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 328 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 177. 1848. United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices; which said oaths, when so taken, shall be certified by the person by whom the same shall have been taken, and such certificates shall be received and recorded by the said secretary among the executive proceedings; and the chief justice and associate justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, before they act as such, shall take :1 like oath or affirmatigm, before the said governor or secretary, or some 'ud cor justice o the peace of the Tcrritor, who ma b duly comjmisgioncd and qualified ; which said oath or aiiirmation gba}? be certified and transmitted by the person taking the same, to the sccrctary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid; and, afterwards, the like oath or affirmation shall be taken, certified, and recorded, in such Salary ¤f gvvymauner and form as may be prescribed bylaw. The governor Shall °"‘°' &°· receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as governor, and fifteen hundred dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs. The chief justice and associate justices shall each receive an annual salary of two Salary of sec- thousand dollars. The secretary shall receive an annual salary of hi; '°‘*“Y· teen hundred dollars. The said salaries shall be paid quarter-yearly, from the dates of the respective appointments, at the treasury of the United States; but no such payment shall be made until said officers shall have entered upon the duties of their respective appointments. Compensaciou The members of the legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive fggigjtgfgsegi three dollars each per day during their attendance at the session thm-em; uy_ and three dollars each for every twenty miles} travel in going to and returning from said sessions, estimated according to the nearest usually Onicers ofleg- travelled route. And a chief clerk, one assistant clerk, a sergeant-ab clerk shall receive five dollars per day, and the said other officers three dollars per day, during the session of the legislative assembly; but no Proviso gs to other officcrs shall be paid by the United States: Provided, That there gg?;; °i l°g' shall be but one session of the legislature annually, unless, on an extraordiuary occasion, the governor shall think proper to call the legislaturo together. There shall be appropriated annually the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended by the governor to defray the Provision for contingent expenses of the Territory, including the salary of aclerk annua y, a. su c1cnt sum to c cx cn c a ecretar 0 t 0 Territory, and upon an estimate topbc made ivy the Secrctagr of the Trcasgry 0; the United §t?es, to defrgy the expenses of the legislativg assem y,t c printing 0 t claws, an other incidental cx enses; an the governor and secretary of the Territory shall, in the disbxirrscment of all moneys intrusted to them, be governed solely by the instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and shall semiannually account to the said Secretary for the manner in which the aforesaid [sum] moneys shall have been expended ; and no expenditure, to be paid out of money appropriated by Congress, shall be made by said legislative assembly for objects not specially authoriied by the acts of Congrgss making the appropriations, nor beyond the sums thus appropriate or such ob'ects. naxmon leaps Sun. 12. And be ithirther enacted, That the rivers and streams of
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whighihcy resorg, shall not be obstructed by dams or otherwise, unless suc ams or o structions arc so constructed as to allow salmon to   pass freely up and down such rivers and streams. mAgg f:};::‘*:;’s Sec. 13. Amfl be it further enacted, Tha: the sum of ten th0u§¤¤d expcuw, of “_ Q_0]l¤.l‘¤ be, and is hereby appropriated, to be expended undcr thé d11'€¤‘ presses, non of the President of the United States, in payment for the services mgugo {xix:" and expenses of such persons as have been engaged by the proviSi0¤¤l government of Oregon in conveying communications to and from the