(10) Porto Rico: By any judge, or by any clergyman or minister of any religion or sect, whether a citizen of the Island or of the United States: Rev. Stat. and Codes (1902), 808, 811.
[1263] Compare the acts of March 26, 1804, and March 2, 1805: U. S. Stat. at Large, II, 283-89, 322, 323; also in Poore, Charters, I, 691-97.
[1264] Act of March 3, 1805: U. S. Stat. at Large, II, 331, 332; also in Poore, Charters, I, 697, 698. This act places the appointment of the governor in the hands of the president; but the judges are merely to be "appointed" and hold their office for four years.
On the institution of government in the territory of Orleans see Adams, U. S., II, chap. ii.
[1265] Digest of Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Orleans (1808), 26.
[1266] Ibid., 24.
[1267] Lislet, General Digest (1828), II, 3.
[1268] It is contained in Lislet, op. cit., II, 3-13; also (in part) in the Digest of the Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Orleans, 24 ff.; with the changes to date of publication in Code civil de l'état de la Louisiane (1825), 80 ff.; in the reprint of the last-named compilation in Civil Code of La. (1853). Compare the provisions of the present law in Voorhies and Saunders, Revised Civil Code (1888), 60-68. See also The Laws of Las Siete Partidas, which are still in force in the State of Louisiana, translated from the Spanish (1820), I, 451-64.
[1269] Lislet, op. cit., II, 7-9, 10.
[1270] Act of March 17, 1809: Lislet, op. cit., II, 13.