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TlIIRTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59. 1861. 175 in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the circuit courts of the United States, where the value of the property or the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by the oath or aiiirmation of either party, or other competent witness, shall exceed one thousand dollars; and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, in all eases 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 the said Territory, and the respective judges thereof, shall and may grant writs of habeas H*‘b°"* °"’¥’“”· corpus in all cases in which the same are grantable by the judges of the United States in the District of Columbia; and the first six days of every term of said courts, or so much thereof as shall be 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 such cases the same fees which the clerks of the my °f °l°’k' district courts of Oregon Territory received for similar services. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed an Amway_ attorney for said Territory, who shall continue in office for tour years, unless sooner removed by the President, and who shall receive the same fees and salary as the attorney of the United States for the late Territory of Oregon. There shall also he a marshal for the Territory appointed, Mmm, who shall bold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the ' President, and who shall execute all processes issuing from the said courts when exercising their jurisdiction as circuit and district courts of the United States; he shall perform the duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees as the marshal of the district court of the United States for the late Territory of Oregon, and shall, in addition, be paid two hundred dollars annually as a compensation for extra services. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the governor, secretary, chief G,,,-emo,-, justice, and associate justices, attorney, and marshal, shall be nominated j¤ds€S» &¤· W b• and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by the by m President of the United States. The governor and secretary to he appointed as aforesaid shall, before they act as such, respectively take an How qugliied, oath or amrmation before the district judge or some justice of the peace in the limits of said Territory duly authorized to administer oaths and aiiirmations by the laws now in force therein, or before the chief justice or some associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices, which said oaths, when so taken, shall be certified by the person by whom the same shall have been taken; and such certificates shall be received and recorded by the secretary among the executive proceedings; and the chief justice and associate justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, before they act as such, shall take a like oath or ailirmation before the said governor or secretary, or some judge or justice of the peace of the Territory who may be duly commissioned and qualified, which said oath or ahirmation shall be certified and transmitted by the person taking the same to the secretary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid; and afterwards the like oath or ailirmation shall be taken, certified, and recorded in such manner and form as may be prescribed by law. The governor shall receive an annual salary of fifteen wd, hundred dollars as governor, and one thousand dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs; the chief justice and associate justices shall each receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; the secretary shall receive an annual of eighteen hundred dollars. The said salaries shall be paid quartenyearly at the Treasury of the United States. The members Pay of mm of the legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive three dollars each bm ,,f th, ,,,_ per day during their attendance at the session thereof, and three dollars scmbly,