Arizona silver belt., 1886-09-04
limiting rerrllorIal L!eglsIa.lon

An act to prohibit the passage of To- cal or special laws in tho territories oi the United States, to limit territorial indebtedness, and for other purposes.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted States of America in Congress as- sembled, That the Legislatures of the territories of the United States now or hereafter to be organized shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say:
 Granting divorces.
 Changing the names of persons or places.
 Laying out, opening, altering, and working roads or highways.
 Vacating roads, town-plats, streets, alleys and pubic grounds.
 Locating or changing county seats.
 Regulating county and township af- fairs.
 Regulating the practice in courts of justice.
 Regulating the jurisdiction and du- ties of the peace, police magistrates and con8tables.
 Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases. .-.
 Incorporating cities, towns, or vil- lages, or changing or amending the charter of any town, city or village.
 For the punishment of crimes or misdemeanors.
 For the assessment and collection of taxes for territorial, county, township, or road purposes.
 Summoning and impaneling grand or petit jurors.
 Providing for tbe management of common schools.
 Regulating the rate of interest on money.
 The opening and conducting of any election or designating the place of voting.
 The sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability.
 The protection of game or fish.
 Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges.
 Remitting fines, penalties or forfeit ures.
 Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentage, or allowances of pub lie officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.
 Changing the law of descent.
 Granting to any corporation, asso- citation, or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing charters for such purpose.
 Granting to any corporation, asso- citation, or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise whatever.
 In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted in any of the ter ritories of the United States by the territorial legislatures thereof.
 Sec. 2. That no territory of the United States now or hereafter to be organized, or any political or munici- pal corporation, or subdivision of any such territory, shall hereafter make any subscription to the capital stock of any incorporated company, or association having corporate pow CTS, or in any manner loan its credit to or use 1t for the benefit ot any such company or association, or borrow any money for the use of any such company or association.
 Sec. 3. That no law of any territo- rial legislature shall authorize any debt to be contracted by or on behalf of such territory except.in the follow ing cases: To meet a casual deficit in the revenues, to pay the interest upon the territorial debt, to suppress in- surrections, or to provide for the pub lie defense, except that in. addition to any indebtedness created for such pur- poses, the legislature may authorize a loan for the erection of penal, charita- ble or educational institutions for such territory, if the total indebtedness oi the territory is not thereby made to exceed one per centum upon the as sessed value of the taxable property in such territory as shown by the last general assessment for taxation. And nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the refunding of any exist ing indebtedness of such territory or of any political or municipal corpora tion, county, CT other subdivision therein.
 Sec. 4. That no political or muni. cipal corporation, county, or other subdivision in any of the territorie; zf l. |