wyoming, this 30th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. MELVILLE C. BROWN, President. Attested: JOHN K. JEFFREY, Secretary, ORGANIC ACT OF ALASKA-1912.* An Act to create a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and known as Alaska, shall be and constitute the Territory of Alaska under the laws of the United States, the government of which shall be organized and administered as provided by said laws. SEC. 2. That the capital of the Territory of Alaska shall be at the city of Juneau, Alaska, and the seat of government shall be maintained there, SEC. 3. That the Constitution of the United States, and all the laws thereof which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States; that all the laws of the United States heretofore passed establishing the executive and judicial deartments in Alaska shall continue in full force and effect until amended or repealed by Act of Congress; that except as herein provided all laws now in force in Alaska shall continue in full force and effect until altered, amended, or repealed by Congress or by the legislature: Provided, That the authority herein granted to the legislature to alter, amend, modify, and repeal laws in force in Alaska shall not extend to the customs, internal revenue, postal, or other genral laws of the United States or to the game, fish, and fur-seal laws and laws elating to fur-bearing animals of the United States applicable to Alaska, or to the laws of the United States providing for taxes on business and trade, or to the Act entitled, "An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, he establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane Dersons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved January wenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and the several acts amendatory hereof: Provided further, That this provision shall not operate to prevent the egislature from imposing other and additional taxes or licenses. And the legis ature shall pass no law depriving the judges and officers of the district court of Alaska of any authority, jurisdiction, or function exercised by like judges or officers of district courts of the United States. SEC. 4. That the legislative power and authority of said Territory shall be rested in a legislature, which shall consist of a senate and a house of repre=entatives. The senate shall consist of eight members, two from each of the our judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided by act of Congress. each of whom shall have at the time of his election the qualifications of an lector in Alaska, and shall have been a resident and an inhabitant in the division from which he is elected for at least two years prior to the date of his -lection. The term of office of each member of the senate shall be four years: Provided, That immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of he first election they shall, by lot or drawing, be divided in each division into wo classes; the seats of the members of the first class shall be vacated at the end of two years and the seats of the members of the second class shall be acated at the end of four years, so that one member of the senate shall, after he first election, be elected biennially at the regular election from each division. The house of representatives shall consist of sixteen members, four from each of The territory of Alaska was ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March 30, 1867, in consideration of the payment of $7,200,000. A civil government vas established in the territory by the act of May 17, 1884, prior to which time it vas unorganized and subject to the provisions of the act of July 27, 1868. Other acts undamental in character were approved on May 14, 1898; March 3, 1899; June 6, 900 and May 7, 1906. The present form of government was established by the act f August 24, 1912. The federal laws pertaining to the government of Alaska are xtensive and are embraced in Sections 3528-3643, inclusive, of the United States Comiled Statutes of 1913. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. 37, Part I, Public Laws. the four judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided by act of Congress. The term of office of each representative shall be for two years and each representative shall possess the same qualifications as are prescribed for members of the senate and the persons receiving the highest number of legal votes in each judicial division cast in said election for senator or representative shall be deemed and declared elected to such office: Provided, That in the event of a tie vote the candidates thus affected shall settle the question by lot. In case of a vacancy in either branch of the legislature the governor shall order an elec tion to fill such vacancy, giving due and proper notice thereof. That each member of the legislature shall be paid by the United States the sum of fifteen dollars per day for each day's attendance while the legislature is in session, and mileage, in addition, at the rate of fifteen cents per mile for each mile from his home to the capital and return by the nearest traveled route. SEC. 5. That the first election for members of the Legislature of Alaska shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twelve, and all subsequent elections for the election of such menbers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November bien nially thereafter; that the qualifications of electors, the regulations governing the creation of voting precincts, the appointment and qualifications of election officers, the supervision of elections, the giving of notices thereof, the forms of ballots the register of votes, the challenging of voters, and the returns and the canvass of the returns of the result of all such elections for members of the legislature shall be the same as those prescribed in the act of Congress entitled “An Ac providing for the election of a Delegate to the House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska," approved May seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and all the provisions of said act which are applicable are extended to said elections for members of the legislature, and shall govern the same, and the canvassing board created by said act shall canvass the returns of such elections and issu certificates of election to each member elected to the said legislature; and all the penal provisions contained in section fifteen of the said act shall apply to ele tions for members of the legislature as fully as they now apply to elections for Delegates from Alaska to the House of Representatives. SEC. 6. That the Legislature of Alaska shall convene at the capitol at the city of Juneau, Alaska, on the first Monday in March in the year nineteen hu dred and thirteen, and on the first Monday in March every two years thereafter: but the said legislature shall not continue in session longer than sixty days it any two years unless again convened in extraordinary session by a proclamats of the governor, which shall set forth the object thereof and give at least thirty days written notice to each member of said legislature, and in such cas shall not continue in session longer than fifteen days. The governor of Alaska is hereby authorized to convene the legislature in extraordinary session for a period not exceeding fifteen days when requested to do so by the President of the United States, or when any public danger or necessity may require it. SEC. 7. That when the legislature shall convene under the law, the senate and house of representatives shall each organize by the election of one of their number as presiding officer, who shall be designated in the case of the senate as "president of the senate" and in the case of the house of representatives Es "speaker of the house of representatives," and by the election by each body of the subordinate officers provided for in section eighteen hundred and sixty-one of the United States Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. and each of said subordinate officers shall receive the compensation provided that section: Provided, That no person shall be employed for whom salary, wages or compensation is not provided in the appropriation made by Congress. SEC. S. That the enacting clause of all laws passed by the legislature sti be "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska." No law sha embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title. SEC. 9. The legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightf subjects of legislation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary dispos of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States: D shall the lands or other property of nonresidents be taxed higher than the |