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Appeals &o. to the su court of the States.

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peals shall be allowed from the final decisions of said district and probate courts to the supreme court, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law; but in no case removed to the supreme court, shall trial by jury be allowed in said court. The supreme Trial by court, or the justices thereof, shall appoint its own jury. clerk, and every clerk shall hold his office at the clerks. pleasure of the court for which he shall have been appointed. Writs of error and appeals from the final decisions of said supreme court shall be allowed, and may be taken to the supreme court of the United States, in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the circuit courts of the United States, when the value of the property, or the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by the oath or affirmation of either party, or other competent witness, shall exceed one thousand dollars; and each of said supreme and district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the. constitution and laws of the United States, as is vested in the circuit and district courts of the United States; and the said supreme and district courts of said territory, and the respective judges thereof, shall and may grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases in which the Habeas same are granted by the judges of the United States in corpus. the District of Columbia; and the first six days of every Precedenoe term of said courts, or so much thereof as shall be of trials. necessary, shall be appropriated to the trial of causes arising under the said constitution and laws; and writs of error and appeals in all such cases shall be made to the supreme court of said territory, the same as in other cases. The said clerk shall receive in all Fees of such cases the same fees which the clerks of the district courts of Oregon territory received for similar services.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of sections one and two of this act shall be applicable to the territory of Dakota, and shall have like effect as in the territory of Colorado. Approved March 2nd, 1863.

clerks.

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to Dakota.

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PART FIRST.

GENERAL LAWS.

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I, FRANK HALL, Secretary of Colorado Territory, do hereby certify that I have delivered to DAVID C. COLLIER, Public Printer, true and correct copies of all LAWS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS and MEMORIALS, now on file in my office, passed at the Sixth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado, begun and held at Golden City, on the 3d day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and

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affixed the great seal of the Territory of Colorado. Done at Golden City, this 20th day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

FRANK HALL,

Secretary of Colorado Territory.

GENERAL LAWS.

AN ACT

RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PRESENT SESSION,
AND CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JAN-
UARY 1ST, A. D. 1868.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa-
tives of Colorado Territory:

tion for leg

expenses,

contingent

fund, $300.

Salaries of

$3,000.

SECTION 1. That for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the fiscal year ending January 1st, A. D. 1868, the following sums of money shall be, and the same are hereby appropriated to the several funds named, that is to say: For the purpose of paying the expenses of the legis- Approprialative assembly and per diem of members, seven islature thousand five hundred dollars; for the purpose of $7,500. paying contingent expenses, three thousand ($3,000) Contingent dollars; for officers' contingent fund, three hundred $3,000. ($300) dollars; for paying salaries of officers, three Oficers thousand ($3,000) dollars; for the payment of the services of Charles G. Cox, in preparing and collect- oficers, ing the statement of territorial indebtedness on account of certain Colorado militia, called into the service of the United States in the years 1864 and 1865, seven hundred dollars; for contingent expenses of the adjutant general's office, incurred in the preparation of the aforesaid statement, three hundred ($300) dollars; for printing the governor's message in Span- messages, ish, three hundred ($300) dollars; for insane and Insane and idiotic persons, four thousand ($4,000) dollars; for Fees judges salaries of judges of the supreme court, six thousand of supreme ($6,000) dollars; for printing the laws in the Spanish Printing language, two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars; Spanish, to pay for newspapers ordered by the house, three Newspahundred and eighty ($380) dollars.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

C. G. Cox allowed $700.

Contingent

expenses of general's of ce, 800.

adjutant

Spanish

$300.

idiots $4,000.

court, $6,000.

laws in

$2,500.

pers for house, $380.

Approved January 11th, A. D. 1867.

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