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1. That the secretary of the Territory of Dakota be and is hereby authorized to distribute the laws and journals of the territory as hereinafter prescribed.

. 2. The county clerk of each organized county shall make a requisition upon the secretary of the territory for as many copies of the laws and journals of each branch of the legislative assembly as said county inay be entitled to, for the use of the county of which he is clerk; and he shall name the conveyance or means of transportation, and also to specify to whom they shall be directed, and to whose care: and upon the receipt of such requisition, the secretary shall at once forward the required number of laws and journals as specified in the requisition of such county clerk, and the county clerk shall receipt for the same to the secretary, which receipt shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the territory.

. 3. The county clerk shall distribute one copy of the laws to each officer of the county and precinct, one copy to each notary public, and two copies each of the laws and journals to every representative and councilman who was a member of the legislative assembly by which the laws were enacted.

. 4. Each county officer shall deliver up to his successor in office all statutes which shall have come into his possession under the provisions of this act, as soon after his successor shall have qualified, as his successor or the county clerk may require.