Concurrent Resolution
Tendering Thanks to the Honorable William T. Howell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Commissioner to Report a Code of Laws; also Providing that said Code shall, in respect to the Author thereof, be known as “The Howell Code.”
Resolved by the Council, the House of Representatives concurring, That the thanks of the people of this Territory are due and are hereby tendered by their representatives in the Legislative Assembly, to the Honorable William T. Howell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of this Territory, and assigned to the first judicial district, by reason of his anticipating the wants of the Territory, by preparing his excellent and able Code of laws therefor; and in respect to the author thereof they shall be known as “The Howell Code.”
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor transmit to Judge Howell a copy of these resolutions.
Concurrent Resolution
Empowering the Governor of the Territory to change certain Bills.
Resolved by the Council, the House of Representatives concurring, That the Governor of this Territory be and is hereby authorized and empowered to change the following chapters of the Code in his hands, passed at the present session of the Legislature, so that they shall take effect and be in force from and after the 20th day of April next. Said bills are entitled as follows: Of Crimes and Punishments; Of Proceedings in Criminal Cases; Of Jails and Prisons, and Confinement Therein; Of the Title to real Property by Descent; Of the Distribution, Custody, and Application of Public Moneys; Of the Limitation of Actions; Of Fraudulent Conveyances and Contracts; Of Estates in Dower; Of Wills; Of Probate Courts; Of Marriages; Of Divorce; Of the Rights of Married Women; Of the Liability for causing Death by Wrongful Neglect or Default; Of Exemptions; Of Attorneys and Counsellors-at-law; Of Conveyances; Of Forcible Entry and Detainer; Of Corporations for Mining Purposes; Of Acequias or Irrigating Canals; Of the Support of Poor Persons and Orphan Children of Indians; Of Commissioners of Deeds in other States and Territories; Of Habeas Corpus; Of the Incorporation of Villages. The following shall be likewise added by the Governor to the last section of a chapter entitled Of Miscellaneous Provisions: Provided, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to repeal any laws heretofore in existence in this Territory, until the laws inconsistent therewith, passed at the present session of the Legislature, shall take effect and be in force, excepting, however, that all the provisions of this bill, and every part thereof, shall take effect and be in force from and after the twentieth day of April, 1865.
