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 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 forfeitures.

Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentage or allow­ances of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.

Changing the law of descent.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing charters for such purpose.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.

In all other cases where a general law can be made appli­cable, no special law shall be enacted in any of the territories of the United States by the territorial legislatures thereof.

Section.

20. Judicial power.

27. Appeals to United States supreme court.

28. Appeals to United States supreme court limited.

29. When preceding section does not apply.

30. Appellate jurisdiction of United States supreme court over judgments of ter­ritorial court

31. Jurisdiction of territorial courts limited bylaw.

32. Appeals to territorial supreme court.

33. Chancery and common law jurisdiction.

34. Codes and rules of practice confirmed.

35. Jurisdiction of district courts in United States cases.

36. Assignment of judges.

37. Legislature may fix terms of court.

38. Supreme judges authorized to bold district courts.

Section.

39. Supreme court, how constituted.

40. Additional associate justices.

41. Six districts.

42. Counties com posing fifth district.

43. Counties composing sixth district.

44. Additional justices assigned to fifth and sixth districts.

45. Fifth district court has no jurisdiction in United States cases.

46. Sixth district court has jurisdiction in United States cases.

47. Trial of offenses committed before passage of act.

48. Suits transferred to new districts.

49. Jurisdiction of justices of the peace.

50. Same.

51. Constitution and laws of United States mode applicable in all territories.

§ [26.] The judicial power in New Mexico, Utah, Washing­ton, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and in justices of the peace.

§ [27.] Writs of error and appeal from the final decisonsdecisions [sic] of the supreme court of either of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Dakota, Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Wyo­ming, shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same regulations as from the circuit courts of the United States, where the value of the prop­erty or the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by the oath of either party, or of other competent witnesses, exceeds one thousand dollars, except that a writ of error or appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States from the de­cision of the supreme courts created by this title, or of any judge thereof, or of the district courts created by this title, or of any judge thereof, upon writs of habeas corpus involving the ques­tion of personal freedom.

§ [28.] No appeal or writ of error shall hereafter be allowed from any judgment or decree in any suit at law or in equity in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, or in the supreme court of any of the territories of the United States, unless the