 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 558 pages
...the judges were empowered to adopt and publish, such laws of the original states criminal and civil, as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to congress ; such laws to be in force, until disapproved by that body. The governor... | |
 | James Hall - 1836 - 340 pages
...governor and judges should adopt and publish such laws of the original states, criminal and civil, as might be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district ; which laws should be in force until the organization of a legislature for the district. The legislative... | |
 | 1840 - 42 pages
...authorized and required him to adopt and publish such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the Territory, — to appoint all magistrates and other officers, civil and military, below the rank of... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 444 pages
...overcoming difficulties, which would have paralyzed the efforts of a man of less determi- " nation, were precisely the qualities needed in whoever should...entitle a district to be represented in this body it was neccessary that there should be in the district five thousand free male inhabitants of full age ; for... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 430 pages
...obstacles in the way of the rapid increase of population, or of bringing to the notice of the easiern world the really fruitful resourc.es contained within...entitle a district to be represented in this body it was neccessary that there should be in the district five thousand free male inhabitants of full age ; for... | |
 | William T. Young - 1853 - 432 pages
...responsible station to which the President had appointed him. His experience of frontier life; his indomitable spirit of overcoming difficulties, which...entitle a district to be represented in this body it was neccessary that there should be in the district five thousand free male inhabitants of full age ; for... | |
 | Adolphus Mordecai Hart - 1853 - 308 pages
...the governor, with the right of adopting and publishing in the district such criminal and civil laws as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district, to be in force until the organization of a General Assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress.... | |
 | Jacob Ferris - 1856 - 366 pages
...to a governor, a secretary, and three judges. And the governor was authorized to " adopt and publish such laws of the original states, civil and criminal, as might be necessary, and best adapted to the circumstances of the district." In the absence of the governor, the secretary was to... | |
 | Jacob Ferris - 1856 - 406 pages
...to a governor, a secretary, and three judges. And the governor was authorized to " adopt and publish such laws of the original states, civil and criminal, as might be necessary, and best adapted to the circumstances of the district." In the absence of the governor, the secretary was to... | |
 | Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ninian Edwards - 1870 - 554 pages
...duty of the Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, to adopt such laws from the original States as might be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the Territory." Many of the States had judiciary systems equally as liable to the objection of the Judges... | |
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The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, were empowered to adopt such laws of the original states, civil and criminal as might be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the District. 
