15. Length of session.-Pay
members and mileage.
16. Distribution of books
printed matter among General
Assembly.
17. Members not eligible for any
office created during their
term of office.
18. Freedom of speech in debate.
19. Each house to judge of the
qualifications of its own mem
bers. To appoint its own
officers.
20. A majority of the members of
each house to be a quorum.
21. Doors of each house to be open,
except when.
22. Each house to keep a journal.
23. May punish for disorderly con-
duct any person not a member.
24. Powers and duties of the House
of Delegates.
25. Adjournment.
26. Power of impeachment.
27. A bill may originate in either
28. For a bill to become a law.
29. The style of laws of the State.
30. All bills to be signed by the
31. When laws are to take effect.
32. How money may be drawn from
State treasury.
33. As to local or special laws.
34. Contracting of debts.
35. Extra compensation.
36. Lotteries not legal.
37. In regard to slaves.
38. No imprisonment for debt.
39. Banking corporations.
40. Private property taken for pub-
lic use to have just compen-
sation.
41. Dueling.
42. Purity of elections.
43. Property of wife protected from
51. Personal property subject to
taxation.
52. Payment of private claims.
53. Witnesses.
54. No county to give or loan its
credit.
55. Writ of habeas corpus.
56. Laws to be passed for carrying
into effect powers vested in
this Constitution.
57. Legal interest six per cent.
58. State and municipal taxation to
be provided for by law.
59. No pension system in this State.
ARTICLE IV.
Judiciary Department.
1. Judicial powers of State, how
vested.
2. Judges to be citizens and quali-
fied voters.
3. Election of judges, term of.
4. Removal from office.
5. Election for judges in every
fifteenth year.
6. No fees or perquisites.
7. Judge not to sit in any case
wherein he may be interested.
8. Removal of case.
9. Apportionment of officers of the
courts.
10. Clerks of courts, their duties.
11. Election returns of judges.
12. Ties, how settled.
13. Public commissions and grants.
14. Court of Appeals, composed of
15. Four of said judges constitute a
16. Reports of causes to be pub-
lished.
17. Clerk of Court of Appeals, term
of office.
18. Judges of Court of Appeals,
their duties.
19. State to be divided into eight
judicial circuits.
20. Powers and jurisdiction of Cir-
cuit Courts.
21. Judges of the same.
22. A decision may be reserved for
consideration.
23. Decisions to be rendered within
two months after argument.
24. Judges' salaries.
25. Clerk of Circuit Court.-Term of
office.
26. Appointment of deputies.
27. Baltimore City Courts.
28. Court of Common Pleas for city
29. Baltimore Circuit Court has ex-
clusive jurisdiction in equity.
30. Jurisdiction of the Criminal
Court of Baltimore.
31. Supreme Bench of Baltimore.
32. Duties of the same.
33. Powers of the same.
34. Decisions in Baltimore City
Court judgments to be final.
35. Three judges of the Supreme
Bench a quorum.
36. Cases pending to be proceeded
with.
37. Clerks of the courts of the city
of Baltimore.- Salary.
38. Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas to issue marriage and
other licenses.
39. Another court in Baltimore.
40. Orphans' Court.
41. Each county to have a register
of wills.
42. Justices of the peace.
43. Governor to appoint to fill va-
44. Sheriffs to hold office two years.
45. Appointment of coroners, elisors
and notaries public.
Attorney-General and State's Attorneys.
1. Attorney-General, term of office
four years.
2. Election of the same. In case
of tie.
12. The Governor may remove any
officer, etc.
13. He shall have the power to
grant reprieves and pardons.
14. He shall be commander-in-chief
of the militia.
15. Every bill shall be signed by
the Governor before it becomes
a law.
16. Lieutenant-Governor to act as
17. He shall be president of the
Senate and only vote in case
of tie.
18. When the president of the
Senate shall act as Governor.
19. A Commissioner of Public
Lands and Buildings, Secre-
tary of State, Treasurer and
Attorney-General should form
a board, which shall have
general supervision of all
State buildings and land.
20. How certain State offices, if
vacant, are to be filled.
21. All moneys received and dis-
bursed shall be accounted for
by officers of the executive
department.
22. They shall report to the Gover-
nor at least ten days preced-
ing the regular session of the
Legislature.
23. The seal of State to be kept by
the Secretary.
24. The salaries of State officers.
25. They shall give bonds of at
least double the amount of
money which comes into their
hands.
26. No other executive State office
shall be continued or created.
ARTICLE VI.
Judicial Department.
1. Judicial power of the State shall
be vested in the Supreme, Dis-
trict and County Courts, and
justices of the peace, etc.
2. The Supreme Court shall con-
sist of two judges, the ma-
jority of whom will be neces-
sary to form a quorum.
3. At least two terms of the Su-
preme Court shall be held
each year at the seat of gov-
ernment.
4. Election of judges of Supreme
Court.- Term of office.
They shall be classified by lot.
6. The judge having the shortest
term shall be Chief Justice.
7. To be eligible to the office of
judge of the Supreme Court.
8. The reporter shall also act as
clerk of the Supreme Court,
librarian, etc.
9. The District Courts, their juris-
diction.
10. The State shall be divided into
six judicial districts, as fol-
lows.
11. The number of judges of Dis-
trict Courts, etc., may be in-
creased.
12. Judges of District Courts may
hold courts for each other.
Their salary.
No judge of the Supreme or
District Court may receive
other compensation or per-
quisites.
15. There shall be a judge of the
County Court. His term of
office.
16. County Courts shall be courts
of record. Their jurisdiction.
17. Appeals to the District Courts
and County Courts allowed in
criminal cases.
18. The election of justices of the
peace and police magistrates.
19. All laws relating to courts shall
be general and of uniform
operation.
20. All officers provided for in this
article shall hold their office
until their successor shall be
qualified.
21. How offices are filled in case of
vacancy in the Supreme and
District Court.
22. The State may sue and be sued.
23. Jurisdiction of the judges of
Courts of Record.
24. Style of process.
1. A board of commissioners shall
be constituted for selling and
leasing lands for educational
purposes.
2. All land and money bequeathed
for educational purposes shall
be used in accordance with
the terms of such bequest.
8. Enumeration of perpetual fund
for common school purposes.
4. All other grants, gifts, etc.,
hereafter made to this State
and not otherwise provided
for, shall be used for mainte-
nance of the common schools.
5. All fines, penalties and license
money shall be paid over
the counties for the use of
common schools.
6. The Legislature shall provide
for free instruction in common
schools.
7. The income of the school fund
shall be equitably distributed
among the several school dis-
tricts of the State.
8. Lands for educational purposes
shall not be sold for less than
seven dollars an acre.
9. All funds belonging to the State
for educational purposes shall
be deemed trust funds.
10. The general government of the
University of Nebraska, how
vested.
11. No sectarian instruction shall
be allowed in any school.
12. Reform schools.
ARTICLE IX.
Revenue and Finance.
1. The need for revenue shall be
raised by the levying of a tax.
etc.,
- Peddlers, auctioneers,
may be taxed.
2. What property is to be exempt
from taxation.
3. The right of redemption from
all sales of real estate for the
nonpayment of taxes shall ex-
ist in the favor of owners.
4. The Legislature shall have no
power to release any of the
subdivisions of the State, nor
the inhabitants from their
proportionate share of taxes.
5. The limit of tax to be assessed
by Congress.
6. Cities, towns, etc., shall have the
power to make local improve-
ments by special assessments.
7. Private property not taken and
held for payment of the cor-
porate debt of municipal cor-
porations.
8. The Legislature at its first ses-
sions shall provide by law
for the funding of all out-
standing indebtedness, at a rate of
interest not to exceed eight
per cent per annum.
9. The order to examine and adjust
all ciaims upon the treasury.
and towns before building
must get the consent of a
majority of the electors.
3. All corporations may sue and
be sued.
4. In cases of claims against cor-
porations, etc., the exact
amount justly due shall first
be ascertained.
5. The Legislature shall provide
by law for the election of
directors, etc.
6. All existing charters or grants
of special or exclusive privi-
leges under which organiza-
tions shall not have taken
place within sixty days from
the time this Constitution
takes effect, shall have no
validity.
7. Every stockholder in a banking
corporation shall be respon-
sible and liable to its credi-
tors, etc.
ARTICLE XIV.
State, County and Municipal
Indebtedness.
1. The State may, to meet casual
deficits in the revenues, con-
tract debts not to exceed
$100,000.
2. No subdivision of the State
shall make donations to any
railroad, etc., for works of
internal improvement.
3. The credit of the State shall
never be given or loaned.
1. The Legislature shall determine
what persons shall constitute
the militia of the State.