10577-10600, Feb. 8, 1887 - Feb. 18, 1887

              10577
nEPARBiffliT   ov  jeseioi,
Tfaohincton, Johns ary ath,  loV/.
Tho Soorotary or  tho Interior,
3ir:
In roply to yours of MM 54. th ultimo in vrtvieh my
attention is dii'octod to tho Act or Juno 1: -i\,   1S9B,   Stats,   at
Larue, Vol.yf), p.r..">, nndor Mia hood ■Ooverrmnftt in tho Territories*
repeal inn "ootion 1j»1,   H,n.,   t  hoc to SSyi
f>')o. laXtt  raoSa Hetag
•Tli.- fitiboriUniitu officers of oaoh bi-anch of ov«»ry
■ o;:iKlatlvo asooiiUly   ahall   oonnint of utv: ehi if  clerk,   who
siiall   receive  ;; carr,>^ri.-;atiim of oicht  dollars per day,   arid of one
assistant olork,  quo onr-iUnr* clerk,  on i  enrfro.TiinR  ci.:rk,  o'i«
sorrjeant-ot-aiiin,  on-!  doorkoopor,   tmo neasannai* and onu
waterman, woo shall oaoh raoaava a aonponaatlan or five
dollars per day  d".'"in(; tSS sessions,   and no  otr.-.rc'» far a
floater nimb-'r or officers and attundan-.s,   or .«iy  larger per
dion shall  ho allowed or paid by  the united status to  .tny
Territory.•
Tho ropoalin,; neotion of l.;v.    provides:
•Tiiat th"  subordinate officers of each ''runoh of
said Territorial  legislatures  sluill  aor.siat of,   one chiof
Olork, who  siiall   rooeivo  a cannon:, itioti i>f nix dollarn pef day
one  enrollinQ and embossing ole.-k  at five dollars per day;
aor,";oant-at-amn anil  doorkoopor at  five  dollars per day;     a
nosoen.'ror and watohman at  four dollars por day   ;..oh;     ar.u one
ohaplaln at Si.SO per day."
la the  oopiilativo  "and* disjunctive or conjunctive in
noaninn *n those phrases?
"ootion 1SS1  en'iri'irates "on<>  enrolling alert, one
onnrorirjinn olor*,   at  five  dollars per day",- and nakos provision
for tho payptent of both.
It  Is  rinht to  interpret the word  "and" -ath a disjunctive meaning when s"oh "wmnlnf! entirely   coincides with the