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 § [44.] Temporarily, and until otherwise ordered by law, the additional associate justices to be appointed under this act are hereby assigned to said fifth and sixth districts, and the time and place as now fixed by the statutes of.said territory for hold­ing court therein shall remain until changed by law.

§ [45.] The district court for said fifth judicial district shall have no jurisdiction to try, hear or determine any matter or cause wherein the United States is a party, and no United States grand or petit jury shall be summoned in said court, but said fifth district is hereby attached to and made a part of the second judicial district for the purpose of hearing and determining all matters and causes arising within said fifth district in which the United States is a party.

§ [46.] The district court for said sixth judicial district shall have and possess jurisdiction to try, hear and determine all matters and causes that the court of any district in said territory now possesses. And for such purposes two terms of said court shall be held. annually in the city of Bismarck, in the county of Burleigh, and a grand and petit jury shall be summoned there­on in the manner now required by law in the United States courts in said territory.

§ [47.] All offenses committed before the passage of this act shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in the same manner and with the same effect (except as to number of judges) as if this act had not been passed.

§ [48.] And all suits or proceedings pending in the district courts of Dakota and Washington territories at the time of the passage of said act [July 4, 1884], and which would, if instituted after the passage of said act, be required to be brought in the new districts created and provided for in said act, may be transferred by consent of parties to said new district courts, and there disposed of in like manner and with like effect as if the same had there been instituted; and all writs and recognizances relating to such suits and proceedings so transferred shall be considered as belonging to the courts of the said new districts, respectively, in the same manner and with like effect as if they had issued or had been taken in reference thereto originally.

§ [49.] No justices of the peace in any territory shall have juris­diction of any case in which the title to land, or the boundary thereof, in anywise comes in question.

§ [50.] Justices of the peace in the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming shall not have Jurisdiction of any matter in controversy where the debt or sum claimed exceeds one hundred dollars.

§ [51.] The constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within all the organized territories, and in every territory here after organized, as elsewhere within the United States.

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52. Seat of government, how changed.

§ [52.] The seat of government of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona and Wyoming may be changed by the governors and legislative assemblies thereof, respectively.