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Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:—

The money of account of this Territory shall be the dollar, cent, and mill, and all accounts in the public offices and other public accounts, and all proceedings in courts, shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.

Nothing contained in the preceding section shall vitiate or affect any account, charge, or entry originally made, or any note, bond, or other instrument expressed in any other money account, but the same shall be reduced to dollars, or parts of dollars, as hereinbefore directed, in any suit thereupon.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, 1865. November 9, 1864.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:—

That the Attorney-General and the Secretary of the Territory be and they are hereby authorized to exercise, in any part of this Territory, all of the powers of notaries public in taking acknowledgments of deeds, powers of attorney, and other papers, and administering oaths.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. November 9, 1864.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:—

That all persons who have settled upon, cultivated, or improved, or who shall hereafter settle upon, cultivate, or improve a tract of land in this Territory, with the view of availing themselves of the benefit of the preëmption laws of the United States, shall be protected in the peaceable and quiet enjoyment of said tract of land, with all the improvements thereon, and all the wood, timber, soil, and materials growing or being thereon, to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres, or one-half mile square, if unsurveyed according to the cardinal points, and if surveyed by