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vernor shall appoint and direct;First election, when held, how conducted, &c. and shall be conducted, and returns thereof made, in all respects, according to the provisions of the laws of said Territory, and the Governor shall declare the persons having the greatest number of votes to be elected, and shall order a new election when there is a tie between two or more persons voted for, to supply the vacancy made by such tie.Time and place of meeting. The persons thus elected shall meet at Madison, the seat of Government, on such day as he shall appoint, but thereafter the apportioning of the representation in the several counties to the Council and House of Representatives according to population, the day of their election, and the day for the commencement of the session of the Legislative Assembly, shall be prescribed by law.

Gov. of Iowa may temporarily define the judicial districts, assign the judges, and appoint the times of holding the courts.Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That temporarily, and until otherwise provided by law of the Legislative Assembly, the Governor of the Territory of Iowa may define the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for said Territory to the several districts, and also appoint the times for holding courts in the several counties in each district, by proclamation to be issued by him; but the Legislative Assembly, at their first, or any subsequent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts, and assign the judges and alter the times of holding the courts or any of them.

Approved, June 12, 1838.

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June 12, 1838.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XCVII.An Act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise1836, ch. 44.
1836, ch. 254.
To be expended under direction of Sec’y. War, conformably, &c.
appropriated, to defray the expenses which have been, or may be, incurred, in preventing or suppressing the hostilities of any Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March and the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the acts therein referred to; and for arrearages of the same for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven:

Forage for horses.For forage for the horses of the dragoons, volunteers, officers, and in the service of the trains, four hundred thousand dollars;

Freight, &c. of military supplies.For freight transportation of military supplies sent into Florida and the Cherokee country, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Wagons, carts, &c.For wagons, carts, ambulances, and harness, and for boats and lighters, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Transportation of supplies from principal depots, &c.For the transportation of supplies from the principal depots to the points of consumption, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels, and the expense of public steamers and transport schooners, seven hundred thousand dollars;

Hire of mechanics, &c.For the hire of a corps of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters, wagon-masters, and other assistants, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Transportation, &c. of volunteers.For transportation and other expenses of four thousand volunteers, one hundred thousand dollars;

Miscellaneous and contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent charges of all kinds, not embraced under the foregoing heads, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Drafts lying over, and arrearages.For drafts lying over, and arrearages for services and supplies in Florida and the Cherokee country, one million forty-eight thousand six hundred dollars;

Pay of volunteers for 1838, including arrearages for 1837.For pay of four thousand volunteers, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, including one hundred and fifty-three thousand four