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Supreme Court of the United States may, in like manner and with like effect, be so reviewed after final decision thereof by said circuit court of appeals. Transfers of all files and records from the said territorial supreme court to the highest appellate court of the State and to the said circuit court of appeals shall be accomplished in such manner and under such proofs and authentications as the two last-mentioned courts shall respectively by rule prescribe.

Suits not begun before admission. All civil causes of action and all criminal offenses which shall have arisen or been committed prior to the admission of said Territory as a State, but as to which no suit, action, or prosecution shall be pending at the date of such admission, shall be subject to prosecution in the courts of said State and the said circuit or district courts of the United States sitting therein, and to review in the appellate courts of such respective sovereignties in like manner and to the same extent as if said State had been created and such circuit, district, and state courts had been established prior to the accrual of such causes of action and the commission of such offenses; and in effectuation of this provision such of the said criminal offenses as shall have been committed against the laws of the said Territory shall be tried and punished by the appropriate courts of the said State, and such as shall have been committed against the laws of the United States shall be tried and punished in the circuit or district courts of the United States.

State substituted for Territory as defendant in Federal cases. All suits and actions brought by the United States in which said Territory is named as a party defendant which shall be pending in any court of said Territory at the date of its admission hereunder shall be transferred as herein provided, and the said State shall be substituted therein and become a party defendant thereto in lieu of said Territory.

Assembling of legislature. Sec. 34. That the members of the legislature elected at the election hereinbefore provided for may assemble at Phoenix, organize, and elect two Senators of the United States in the manner now prescribed by the Constitution and laws of the United States; Certifying election of Senators and Representative.and the governor and secretary of state of the proposed State shall certify the election of the Senators and Representative in the manner required by law, and the Senators and Representative so elected shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and to all rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States; Operation of State government.and the officers of the state government formed in pursuance of said constitution, as provided by the constitutional convention, shall proceed to exercise all the functions of state officers; Territorial laws continued.and all laws of said Territory in force at the time of its admission into the Union shall be in force in said State until changed by the legislature of said State, except as modified or changed by this Act or by the constitution of the State; United States laws.and the laws of the United States shall have the same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere within the United States.

Appropriation for election and convention expenses.

Sec. 35. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for defraying all and every kind and character of expense incident to the elections and convention provided for in this Act; that is, the payment of the expenses of holding the election for members of the constitutional convention and the election for the ratification of the constitution, at the same rates that are paid for similar services under the territorial laws, and for the payment of the mileage for and salaries of members of the constitutional convention, at the same rates that are paid to members of the said territorial legislature under national law, and for the payment of all proper and necessary expenses, officers; clerks, and messengers thereof, and printing and other expenses incident thereto: Proviso.Provided, That any expense incurred in excess of said sum