APPENDIX. 3G7 



exercise of their offices ; and Iheir commissions shall continue 

 in force during good behavior. 



The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt 

 and publish in the district, such laws of the original states, 

 criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the 

 circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress, from 

 time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the 

 organization of the general assembly therein, unless disapprov- 

 ed of by Congress; but afterwards, the legislature shall have 

 authority to alter them as they shall think fit. 



The governor for the time being, shall be commander-in- 

 chief of the militia, appoint and commission all officers in the 

 same, below the rank of general officers. All general officers 

 shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress. 



Previous to the origanization of the general assembly, the 

 governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, 

 in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the 

 preservation of the peace and good order in the same. Af- 

 ter the general assembly shall be organized, the powers and 

 duties of magistrates and other civil officers shall be regulated 

 and defined by the said assembly; but all magistrates and civil 

 officers, not herein otherwise directed, shall, during the con- 

 tinuance of this temporary government, be appointed by the 

 governor. 



For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be 

 adopted or made, shall have force in all parts of the district, 

 and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the gov- 

 ernor, shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed 

 from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out 

 the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have 

 been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject, how- 

 ever to such alteratioris as may thereafter be made by the 

 Legislature. 



So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, 

 of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the Gov- 

 ernor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to 

 elect representatives from their counties or townships, to repre- 



