Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-28
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responsble for the debts or liabilities of. or in
any manner give, loan, or extend its credit to
or in aid of any public or other corporation as
sociation or individual
SIC. II. A,ld be 1T further enacted. That the
legislative assembly shall not pass special laws
in any of Sne following cases, that is TO say: For
granting divorces; regulating the practice in
courts OF Justice regulating the jurisdiction
or duties of justices of the peace. police magis-
trates, or constabies; providing for changes of
venue in civil or criminal cases, or swearing
and impanelng jurors; renting fines, pepal-
ties, or forfetures; the sale or mortgage of real
estate belonging to minors or others under disa-
bility; changing the law of descent; increasing
or decreasing the fees of public officers during
the term for which said officers are elected or
appointed granting to any corporation, asso-
citation, or individual, any special or exclu-
sive privilege, immunity, or franchise whatso-
ever. The legislative assembly shall have no
power torelease or extinguish, in whole or in
part, the indebtness, liability, or obligation of
any corporation or individual to the District or
to any municipal corporation therein, nor shall
the legislative assembly have power to establish
any bank of circulation, nor to authorize any
company or individual to issue notes for circu-
lation as money currency
SEC. Is. ARd be 1T further enacted, That the
Legislative power of the District shall extend
to all rightful subjects Of legislation within said
District, consistent with the Constitution of the
United States and the provisions of this act,
subject nevertheless, to all the restrictions and
limitations imposed upon States by the tenth
section of the first article of the Constitution of
the United States but ali acts of the legislative
assembly shall at all times be subject to repeal
or modification by the Congress of the United
States, and nothing herein shall be construed to
deprive Congress of the power of Legislation
over said District in as ample manner as if
the law had not been enacted
SEC. 10. And be it FURTHER enacted, That no
member of the legislative assembly shall hold
or be appointed to any Office which shall have
been created or the salary or emolumcnts of
which shall have been increased while he was
member during the term for which he was
appointed or elected and for one year after the
expiration of such term and no person holding
any Office of trust or profit under the govern
ment of the United States shall be a member
of the legislative assembly
SEC 20. A7,d be 1T further enacted. That the
said legislative assembly shall not have power
to pass any ex post facto law, nor law impairing
the obligation of contracts. nor to tax the pro-
perty of the United States, nor to tax the lands
or property of non-resdents higher than the
lands or other property of residents; nor shall
lands or other property IN said District be liable
to higher tax, in any one year, for all gener-.
al objects, territorial and municipal. than two.
dollars on every hundred dollars of the cash
value thereof; bur special taxes may be levied
in particular sections, wards. or districts for
their particular local improvements; nor shall
said territorial government have power to bor-
row money or issue stock or bonds for any OBJ
ject whatever, unless specially authorized by
an act of the legislative assembly, passed by
vote of two-thirds of the entire number of the
members Of each branch thereof, but sad debt
in no case to exceed five per centum of the as
sessed value of the property Of said District,
unless authorized by vote of the. people, as
hereinafter provided.
SEC. 81 4nd be 1t further enacted, That the
property of that portion of the District not in
cluded in the corporations of Washington or
Georgetown shall not be taxed for the purposes
either of improving the streets, alleys, public
squares, or other public property of the said
cities, or either of them, nor for any other ex-
pendlture of a local nature, for the exclusive
benefit of said cities, or either of them, nor for
the payment of any debt heretofore contracted,
or that may hereafter be contracted by either
of said cities while remaining under munich
pal government not co-extensiye with the Dis
trict -
SEC. q And be 1t further enacted. That the
property within the corporate limits of George
town shall not be taxed for the payment of any
debt heretofore or hereafter to be contracted by
the corporation of Washington, nor shall the
property within the corporate limits of Wash
ington be taxed for the payment of any debt
heretofore or hereafter to be contracted by the
corporation of Georgetown; and so long as said
cities shall remain under distinct municipal
governments the property within the corporate
limits of either of said cities shall not be taxed
for the local benefit of the other; nor shall said
cities or either of them, be taxed for the exclu-
sive benefit of the county outside of the limits
thereof Provided That the legislative assembly
may make appropriations for the repair of
roads, or for the construction or repair of
bridges outside the limits of said cities.
SEC g. And be 1t further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of said legislative assembly to
maintain system of free schools for the edu-
cation of the youth of said District and all moneys
raised by general taxation or arising from do
nations by Congress, or from other sources, ex-
cept by bequest or devise, for school purposes,
shall be appropriated for the equal benefit of all
the youths of said District between certain ages,
to be defined by law
Sec "a And be it further enacted, That the
said legislative assembly shall have power to
provide FOR the appointment of as many justices
of the peace and notaries public for said District
may be deemed necessary, to define their
jurisdiction and prescibe their duties; but
justices of the peace shall not have jurisdiction
of any controversy in which the title of land
may be in dispute, or in which the debt or sum
claimed shall exceed one hundred dollars Pro-
cided, hoaceUer That all justices of the peace
and notaries public now in commission shall
continue in office till their present commissions
expire, unless sooner removed pursuant to ex-
istng laws
SEC. %. A1ad be 1T further enacted That the
judicial courts of said District shall remain as
now organized until abolished or changed by
act OF Congress; but such legislative assembly
shall have power to pass laws modifying the
practice thereof and comforting such additional
Jurisdiction as may be necessary to the due ex-
ecution and enforcement Of the laws Of said
District.
SEC 26 And be it further enacted That
there shall be appointed by the President of
the United States, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, board of health for
said District, to consist of FIVE persons, whose
duty it shall be to declare what shall be deemed