In 1866, Gov. Cummings transferred the executive department of the government to Golden City, whence, on December 10, he transmitted his annual message to the Legislature, which assembled as usual at Denver. The Legislature consists of a Council of 13 members, and a House of Representatives of 26 members. The general election is on the 1st Tuesday in October. JUDICIARY. The Judicial power of the territory is vested in a Supreme Court, District Courts, Probate Courts, and Justices of the Peace. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associates, appointed by the President of the United States for the term of four years. For District Court purposes, the territory is divided into three districts, in each of which one of the Justices of the Supreme Court holds the sessions. There is also in each district, a Clerk of the Court, who appoints deputies for every county. The Supreme and District Courts have chancery as well as common law jurisdiction. SUPREME COURT. Chief Justice, Moses Hallet, Denver. Associate Justices, Christian S. Eyster, Denver; William A. Gorsline, Central City. Salaries, $4,500 each. TERMS OF COURTS. Supreme Court. One term of this court is held annually at Golden City, on the 1st Tuesday in July. District Courts-First District, at Denver, 1st Tuesday in March and 2d Tuesday in June; at Oro City, 2d Tuesday in September; at Tarryall, 3d Tuesday in May and 1st Tuesday in August; at Parkville, 3d Tuesday in August. Second District, at Boulder, 3d Tuesday in March; at Idaho, 2d Tuesday in May and 3d Tuesday in November; at Central City, 1st Tuesday in April and 2d Tuesday in July and October; at Golden City, 2d Tuesday in February and 3d Tuesday in August. Third District, at Pueblo, 1st Tuesday in May and 2d Tuesday in September; at San Luis, 1st Tuesday in August. FINANCES. Balance in Treasury, December 12, 1866, $1,638.04 Receipts on account of revenue and military tax to Nov. 30, 1867, 23,765.56 EXPENDITURES FOR 1867. $25,403.60 Amount of warrants redeemed from Dec. 12, 1866 to Nov. 20, 1867, $23,728.12 Miscellaneous, Balance in Treasury, 1,220.49 454.99 $25,403.60 SOURCES OF REVENUE AND DISBURSEMENTS. The receipts were from the several counties, and were principally from assessments and military tax. The disbursements were as follows: Amount of certificates of indebtedness due April 29, 1870, issued to 1st EDUCATION. .$42,169.50 The territorial Treasurer is also Superintendent of Public Instruction, and he has the general supervision of public schools. The law provides for the appointment of county superintendents who have charge of the distribution of school-money, and exercise supervision over the schools in their respective counties. The territorial Superintendent, last year, caused blanks to be printed and sent to the county superintendents to aid them in reporting the facts required by law; few reports were received, and no summary of school statistics has been given. The Treasurer is also Librarian, and reports an addition of 144 volumes to the territorial library in 1867. WEALTH AND INDUSTRY. This territory is traversed by ranges of the Rocky Mountains which enclose extensive table lands called parks, some of which are very productive. About 4,000,000 acres of agricultural land are capable of irrigation and will make productive farms. More than 200 miles of irrigating ditches have already been constructed. During the fiscal year 1867, 1,310,115 acres of land were surveyed, which, added to the lines previously extended, make a surveyed surface of 2,844,857 acres. The amount of agricultural land still unsurveyed in this territory was estimated by the Surveyor General in 1867, at 7,000,000 acres. Large tracts of land not suited to cultivation, are adapted to grazing, and in the southern portion of the territory, herds and flocks can thrive and fatten on the pasture lands the year round. Cattle and sheep are raised with profit, and the number of both is rapidly increasing. The deposits of gold and silver seem inexhaustible, and as soon as a method of separating the metals in a less expensive manner is adopted, it is believed that the annual product will be largely increased. The total gold and silver produced up to 1867, was estimated at $25,000,000. The mines have been worked with increased success the past year, and the product is estimated at $4,000,000. Gulch or placer mining is not prosecuted in Colorado to the same extent as in California, the ores being found principally in rock not disintegrated. More expensive machinery for crushing the rock, and improved processes for separating the mineral from the sulphurets of iron and copper, with which it is often combined, may be necessary, but the richness of the lodes and the extent of the mineral districts seem established. The discovery in 1867, of rich silver mines in the vicinity of Georgetown, in Clear Creek county, led to the erection of several mills and reduction works, some of which are already completed and in operation. These silver mines already give evidence of rich returns for the labor bestowed upon them. Coal exists in large quantities, and has been traced along the base of the mountains, and the indications are that an extensive deposit exists eastward from their base. Iron ore is found in abundance. Near the coal a smelting furnace is already in successful operation on the South Boulder. Lead is found in some parts of the territory, and rich copper veins have been opened the last two years. It is difficult to give reliable statistics of the mining operations, but the following facts relating to the business of Denver for 1867, are compiled from the report of a committee appointed by the Board of Trade, and are mainly derived from the official returns in the Assessor's Office. During the year 1867, there were The public lands undisposed of are over 62,850,000 acres. entered at the Land Office at Denver, under Bounty Land warrants, 36,334 acres; Homestead act, 11,059 acres; filings made and settled upon, 103,000 acres; and Cash Series act, 10,022 acres. Products. The agricultural products of 1866 were estimated at 500,000 bushels of wheat, 600,000 bushels of corn and 530,000 bushels of barley and oats. Banks. There are three National Banks, with a capital of $350,000. 41. DAKOTA TERRITORY. It is Capital, Yankton. Area, 152,000 square miles. Population, (1860), 4,837.‡ Dakota was organized by an act of Congress passed March 2, 1861. a large territory lying west of Minnesota. The western portion of the territory was set off in 1868, to constitute the new territory of Wyoming. *This amount does not represent the yield of gold for the territory, nor even approximate it, as over one-half the gold passes to the East in the hands of private parties. + The principal yield of gold is from the counties of Gilpin, Clear Creek, and Summit, and nearly all the gold from those counties is purchased at Central City. Whites and civilized Indians. & Elected Delegate to Congress. The Governor and Secretary are appointed by the President. The Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction are chosen by the qualified electors. By the act organizing the territory, every free white male inhabitant of the United States, of the age of 21 years, who was then a resident of the territory was entitled to vote and eligible to office. But this act was modified by the Congressional act of January 24, 1867, which prohibits the Legislatures of any of the territories from denying the elective franchise to any of the citizens on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. MILITIA. The threatened invasion of hostile Indians and the proclamation of the Governor in 1867, led to the organization of the militia forces of the territory with the following officers: Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Quartermaster General. Paymaster General... Aid-de-Camp to the Governor.... A. J. FAULK. .Col. JOHN L. JOLLEY. .Col. JOHN LAWRENCE. Eight companies were organized, numbering 538 men, and arms and ammunition were received from the general government, and issued to these companies. JUDICIARY. The Judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court, District Courts, and Probate Courts. The Supreme Court is composed of one Chief Justice and two Associate Justices. SUPREME COURT AND DISTRICT COURTS. Chief Justice, Asa Bartlett, Yankton. Associate Justices, J. P. Kidder, Vermillion; John W. Boyle, Bon Homme. Salary, $2,500 each. TERMS OF COURTS. First District, at Vermillion, 4th Monday of June and October, and for the county of Union in said district, 2d Tuesday of March and 3d Tuesday of November. Second District, at Yankton, 1st Monday of June and October. Third District, at Bon Homme, 2d Monday of May and 1st Monday of September. This territory has taken steps to secure the faithful administration of a Public School System which would be a credit to any state, and which reflects great honor on a community just establishing its political and social institutions. In 1864, there were no public schools and but few private schools in the territory. The country was so thinly settled that the organi zation of schools was difficult, but the prosperity and rapid growth of the territory has made it practicable to establish schools in many places, and a public school system is now in successful operation. The school law passed by the territorial Assembly and approved, January 3, 1868, provides for the appointment of a State Superintendent of Public Instruction, County Superintendents, District Directors, and Boards of school officers. The State and County superintendents hold office for two years, and are elected at the usual time for electing territorial and county officers. The officers of each district are a director, clerk and treasurer, who are elected annually and constitute the District Board. In Union county there were in 1867, 16 organized districts, and 724 persons between the ages of 5 and 21, of whom 296 were in the public schools, and 5 male and 5 female teachers were employed. There were at that time, 7 organized districts in Clay county, 5 in Yankton county, and one in Bon Homme county, but none reported in the other counties. The rapid increase in population and wealth will naturally be followed with the organization of new school districts and the erection of school-houses. The United States government has expended considerable sums of money in erecting schoolhouses, and supporting schools among the Indians. At most of the agencies there are valuable school-buildings. In Pembina county, $17,500 has been expended by Government in erecting a school-building for a Manual Labor School for the children of Ponca Indians. A new seminary named "Dakota Hall," has been erected at Yankton, under the patronage of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This is the first High School in the territory. The school law requires the State Superintendent with the county superintendents to hold each year a territorial Teachers' Institute for the instruction and training of the teachers of public schools. In accordance with this provision and the suggestion of the State Superintendent, Hon. James S. Foster, an institute was held at Elk Point on the 11th of November, 1867. It continued in session five days and was well attended, and its influence was good. A school fund is derived from a per capita tax of $1.00, and a tax of 2 mills on a dollar of all taxable property. The condition of public education at the beginning of 1868 may be learned from the following statistics of schools for 1867: Number of organized districts, 29; number of unorganized districts, 5; number of private schools, 2; children between the ages of 5 and 21, 1,550; children attending public schools, 421; children attending private schools, 160; children not attending school, 970; number of teachers -males, 10, females, 13; number of schools visited by territorial Superintendent, 5; amount of money raised for school purposes, $5,000; paid for teachers' wages, $2,388; amount of money expended for school purposes, $2,612; value of school district property in territory, $5,500; total value of school property in territory, including Indian schools, $24,240. POPULATION, WEALTH AND INDUSTRY. Dakota embraces a large scope of unoccupied territory with a few white settlements in its southern borders, along the Missouri river. It extends from the boundary of Nebraska northward to the national frontier, more than 400 miles, and is nearly as broad. It is traversed by the Missouri river, the numerous affluents of which form an extensive system of international navi |