a legislative assembly in January, 1877, and biennially thereafter; and your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. S. W. LANGHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASA BROWN, President of the Council. To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress Assembled: Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of the territory of Montana, repectfully represent that under the operations of the mineral law of 1872, entries have been made in the land office at Helena to the amount of eleven thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven acres, and the same paid for. The amount applied for and not yet paid for amounts to nearly six thousand acres, comprising some of the best placer mining ground in the territory. A large proportion of these entries have been made by non-residents, thus the law is made to operate injuriously to the territory by preventing the development of our placer mines and enforce idleness of its most important and productive industry. It is not, however, the purpose of your memorialists to ask to impair the rights of such persons as have made application for mining ground under said law, nor such persons as have had their claims surveyed with intention of making application for the purchase of the same. Your memorialists earnestly request that the law be repealed, to the end that the interest of actual residents may be more securely guarded. And your memorialists will ever pray. S. W. LANGHORNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASA BROWN, President of the Council. INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE AMENDMENTS THERETO. CONGRESS—Continued. Powers of, defined and enumerat- To make rules and regulations re- Veto power over acts of, 4. Each house may adopt its own CONSTITUTION of the United ELECTORS-Continued. Time of choosing prescribed by ELECTIONS. For president and vice-president, For senators and representatives,3. Each house of congress judges, 3. None shall be passed, 6. From justice delivered up, when, From service or labor, 11. GRAND jury. Accused to be presented by, ex- HABEAS CORPUS. Shall not be suspended-excep- HOUSE of Representatives of the Apportionment of members of, 1. To choose its officers, 3, To keep a journal of its proceed- May determine its rules, etc., 4. 3. Compensation of members, 4. When may elect president, 16. Senate sole power to try, 3. How far judgment shall extend, 3. JUDICIAL power. To what shall extend, 10. Right of trial by jury, 11, 16, |