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39. This enumeration of rights shall not impair others retained by the people.

ARTICLE II.

State and County Boundaries.

1. The boundaries of the State shall be as follows.

2. In regard to the boundaries of the counties of the State.

ARTICLE III.

Distribution of Powers of Government. 1. The powers of the State shall be the legislative, the executive and judicial.

2. No person or persons shall exercise any powers belonging to any others, except.

ARTICLE IV.

Legislative Department.

1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

2. The style of the laws shall be. 3. The Senators and Representatives shall be elected by qualified electors.

4. Qualifications of the Senators and Representatives.

5. The General Assembly shall meet biennially at the capitol, except.

6. The pay of the members of the General Assembly.

7. Of whom the General Assembly

shall consist.

8. The Senate at the beginning of its regular session shall elect one of its members president, and the House of Representatives shall elect one of its members speaker.-Term of office of president of Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives.

9. When Senators shall be elected; their term of office.- Election

of the members of the House

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of Representatives. When а vacancy shall occur in either house.

10. A majority in each house shall constitute a quorum.

11. Each house shall have the power to determine the rules of its proceedings and to punish members or other persons for contempt.

12. In regard to a member of either house being expelled.

13. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings.

14. Members of the General Assembly shall be privileged from arrest, except.

15. The doors of each house shall be open, except.

16. In regard to adjournment. 17. No Senator or Representative shall be appointed to any other civil office during his term. 18. No person convicted of embezzlement of the public money, bribery, perjury, etc., shall be capable of holding any office of trust or profit in this State. 19. No law shall be passed except by bill.

20. No bill shall become a law until it shall have been referred to a committee of each house and returned therefrom.

21. Every bill shall be read on three different days in each house, and no bill shall become a law, unless.

22. In regard to amendments.

23. No special or local law shall be enacted for the benefit of individuals or corporations, in cases which are or can be provided for by general law, or where the relief sought can be given by any court of this State.

24. No local or special law shall be passed on a subject which can not be provided for by a general law, unless.

25. The General Assembly shall pass general laws under which

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local and private interests shall be provided for and protected. 26. Lotteries illegal.

27. The presiding officer of each house shall sign all bills and

resolutions passed by the General Assembly.

28. The number, duties and compensation of the officers and employes of each house; no payment to be made from the State treasury, except.

29. Extra compensation to any public officer, servant or employe after the services shall have been rendered.

30. Stationery, printing, paper and fuel used in the Legislature and other departments of the government.

81. Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose amendments.

32. The general appropriation bill. 33. No money shall be paid out of the treasury except by appropriation.

34. To whom no appropriation shall be made.

35. In regard to the investment of any trust fund to executors, etc.

86. The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases. 37. When the General Assembly shall be convened in special session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor calling such session.

38. There shall be no State offices for the inspection or measur ing of any merchandise, manufacture or commodity, but any county may appoint such offi

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41. Bribery defined.

42. Corrupt solicitation of members of the General Assembly, or public officers of this State punished by fine and imprisonment.

43. No member shall have a personal or private interest in any bill. 44. All votes of the General Assembly shall be viva voce.

45. Differences may be decided by arbitrators.

46. The public statutes, both civil and criminal, to be revised by the General Assembly every ten years.

47. It shall pass such penal laws as may be deemed expedient to suppress duelling.

48. Salaries of public officers; deducted from for neglect of duty.

49. The General Assembly shall require the counties of this State to provide for the poor. 50. It shall not have the power to authorize municipal corporations to pass laws inconsistent with general laws.

51. In the event of annexation of any foreign territory to this State.

52. The General Assembly shall not tax the property, real or personal, of the State, counties and other municipal corporations.

53. To ascertain the value of real and personal property. 54. The State shall not engage in works of internal improvement nor lend its credit, nor shall the State be interested in any corporation.

55. The General Assembly shall have no power to authorize any county, city or other sub-division of this State to lend its credit.

56. There shall be no law in this State impairing the remedy for the enforcement of contracts.

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ARTICLE V.
Executive Department.

1. Of whom the executive depart-
ment shall consist.

2. The supreme executive power to
be vested in the Governor.

3. Election of State officers.
4. Election returns.

5. Terms of office of State officers.
6. Qualifications for Governor.

7. Qualifications for the other State
officers.

8. Governor shall take care that the
laws are faithfully executed.

9. The Governor may require infor-
mation in writing under oath.
10. The Governor may on extraordi-
occasions convene the
nary
General Assembly.

11. The Governor shall give the
General Assembly information
of the State of the government,
etc.

12. Governor shall have the power to
remit fines and forfeitures and
grant reprieves and pardons,
except.

13. In

regard to bills that have
passed both houses.

14. Governor to have power to dis-
approve of any item or items
of any bill.

15. In case of impeachment of the
Governor. His removal from
office, etc.- The president of
the Senate shall exercise all
power.

16. Compensation of the president of
Senate and the speaker of the
House of Representatives.
not

17. Governor shall

hold

other office during his term.

any

18. Governor to be Commander-in-

Chief of the militia, except.

19. Qualifications necessary to hold
the office of Secretary of State,
State Treasurer, etc.

20. The seal of the State.
21. The Secretary of State to be
custodian of the State seal.-
He shall also keep a register
of the official acts of the Gov-
ernor.

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8. Where the Chancery Court shall
be held.

9. The General Assembly shall have
power to establish within the
State a Court of Probate.
10. Compensation of the judges of
the Supreme Court, Circuit
Court and chancellors.

11. Of whom the Supreme Court
shall consist.

12. Election of the officers of the
Supreme Court, Circuit Courts,
Probate Courts, etc.

13. How judges of the inferior courts
shall be appointed.

14. Qualifications of the judges of
the Supreme Court,
Courts, chancellors, etc.

15. Their term of office.

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16. Duties of the judges of the Su-
Courts

preme Court, Circuit
and inferior courts.

17. Vacancies in the office of any

of the judges.

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18. In any case, civil or criminal, pending in any Circuit, Chancery or City Court in this State, if the presiding judge or chancellor shall be incompetent to try or render judgment, the parties or their attorneys of record may agree upon some disinterested person practicing in the court to try the case. 19. When the judges or chancellors fail to attend regular terms. 20. No judge of any Court of Record shall practice law in any of the courts of this State. 21. Registers in Chancery. 22. Clerk of the Supreme Court. 23. Clerks of the Circuit Courts. -Vacancies in such offices. 24. Removal from office of the clerk of the Supreme Court and registers in chancery.

25. Election of solicitors for each judicial circuit.

26. Election of justices of the peace and constables in each precinct of the counties.- Right to appeal in cases tried before justices.

27. Election of the Attorney-General. His residence.

28. The style of all process shall be.

ARTICLE VII.

Impeachment.

1. Enumeration of those who may be removed from office by impeachment.

2. In case an appeal is taken to the Supreme Court in any of the above cases.

3. All county officers may be removed from office for any of the causes specified in section 1 of this article, provided. 4. Penalties in cases arising under the three preceding sections.

ARTICLE VIII.

Suffrage and Elections.

1. Qualifications necessary to vote.

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1. The number of Senators. 2. Of whom the House of Representatives shall consist.

3. Duty of the General Assembly in regard to the number of Representatives, provided. 4. Division of the State into senatorial districts.

5. In case the census of the United States is not taken, or if when taken, the same in regard to this State is not full and satisfactory.

6. Number of Representatives from each county.

7. The senatorial districts shall be as follows.

ARTICLE X.
Exempted Property.

1. Personal property of any resi dent of this State to be exempt from sale, etc.

2. When homesteads shall be exempt from sale.

3. The homestead of a family after the death of the owner.

4. Laborer's lien for work done and performed for person claiming such exemption.

5. On the death of the owner of a homestead, leaving a widow, but no children, disposition of the homestead.

6. The real and personal property of any female in this State. 7. When exemptions herein before secured may be waived. ARTICLE XI.

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1. Those who are liable to do military duty in the militia of the State.

2. The duties of the General Assembly in organizing and equipping a militia.

3. Each company and regiment shall elect its own officers.-In case they fail to do so.

4. Volunteer organizations of infantry, cavalry and artillery may be formed as provided by law.

5. The militia and volunteer forces during their attendance at elections, musters, etc., shall be exempt from arrest, except. 6. The Governor to be Commanderin-Chief of the militia, unless. 7. The General Assembly to provide for the safe keeping of the arms, ammunition, etc.

8. Pay of the officers and men of the militia when not in active service.

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2. The principal of all funds shall be preserved inviolate. The income thereof to be applied to the specific objects of the original grants or appropriations.

3. In regard to property given by individuals or appropriated by the State for educational purposes.

4. The General Assembly shall provide for the levying and collection of an annual poll tax.

5. In regard to the income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund and the surplus revenue fund.

6. How much of the money raised or appropriated shall be pended.

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7. The Superintendent of Education shall have supervision of the public schools.

8. No money raised or appropriated for the public schools shall be used to support any sectarian or denominational school.

9. Under whose management the State University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College shall be. Of whom the board of the University shall consist.

10. The General Assembly shall have no power to change the location of the State University, etc.

11. How the provisions of this article shall apply to Mobile county.

ARTICLE XIV.

Corporations Private Corporations. 1. How corporations may be formed. Laws that may be altered, amended or repealed.

2. In regard to the validity of all existing charters or grants after the ratification of the Constitution.

3. Power of the General Assembly to remit the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation,

now existing.

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