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Show ) 172 TII I£ OIUHNA~ UE 0 .1!' 1787. ment, and traiL mit auth entic co pies of such acts and pro. ceedings every six month. to the 8ccrctary of OongTess. '!'here "hall also uc appoin ted a court to co n si ~L of three judge', nny two of whom to fonn a conrL, 'vvho shall have a common-law juri dit:Lion, and reside in the dist rid, nnd hn.vc each therein a freehold estate, in fi ve hundred ne res of land while in the exercise of their offices; and their commissions shall continuo in force during good behavor. 'I' be Governor and Judges, or a maj ori Ly of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the distri ct, and report them to Congress from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the General Assembly therein, unless disapproved of. by Congress ; but afterwards the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall see fit. The Governor for the time being, shall be commander in chief of the militia, appoint and commission all offi cers in the same below the rank of general offi cers ; all general officers [above that rank J shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress. Previous to the organization of the General Assembly, the Governor shall appoint such magistrates and othor civil officers, in each county and township as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same. After the Gen eral Assembly shall he organized, the powers and duti es of magiRtrates and other civil officers, shall be regulated and defined by the said Assembly; but all magistrates and other civil officers not herein otherwise directed, shall, during the continuance of this temporary government, be appointed by the Governor. For the prevention of crime and injnries, the laws, to be adopted or made, shall have force in all parts of tho district, and for the cxecutiun of process, crimiual aml ci vii, the I THE ORDTN ANCE OF 1787. 173 Governor shall make proper division thereof ; and he shall proceed from t ime to t ime as circum, lances may reqnire to lay out the parts of the district in which the In dian titles shall have been extinguishecl into counties and townships, subject, however, to uch al teru.Lions as may th ereafter be made by the lcgi.·lalure. So soon as there shall be fi ve thousand free male inhabi-tants of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authori ty, with time and place to elect R epresentatives from their counties and townships to represent them in the Gcn ral Assembly ; provided that, for every fi ve hundre(l free male inhabitants there shall be one representati ve, and so on progressively wilh the number of free male inhabitants shall the right of representation illcrcasc until the number of representatives shall amount to twenty-five, after which the number an d proportion of rcprcscntati vcs shall be regulated by the legislatu re ; provided that no person be eligi ble or qual ified to act as a representative unl ess be shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the distr ict three years, and in either case hall likewise bold in his own right, in fee simple, two hun dred ac res of land within the same. Provided also, that a freehold in fifty acres of land in the district, having been a citizen of one of the States, and being resident in the district, or the like freehold and two years' residence in the district, shall be necessary to qual ify a man as an elector of a reprcsentati ve. The representatives thus elected shall serve for the term of two years, and in case of the death of the representative, or removal from office the Governor shall issue a writ to the county or township' fur whieh he was a member, to elect another in his steaL1 to crvc for the rcsid ue of the term. I The General Assembly or Lcgi~lature, shall consist of the Governor, IJegislativc Council und a. Ilouse of Reprcsen- 'I 'I |