The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-12
Others of the Provisions of the New
Constitution of Missouri.

Others of the Provisions of the New
Constitution of Missouri.
The following seems to be very unusual
It forbids the Legislature TO do great many
things usually done by Legislatures /:
Section SO. The general Assembly shal
not pass any local or special law;
Authorizing the creation, extension, or I'M
pairing Of liens;
Regulating the affairs of counties, cities
townships, wards, or school districts;
Changing the names of persons or places
Changing the venue in civil or crlmlna
cases;
Authorizing the laying out, opening. alter
ing. or maintaining roads, highways, streets
Of alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridges, or incorpo
rating ferry or bridge companies, except FOL
the erection of bridges crossing streams
which form boundaries between this aud any
other state;
Vacaling roads, town plats, streets, or alleys
Relating 10 cemeteries, grare-yardS, OF
public GROUNDS not Of the Sfate4
Authorizing the adoption or leglllmatlor
Of children;
Locating or changing county-scats
lnco, po1ating cities, towns, or villages, or
changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting of cleo
tons. or fixing or changing the places o.
voting;
Granting divorces;
Erecting new townships, or changing
township lines, or the lines OIL SCHOOL Ills
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GREETING offices. or prescribing The power;
aud duties of officers in counties, cities.
townships, election, or school districts;
Changing the law Of descent or Succession
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction Of,
or changing the rules of evidence in, any
judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts,
justices of the peace, sberiffS, commissioners
arhitrators, or other tribunals, or providing
or changing methods for the collection Of
debts, or the enforcing Of judgments, OF
prescribing The effect Of judicial sales Of real
estate;
Regulating the fees or extending the pow
ers and duties of aldermen, justices OF the
Deacp magistrates, or constaDleS;
Regulating the management of public
schools, the building or repairing OF school
houses, and raising Of money for such pur-
poses;
Fixing The rate Of interest;
Affecting the estates Of minors or persons
under disability;
Renting fines, penalties, and fortcitures,
or reiundiug moneys legally paid into the
treasury;
EXempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manu-
featuring;
Creating corporations, or amending. re-.
newing, extending, or explaining the char
ter thereof;
Granting to any corporation, association,
or individual any special or exclusive rights,
privilege. or immunity, or to any corpora
ton, association, or Individual the right to
lay down 4 railroad track;
Declaring any named person Of age;
Extending the time for the assessment or
collection of taxes, or otherwise relieving
any assessor or collector of taxes from the
due performance OF their official duties, or
their securities from liability;
Giving effect to informal or invalid wills
or deeds;
Summoning or empannellng grand or
petit iurles;
For limitation of civil actions;
LegaIiziug the unauthorized or invalid acts
of any officer or agent of the State, or Of any
county or municipality thereof. In all other
cases, where general law can be made ap-
pIieable, no local or special law shall be en-.
acted; and whether general law could have
been made applicable in any case is hereby
declared II judicial question, and as such shall
he iudiciaiy determined without regard to
any legislative assertion on that subject.
Nor Shall the General Assembly Indirectly
enact such special or local law by the partial
repeal of general law; but laws repeating
local or special acts may be passed.
The two following provisions are capital,
and Gre commended to the attention of the
Virginia General Assembly:
Section 81. No local or special law shall be
passed unless notice of the Intention to ap.
ply th :reof shall have been published in the
locality where the matter or thing to be
affected may be situated; which notice shall
state the substance of the contemplated law,
and shall be published at least thirty days
prior to the introduction into the General
Assembly of such bill, and in the manner to
be provided by law. The evidence of such
notice bavipg been published shall be eX-
hibiled in the General Assembly before such
act shall be passed, and the notice shall be
recited in the act according to its tenor.
Section 50. The General Assembly shall
have no power when convened in an extra
session by The Governor 10 act upon subjects
other than those especially designated in the
proclamation by which The session is called,
or recommended by special nes,ge TO its
consideration by The Governor after it shall
have been convened.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section 45. The General Assembly shall
nave no power TO give or to lend, or to au-
thorize the giving or lending, ofthe credit of
the State in aid of or to any person, asSocia-
tion or corporation, whether municipal or
other, or to pledge the credit Of the State
in any manner whatsoever for the payment
of the liabilities, present or prospective, Of
any individual, association of individuals,
or other corporations whatso-
ever.
Section As. The General Assembly shall
have no power 10 Qake any grant, or to au-
thorize the making of any grant, Of public
money or thing of any value to any individ-
ual, association of individuals, municipal or
other corporation whatsoever Prootded,
That this shall not be so construed as to pre-
vent the grant of aid in case OF public Gala
nifty. ~ :.
Section At. The General Assembly shall
baye no power to authorize any county, city,
town or township, or other political corpora
ton or subdivision Of the State now existing,