territory. The exception of postmasters shall not apply in the territory of Washington.
Prohibition of extra compensation to certain officers.Section 1855, R. S. U. S. 1874, as amended.
§ [21.] No law of any territorial legislature shall be made or enforced by which the governor or secretary of a territory, or the members or officers of any territorial legislature, are paid any compensation other than that provided by the laws of the United States; provided, that for the performance of all official duties imposed by the territorial legislatures and not provided for in the organic act, the secretaries of the territories respectively shall be allowed such fees as may be fixed by the territorial legislatures. And in no case shall the expenditure for public printing in any of the territories exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for any one year.
Accounts of territories.Section 1886, R. S. U. S. 1878.
§ [22.] All accounts for disbursements in the territories of the United States, of money appropriated by congress for the support of government therein, shall be settled and adjusted at the treasury department; and no act, resolution or order of the legislature of any territory, directing the expenditure of the sum, shall be deemed a sufficient authority for such disbursement, but sufficient vouchers and proof for the same shall be required by the accounting officers of the treasury. No payment shall be made or allowed unless the secretary of the treasury has estimated therefor and the object been approved by congress. No session of the legislature of a territory shall be held until the appropriation for its expenses has been made.
Expenses for printing laws, etc.Section 1939, R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [23.] There shall be appropriated respectively for the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona, Wyoming annually a sufficient sum, to be expended by the secretary of each territory herein named, upon an estimate to be made by the secretary of the treasury, to defray the expenses of the legislative assembly and other incidental expenses; and the secretary of each territory above specified shall annually account to the secretary of the treasury for the manner in which such sum has been expended.
Limitation on expenses of legislature.Section 1888, R. S. U. S. 1874.
§ [24.] No legislative assembly of a territory shall in any instance, or under any pretext, exceed the amount appropriated by congress for its annual expenses.
Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in certain cases.Section 1 of an act of congress approved July 30, 1886.
§ [25.] 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 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 constables.
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 or misdemeanors.
For the assessment and collection of taxes for territorial, county, township or road purposes.
Summoning and empaneling grand or petit jurors.
Providing for the management of common schools
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