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marriage contract as to both parties. And in all suits for a divorce brought by a female, if a divorce be granted, the court may, for just and reasonable cause, change the name of such female, who shall thereafter be known and called by such name as the court in its order shall degree or appoint.

Sec. 32. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the [provisions] of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3 [sic]. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved, January 15, 1864.

ELECTIONS

CHAPTER XIX.

AN ACT TO REGULATE ELECTIONS, TO PRESCRIBE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS, TO PREVENT ILLEGAL VOTING, AND TO PRESCRIBE THE CANVASS AND RETURN OF THE SAME.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

Section 1. That all elections hereafter to be held for Territorial, district, county, precinct and other officers, shall be held and conducted in the manner prescribed in this act.

Sec. 2. That a general election shall be held in the several election precincts in this Territory, on the second Tuesday in October in each year, at which there shall be chosen so many of the following officers as are by law to be elected in each year, that is to say: A delegate to Congress, and other territorial officers, members of the legislature, judges of probate, district attorney, county commissioners, sheriffs, coroners, reg-