Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-28


said officers, respectively, rs may be necessary
70 the due enforcement of the laws Of said Dis
trict
SIC. %. And be If further enacted, That the
said legislative assembly shall have power to
create by general law, modify. repeal, or amend,
within said District. corporations aggregate for
religious, charitable, educational, industrial or
commercial purposes, and TO define their powers
and liabilities Provided, That the powers of
corporations so created shall be limited to the
District of Columbia.
SEC. % And 6eit further enacted, That the
Legislative assembly shall define by law who
shall be entitled to relief rs paupers in said Dis
trict and shall provide by law for the support
and maintenance of such paupers. and for that
purpose shall raise the money necessary by
taxation.
SEC. 80. And be 1T further enacted, That the
legislative assembly shall have power to pro-
vide by law for the election or appointment of
such ministerial officers as may be deemed ne
cessary to carry into effect the laws of said Dis
trict to prescribe their duties their terms of of
fee, and the rate and manner of their eompen-
sation.
SEC. 81. And be it further enacted, That the
governor, secretary, and other officers to be APP
pointed pursuant to this act. shall, before they
act as such, respectively, take and subscribe an
oath or affirmation before judge of the SUI
preme court of the District of Columbia, or
some justice of the peace in the limits of said
District, duly authorized to administer oaths or
affirmations by the law now in force therein, or
before the Chief Justice or some associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States, to
support the Constitution of the United States.
and faithfully to discharge the duties of their
respective offices; which said oaths, when so
TAKEN shall be certified By the person before
whom the same shall have been taken; and
such certificates shall be received and recorded
BY the said secretary among the executive pro-
ceedings; and all civil officers in said District,
before they act as such, shall take and subscribe
a like oath or affirmation before the said gov
ernor or secretary, or some judge or justice of
the peace of the District, who may be duly
commissioned and qualified, or before the Chief
Justice OF the Supreme Court of the United
States, which said oath or affirmation shall be
certified and transmitted by the person admin
istering the same to tho secretary, to be by him
recorded as aforesaid and afterward the like
oath or affirmation shall be taken and sub
scribed, certified and recorded in such manner
and form as may be prescribed by law
SEC 81 As,d be 1T further enacted, That the
governor shall receive an annual salary. of
three thousand dollars; and the secretary shall
receive an annual salary of two thousand dol
lars, and that the said salaries shall be paid
quarter yearly, from the dates of the respective
appointment, at the treasury OF the United
States; but no payment shall be made until
said officers shall have entered upon the duties
of their respective appointments. The mem
bers OF the legislative assembly shall be entitled
to receive four dollars each per, day during ac-
ttiaI attendance at the session thereof, and an
additional allowance of four dollars per day
shall be paid to the presiding officer OF each
house for each day he shall so preside. And
chief clerk, one assistant clerk, one engrosslng
and one enrolling clerk, and sergeant alarms
may be chosen for each house and the chlei
clerk shall receive four dollars per day, and
the said other officers three dollars per day,
during the session of the legislative assembly
Provided That there shall be but one session
of the legislative assembly annually, unless. on
an extraordinary occasion, the governor SHAH
gether. And the governor and secretary OF
the District SHALL in the disbursement of all
moneys appropriated by Congress and intrusted
to them, be governed solely by the Instructions
of the Secretary Of the Treasury of the United
States, and shall semi-annualy account to the
said Secretary for the manner in which the
aforesaid moneys shall have been expended;
and no expenditure shall be made by the said
legislative assembly of funds appropriated by
Congress, for objects not. especially authorized
by acts of Congress making the appropriations,
nor beyond the sums thus appropriated for such
objects.
SEC. 49, And belt .furthe, enacted, That the
legislative assembly of the District of Column
bia shall hold Its first session at such time and
place in said District as the governor thereof
Shall appoint ard direct.
SIC. 81. And be it further enacted, That a
Delegate to the House of Representatives of the
United States, to serve for the term. of two
years. who shall be a citizen of the United
States and of the District of Columbia, and
shall have the qualifications OF voter, may be
elected by the voters qualified to elect members
of the legislative assembly, who shall be en-
titled to the same rights and privileges as are
exercised and enjoyed by the Delegates from
the several Territories of the United States to
the House of Representative, and shall also be
a member of the Committee for the District Of
Columbia but the Delegate first elected shall
hold his seat only during the term of the Con-
gress to which he shall be elected The first
election shall be held at the time and places and
be conducted in such manner as the elections
for mem bers of the House of Representatives
are conducted; and at all subsequent elections
the time and places and the manner of holding
the elections, shall be prescribed by law. The
person having the greatest number of legal
votes shall be declared by the governor to be
duly elected and certificate thereofshal be CIV
en- accordingly; andthe Constitution and all the
laws Of the United States, which are not locally in
applicable, shall have the same force and effect
within the said District of Columbia as elsewhere
within the United States.
SEC 35 And be 1T further enaetrd, That all
officers to be appointed by the President of the
United States, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, for the District of Columbia,
who by virtue of the provisions of any law
now existing, or which may be enacted by Con-
gress, are required to gire security for moneys
that be may intrusted To them for disbursement,
shall give such security at such time and in such
manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe.
SEC. sc. And be it further enacted, That
there shal{be valuation taken in the District
of Columbia of all real estate belonging to the
United States in said District, except the public
buildings, and the grounds which have been
dedicated to the public use as parks and
squares, at least once in five years, and return
thereof shall be made by the governor to the