Portal:Government of the Territory of Arizona

“ If any person shall neglect or refuse to pay the toll authorized by this act, for any animals or teams owned or driven by him, when demanded by any person authorized to receive the same, he shall be liable for double the amount of toll legally due from him, to be collected on complaint, in the name of the company, in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the wagon or wagons, and the animal or animals, owned by him or in his charge, shall be liable to be taken on attachment or execution to satisfy the judgment which may be obtained. ”

“ It were vain to solicit capital or emigration until the power of the Apache is broken. Recent campaigns against him, waged by civil and military expeditions, have been attended with considerable success; but enough has not been done, and your memorialists respectfully request the aid of government in prosecuting a war until the Apache shall be forced, as the Navajo has been, to go upon a reservation. ”

“ The board of Territorial commissioners, or any member of said board, may draw on the treasurer of the Territory, and from the Indian war fund, drafts for the payment of ranger corps not formed under the provisions of the act authorizing the raising of rangers, when in their sound discretion the exigencies of the times may have required the services of such body of men, and the affidavit of the leader of such party or corps may be taken as a voucher for the same, in the same manner as the affidavits of the captains of the regular ranger corps ”

“ For each carriage or cart, drawn by one horse, mule, or ox, three-quarters of one cent per mile.
For each horse or other animal and rider, three-quarters of one cent per mile.
For each pack-animal, one-half cent per mile.
For all horned cattle, horses, mules, or other loose stock, in droves, one-half of one cent per mile each.
For each sheep, goat, or hog, one-eighth of one cent per mile.
Provided, that after the expiration of two years from and after the completion of said road, the Legislature of this Territory shall have the right to modify or change the above rates of toll. ”

“ That when California was admitted into the Union as a State, in eighteen hundred and fifty, it was admitted with the same boundary on the south, as declared in her constitution, that was specified in the said treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and run by the commissioners aforesaid, the River Colorado separating the small tract of land before specified from the remainder of the State. ”

“ No tolls or charges shall be made or collected by said company for travel on said road, until said road shall have been examined by a commissioner, to be appointed by the governor of the Territory, who is hereby authorized to appoint a disinterested person for such purpose, on receipt from the company of a petition praying therefor, and who shall have reported in writing to the governor what amount has been expended, and what improvements have been made thereon, and whether said company have complied with the provisions of this act ”

“ All legal voters, citizens of this Territory, who may be in the military service of the United States or this Territory, or who may be engaged in any campaign against hostile Indians, shall have the right to vote at all elections, and for all officers for whom they could legally vote in their respective precincts, as provided by chapter twenty-four of the civil Code of this Territory, and shall not forfeit their residence by reason of any absence while engaged in such service or campaign. ”

“ The privileges conceded to said company are and shall be continued for the term of twenty years from the passage of this act, and at the expiration of said term said road shall be relinquished by them in good order, and shall always remain for the benefit of the Territory or the State; but it is understood that the said company may sell or retain any real estate owned or possessed by them, and divide the proceeds of the same, in proportion to the shares held by them, among the stockholders, after all debts of said company are paid ”

“ So long, not exceeding five years, as the said Samuel Todd or his associates or successors shall maintain and operate a good, safe, and substantial ferry between the points aforesaid, they shall be authorized to charge, demand, and collect, the following rates of toll, namely:—For a wagon and two animals, three dollars and fifty cents; for every additional two, seventy-five cents; for every carriage with one animal, two dollars and seventy-five cents; for every beast of burden, seventy-five cents; for every horse or mule with its rider, one dollar ”

“ At nine o’clock in the forenoon on the day of any election aforesaid, the legal voters aforesaid shall proceed to elect judges and an inspector, who shall immediately give public notice of the hour of such day, and the place when and where they will open the polls, and they shall appoint two clerks, and shall receive, canvass, and record the votes, and conduct the election as nearly as may be in conformity with the provisions of the chapter aforesaid ”

“ That the object of said society shall be the collection and preservation under their own care and direction of all historical facts, manuscripts, documents, records, and memoirs, relating to the history of this Territory, geological and mineralogical specimens, geographical maps and information, Indian curiosities and antiquities, and objects of natural history. ”

“ The coupons or certificates for the payment of the interest, shall be attached to said bonds in such manner that they may be taken off without injuring or mutilating the bonds, being severally numbered from one to twenty inclusive, each bearing the corresponding number of the bond to which they are attached, and shall be signed by the treasurer of the Territory. ”