Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1886-08-19
SPECIAL LEGISLATION


legislatures Of the territories of the
United States now or hereafter to be or
ganized shall not pass local or special
laws in any Of the following innuuierated
cases. that is to say:
Changing the names Of persons and
places.
Laying out opening altering and work.
ing loads or highways.
yaca'ing roads, town plats, streets, alleys
and public grounds.
Locating OF changing county seats.
Regulating county and township affairs
Regulating the practice in c, urts Of
justice.
Regulating the jurisdiction aud duties
of justices of the peace, police mlgistrates 8
and counstables.
Providing for changes of venue in civil
and criminal cases
Incorporating cities, towns or villages,
or changing or amending the charter of
any town, city or village.
For the punishment OF crimes and mis-
demeanors.
For the assessment and collection of
taxes for territorial. county, township or
road purposes.
Summening and empaneling 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 vot-
ing
/ The sale or mortgage Of real estate be.
/ longing to minors or Others under disa
/ bllity.
/ The protection OF game or fish.
Charterin8 or licensing ferries or toll
bridges.
Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures
/ Creating increasing or decreasing fees
percentage, or allowances Of public officer,
during the term for which said officers art
elected or appointed.
Changing the law Of decent.
Granting to any corporation, ASSOCIATION
! or individual the right TO lay down rail.
road tracks, or amending existing charters
/ for such purpose.
| Granting to any corpoation, association
! or individual any special or exclusive
/ privilege, immunity or franchise what
ever
In all other cases where general law
can be made applicable, no special law
shall be enacted in any of the territories
OF the Unitel States by the territorial leg :
is.ature thereof.
SEC. 2 That no territory Of the United
States now or hereafter to be organized,
or any political or municipal corporation or
subdivision of any such territory shall
/ hereafter make any subscription to u q
capital stock Of any Incorporated con :
pany, or company or association having
corporate powers. or IN Any manner loan
il credit to or use it for the tensfit Of
/ 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 territorial
Legislature shall authorize any debt to be
contracted 10y or on behalf of such terri
ritory except in the following cases: To
meet a casual deficit in the revenues, to
pay the interest upon the territorial debt,
TO suppress Instructions, or TO provide
for the public defense, except that IN ad-
such purposes, the legislature ms = au.
thorize loan for the erection of penal,
charitable or educational institutions for
such territory, if the total Indebtedness
| of the territory is not thereby made to
exceed one per cent. upon ne assessed
value of the taxable property in such
territory, as shown by the last general as-
sessment for taxation. and nothing in this
act shall be construed TO prohibit the re-
funding ef any existing Indebtedness OF
such territory or OF any political or
municipal corporation, county or 9th, =
subdivisions therein.
SEC. 4. That no political or mum icipal
corporation. county or other subdivision
in any Of the territories OF tho United
States shall ever become indebted in any
manner or for any purpose to any amount
in the aggregate, including existing in
debtedness, exceeding five per centum on
the value OF the taxable property within
such corporation, county or subdivision
TO be ascertained by the last assessment
for territorial aud county taxes, previous
to the incurring Of such indebtedness, and
all bords ard obligation in excess Of such
amount given by such corporation shall he
void. That nothing in this act contained
shall be so construed a. to affect the valid
ity of any act of any territorial legislature
heretofore enacted, or Of any obligations
existing. or contracted hereunder. nor to
preclude the issuing Of bonds already
contracted for in pursuance Of express
provisions OF law. nor to prevent any
territorial legisiature from legaliA ing the
acts OF any county, municipal corpora
tion or subdivision of any territory as to
any bonds heretofore issued or contracted
TO be issued.
SEC. 4. That section eighteen hundred
and eighty nine. title twenty three. OF the
revised statutes of the United States be
amended to read as follows:
The Legislative assemblies OF the sew
eral territories shall not grant piivaie
charters or special privileges. but they
may, by general incorporation acts, per-
NIT persons 10 associate themselves to-
gether as bodies corporate for mining
manufacturing and other industr al pu
suits, and for conducting the business Of
insurance, banks Of discount aud deposit
tbut not of issueJ, loan trust and gusrsnt,
associations, and for the construction or
op,IatioASf ra,ironds, waeon roads ini-