Chapter 41.
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CHAP. 41.— An act to disapprove and annul an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, passed on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, by a two-thirds vote of both houses over the veto of the governor of said Territory. Feb. 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New Mexico. That an act of the legislative Act incorporating Jesuit Fathers void.assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, entitled “An act to incorporate the Society of the Jesuit Fathers of New Mexico”, which passed both houses of said legislative assembly on or about the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, over the veto of the governor of said Territory, being in violation of section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which declares, “The legislative assemblies of the several Territories shall not grant private charters or especial privileges”, said bill being a grant of a private charter or act of incorporation, with the “especial privileges” of an unlimited power to acquire, hold, and transfer all kinds of property, both real and personal, and the exemption from taxation of all the effects and property of said corporation, be, and the same is hereby, disapproved and declared null and void.
Approved, February 3, 1879.