The Overland MonthlySamuel Carson, 1901 |
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Page 303 - ... Congress, in the exercise of those general powers which that body possesses over the territories of the United States ; and that in legislating for them Congress exercises the combined powers of the general and of a state government. The act of the territorial legislature, creating the court in question, was held not to be " inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States," and the decree of the Circuit Court was affirmed.