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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OREGON.

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18. Private property taken for public use.

19. Imprisonment for debt.

20. Exclusive privileges shall not be granted to any class of citizens.

21. What laws shall not be passed. 22. How laws may be suspended. 23. Habeas corpus.

24. Treason against the State, evidence of.

25. No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.

26. The people shall have the right to assemble together in a peaceable manner for the common good.

27. The right to bear arms.

28. Quartering soldiers.

29. Titles of nobility.

30. Emigration.

31. Rights of white

foreigners.—

What emigration may be restrained.

32. Taxes and duties.

33. Enumeration of rights, how con

strued.

34. Prohibition of slavery.

35. Free negroes and mulattoes.

ARTICLE II.

Suffrage and Elections.

1. Elections free.

2. Qualifications of voters.

3. Idiotic, insane or convict persons not voters.

4. Residence.

5. Soldiers, seamen or marines may not vote.

6. Negroes, Chinamen or mulattoes may not vote.

7. Bribery at elections disqualifies from holding office.

8. Laws concerning elections.

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19. Reading of bills and vote on final passage.

20. Subject and title of act. 21. Act to be plainly worded. 22. Mode of revision or amendment. 23. What local or special laws may not be passed.

24. Suit against the State.

25. Majority necessary to pass A bill.-Bill to be signed by' speaker.

26. Protest.

27. What statute a public law.

28. When act is to take effect.

29. Compensation of members. 30. When members are not eligible to office.

31. Oaths of members.

ARTICLE V.

Executive Department.

1. Executive power vested in the Governor.-Term of office.

2. Qualifications of Governors. 3. Who not eligible.

4. Election of Governor.

5. In case of a tie how decided. 6. Contested elections.

7. Term of office.

8. In case of vacancy or disability. 9. Governor commander-in-chief of military and naval forces of the State.

10. To take care that the laws are executed.

11. He shall, from time to time, give the Assembly information. 12. He may convene the Legislature. 13. To transact all necessary business with officers.

14. May grant reprieves and pardons.

15. Veto power.-Reconsideration.Vote to be by yeas and nays. 16. Governor to fill vacancies by appointment.

17. He shall issue writs of election. 18. Commissions.

ARTICLE VI.
Administrative Department.

1. Election of Secretary and Treas urer of State.

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We, the people of the State of Oregon, to the end that justice be established, order maintained, and liberty perpetuated, do ordain this Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

Bill of Rights.

1. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights; that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper.

2. All men shall be secured in their natural right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.

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