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The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws : authorizing the sale, mortgaging or leasing of the real property of minors, or other persons under disability ; changing the names of persons ; for laying out, working or discontinuing public or private roads or highways ; for granting to any individual, association or corporation the right to lay down railroad tracks ; or in any case for which provision now exists or shall hereafter be made bv any general law. The Legislature shall pass general laws providing for the cases before enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in its judgment can be provided for by general law.
But no law shall be passed granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, or incorporated village, without the consent of the local authorities having the control and management of the street or highway proposed to be occupied, and also the consent of the owners of at least one-third in value of the property, according to the assessment roll of the previous year, bounded on that portion of each street or highway over which it is proposed to construct the same ; or in case the consent of such property owners cannot be obtained, then without the consent of the general term of the supreme court of the district in which such road is proposed ; such consent to be obtained and authenticated in such manner as the Legislature shall by general law for that purpose provide.