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FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IIL Cu. 62, 63, 64, 6. 1871. 429 the Disirict of Columbia be, and is hereby, declared to be the successor, Distriet of Con of said corporations, and all the proporiy of said corporations, and of Mumia gine the county of Washington, shall become vested in the said Distriet of cities of Wash ‘Columbia, and all fines, penalties, costs, and forfeitures, which are now Angton poe ke. by law made payable to said cities, respectively, or said levy court, shall “Pitas and be paid to said District of Columbia, and the salaries of the judge and eos. clerk of the police court, the compensation of thg deputy clerk and bailiff ‘of suid police eourt, and of the marshall of the District of Columbia shall be paid by caid District: Provided, That the moneys collected upon the | Salaries of Judaeiects of said police court, or so much thereof as may be necessary, julee end othe, shall be applied to tho payment of the salaries of the judge and other oe of Polo officers of said court, and to the payment of the necessary expenses thereof, and any surplus remaining after paying the salaries, comp Surplus to be tion, and expenses aforesaid, shull be paid into the treasury of the District paid into the at the end of every quarter, ‘Mreasary, Aperoven, February 21, 1871. CHAP. LXTIL,— An et to change the Ties fr hg the darict and circuit Cots of the United Sates at Bite, Peoneoania. + Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after this date the Terms of Unit- Tuly terms of the district and cirenit courts of the United States in and e4 States courts for the western district of Pennsylvania, at Erie, shall be commenced Pe and held on and after the third Monday of July in each year; and the January terms of said court at the same place hall be commenced and held at Erie, Penusylvania, on and after the second Monday in January of each year. Approven, Febrvary 21, 1871. CHAP, LXIV.—An Act to prove for the Apportionnac of to Mentersof the lie ie Abend oe Tether ree ee FT Be it enacted by the Senate and Horse of Representatives of the United States of Amerie in Oongress assembled, "That it shall be the duty of the | Apportionment governor, chief justice, and United States atiomney for the Territory of Col- gf ewes of ‘orado, on or belore the first day of June next, to make an apportionment asserily of Col of the members of the council and house of representatives of the said amo.” Territory, among the several districts, for the election of members of the council and ‘house of representatives, giving to each section of the ‘Tonitory representation in ratio of ite population, as near as may be, as, Ratio of popo- ascertained by the census taken by authority of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. Soo. 2. nd be st further enacted, ‘That it shall be the duty of said ometet exit. governor, chief justice, and United States attorney to make an official ext ofsppo™ Sortificate showing the namber of members of the council and house of Sepresentatives the several districts of said Tersitory are entitled [to] as apportioned under tho provisions of this act, and file said certificate in the office of the secretary of said Territory, on or before the fret day of Taly next, and said apportionment so made shail be held tp bo the proper and legal apportionment for the members of the nest legislative assembly of the Territory of Colorado. “Avruoven, February'21, 1871. CHAP. LXV.— An Act to eepeal an Ast of the Lepisloire of Wasiing Tervitory ap- Bob. 94, 1071. HAR Chr dt pel ol 2 Wet rae g, Baa Fertoriat Legislative Bo it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sites of America in Omgrest aweled, That the ac of the legis | Appotonrent lature of the Territory of Wyoming, entitled “An oct apportioning fivsetuing tar FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. UL Cu. 61, 62. 1871. 419 For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. ‘Neutrality, For expenses inearred under instructions of the Secretary of State, yay si of bringing home from foreign coustries persons charged with erimes, in heal ne expeseee incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand chargeé with For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Ameticen tt- say Kaci Soobed dolls Mo ga For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of | Rescaing sta- masters ad crows of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from ™** shipwreck, five thousand dollars, ‘or payment of the seventh annual instalment of the proportion con, Schwdt de, tri by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scbeldt Fat a, pe, aes, Gy-ve thoasund fice bondred and four dollars; and for such further sum, not exceeding five thousa ay perro the stipulations of the treaty between the Ui ine ‘To pay to the goremment of Great Britain and Ireland, the second | Awad toMsd- and lake instalment of the amount awarded by the commissioners under {25,4020 the treaty of July one, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in stisfaction inact of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and of the Puget Sound Agricultural pastes Company, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in gold coin : ¥% 4+ > © Provided, That before payment shall bo made of that portion of the above | Certain taxes ‘sum awarded to the Paget Sound Agricultural Company, all taxes legally ‘assessed upon any of the property of said company covered by said award, before the same was made, and still unpaid, shall be extinguished by snid Puget Sound Agricultural Company ; or the amount of auch taxes shall | or amount be nithheld by the government of the United States from the sum hereby wiss¥t- appropriated. "arrnoven, February 21, 1871. CHAP. LXLL— An Act to provide « Govemment forthe Distria of Cumbia, Feb. 21, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Trrited VO. 20. p 18, ‘States of America in Congress assenbled, That all that part of the terri- Distt ofCo- tory of the United States included within the limits of the District of Somme sect Golambia be, and the same is hereby, created into a government by the porate for mani= name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby constitated Cipe! porposes. a body corporate for municipal parposes and may contract ‘and be con- Povery, &. tracted with, sac and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal, and exercise all other powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the Consiitution aad laws of the United States and the provisions of this nc. 2. And be it farther enacted, That the exeentive power ard au- | Governor, thority in aad over said District of Columbia shall be vested ina gov. Fem caie ‘ernor, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice D fand consent of the Senate, and who shall bold his office for four years, fd antl his siccesoe shail te appointed and qualifed, "The governor quent: Shall be a citizea of and shall have resided within said District wwelve months before his appointment, and have the ‘qualifications of an elector. ‘Ho may grant and_respites for pment, the laws. of said wee District enacted by the legislative assembly thereof; he shall commission “°° ‘all officers who shall be elected or appointed to office under the Taws of the said District enacted as aforesaid, and shall take care that the Taws be faithfully executed. Seo. 9. And be tt further enacted, That every bill which shall have Vso rome eo the council and house of delegates shall, before it becomes a law, ‘presented to the governor of the District of Columbia's if he approvo, hho Chall sgn it, bee if not, he abail return it, with his objections, to the Bouse in which it shall have ariginated, who shall enter the objections at 420 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess IE Ca, 62. 1871. ‘Yous power of fon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such re- Seer ass eration, two thirds of all the members appointed or elected to the house shall agree to pass the bill, it sball be sent, together with the ob- jectioas, to the other louse, by which it shell likewise be, reconsidered, snl if approved by two thirds of all the members appointed or elected to that house, t shall become a lave. But in all such eases the votes of boutt houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the per- ‘sons voting for and spot the bill shall be entered on the journal of each ively. Af any bill shall not be returned by the governor jandays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as ifhe bad signed it, unless the legislative assembly by their adjournment prevent its return, ia which ‘ease it shall not be a law. ‘Suc. 4. And be 1r enacted, That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a secret Residence, of said District, who shall reside therein and possess the ‘waliGeation oF fan elector, and shail hold his office for four years, and until his successor hall be appointed ani qualified; he shall record and preserve ll_ laws fand proceetings of the legislative assembly hereinafter eoostituted, and ail dhe acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department 5 the shall transmit one eopy of the Jaws and journals of the legislative as ‘sembly within thirty days afier the end of each session, and one copy of the executive Jedings and official correspondence semiannually, on the fist days of Janaary and July in each year, to the President of the United States, and four copies of the laws 10 the President of the Sennte ‘nnd to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the use of Con- ‘When toactas gress and 1p case of die death, removal, resignation, yor ab- gover gence, of the governor from the District, the secretary shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to execute and perform all the powers ‘and duties of the governor during such vacancy, disability, or absence, or ‘until another governor shall be duly sppointed and qualified to fill such Provbionifot- vacancy. And in caie the offices of governor and secretary shall both ep of evernct Yacome vacant, the poreers, duties, and. caoluments of the, oifice of gos sates ge?“ exnor shall devolve upon the presiding officer of the council, and in ense ‘that office shall also be vacant, upon the presiding officer of the houre of Aelegates, until the ofice shall be filled by a new appointment. Lpgaiivens. Sec. 5, And be it farther enacted, ‘That legislative pee and authority anil. in said District shall be vested in a legislative assembly as hercinalter Coane Wided. ‘The assembly shall consist of a council and house of delegates. snder, resi ‘The council shall consist of eleven members, of whom two shall be re dee, arpolat denis of the city of Georgetown, and two resitients of the county outside Ba" °F OF the cities of Washington and Georgetown, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall have the qualification of voters as hereinafter prescribed, five of ‘whom shall be first appointed for the term of one year, and six for the riod of two years, provided that all eubsequent appointments shall be Hoare of dele for the term of two years. ‘The house of delegates sball consist of twenty- sites sar WO members, possessing the same qualifications as prescribed for the torn 7 oe ofotice ke." members of the council, whose term of service shall continue one year. ‘Districts. An apportionment shall be made, as nearly equal as ieable, into leven districts for the appointment of the council, and into twenty-two Gistrits for the election of delegates, giving to each section of the Dis- ‘trict representation in the ratio of its population as nearly 98 ae be. Residence. And the members of the council and of the house of delegates shall re- ‘side in and be inhabitants of the districts from which they are appointed First section. oF elected, respectively. For the purposes of the first election to be held under this act, the governor and judges of the supreme court of the Dis- trict of Columbia shall designate the districts for members of the house of delegates, appoint a board of registration and persons to superintend t | ' i fe 5 § g g i if i FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IIL Cu. 62. 1871. 421 the election and the retums thereof; preseribe the time, places, amd man- _ Elections of ner of conducting such election, and make all needful ‘ules and regala~ éelestes tions for carrying into, effect the provisions of this act not otherwise herein provided for : Provided, That the first election shall be held within | when to be sixty days from the paseuge of this act. In the first and all subsequent ®t, Glecdons the persons having the highest number of legal votes for the gest”? house of delegates, respectively, shall be declared by the goveruor duly elected members of said house. In case two or more persons voted for New election shall have an equal number of votes for the same office, or if a vacancy Hf rote \ Shall cesur ia the house of delegates, the governor shall order a new taney. flection. And the persous thus appointed and elected to the legislative Time snd ‘assembly shall meet at such time and at such place within the District aa riceof meetin the governor shall appoint; but thereafter the time, place, and manner of holding and eonducting all elections by the people, and the formation of the districts for members of the council and house of delegates, ehall be pressribed by law, as weil as the day of the commencement of the regular | Seuiasnotto Sessions of the legislative assembly : Provided, That no session in any one SxS 2% sy Year shall exceed the term of sixty days, except the first session, which Sau ssonet may continue ove hundred days. no. 6. And be il further enacted, "Phat the legislative assembly shall | Part of de, have power to divide that portion of the District not included in the 30." tonne corporate Timits of Washington or Georgetown into townthips, mot jhip. Gxcreding three, and create township officers, and preseribe the duties toymaip. of Treeee but all township officers shall bo clecied by the people of the teys tomashig respectively. Sec. 7. And be il further enacted, That all male citizens of the United Vere, their States, above the age of twenty-ons years, who shall have been actual bg residents of sail Distriet for three months prior to the passage of this Jacl, except such a3 ace non compos mentis and persons convicted of infamous erimes, shall be ontitled to vote at said election, in the election Gistrice oF precinct In which he shall then reside, and shall have so yesided for thirty days immediately preceding said election, and shall’ be ‘ligible to any office within the said Districly and for all rabsequent ‘Glewtions twelve months’ prior residence shall be required to constitute , Bight of sut- but tho legislative assembly shall have no right to abridge or (85 ng 0° Timi: the right of suifraze. ene Neo. & Aud be it further enacted, That no person who has been or | Cerio per: hereafter shall be convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous erime, som Sretustted nor any person who has been or may be a collector or holder of public ship inthe at. moneys who sball not hare accounted for and paid over, upon final judge seri or Hele ment duly recovered acconding to law, all such moneys due from him, "6 shall be eligible to the legislative assembly or to any office of profit or trast ia aaid District "Seo. 9. And be i further enacted, That members of the legislative , Out o¢ meme assembly, before they enter upon their official duties, shall take and Bee Tabseribe the folloving oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or fs ‘ffirm) that T will support the Constitution of the United States, and Will fauhfully discharge the daties of the office upon which T aun about Yo enter; and that I have not knowingly or intentionally paid or con fributed anythlng, or made any promise in the nature of a bribe, to direelly or indirectly influence any vote at the election at which T was Ghocen to fill the said office, and lave not accepted, nor will T accept, or seesive, directly or indirectly, any money ot other valuable thing for ny Tove or iofluence that I may give or withhold on any bill, resolution, orappropriation, or for any other offcil act.” Any member who shall . Trivets Fefuse to take the oath herein prescribed shall forfeit his office, and every — Person who shall be'convicted of having sworn falicly to or of violating | Fabecuy fe, Tie said oath shall forceit his office and be disqualified thereafter from Sou aod, holding any cfce of profi or trust in said District, and shall be 4923 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Ssss. IIL. Ca. 62. 1871. deemed guilty of perjary, and upon conviction shall be punished accord. ingly. , motieg- Buc. 10. And be it further enacted, That majority of the legislative inte nea” assembly appointed of elected to each oose stall constitute a quorum. Wg ten, ‘The house of delegates sball be the judge of the election returns and Tale” qualifications of its members. Each house shall determine the rales of Si proceedings, and shall choose its own officers. The governor shall Orguvisation call the council to onder at the opening of each new assembly ; and the «EN tebe Secretary of the District sball call the home of delegates to order at the opening of euch new legislative asvembly, | preside over it until 8 tem ‘presiding officer sball have been chosen and shall have salugeion taken his seat.” ‘No member shall be expelled by eer house except by A vote of two thirds of all the members appointed or elected to that Pusshmentbr house. Each house may panish by imprisoament any person. not a saat member who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presenor ; bat no such imprisonment shall Aajourmest. extend” beyond: twenty-four hours ai one time. Neither house shall, ‘without the consent of the other, adjoura for more than two days, or to ‘any other place than that in which such house shall be siting. At the Yousaodnays. request of any member the yeas and nays shall be taken upon any ques- tion and entered upon the journal, Din, wheroto Suc. 11, And be it ‘enacted, That bills may originate in either jnate oat house, but may be altered, amended, or rejecied by the other; and on pumee "the final passage of all bills the yote shall be by yeas ard nay» upon each Dill separately, and shall be entered upoa the journal, and no bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a majority of the members lected to each house. Reatinget Sve. 12. And by it further enacted, That erery bill shall be read at ie gam. "ge on thrvo different days in each house. No act shall embrace more penet tee than ene subject, and that shall be expressed in its title; bat if’ any sub- weet, ject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the Aine, such act shall be void only ns to so much thereof aa sball not be «0 when to tate expressed in the tiles and no act of the legislative assembly sball take lio. effcct until thirty days after its passage, unless, in case of emergency, (which emergency shall be expressed in the preamble or body of the act,) the legislative assembly shall. by a vote of two thirds of all the members poiated oF eleoted to onch house otherwise direct. Monay notte Suc. 18, And le it further enacted, That no money shall be drawn desea (reer, ftom the treasury of te District exceptin pursuance of an appropria- PF" tion mado by law, and no bill making appropriations for the pay or sul- APereiaion aris of the officers of the District government shall eootain any pro- Appropriations Se Te dnd he peter enacted, That each bl no, Ms dnd Beit fete \t islative assem! des toe PR shall provide for all the appropriations nesessary a the ordinary a contingent expense ofthe government of the District until the expire: tion of tho firet Ascal quarter afier the adjoumment of the next regular session, the aggregate amount of which shall not be increased without 4 Yolo of two thirds of the members elected or appointed to each house as herein provided, nor exceed tho amount of revenue authorized by she to oud, law to bo raised in sock time, and all appropriations, general or special, requiring money to bo paid out of the District treasury, from funds belonging to the District, shall end with sach fiscal quarter; and no dati which the segregate deb of the Disa all exceed five per be cent, of the assessed property of the District, shall be contracted, unless tho law authorizing the camo skall at a general election have been sub- mitted to the people and have received a majority of the votes eatt for members of the legislative assembly at such election. The legislative assembly shall provide for the publication of said law in at least two nowspapers in the District for thres months, at least, before the vote of t HEE tad oid Bo gef FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IIL Cw. 62. 1871. 423 tthe people shall be taken on the same, and provision shall be made in the | People to vote act for the payment of the interest annually, as it shall accrue, by a tax fherson, aed on levied for the purpose, or from other sources of revenue, which law “*'**7~ providing for the payment of such interest by such tax shall be irre pealable until such debt be paid: Provided, That the law levying the tax ‘shall be submitted to the people with the law authorizing the debt to be ‘contrasted, Sec. 15, And be it further enacted, That the legislative assembly shall | No extral- never grant or authorize extra compent fee, or allowance to any frenset G™ Buble fcr, agent, servant ot contractor, afer service has been ren: Se or a contract made, nor authorize payment of any claim, or | Cerisin part thereof, hereafter created against the District under any contract ett be ‘or agreement made, without express authority of law; and all such assume, or bosome responsi , manner give, loan, or extend its credit to or in aid of any public or other ‘corporation, association, or individual. Seo. 17." And be it further enacted, That the legislative assembly shall _ Seacal wy ‘not pass special laws in any of the following cases, that is to suy: For yt one passed, rei divorces; regulating the practice in courts of justice s regulating Sud'emex- ¢ jurisdiction or duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates, or constables; providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases, oF ‘ewoaring and impaneling jurors; remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures ; the sale or mortgage of eal estate belonging to minora or others under lity; changing the law of descent; incrensing or decreasing the faes of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected ‘or appointed ; granting to any corporation, association, or individual, any special or exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise whatsoever, “The lative assembly shall have no power torelease or extinguish, inwhole | Asembiy to the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any corporation or Bsve po pores to Individaal to the District or to any municipal corporation therein, nor © isi set shall the legislative assembly have power to establish any bauk of eircu~ Tation, nor to authorize any company or individual to issue notes for cir- ‘eulation as money or currency. Suc. 18, And be it further enacted, That the legislative power of the Legislative District shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within said Dis- TSU, trict, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the pro- vit visions of this act, subject, nevertheless, to all the rest and limita- tions imposed upon States by the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States ; bat all acts of the legislative assembly All acta roby shall at all times be sudject to repeal or modification by the Congress of fetgoreres Se the Usited States, and nothing herein shall be construed to deprive Con- "7 = of the power of legislation over said District in as ample manner as HPs nw had not been enacted. Suc. 19, And be it further enacted, That no member of the legislative | Members of es- assembly shall hold of be appointed to any office, which shall have been fou! 20.40 created or the salary or emoluments of which shall have been increased cates, while he was a member, during the term for which be was appointed or elected, and for one year after tho expiration of such term and no per~ Certain per- son holding any office of trust or profit under the government of the $04 pot tere ‘United States shall be a member of the legislative assem ‘See. 20. And be it further enacted, That the said. leg’ shall not have power to pass any ex post facto law, nor I obligation of contracts, nor to tax the property of to tax the lands or other property of non-residents higher than the lands ‘or other property of residents; nor shall lands or other property in said district be liable to a bigher tax, in any one year, for all general objects, territorial and municipal, than two dollars on 4m FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Szss.I. Cx. 62. 1671. ‘every hundred dollars of the cash value thereof; but special taxes. ma Sptcal taxes Fr sied in particular sections, wards, or districts for their pertiealce Borrowing local improvements; noe shall said territorial government have power to WRT oF MHLINE borrow money oF issue stock or bonds for any object whatever, unless specially authorized by an act of the legislative assembly, passed by a Tote of two thirds of the entire number of the members of each branch Thereof, but said debt inno ease to exceed five per centum of the assessed te 414 value of the property of said District, unless authorized by a vote of the Ani, p #22. people, as hereinafter [hereinbefore] provided. certain prop SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the property of that portion ecy'not tobe of the District not included in the corporations of Washington or George- ‘aed fr cen gown shall not be taxed for the purposes either of improving the streets, alleys, public squares, or other public property of the said cities, or either of them, nor for any other expenditure of a local nature, for the exclusive benef of said cities, or either of them, nor for the payment of any debt heretofore contracted, or that may hereafter be contracted by eitlier of said cites while remaining under a municipal government not coexten- sive with the District. Property in” Seo, 22. And be it further enacted, That the property within the cor- = £4 porate limits of Georgetown shall not be taxed for the payment of any Mebngten.wt Godt heretofore or hereafter to be contracted by the corporation of Wash- ‘eiaiaptrpoes. ington, nor shall the property within the corporate limits of Washington be taxed for the payment of any debt heretofore or hereafter to be contracted by the corporation of Georgetown ; and so long as ssid cities shall re- ain under distinct municipal governments, the property within the cor- porate limits of cither of said cities shall not be taxed for the local bencfit of the other ; nor shall said cities, or either of them, be taxed for the ex- Reals and —_lasive benefit of the county outside of the limits thereof: Provided, TI bridges the legistativo assembly may ropriations for the repair of rond ‘or for the construction or repair of bridges outside the limits of said cities. fsbo snk "Sec. 29. And be it further enacied, That it shall be the duty of said mene Jegislative assembly to maintain a system of free schools for the educa. tion of the youth of said District, and all moneys raised by general taxa dion of arising from donations by Congress, or from other sourees. except bby bequest oF devise, for school purposes, shall be appropriated for tho ‘equal benefit ofall the youths of said District between certain ages, to be tin tthe hee Se tnd 83 further enacted, That the nO. 24. Ane it enact at the said legislative assembl) Jeeeibine' shall have power to provide for the i Sees of many justices a ‘ios public for said District as may be deemed neces- lerdition sary, to define their juristiction and preseribe their dates; but justices of at Gat the peace shall not have jurisdiction of any controversy in which the title of land may be in dispute, or in which the debt or sum claimed shall

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