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 32 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84. 1856. That until such price is fixed by law, the Postmaster-General shall have the power to determine the same. _ Similar gr¤¤f= Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, thata like grant lo the same extent, f‘::m“M0{)”;}2`°“l;:} and on the same terms and conditions in all respects, is hereby made to New0r1eaus. aid in constructing a railroad from the c1ty of Mobile to New Orleans, such grant to be made to the several States through which said road shall pass, so far as said road is within their respective limits. Approved, August 11, 1856. Aug. 11, 1856. CHAP. LXXXIV.—An Act to amend attire  of Georgetown in the District nf ·-———¥-——- um G. Be it enacted by the Simate and House of Representatives of the Matted .P°uF¤x*“*h°" States of Ame·r·ica in Congress assembled, That the Corporation of George- ‘;,°Q1,, E,.   town, in the District of Columbia., shall have full power and authority to ’ lay and impose the present year and annually thereafter, a school tax upon every free white male citizen, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, of one dollar per annum ; said tax to be levied and collected under such regulations as the said corporation may prescribe. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of Q¤¤lm°**l9¤¤ this act, every free white male citizen of the United States, who shall the corporate limits of Georgetown, in the District aforesaid, one year immediately preceding the day of election, and shall have been returned on the books of the corporation during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding the day of election, as subject to a school tax for that year, (except persons non campus mentis, vagrants, paupers, and persons who shall have been convicted of any infamous crime,) and who shall have paid the school taxes due from him, shall be entitled to vote for mayor, members of the board of aldermen and board of common council, and for every officer authorized to be elected at any election under the acts of said corporation: Provided, That if, during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding the day of the iirst election after the passage of this act, no person shall have been returned on the books of the said corporation as subject to a school tax, then all persons who shall have been returned on the books of the said corporation as subject to a school tax before the day of the said first election, and who shall in all other respects be qualified under this act to vote, and who shall have paid the said school tax, shall be entitled to vote at the pcmmcs fm- said first election after the passage of this act; and if any person shall buy buying ¤r ¤•§U;¤s or sell a vote, or shall vote more than once at any corporation election, held ¥;’mw2;`°:1::;t in pursuance of law, or shall give or receive any consideration therefor in money, goods, or any other thing of value, or shall promise any valuable consideration, or vote in consideration of such promise, be shall be disqualified forever thereafter from voting or holding any office under said corporation; and on complaint thereof to the attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of said attorney to proceed against said offender or offenders by indictment and trial, as in other criminal cases; and if found guilty it shall be the duty of the court tosentence him to pay a fine of not less than ten dollars, and to I imprisonment not more than two months, nor less than ten days. lltyxdeucpo of nc. 3. And be tt further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the §u$;i;"{Q*d on d; clerk of said corporation, on the presentation of the corporation tax colmand. lect01·’s receipt showing that the applicant has paid his school tax for that year, to enter the name of such school tax payer on the hooks of said corporation, and to furnish the judges of elections to be held under the laws of said corporation at each. precinct, before or on the morning of any election, before the hour for opening the polls, with a list of the names of all persons who shall have paid their school taxes for that year.
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