Chapter CLI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Idaho,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.* March 2, 1867.1863, ch. 117
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CHAP. CLI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Idaho,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.* March 2, 1867.1863, ch. 117.Vol. xii. p. 808. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the judges of the supremeJudges of Supreme Court to define the judicial districts, assign judges, and appoint times and places for holding courts. court of said Territory, or a majority of them, shall, when assembled at the seat of government of said Territory, define the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for said Territory to the several districts; and shall also fix and appoint the times and places for holding court in the several counties or sub-divisions in each of said judicial districts, and alter the times and places of holding the courts, as to them shall seem proper and convenient.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the next session of the legislativeSessions of the legislative assembly. assembly of the Territory of Idaho shall be held commencing on the first Monday in December, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and thereafter the legislative assembly of said Territory shall be held biennially. And the next election for members of the legislative assembly ofElections for members. said Territory shall be held on the second Monday in August, A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and thereafter said election shall be held biennially. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That the members of the house ofTerm of office of members of house and of council. representatives of said legislative assembly shall be elected for the term of two years; and the members of the council of said legislative assembly shall be elected for the term of four years: *Provided,* That at the firstCouncillor districts, and election of members of council. election hereafter one half of the members of said council shall be elected for the term of two years, and the remaining half for the term of four years; and the districts wherein members of the council are to be elected for the term of two years and the districts wherein members of the council are to be elected for the term of four years at the next election shall be determined by proclamation of the governor of said Territory : *Provided,*Proviso.
That in all counties and election districts which shall be entitled to elect two members of the council, one of said members shall be elected for two years and the other for four years. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted, *That all acts and parts of acts inconsistentRepealing clause. with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 2, 1867