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iv same; Provided, that this act, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, shall not take effect until the president shall by proclamation declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished, nor shall it take effect until the state of Nebraska shall have assented to the provisions of this act, and if the state of Nebraska shall not, by an act of its legislature, consent to the provisions of this act within two years next after the passage hereof this act shall cease and be of no effect. [Approved March 28, 1882.

THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS UF THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, OF 1874, AND EXTRACTS FROM SUBSEQUENT STATUTES AT LARGE, INCLUDE ALL EXISTING UNITED STATES LAWS RELATING TO DAKOTA:

Section 1839. Nothing in this title shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property pertaining to the Indians in any Territory, so long as such rights remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any Territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, ін not, without the consent of such tribe, embraced within the Territorial limits or jurisdiction of any state or territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries and constitute no part of any territory now or hereafter organized, until such tribe signifies its assent to the president to be embraced within a particular territory.

Sec. 1840. Nor shall anything in this title be construed to affect the authority of the United States to make any regulations respecting the Indians of any territory, their lands, property or rights, by treaty, law or otherwise, in the same manner as might be if no temporary government existed or is hereafter established in any such territory.

Sec. 1841. The executive power of each territory shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the president. He shall reside in the territory for which he is appointed and shall be commander-in-chief of the militia thereof. He may grant pardons and reprieves, and remit fines and forfeitures for offenses against the laws of the territory for which he is appointed, and respites for offenses against the laws of the United States, till the decision of the president can be made known thereon. He shall commission all officers who are appointed under the laws of such. territory, and shall take care that the laws thereof be faithfully executed.

Sec. 1842. Every bill which has passed the legislative assembly of any territory shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor. If he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it originated, and that house shall enter the objections at large on its journal and proceed to reconsider. If, after such reconsideration, two-third of that house agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if