TERRITORY OF NEBRASKA. I hereby certify that I have this day delivered to Thomas Morton, Printer, true and correct copies of all Laws, JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS, now on file in this office, passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska, begun and held at Omaha City, on the 5th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. SOVEREIGNTY In testimony whereof, witness my hand and the great seal of the Territory of Nebraska, hereunto affixed; done at Omaha city, on this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. J. STERLING MORTON, Secretary of the Territory of Nebraska. GENERAL LAWS. AN ACT To prohibit slavery. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That slavery or involuntary servitude, except for the commission of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, is hereby prohibited in this territory. §2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. (Signed.) HENRY W. DE PUY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Council. I hereby certify that the foregoing bill has passed the House by a two-third vote over the Governor's veto, being a vote of thirty-one to two. HENRY W. DE PUY, (Attest.) (Signed.) Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. L. SEYBOLT, Chief Clerk. I hereby certify that the foregoing bill passed the Council on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1861, by a vote of ten to three, being a two-third vote of all the members of the Council, and that the said bill has become a law, the Governor's veto to the contrary notwithstanding. (Signed.) (Attest.) E. P. BREWSTER, Chief Clerk. WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, President of the Council. I hereby certify that the foregoing bill was vetoed by His Excellency Samuel W. Black, Governor of Nebraska, and that it was returned to the House of Representatives where it originated, and that that honor. able body passed it, the Governor's objection notwithstanding, by a twothird vote; sent it to the Council and that that honorable body also passed it by a two-third vote, and that if it in nowise conflicts with the constitution of the United States, the Organic Act of this territory; nor the laws of the United States; the same has become a law. In testimony whereof witness my hand and the great seal of [L. s.]the Territory of Nebraska hereunto affixed. Done at Omaha city, on this the fifteenth day of January, A. D. 1861. J. STERLING MORTON, (Signed.) Secretary of the Territory of Nebraska. AN ACT To authorize the sale of the cast iron of the territory of Nebraska. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the auditor of said territory be authorized, and is hereby empowered to sell all the cast iron or other material, that is left from repairing and rebuilding the said capitol building, at such time and in such manner as he may think best calculated to subserve the interests of the territory. § 2. That the money arising from the sale of said cast iron be applied by the said auditor to the school fund of the territory. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 29, 1860. AN ACT Granting a bounty on the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, or sugar cane. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That a bounty of five cents per pound shall be paid for each pound of merchantable, brown sugar, made from sugar cane raised in the territory during the years 1861 and 1862; said bounty shall be paid by the county in which the cane was raised and the sugar was manufactured, out of any money in the hands of the treasurer, not otherwise appropriated. § 2. Any person having made twenty pounds or more of such sugar may avail himself of the benefits of said bounty, by applying to the clerk of his county, exhibiting to said clerk a fair sample of at least five pounds of such sugar, and proving by his oath, and that of another competent witness, the amount made by him; that the cane was raised in the year 1861 or 1862, as the case may be, and such other matters as may be necessary to satisfy said clerk, that the person applying for the bounty is entitled to it, according to the meaning and intent of this act. When such proof has been satisfactorily made, it shall be the duty of said clerk to issue his order on the treasurer of the county in favor of the applicant for the amount of bounty so proven. § 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 1st, 1861. AN ACT Relative to appeals. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Terri'ory of Nebraska, That hereafter in case of appeals from the decisions of probate or justices' courts, no notice of the same shall be necessary. § 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 3d, 1861. > AN ACT To encourage the cultivation of fruit, forest and ornamental trees in the territory of Nebraska. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That a valuation of fifty dollars on the real estate, belonging to any individual, situated in one tract, be, and the same is hereby exempted from taxation, provided the said real estate shall have in a good state of cultivation one acre of land on which there shall not be less than one hundred fruit or ornamental trees, or four hundred forest trees in artificial groves; and that for each additional acre cultivated as herein described, there shall be the sum of fifty dollars exempt from taxation. § 2. The assessor shall be the judge of the amount of land cultivated in artificial groves, and its state of cultivation, and if he require it, the owner shall make oath to the same, and the assessor shall specify the amount so exempted, on the tax list. § 3. The cultivation of fruit, forest or ornamental trees on any tract of land, as described in the first section of this act, shall, in no case, increase its valuation for revenue purposes. § 4. This act to take effect, and be in force from and after its pass age. Approved January 4th, 1861. AN ACT To regulate and establish the rate of interest on money and on contracts. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That any rate of interest which may be agreed upon, not exceeding fifteen dollars per year, upon one hundred |