The Arizona champion., 1886-08-21
GPUBLIc--No. 1891


 House or Representatives. ef Me Unitel States ef Ame,Tea m Congyess assem. 6ltd, That the legislatures of the Ter rito-ies of the United States now and 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 public grounds.
 Locating or changing county seats. Regulating county and township affairs.
 Regulating the practice in courts of justice.
 Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police, magistrates, and constsbles.
 Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases.
 Incorporating cities, towns, or villa ges, 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 Terrlt orial, county, town ship, or road purposes.
 Summoning and impaneling grand or pettit jurors.
 Providing for the 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 for feitures.
 Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentage, or allowances 0! public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or ap. pointed. . .. Changing the law of descent
 Granting to any corporation, asso. citation, or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing charters tor such purpose.
 Granting to any corporation, asso. ciatiom, or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or fran chise whatever.
 In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted in any ot 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 organized, or any political or muni. cIpal corporation or sub- division oi any such Territory, shall hereafter make any subscription to the capital stock oi any incorporated company, or company or association having corpo reie powers, or h any manner loan i,s credit to or use 1t for the benefit o any such company or association, oI besIow any money for the use of any su"n company or association.
 SEC. 5. That no law of any Terri torai Legislature shall authorize any debt to be contracted by or on behal of such Territory except in the follow. ihg eases: To meet casual deficit in the revenues, to pay the interest upon the Territorial deLI, 10 suppress in, surreItluns, or to provide for the puCiic defense, except that in addition to any indebtedness created for sucl purposes, the legislature may author izc q loan for the erection of penal, charitable or educational institutions for such Territory, if the total indebt edness of tine Territory is not thereby made to exceed one per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable prop erty in such Territory as shown by the last general assessment for taxation. And nothing in this act shall be con. strued to prohibit tie refunding ol any existing indebtedness of such Territory or of any political or runi. cipal corporation, county, or other sub division therein.
 SEC. 4. That no political or muni. cipal corporation, county, or other subdivision in any of the Territories of the United States shall ever become
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