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82 1. As committing magistrates, or courts of inquiry as provided for in sections 314, 315, 316, 317, 318 and 319 of the justices' code, and any supplements thereto;

2. To exercise such lawful original jurisdiction under the organic act as is now or may hereafter be conferred upon them by virtue of said justices' code, or other laws of this territory.

Chapter I. Of lawful resistance.

II. Of the intervention of officers of justice.

III. Security to keep the peace.

IV. Police in cities and villages, and their attendance at exposed places.

V. Suppression of riots.

. 20. Lawful resistance to the commission of a public offense may be made;

1. By the party about to be injured;

2. By other parties.

. 21. Resistance sufficient to prevent the offense may be made by the party about to be injured;

1. To prevent an offense against his person or his family, or some member thereof;

2. To prevent an illegal attempt, by force, to take or injure property in his lawful possession.

. 22. Any other person, in aid or defense of the person about to be injured, may make resistance sufficient to prevent the offense.

. 23. Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice;

1. By requiring security to keep the peace;