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 which subordinate officers shall be appointed in the same manner & not exceed in number those created by said Act Territorial Government of Washington, which said Act and which where it is not inapplicable, is hereby extended to the Territory of Arizona.

Section 3. And be it further enacted, that there shall neither be Slavery nor involuntarily servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than for in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, and that from and after the passage of this Act Slavery or involuntary servitude is hereby forever prohibited in all territories now organized or which may hereafter be organized, and in all Arsenals, Forts, and Dockyards of the United States, and all Acts and parts of Acts, either of Congress or of any organized Territory, establishing, regulating or in any way recognizing the relation of Master and Slave in any part of of said Territories is hereby repealed.