The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-17

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restrictions and conditions as they shall deem
proper on the power OF slave owners to
efnanei pate their slaves and may pass laws
for the relief of the Commonwealth from the
free negro population, by removal or other
wise.
81. The General Assembly shall not ernan-
cipata any slave, or the descendant of any
slave, either before or after the birth of such
descendant.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
q. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the Commonwealth, and all
property shall be taxed in proportion to it's
value, which shall be ascertain ed in such
manner may be prescribed by law but
any property may be exempted from taxation
by the vote of a majority of the whole mum
ber OF members elected 10 each house of the
Gene al Assembly.
q. A capitation tax, equal TO the tax
Sc essed on land of the value OF two hundred
dollars, shall be levied on every white male
inhlbitant who has attained the age OF
tlFsnty one years but nothing herein con-
tanned hall prevent exemptions OF taxable
polls III cases OF bodily infirmIty.
u. The General Assembly may levy a tax
on incomes, salaries, and Iicen> bat no tax
shall be levied on properly from which any
income so taxed is derived, OF on cap tai invest
81 IN the trade or business IN respect 10 which
the hcence so taxed is issned.
=, No money shall be drawn from the
treasury but in pursuance OF appropriations
made by law and statement of the re.
ctipts, disbursements, appropf iations and
loans snail be pEhiished after tue al ourn-
IaeHt OF eHGn session OF tie teleFa al Assem-
bly,, VeIJh tie acts and resolu tions thereof
2t. On the pa--ase Of every act which i'm.
poses, continues, or receives Il tA1, or creates
q debt or charge, OF Lakes continae< or re-
c5lSee any appropriation Of public or trust
money OF property, or releases, discharges
or commute any claim or demand Of iii
STATE, the vCle shall be detern la ed by yeas
ard nays and tEe names OF the persons
t-,p f.,ssa nh an IL,
tered on the journals Of the respective
l. uses, aud ajority II all the members
elected u each House shall be necessary tu
g. % ii the free Of a law.
q. The liability TO the State Of uly int5r-
pOrated company or Institution, to redeem .hy
principa! and pay the interest Of any loan
heretofore MADE, or which may hereafter be
made By the State to such COMP pany or insti-
tuition shall not be released and the Gen
eral Assem- bly, snail not pledge the faith of
the State, or pind it in any form, for the debts
or obligations o. any company or corpora
tioa
2S. There shall be set apart annually from
the accr0ing revenues, sum equal te seven
per cent Of the State debt eXis ting on the first
dag OF January, In the year one thousand
eight hundred and iifty two. The fund thus
set apart shall be called the Sinking Fund
and shall be applied 10 the psyment of
the interest Of the State debt, and the princi-
pal OF such part as may be redeemable. II no
part be redeem a BILE, then the residue of the
terest, shall be invested in the bonds or certi-
ficates of debt of this Common wealth. OF of
the Contedera te States or of some of the Sta tes
OF this Coniederacy, and applied to the paw.
ment of the State debt as il shall become re-
Geemable. Whenever, after the said first day
of January, & debt shall have been or shall
be contracted By the Commonwealth, there
shall be set apartin like manner, annually for
thirty-four years, sum exceeding by one
per cent. the aggrega te amount of the animal
interest agreed to be paid thereon at the time
OF its contraction which sum shall be part OF
the Sinking Fund, ami shall bespplled in the
manner before directed. The General As
sembly shall not otherwise appropriate any
part of the Sinking Fund or its accruing III :
terest, except III time of war, instruction or
invasion.
direct sale of the stocks held by the Com
mon wealth in internal improvement and
other companies but the proceeds of su b
sale, II made before the payment OF the pub
lie debt, shall constitute Il part of the Sinking
Fund, and be applied in like manner.
80. The General Assem- bly, shall not con
tract loans or cause TO be issued certificates OF
debt or bonds of the State, lrredeema bic for a
period greater than thirty -four years.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
81. Tie General Assembly shall not grant
a charter of Incorporation to any church or
religious denomin alton, but may secure the
title TO church property 10 an extent to be
limited by law.
81. No lottery shall hereafter be authorized
by law, and the buying, selling, or trans
ferIing of tickets or chances in any lottery
not now authorized by law OF this State
shall be prohibited.
80. No new county shall oe formed with an
area less than six hundred square miles: nor
shall the county or counties from which il is
formed be reduced below that area; nor shall
any county having a white population less
th"n i've thousand, be deprived of more than
one-iifth OF such population. nor shall a
county having a larger white population be
reduced below four thou sand.
h. The General Assembly shall confer on
the courts the power 10 grant divorces,
change the names OF persons and direct the
sale OF estates belonging TO infants and other
persons under legal disabilities, butshall not
by special legislation grant relief in such
cases, or IN any other cases OF which the
courts or other tribunals may have iurisdic-
tion.
50. The General Assembly shall provide
tor lie periodical registration in the several
counties, cities, aud towns, OF the voters
therein and for She annual regiStra ION OF
the births, marriages, anf deaths III the white
population, and of the birshs and deaths il,
the eolored population of<the same, dis in
gushing between the mum Der OF the free
colOred persons and slaves.
&c. The manner of conducting and making
returns OF elections, of determining cOntes TED
elections, and of filing vacancies in office, il
| cases not specially providedfor by this Con
sutGtion, shall be prescribed by law. AuC
| the General Assembly may declare the case.
| In which any Office shall be deemed vacant
where no provision is made for that purpos,
| in this Constitution.
| 81 ltshall be the duty of the General As
| sembly to provide by law adequate protec
| ton against all infrac lions OF the right
| guaranteed to the citizens of this Common
| wealth by the seventh, eighth and tenth sec
| tions of the Bill of Rights of Virginia, anl
| by the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth an,
seventeenth clauses of the ninth section of th
| first article of the Constitution of the Con
federate States.
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