Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-08-19
OF INTEREST TO TERRITORIES.
An Act to Prohibit the Passage Of Lo-
cal or Special Laws in the Territor.
les of the United States. to
Limit Territorial Indebted.
ness, and for other purpose.

OF representatives of the United States
Of America in congress assembled, that
the legislatures of the territories of the
United States now or hereafter 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 public grounds.
Locating or changing county seats.
Regulating county and township af-
fairs.
Regulating the practice in courts Of
justice.
Regulating the jurisdiction and duties
Of justices Of the peace, police magis-
trates, and constables.
Providing Tor changes of venue in
civil or criminal cases.
Incorporating cities, towns, or villages,
or changing or amending the charter
Of any town, city, or villages.
For the punishment Of crimes or mis-
dcmeanors.
For the assessment and collection Of
taxes for territorial, county, township,
or road purposes.
Summoning aud impaneling grand or
petit jurors.
Providing for the management of com.
mon 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 be-
longing to minors or others under dis
ability.
The protection Of game or fish.
Chartering or licensing ferries or toll
bridges.
Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeit
ures.
Creating, increasing, or decreasing
fees, percentages or allowances Of public
officers during the term for which said
officers are elected or appointed.
Changing the law Of descent.
Granting to any corporation, associa-
ton, or individual the right to lay down
railroad tracks, or amending existing
charter tor such purposes.
Granting to any corporations, assoca-
tions, or individual any special or cx.
elusive privilege. immunity, or franchise
whatever
In oil other cases where general law
can be made applicable, no special law
shall be enacted in any Of the territories
Of the United States by the territorial
legislatures thereof
SEC. 2. That no territory Of the
United States now or hereafter to be or
ganized, or any political or municipal cor
poration or subdivision Of any such
territory, shall hereafter make any SUBJ
scrlption to the capital stock Of any In
company, or company or as
ISOLATION having corporate powers, or in
any manner loan its credit to or use il
for the benefit Of any such company or
or borrow any money for the
ase Of any such company or association.
SEC. 3. That no law Of any terri
orial legislature shall authorize any debt
o be contracted by or on behalf Of such |
eritory, except in the following cases {:
70 meet casual deficit in the revenues,
o pay the interest upon the territorial
lebt, to suppress Instructions, or to
'rovide for the public defense, except
hat in any addition to any Indebtedness
reated for such purpose, the legislature
nay authorize loan for the erection Of
enal, charitableoI educationa! institutions
Or such territory, if the total indebted
ess OF the territory is not thereby made
exceed ! per centum upon the assessed
alue Of the taxable property in such
srritoryas shown by the last general
ssessment for taxation. Aud nothing
4 this act shall be construed to prohibit
be refundment Of any existing indebted
ess Of such territory, or Of any political
: municipal corporation, county or other
abdivision therein.
SEC. 4. That no political or munici
al corporations, county, or other subdivis-
IN Of any, Of the territories of the United
tates shall ever become indebted in any