out in any manner impairing or otherwise affecting the right of any such Indian to tribal or other property.
Jurisdiction of territorial courts over Indians committing certain crimes.Section 9 of an act of congress approved March 3, 1885.
§ [109.] Immediately upon and after the date of the passage of this act [March 3, 1885], all Indians committing against the person or property of another Indian, or other person, any of the following crimes, namely, murder, manslaughter, rape, assault with intent to kill, arson, burglary, and larceny, within any territory of the United States, and either within or without any Indian reservation, shall be subject therefor to the laws of such territory, relating to said crimes, and shall be tried therefor in the same courts and in the same manner, and shall be subject to the same penalties as are all other persons charged with the commission of said crimes respectively; and the said courts are hereby given jurisdiction in all such cases; and all such Indians committing any of the above crimes against the person or property of another Indian or other person within the boundaries of any state of the United States, and within the limits of any Indian reservation, shall be subject to the same laws, tried in the same courts and in the same manner, and subject to the same Penalties as are all other persons committing any of the above crimes within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.
Public Indebtedness.
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Section. 110. Territory, etc., shall not subscribe to capital stock of incorporated company. 111. Legislature prohibited from authorizing debt to be contracted in certain cases. |
Section. 112. Limit of indebtedness of political and municipal corporations. |
Section 2 of an act of congress approved July 30, 1886.
§ [110.] 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 the capital stock of any incorporated company, or company or association having corporate powers, or in any manner loan its credit to or use it for the benefit of any such company or association, or borrow any money for the use of any such company or association.
Legislature prohibited from authorizing debt to be contracted in certain cases.Section 3 of an act of congress approved July 30, 1886.
§ [111.] No law of any territorial legislature shall authorize any debt to be contracted by or on behalf of such territory except in the following cases: To meet a casual deficit in the revenues, to pay the interest upon the territorial debt, to suppress insurrections, or to provide for the public defense, except that in addition to any indebtedness created for such purposes, the legislature may authorize a 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 centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property in such territory as shown by the last general assessment for taxation. And nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the refunding of any existing indebtedness of such territory or of any political or municipal corporation, county, or other subdivision therein.
Limit of indebtedness of political and municipal corporations.Section 4 of an act of congress approved July 30, 1886.
§ [112.] No political or municipal corporation, county, or other subdivision in any of the territories of the United States shall ever become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to any amount in the aggregate, including existing indebtedness, exceeding four per centum on the value of the taxable property within such corporation, county, or subdivision, to be ascertained by the last assessment for territorial and county taxes
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