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Show RILIXG ON' THE GKUD JURY CASE. Yesterday hi Honor, Chief Justice McKean, gave his ruling on the challenge chal-lenge to the array of the grand jury, made in Court yesterday week, by Mers. Hoge, Miner and Snow. The oint,s made in the ruling were, that ho Territorial Assembly is the cna-."ure cna-."ure of CodV"-, and has no powers except such as are delegated to it; that the District Court is not created by the Assembly nor to be abolished by it, and is not a Territorial Court; that the Judge is not appointed nor elected and cannot be removed or impeached by the Assembly, but has his jurisdiction directly from the United States; and though there is such a tribunal tri-bunal as the District Court of the United States fur the 3d District of the Territory, there is no such thing as a Territorial District Court. Following this; line of argument lie decided that the officers of said Court are United States officers for the Territory, Ter-ritory, and not Territorial officers ; and held that the Legislative Assembly Assem-bly had exceeded its powers in providing pro-viding a Territorial Marshal and other officers for such Courts. Consequent-t!y, Consequent-t!y, that the Hummoninz of the Grand Jury by the United States Marshal tvas valid and proper. We h ave no intention to discuss the ruling, nor to cite authorities on the subject. Wc have a very pouitivo knowledge of having heard the question ques-tion involved ruled on more than once b(.f,!o by the Chief Justice of this Territory, arid in a very different lnari-I'.-r. But the matter is of miffi-:i'.i.t miffi-:i'.i.t impoitanr-e to liav; it by ,u: means carried to a higher 'ribunul than any in this Territory Terri-tory , that from the conflicting ru-.:rr.'-. of Territorial -Ihief Ju-liccH a ' '. r- -l decision may be arrived at by .'upetciit l'-gal authority. |