and void, and they shall not be received as evidence of title or possession in any of the courts of law in this Territory.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, a. d. 1865.
Approved November 7, 1864.
An Act
To Authorize Probate Judges to appoint a Term of Court for Civil Business.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:—
Sec. 1. That the probate judges in this Territory shall have power to appoint a time for holding a term of court for the hearing of civil business between the passage of this act and the first day of January next.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved November 7, 1864.
An Act
To Incorporate the Arizona Historical Society.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:—
Sec. 1. That Richard C. McCormick, W. Claude Jones, Allen L. Anderson, Gilbert W. Hopkins, King S. Woolsey, Henry A. Bigelow, A. M. White, Charles A. Curtis, James S. Giles, James Garvin, Richard Gird, T. J. Bidwell, Edward D. Tuttle, William Walter, and Samuel Todd, and all persons who are now or may hereafter become associated with them as members of said association, be and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate in law and in fact by the name, style, and title of the Arizona Historical Society, and by this name shall have perpetual succession, and sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity; to hold and reserve to them and their successors, either by grant, bargain, sale, will, decree, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or any personal or real estate, and at their pleasure to grant, bargain, or sell for the use of said association, and generally to do all and singular the things which it may be lawful for them to do for the welfare of said association.
Sec. 2. That the object of said society shall be the collection and preservation under their own care and direction of all historical facts, manuscripts, documents, records, and memoirs, relating to the history of this Territory, geological and mineralogical specimens, geographical maps and information, Indian curiosities and antiquities, and objects of natural history.
