 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1896 - 582 páginas
...three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common-law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. SEC. 5. The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1896 - 1042 páginas
...three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common-law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. SEC. 5. The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1896 - 812 páginas
...offices ; and their commissions shall continue in foree during good behavior. The governor and jndges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, eriminal and civil, as may be necessary and best snited to the cireumstances of the district, and report... | |
 | George Irving Reed, Emilius Oviatt Randall, Charles Theodore Greve - 1897 - 742 páginas
...three judges, any two of whom may form a court, who shall have a common-law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior." After the adoption of the Federal Constitution, Congress enacted (August 7, 1789) that all officers... | |
 | Alabama - 1897 - 598 páginas
...whom to form a court, who shall have a common-law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and shall have each therein a freehold estate in five hundred...while in the exercise of their offices; and their mission shall continue in force during good behavior. The governor aud judges, or a majority of them,... | |
 | 1898 - 386 páginas
...three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common law jurisdiction and reside in the district and have each therein a freehold estate,...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. SEC. 5. The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1897
...three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common law jurisdiction and reside in the district and have each therein a freehold estate,...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. proved by Congress; but afterwards the Legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1898 - 1006 páginas
...one thousand acres of land, while in the exercise of his office. common-law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. SEC. 5. The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such... | |
 | William Alexander Taylor, Aubrey Clarence Taylor - 1899 - 474 páginas
...three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold...commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. SEC. 5. The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - 1921 - 278 páginas
...interpretation of the powers given the governor and judges under the ordinance. That instrument stated that "the governor and judges or a majority of them shall adopt and publish" laws taken from the original states. The judges at one time wanted to interpret this as meaning a majority... | |
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The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district... 
