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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
[CHAP. LVI.
Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two; and said legislative assembly shall meet annually thereafter on the first Monday in December.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
- Approved April 21, 1862.
W. JAYNE, Governor.
CHAPTER 56.
AN ACT TO DESIGNATE THE TIME OF THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE, AND DEFINING THE DUTIES OF THE SAME.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. The regular annual session of the legislative assembly shall commence on the first Monday of December in each year.
Sect. 2. No officer of the council or house of representatives, while in actual attendance upon the duties of his office, shall be liable to arrest upon civil process.
Sect. 3. Each house may punish, as a contempt, by imprisonment, a breach of its privileges by its members; but only for one or more of the following offences, to wit: 1. The offence of arresting a member or officer of the house, or procuring such member or officer to be arrested, in violation of his privileges from arrest. 2. That of disorderly conduct in the immediate view of the house, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings. 3. That of refusing to attend to be examined as a witness, either before the house, or a committee, or before any person authorized by the house, or a committee, to take testimony in legislative proceedings. 4. That of giving or offering a bribe to a member, or of attempting, by menace, or other corrupt means, or device, directly or indirectly, to control or influence a member in giving his vote, or to prevent his giving the same; but the term of imprisonment, which such house may impose for any contempt speci-
