United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 99
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Chap. XCIX.—An Act to authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Legislative Assembly authorized to provide for the election or appointment of certain officers. That the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin shall be, and are hereby, authorized to provide, by law, for the election or appointment of sheriffs, judges of probate, justices of the peace, and county surveyors, within the said Territory, in such way or manner, and at such times and places as to them may seem proper; and after a law shall have been passed by the Legislative Assembly for that purpose, all elections or appointments of the above-named officers, thereafter to be had or made, will be in pursuance of such law.
Term of service of members of the Legislative Assembly.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of both houses of the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, shall, upon the expiration of the terms of service for which the present members have been elected, be hereafter elected to serve for the same terms of service as that for which the members of the Legislative Assembly in Iowa are now elected.
Approved, March 3, 1843.