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The Statutes.
POLITICAL CODE.
§§ 48-53

twenty-second council and representative district, and Stutsman shall be the senior county.

Twenty-third district.
s. 23, c. 8, 1885.

§ 48. The counties of Emmons, Kidder, Burleigh, Sheridan,

McLean, Mercer, Norton, Boreman, Hettinger, Bowman, Villard, Billings, Stark, Williams, Dunn, Oliver, McKenzie, Allred, Wallace, Garfield, Ward, Stevens, Wynn, Renville, Mountraille, Flannery and Buford shall constitute the twenty-third council and representative district, and Burleigh shall be the senior county.

Number apportioned to each district.
s. 23, c. 8, 1885.

§ 49. Each of the districts, except as otherwise provided for

shall be entitled to elect one member of the council and two mem­ bers of the house of representatives.

CHAPTER 2.

THE STATUTES.

Section.

50. Secretary to procure priu ting of the Jaws.

51. Secretary to arrange and correct laws.

52. Distribution of the laws.

53. To whom and how distributed.

54. Copies to certain officers of the United States.

55. County officers, how supplied.

56. Officers to deliver laws to successors.

Section.

57. Same-Penalty for refusal.

58. Lost volumes of the statutes, how re­placed.

59. Secretary to sell statutes.

60. Copies of laws for territorial library.

61. Conflicts adjusted.

62. Secretary may renumber sections, etc.

Secretary to procure printing of laws.
s. 1, c. 3, Pol. C.

§ 50. The secretary of the territory shall procme the print­ing of one thou and copies of the general laws, and five hundred of the memorials, private laws and resolutions, passed at each session of the legislative assembly, and have the same separately bound, as follows: Of the general laws, five hundred copies in law sheep; two hundred and fifty copies in half binding, with leather backs and corners; and the remaining two hundred and fifty copies, and the memorials, private laws and resolutions, in durable pamphlet form; and they shall all be prefaced by a table of contents, and shall contain a full and correct index.

Secretary to arrange and correct laws.
s. 2, c. 3, Pol. C.

§ 51. In arranging the laws, memorials, and resolutions for publication, the secretary aforesaid is hereby authorized to make such corrections in the orthography, grammatical construction and punctuation of the same, as in his judgment shall be deemed essential; provided, that when any words or clauses shall be in­serted, the same shall be inclosed in brackets.

Distribution of laws.
s. 3, c. 3, Pol. C.

§ 52. The secretary aforesaid is hereby authorized to distribute the laws, after they shall have been printed and bound, in the manner hereinafter specified.

To whom and how distributed.
s. 4, c. 3, Pol. C.

§ 53. The following named officers of this territory and of the counties therein, and none other, shall be entitled to receive without cost, one copy each of the printed volumes of the codes and session laws of Dakota, published or purchased by the legislative assembly of this territory for distribution under the pro­visions of this act, to wit: The chief justice of the supreme court of Dakota, each associate justice of said court, each clerk of the district court, the United States attorney for Dakota, the United States marshal for Dakota, the governor of the territory, the secretary of the territory, the auditor, the treasurer, the super­intendent of public instruction, each district attorney, each judge of the probate court, each sheriff, each register of deeds, each county clerk or county auditor, each county treasurer, each county justice of the peace, each coroner, each county superin­tendent of public schools, each county assessor, chairman of the board of county commissioners, each library association or historical society organized for the benefit of the public in any

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