Sec. 9. In all cases of such assignment as provided in the preceding section, the assent of the creditors shall be presented, unless within sixty days after notice thereof any shall dissent; and no such assignment shall be valid unless notice thereof shall be given in some newspaper, printed in the county where the place of business of the party making it is situated, or, if no newspaper be printed in such county, then in some newspaper in the territory nearest thereto, within twenty days after making such assignment.

Sec. 10. All suits respecting the business of such partnership shall be prosecuted by and against the general partnership, except in those cases in which provisions are made in this act that the special partners shall be deemed general partners, and that special partnership shall be deemed general partnership, in which cases all the partners deemed general partners may join or be joined in such suit, and excepting also those cases where special partners shall be held severally responsible on account of any sum by them received or withdrawn from the common stock, as before provided.

Sec. 11. No dissolution of a limited partnership shall take place, except by operation of law, before the time specified in the certificate before mentioned, unless a notice of such dissolution shall be recorded in the recorder's office in which the original certificate of renewal of the partnership was recorded, and unless such notice shall also be published for three successive weeks in some newspaper printed in the county where the certificate of the foundation of such partnership was published according to the provisions of this act; and if no newspaper shall, at the time of such dissolution, be printed in the county, then the notice of such dissolution shall be published in some newspaper in the territory nearest thereto.

Sec. 12. In all cases not otherwise provided for in this act, the members of limited partnership shall be subject to all the rights of general partners.

CHAPTER L.

POOR.

Sec. 1. County commissioners to have exclusive control of poor. Sec. 2. Poor to be supported by relatives, if able; penalty for disobeying order of county commissioners.

Sec. 3. Children first liable; parents next.

Sec. 4. County to provide for pauper without relatives in this territory.

Sec. 5. County commissioners to apprentice minor pauper. Sec. 6. County commissioners to provide for non-resident sick persons-when.

Sec. 7. Evidence of residence of pauper.

Sec. 8. Non-resident pauper to be sent to place of residence. Sec. 9. Non-resident pauper not entitled to support after notice to leave.

Sec. 10. County commissioners may provide workhouse for paupers.

Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of the several counties of this territory are hereby vested with entire and exclusive superintendence of the poor in their respective

counties.

Sec. 2. Every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other cause, shall be supported by the father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, children, grandchildren, brothers, or sisters, of such poor person, if they or either of them be of sufficient ability; and every person who shall fail or refuse to support his or her father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, child, sister, or brother, when directed by the board of county commissioners of the county, when such poor person shall be found within such relation, reside in the county or not, shall forfeit and pay to the county, for the use of the poor of their county, the sum of thirty dollars per month, to be recovered in the name of the county commissioners for the use of the poor aforesaid, before any justice of the peace, or any court having jurisdiction: Provided, That when any person becomes a pauper from intemperance or other bad conduct, he shall not be entitled to any support, except parent or child.

Sec. 3. The children shall be first called on to support their parents, if there be children of sufficient ability; if there be none, the parents of such poor person shall be next called on, and if there be no parents or children of sufficient ability, the brothers and sisters shall be next called on, and if there be no brothers and sisters, the grandchildren of such poor person shall be called on, and then the grandparents; but married females, while their husbands live, shall not be liable to a suit.

Sec. 4. When any poor persons shall not have relations in any county in this territory, as are named in the preceding sections, or such relations shall not be of sufficient ability, or shall fail or refuse to maintain such pauper, then the said pauper shall receive such relief as the case may require out of the county treasury; and the county commissioners may either make a contract for the necessary maintenance of the poor, or appoint such agents as they may deem necessary to oversee and provide for the same.

Sec. 5. When any minor or other person shall become, or be

likely to become chargeable to the county, either because of being an orphan, or because the parents or other relations as aforesaid are unable or refuse to support such minor, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to bind such minor as an apprentice to some respectable householder of the county by written indenture, which shall bind such minor to serve as an apprentice, and shall in all respects be to the tenor and effect as required in the act concerning apprentices.

Sec. 6. When any non-resident or any other person not coming within the definition of a pauper, shall fall sick in any county in this territory, not having money or property to pay his board, nursing, or medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the proper county, on complaint being made, to give or order to be given, such assistance to such person as they may deem just and necessary; and if such sick person shall die, then the said commissioners shall order to be given to such person decent burial; and the said commissioners shall make such allowance for board, nursing, and medical attendance, or burial expenses, as they may deem just and equitable, and order the same to be paid out of the county treasury.

Sec. 7. When the application is made by any pauper, to the board of county commissioners of any county in this territory, for relief, it shall be necessary for said commissioners to require of said pauper satisfactory evidence that he has been a resident of the county for two months immediately preceding the day upon which such application is made.

Sec. 8. When application is made by any pauper to the board of county commissioners as aforesaid, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said board that the person so applying for relief has resided in said county for two months, he shall be entitled to all the relief provided by this act; but if, on examination, it shall appear that said pauper is a resident of some other county of this territory, the commissioners shall, at the expense of the county, cause said pauper to be removed to the county of which he is a resident, or may, if they think best, issue a notice directed to some constable of the county, which said constable shall serve forthwith on said pauper, requiring him to depart forthwith from the county, and after so serving said notice by reading the same to said pauper, said constable shall, within five days thereafter, return the same to the clerk of the board of county commissioners issuing the same, noting the time and manner of service.

Sec. 9. After service of such notice aforesaid, no pauper shall be entitled to relief from such county, unless the county commissioners deem it absolutely necessary.

Sec. 10. The board of county commissioners of any county in this territory may, if they think proper, cause to be built or provided in their respective counties, workhouses for the accommoda

tion and employment of such paupers as may from time to time become a county charge; and such workhouses and paupers shall be under such rules and regulations as the county commissioners may deem just and proper.

CHAPTER LI.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

Sec. 1. How public printing procured.

Sec. 2. Auditor to invite sealed proposals.

Sec. 3. By whom proposals opened and contract let.
Sec. 4. Auditor to furnish samples of work.

Sec. 5. Auditor to draw warrants for printing.

Sec. 6. Rejection of proposals.

Sec. 7. Penalty imposed upon officers interested in contract.

Section 1. That hereafter, when it shall be necessary for the territorial auditor and the territorial treasurer, in the lawful discharge of their duties, to have or use any private blanks, or to have any printing done authorized by law for use in their respective offices, the same shall be procured as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the auditor of this territory immediately after the passage of this act, and thereafter at the beginning of each fiscal year, to invite sealed proposals from all publishers in this territory for doing all public printing for the use of the aforesaid officers; that he shall invite said proposals by notice thereof, to be printed for four weeks in three several newspapers in this territory. Said notice shall contain a specification of the character, quality, and quantity of printing to be done.

Sec. 3. That the sealed proposals received by the auditor from all sources for public printing shall be opened and compared by the said auditor and the district attorney of the said district where the auditor may reside; and it shall be the duty of the said auditor and district attorney to award the contract for the public printing to the person or persons who propose to do the same for the entire fiscal year at the lowest rates.

Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the auditor to furnish the person or persons to whom has been awarded the contract for public printing, with samples of the printing required of him, and that such contractor shall be required to comply with his contract in that respect before he shall be entitled to receive his pay

therefor.

Sec. 5. That the territorial auditor is authorized to draw his warrant or warrants upon the territorial treasurer for the pay

ment of any contract made under the provisions of this act, when the same shall be fully complied with on the part of the contractor, and not before.

Sec. 6. That the auditor and district attorney aforesaid, together, shall have the power to reject any unreasonable or excessive proposals for such public printing, and in all cases where there has been but one proposal made for such printing said auditor shall immediately re-advertise for proposals, as required by this act.

Sec. 7. That any auditor or district attorney required to perform any duty under the provisions of this act, who shall directly or indirectly become interested in any bid, proposal, or contract made under the provisions of this act, shall be fined in a sum not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the same shall work a forfeiture of office.

CHAPTER LII.

REAL ESTATE.

Sec. 1. Rights of parties occupying the public domain.
Sec. 2. Declaration or deed to be recorded, &c.

Sec. 3. Transferable interest of owner of claim.

Sec. 4. Rights of occupancy and possession determined by the

local law.

Sec. 5. Form of declaration.

Sec. 6. Muniment of title to be recorded.

Sec. 7. Records to be received as evidence; except when.
Sec. 8. Declaration not to include mines.

Section 1. Conceding to the United States of America the primary and paramount right to dispose of the soil of this territory, according to the laws existing or to be enacted by congress, and full and complete exemption from every form of taxation of their property, it is hereby declared that as between all citizens now residing in, or who shall hereafter come to reside in this territory, and as between them, or any of them, and others having or claiming now, or hereafter pretending to have or claim, any right to occupy, possess, or enjoy any portion of the public domain, situate within the boundaries of this territory, and as between each and every one of them, and all other persons, associations, corporations, and powers, except the government of the United States of Amer