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§§ 54-57 county or town of this territory. And to each member of the legislative assembly a copy of the laws enacted by the assembly of which he was a member.

§ 54. It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of this ter­ritory, whenever any volumes of the laws of this territory shall come into his hands, to transmit to each federal and territorial officer and United States commissioner, clerks of the United States district and supreme court, and each district attorney, one volume of such laws, prepaying the postage thereon if sent by mail; and the said secretary shall state an account of his dis­bursements for postage or carriage of such volumes so sent by him, to the auditor of the territory, who is hereby authorized to audit the same, if in his judgment it be just and correct; and when so audited, the treasurer of the territory is authorized to pay the same out of any moneys in his hands not otherwise ap­propriated.

§ 55. The county clerks of the several counties of this terri­tory, shall, on the first Monday of February next succeeding the time when any session of the legislative assembly shall be held, make a requisition upon the secretary of the territory for as many copies of the laws of said session as may be required to supply one copy to each county, district or township office entitled to the same, and shall forward said requisition to said secretary, who shall thereupon, or as soon thereafter as he shall receive the said volumes of laws, forward the number of copies called for by said requisition, to said clerk, either by express, or in any other secure manner, the charges of said carriage to be borne by the county receiving such laws. The county clerk, upon receiving the laws, shall distribute them to the several officers entitled by law to the same, taking, in every instance, the official receipt of the officer to whom they are delivered, said receipt to describe the date of the volumes so delivered, and to be thereafter filed in the office of said county clerk.

§ 56. Whenever any person shall be elected to fill any of the county, town or district offices mentioned in section 53, it shall be such person's duty, before taking possession of the said office, to procure from the county clerk of their county a copy of the receipt filed with said clerk by the outgoing officer for any volumes of the laws of this territory; which copy of said receipt the person so elected shall exhibit to his prede­cessor in office, at the time when he shall asume the duties of his office, and shall require from his predecessor all the volumes of laws which he may have received, as shown by the receipt on file with the county clerk; and it shall be the duty of the said officer, after having received from his predecessor the volumes of laws, as heretofore specified, to make out duplicate receipts of the same, one of said receipts to be given to his predecessor in office, and the other to be forthwith transmitted to the county clerk of the county, who is hereby required to file the same in his office.

§ 57. In case any person holding an office in this territory, or in any county, township or district thereof, shall, upon relin­quishing said office to his successor, fail or refuse to deliver over to his successor in office all the volumes of laws that have come into his possession by virtue of holding such office, such person so failing or refusing shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine of fifty dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail not exceed­ing twenty days; and it is hereby made the duty of the person