1. Constitutional oath. 2. How administered to members of congress. 3. To state officers. 4. And federal officers. 1 June 1789 21. 1 Stat. 23. ed to members of congress. Oaths. 5. Who may administer oaths to witnesses before congress. 6. Punishment of perjury. 7. Extended to chairmen of standing committees. 1. The oath or affirmation required by the sixth article of the constitution of the United States, shall be administered in the form following, to wit: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States.” Ibid. 2 2. 2. At the first session of congress after every general election of representatives, the How administer oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be administered by any one member of the house of representatives to the speaker; and by him to all the members present, and to the clerk, previous to entering on any other business; and to the members who shall afterwards appear, previous to taking their seats. The president of the senate for the time being, shall also administer the said oath or affirmation to each senator who shall hereafter be elected, previous to his taking his seat; and in any future case of a president of the senate, who shall not have taken the said oath or affirmation, the same shall be administered to him by any one of the members of the senate. Ibid. 23. cers. Ibid. 4. 3. And the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers of the several states, who shall be chosen or appointed after the said first day of August, shall, before they proceed to execute the duties of their respective offices, take the foregoing oath or affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons, who by the law of the state shall be authorized to administer the oath of office. And the person or persons so administering the oath nereby required to be taken, shall cause a record or certificate thereof to be made in the same manner, as by the law of the state, he or they shall be directed to record or certify the oath of office. 4. All officers appointed, or hereafter to be appointed under the authority of the And federal offi- United States, shall, before they act in their respective offices, take the same oath or affirmation, which shall be administered by the person or persons who shall be autho rized by law to administer to such officers their respective oaths of office; and such officers shall incur the same penalties, in case of failure, as shall be imposed by law in case of failure in taking their respective oaths of office. 8 May 1798 @ 1. 1 Stat. 55. 5. The president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, a chairman of a committee of the whole, or a chairman of a select committee of either house, shall Oaths to witness- be empowered to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses, in any case under their es before con gress. Ibid. 2. perjury. examination. 6. If any person shall wilfully, absolutely and falsely swear or affirm, touching any Punishment of matter or thing material to the point in question, whereto he or she shall be thus examined; every person so offending, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be subjected to the pains, penalties and disabilities, which by law are prescribed for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury. 3 Feb. 1817 2 1. 3 Stat. 345. 7. The chairman of any standing committee, either of the house of representatives or of the senate of the United States, shall be empowered to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses, in any case under their examination. And any person who shall be guilty standing commit of perjury before such committee shall be liable to the pains, penalties and disabilities, prescribed for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury. Extended to chairmen of tees. Official Register. 1. Official register to be published Liennially. 27 April 1816. 3 Stat. 342. to be published biennially, 1. That, once in two years, a register, containing correct lists of all the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last Official register day of September of each year in which a new congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the secretary for the department of state. And to enable him to form such register, he, for his own department, and the heads of the other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including clerks, cadets and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the department of state. And the said lists shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet and midshipman, the state and county in which he was born and where employed. 2. That the secretary of the navy subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his 27 April 1916. department, the names, force and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the Navy list. United States, and when and where built. 3. That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Mon- Distribution. day in January in each year, when a new congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the president, the vice president, each head of a department, each member of the senate and house of representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library; and that the residue of the said copies be disposed of in such manner as congress shall from time to time direct. 2 Stat. 173. 1. That the inhabitants of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river 30 April 1802 3 L Ohio, be and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, People of Ohio when formed, shall be admitted into the Union upon the same footing with the original form a state gostates in all respects whatever. authorized to vernment. Ibid. 2. 2. The said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: bounded on the east by the Pennsylvania line, on the south by the Boundaries of the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Great Miami river, on the west by the line drawn due state. north from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid, and on the north (a) by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid: Provided, That congress shall be at liberty at any time hereafter, either to attach all the territory lying east of the line to be drawn due north from the mouth of the Miami aforesaid, to the territorial line, and north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east as aforesaid to Lake Erie, to the aforesaid state, or dispose of it otherwise, in conformity to the fifth article of compact between the original states, and the people and states to be formed in the territory north-west of the river Ohio. 3. That the following propositions be and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States: Ibid. 27. First. That the section, number sixteen, in every township, and where such section Section 16, in has been sold, granted or disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and most conti- for the use of every township, guous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools. schools.(b) granted to the Second, That the six miles reservation, including the salt springs, commonly called Salt springs the Scioto salt springs, (c) the salt springs near the Muskingum river, and in the military state. tract, with the sections of land which include the same, shall be granted to the said state for the use of the people thereof; the same to be used under such terms and conditions and regulations as the legislature of the said state shall direct: Provided, The said legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years. (a) Sec infra, 5. (b) See act 3 March 1803, appropriating certain tracts of land in the state of Ohio for the use of schools in that state; and granting one complete township for the purpose of establishing an academy. 2 Stat. 225. By act 1 February 1826, the legislature of the state of Ohio was authorized to sell the lands appropriated for the use of schools in that state. 4 Stat. 138. (c) See act 28 December 1824, authorizing the legislature of Ohio to sell and convey these lands. 4 Stat. 79, 30 April 1802. Third, That one-twentieth part of the net proceeds of the lands lying within the Five per cent. of said state sold by congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, after deducting proceeds of lands all expenses incident to the same, shall be applied to the laying out and making public for public improvements. Public lands to be exempt from taxation. 19 Feb. 1803 21. 2 Stat. 201. roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same; such roads to be laid out under the authority of congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass: Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions herein offered, are on the conditions that the convention of the said state shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable, without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under authority of the state, whether for state, county, township or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale.(a) 4. Whereas, the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, did, on the 29th day of November 1802, form for themselves a constitution and state government, and did give to the said state the name of the "state of Ohio," in pursuance tended to Ohio. of an act of congress entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," whereby the said state has become one of the United States of America; in order, therefore, to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the said state of Ohio: Be it enacted, That all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said state of Ohio, as elsewhere within the United States. Laws of the United States ex. 15 June 1836 5 Stat. 49. 1. 5. The northern boundary line of the state of Ohio shall be established at, and shall be a direct line drawn from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, to the most northNorthern boun- erly cape of the Maumee [Miami] Bay, after that line, so drawn, shall intersect the dary established. eastern boundary line of the state of Indiana; and from the said north cape of the said bay, north-east to the boundary line between the United States and the province of Upper Canada, in Lake Erie; and thence, with the said last-mentioned line, to its intersection with the western line of the state of Pennsylvania. 10 Feb. 1855 1. 10 Stat. 604. two judicial districts. II. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS. 6. That the state of Ohio be and the same is hereby divided into two judicial districts, in the following manner, to wit: the counties of Belmont, Guernsey, Muskingum, LickState divided into ing, Franklin, Madison, Champaign, Shelby and Mercer, together with all that part of the state lying south of the above-mentioned counties, shall compose one district, to be called the southern district of Ohio, and a court shall be held for the said district at the city of Cincinnati; and all the remaining part of said state shall compose another district, to be called the northern district of Ohio, and a court shall be held for the same in the city of Cleveland, in said state. Ibid. 2. 7. There shall be two terms of the circuit and district courts begun and held in each Terms of the cir- of said districts, to wit: at the city of Cincinnati, for the southern district, on the third cuit and district Tuesdays of April and October; and at the city of Cleveland, for the northern district, on the second Tuesdays of July and November, in each year. And the said courts are hereby authorized to hold adjourned terms, when the business before the court shall, in the opinion of the court, require it. courts. Ibid. 23. Pending causes in the southern district. 8. All suits and other proceedings, of whatever name or nature, now pending in the circuit or district courts of the United States for the district of Ohio, shall be tried and to be determined disposed of in the circuit and district courts respectively, for the southern district of Ohio, in the same manner as the same would have been in case said state had not been divided into two districts; and for that purpose the jurisdiction is reserved to said courts in the southern district. And the clerk of the circuit and district courts, for the present district of Ohio, shall remove the records and files of the said circuit and district courts to the city of Cincinnati, and do and perform all the duties appertaining to his office within the southern district; and all process and other proceedings taken or issued, or made returnable to the circuit or district court for the present district of Ohio, shall be returnable at the next term of the said courts respectively, in the southern district of Ohio. Ibid. ? 4. Removal of causes to the northern district. 9. Upon the application of any party to any suit now pending, which would have been commenced in the northern district, if this act had been in force before the commencement of said suit, the proper court may, and if all parties consent, shall order that the same be removed for further proceedings to the proper court for the northern district; and thereupon, the clerk shall transmit all the papers in the cause, with a transcript of the order of the removal, to the clerk of the court to which the suit shall be removed, (a) See tit. "Lands," 199. and all further proceedings shall be had in said court as if the suit had been originally 10 Feb. 1855. commenced therein. 10. That the present judge of the district of Ohio, be and he is hereby assigned to Ibid. 25. hold said courts in the southern district of Ohio, and shall exercise the same jurisdiction, Judge of the and perform the same duties, within said district, as he now exercises and performs southern district. within his present district. 11. Final process upon any judgment or decree entered in the circuit or district court Ibid. 26. of the United States for the district of Ohio, and all other process for the enforcement Execution of final of any order of said courts, respectively, in any cause now pending therein, except process, &c. causes removed as hereinbefore provided, shall be issued from and made returnable to the proper court for the southern district of Ohio, and may run and be executed by the marshal of said southern district in any part of said state. Ibid. 27. 12. That there be appointed a district judge for the said northern district of Ohio; who shall possess the same powers, and do and perform all such duties in his district as Judge of the are now enjoined or in anywise appertaining to the present district judge for the district northern district. of Ohio. And the district judge of each district shall be entitled to the same compensation as by law is provided for the present judge of the district of Ohio. Ibid. 28. shals. 13. That there be appointed one person as district attorney, and one person as marshal, for said southern district, whose terms of appointment and service, as well as duties District attorand emoluments, shall be the same with those respectively appertaining to the said offices neys and mar in the district of Ohio; and said marshal shall give the same bond that other marshals are required to give, to be approved and recorded as now directed by law: Provided, That the present district attorney of the district of Ohio shall be the district attorney of the northern district, but shall retain the charge of all suits already commenced until final termination, unless the president of the United States shall otherwise direct; and the present marshal of the district of Ohio shall be the marshal of the northern district, during their respective official terms. Ibid. 39. 14. All suits hereafter to be brought in either of said courts, not of a local nature, shall be brought in the court of the district where the defendant resides. But if there be Venue of transimore than one defendant, and they reside in different districts, the plaintiff may sue in tory actions. either and send a duplicate writ against the defendants, directed to the marshal of the other district, on which an indorsement shall be made that the writ thus sent is a copy of a writ sued out of the court of the proper district; and the said writs, when executed and returned into the office from whence they issued, shall constitute one suit, and be proceeded in accordingly. III. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. 1 Stat. 638. 15. The district of Erie shall include all the waters, shores and inlets of Lake Erie 2 March 1799 ? 17 within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the rivers and waters connected therewith, from the west line of the state of Pennsylvania unto the west bank of the Miami District of Erie. of Lake Erie, including said river. And the president of the United States is authorized to establish such place at or near Sandusky, or on the said river Miami, to be the port of entry, as he shall judge expedient, and also to establish not exceeding two other places to be ports of delivery only; and a collector shall be appointed, to reside at the port of entry, and surveyors to reside at such ports of delivery as may be established as aforesaid. 2 Stat. 336. 16. All the shores, rivers and waters of Lake Erie, within the jurisdiction of the 3 March 1805 § 3. United States, which lie between the west bank of Vermilion river and the north cape or extremity of Miami Bay, into which the river Miami of Lake Erie empties itself, and District of Miami. including all the waters of the said river Miami, shall be a district, to be called the district of Miami. And the president of the United States is authorized to establish such place at or near Sandusky, or on the said river Miami, to be the port of entry, as he shall judge expedient, and also to establish, not exceeding two other places, to be porte of delivery only; and a collector for the said district shall be appointed, to reside at the port of entry, and surveyors to reside at such ports of delivery as may be established as aforesaid. 2 Stat. €57. 17. All that part of the Miami district lying east of the western cape of Sandusky 2 March 1911 3 2. Bay, shall be a district, to be called the district of Sandusky. And the president is hereby authorized to designate such place in the district of Sandusky, as he shall judge expe- District of Sandient, to be the port of entry of the said district; and a collector for the said district shall dusky. be appointed, to reside at the port of entry. 8 Stat. 425. 18. The district of Erie, in the state of Ohio, shall be called the district of Cuya- 11 April 1818 2 1. hoga.(a) 19. The town of Portland, in the district of Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, shall be the 3 March 1821 § 1. (a) By act 3 March 1825, Fairport, in the district of Cuyahoga, is made a port of delivery. 4 Stat. 127. 3 Stat. 642. 3 March 1821. port of entry for that district;(a) and the present port of entry established at Danbury shall cease to be the port of entry for said district. 28 Sept. 1850 3 12. 9 Stat. 511. Toledo to be the port of entry for Miami district. 10 May 1800 2 Stat. 73. 1. 20. That the port of entry now existing by law as the port of entry in the collection district of Miami, Ohio, be and the same is hereby changed and transferred to the town of Toledo, in the state of Ohio; and all the laws now in force in regard to said port of entry in the said collection district of Miami, be and the same are hereby declared to be in full force, and to apply to the new port of entry of Toledo. And the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause the archives and custom house of said district of Miami to be transferred to the town of Toledo. IV. LAND OFFICES. 21. For the disposal of the lands of the United States, directed to be sold by the act entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory District of Chili- north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," there shall be four land cothe, &c. offices established in the said territory: one at Cincinnati, for lands below the Little Miami, which have not heretofore been granted; one at Chilicothe, for lands east of the Scioto, south of the lands appropriated for satisfying military bounties to the late army of the United States, and west of the fifteenth range of townships; (b) one at Marietta, for the lands east of the sixteenth range of townships, south of the before-mentioned military lands, and south of a line drawn due west from the north-west corner of the first township of the second range, to the said military lands; and one at Steubenville, for the lands north of the last-mentioned line, and east or north of the said military lands. 3 March 1819 1. 22. For the sale of the unappropriated public lands, in the state of Ohio, to which the 3 Stat. 521. Indian title is extinguished, the following districts shall be formed, and land officers District of Lima. therefor established: all the public lands, as aforesaid, lying between the western boundary line of the state of Ohio, and a north and south line to be drawn at forty-eight miles east of the said boundary line, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the state of Ohio, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Piqua: and all the public lands, as aforesaid, lying between the above described district and the western limits of the Connecticut reserve and Canton land district as first established, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the state of Ohio, shall formi a district, for which a land office shall be established at the town of Delaware. 23. That the land office at present established at Wapaughkoneta, in the state of Ohio, be removed to Lima, in Allen county, in the same state.(c) 3 March 1835 4 Stat. 774. 1. 14 Aug. 1848 1. 9 Stat. 323. 11. District attorney and marshal. V. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. 13. District of Oregon. 14. Ports of delivery. 15. Compensation of officers. 16. Revenue laws extended to Oregon. 17. Umpqua. Oregon. Puget's Sound. Nasqually and Port land, ports of delivery. 18. Compensation of officers, 19. Pacific City and Milwaukie, ports of delivery. 22. Districts of Cape Perpetua and Port Orford. VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 24. Appointment of territorial officers. Oath of office. Salaries. Compensation of members of assembly; and their officers. Annual sessions. Appropriation for contingent expenses. 25. Salmon not to be obstructed in the rivers. 26. Ordinance of 1787 extended over Oregon. Former grants of land void. 27. Seat of government. 28. Delegate in congress. 29. Reservations of land for schools. I. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. 1. All that part of the territory of the United States which lies west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, north of the forty-second degree of north latitude, known as (a) By act 16 August 1842. it is enacted that the port of Portland, in the district of Sandusky, shall be called the port of Sandusky. b Stat. 507. (b) By act 3 March 1803, so much of the unappropriated lands within the military tract, as lie west of the eleventh range, were attached to the district of Chilicothe. 2 Stat. 230. The land districts of Steubenville, Zanesville, Marietta and Cincinnati, |