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CHAP. LVI.] enrolled to order, when the members may proceed to the election of the necessary officers. The term of office of all officers of the council and house of representatives, shall expire with the close of the session at which they were elected.

. 15. The compensation prescribed by law for the officers of the council shall be certified by the president thereof, and attested by the secretary: and the compensation that may be due to the officers of the house of representatives, shall be certified by the speaker thereof, and attested by the chief clerk, which said certificate, when made out as aforesaid, shall be sufficient evidence to the secretary of territory of each person's claim.

. 16. It shall be competent at any time during a session of the legislative assembly, for either house, by a vote of a majority, to remove from office any of the officers provided for in this act; but in case of the removal of any officer by either house, his place shall be supplied by an election, viva voce; and in all elections under the provisions of this act for officers of either house of the legislative assembly, it shall require a majority of all the votes cast to determine a choice.

. 17. There shall be allowed to the presiding officers of each house three dollars per diem extra, and to each of the officers provided for by this act, for the council and house of representatives, three dollars per diem during the session of the legislative assembly.

. 18. Either house may, by resolution, request the opinion of the supreme court, or any one or more of the judges thereof, upon a given subject, and it shall be the duty of such court or judges, when so requested, respectively, to give such opinion in writing.

. 19. This act to take effect from and after its passage.
 * Approved May 7, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.