Chapter XLII. further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress
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Chap. XLII.— An Act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress.March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Delegates to Congress to be elected every second year. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That in every territory of the United States in which a temporary government has been, or hereafter shall be established, and which by virtue of the ordinance of Congress of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and vol. i, 51. eighty-seven, or of any subsequent act of Congress, passed or to be passed, now hath or hereafter shall have the right to send a delegate to Congress, such delegate shall be elected every second year, for the same term of two years for which members of the house of representatives of the United States are elected; and in that house each of the said delegates shall have a seat with a right of debating, but not of voting.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That on the first Monday of August The citizens of Missouri to elect a delegate to Congress. Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95. Provision to be made for the meeting of the general assembly. next the citizens of the territory of Missouri, qualified according to the act, entitled “An act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri,” shall elect a delegate to Congress; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly of the said territory to make provision by law for the annual or biennial meetings of the said general assembly, as the interests of the territory may in their opinion require; and such annual or biennial meeting shall be on the first Monday of December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
And so much of any law, or laws, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3, 1817.