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voters) to preside at and conduct said elections, and in the absence of a justice of the peace or other officer authorized to administer oaths, they, the said inspectors, are hereby authorized to administer to each other the usual oath of inspectors of elections, and the said inspectors shall appoint one or more competent clerks of said elections, who shall keep a correct poll-list of the voters of said election.

And it is further directed, that the poll-lists of said election shall be (within three days thereafter,) certified and sent by said. inspectors to the sheriffs of the several counties,-that the said poll books and returns shall also be certified and sent by the said sheriff, (with n six days after their receipt,) to the governor of said. territory, at Belmont, Iowa county-that the person or persons having the greatest number of votes for the said council and house of representatives, equal to the number to which each county may be entitled, shall be duly elected,-and a certificate to that effect shall be given by the sheriffs of the several counties to the members elect; and in case of there being a tie between two or more persons, such fact shall be stated by said sheriffs.

And I do further order and direct that the members elected from the several counties for representatives and council shall convene at Belmont, in the county of Iowa, on the 25th day of October, next ensuing, for the purpose of organizing the first session of the legislative assembly of said territory.

And I do also direct and appoint that at the same time and place, above specified, for electing the members of said legislature, there shall be elected by the voters of the several counties, one delegate to the congress of the United States, for the term of two years, agreeable to the fourteenth section of the act of congress, and that the election for said delegate shall be conducted, and the returns made in the same manner, as near as may be, as is prescribed for the election of said members of the legislature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this ninth day of September, A. D. 1836. H. DODGE, [SEAL.]

PROCLAMATION.

To all whom these presents shall come, greeting:

Know ye, That I, HENRY DODGE, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of congress, passed on the 10th of April, 1836, for the organi

zation of the said territory, having caused elections to be held in the several counties of this territory on the 10th inst. for members to the council and house of representatives, as well as a delegate to the congress of the United States, as provided for by said act, do hereby declare and make known that the following named gentlemen are duly elected members of the said council from the several counties herein mentioned, viz:

From the county of Brown, Henry S. Baird and John P. Arndt.

From the county of Milwaukee, Gilbert Knapp and Alanson Sweet.

From the county of Iowa, Ebenezer Brigham, John B. Terry and James R. Vineyard.

From the county of Dubuque, John Foley, Thomas M'Craney and Thomas McKnight.

From the county of Des Moines, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Joseph B. Teas and Arthur B. Inghram.

Given under my hand and seal, at Belmont, this 25th October, 1836.

H. DODGE, [L. S.]

PROCLAMATION.

To all whom these presents shall come, greeting:

Know ye, That I, HENRY DODGE, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of congress, passed on the 10th April, 1836, for the organization of the said territory, having caused elections to be held in the several counties of this territory on the 10th inst., for members of the council and house of representatives, as well as a delegate to the congress of the United States, as provided for by said act, do hereby declare and make known, that the following named gentlemen were duly elected members of the said house of representatives, from the several counties herein mentioned, viz:

From the county of Brown, Ebenezer Childs, Albert G. Ellis and Alexander J. Irwin.

From the county of Milwaukee, William B. Sheldon, Madison W. Cornwall and Charles Durkee.

From the county of Iowa, William Boyles, G. F. Smith, D. M. Parkinson, Thos. M'Knight, T. Shanley and J. P. Cox.

From the county of Crawford, James H. Lockwood and James B. Dallam.

From the county of Dubuque, Loring Wheeler, Hardin Nowlin, Hosea T. Camp, P. H. Engle and Patrick Quigley.

From the county of Des Moines, Isaac Leffler, Thomas Blair, Warren L. Jenkins, John Box, George W. Teas, Eli Reynolds and David R. Chance.

Given under my hand and seal at Belmont this 25th of October, 1836.

H. DODGE, [SEAL.]

ACTS

OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WISCONSIN.

No. 1.

AN ACT to authorize the legislative assembly to punish for contempt, and to privilege the members from arrest.

punishable.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, that each Contempt, how house of the legislative assembly shall have authority to punish, by fine and imprisonment, every person, not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect, by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence; Fine and imor who, in any place where the legislative assembly is prisonment. in session, shall threaten harm to the body or estate of any of its members, for anything said or done in the said assembly, or who shall assault or arrest any witness, or other person, going or returning; or who shall rescue any person arrested by order of either house of the assembly. And a majority of two-thirds of either house may expel a member of its own body: provided always, that the council shall have cognizance only of offences committed as aforesaid against the council, and the house of representatives shall have cognizance only of offences committed as aforesaid against the house of representatives; and provided, further, that the fine. shall not exceed two hundred dollars, and the impris onment shall not exceed forty-eight hours for any one offence.

members.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the Privileges of members of the council and house of representatives

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shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, during their attendance at the session of their respective houses; and in going to and returning from the same, and from being questioned in any other place, for any speech or debate in either house.

SECTION 3. This act to take effect and be in full force from and after the time of its passage.

P. H. ENGLE,

Speaker of the house of representatives.
HENRY S. BAIRD,

President of the council.
H. DODGE.

Approved, Nov. 12, 1836.

Judicial districts.

signed to dis

tricts.

No. 2.

AN ACT to establish the judicial districts of the territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, by an act of congress, approved on the 20th day of April, 1836, entitled "an act to establish the territorial government of Wisconsin," it is provided that the territory of Wisconsin shall be divided into three judicial districts: therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, that the counties of Crawford and Iowa, shall constitute the first judicial district; that the counties of Dubuque and Des Moines, shall constitute the second judicial district and that the counties of Brown and Milwaukee, shall constitute the third judicial district.

SECTION 2. That Charles Dunn, chief justice of the How judges as supreme court of the territory of Wisconsin, shall perform district duties in the first judicial district; that David Irvin, associate judge of said court, shall perform district duties in the second judicial district; and that William C. Frazer, associate judge of said court, shall perform district duties in the third judicial district.

Vacancy, how filled.

SECTION 3. That in case of a vacancy in either of the districts aforesaid, by death, resignation or other

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