INDEX TO THE REARRANGEMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION. A. Abatements, exemptions, etc., from tax on income, may be granted by PAGE Abolition, etc., of courts, not to be subject of initiative or referendum pe- 129 Absent voting, general court to have power to provide for, 117 Abuses, arising from circulating petitions for hire or reward, under initiative 136 128 Acts and resolves of the general court, provision for submission of, to the 134, 135 Address of both houses of the legislature, judicial officers may be removed by 146 Adjournment, of separate houses of general court, 122, 124 of the general court, 118 Administrative work of the commonwealth, organization of, into not more than twenty departments, 128 Advertising on public ways, etc., may be restricted, etc., 128 Affirmations, instead of the required oaths, may be made by persons declining 148 forms of, for civil and military officers, to be set forth by the general court, Alimony, divorce, etc., causes of, by whom heard and determined, 147 148 Allowances or pensions, retirement of judicial officers on, 146 Alternative and conflicting measures, in popular legislation at one election, . 133 128 Amendment to the constitution, under initiative and referendum, to be con- commonwealth's credit not to be given for private purposes, on basis of legal voters, and state to be divided into forty districts, 120 122 to the several counties, made on the basis of legal voters, Appropriation of money from treasury for certain purposes, to be excluded from proposal by initiative or referendum petition, Appropriation bill, the general, to be based upon the budget, etc., priation bill, Appropriations, origin of money bills, no initiative or referendum petitions on, Arguments for and against measures under the initiative and referendum to Armies, dangerous to liberty, and not to be maintained without consent of no quartering of troops, unless, Arms, right of people to keep and to bear, for public defence, Arrest, members of house of representatives exempted from, on mesne process, Arrest, search and seizure, right of, regulated, warrant to contain special designation, Arts, commerce and agriculture, to be encouraged, 122 129, 134 138 138 124 129, 134 138, 139 137 114 not a subject for initiative or referendum petition, 129 Assembly of general court, frequent, . 115 Association or corporation, private, not to be given credit of the common- 139 Attorney-general, to be chosen by the people biennially in November, begin- 117, 145 to hold office for two years from third Wednesday in January next there- in failure of election by the voters, or in case of decease of person elected, vacancy occurring during recess of legislature filled by governor by not eligible, unless an inhabitant of the state for five years next preceding 146 office to be deemed vacant if person elected or appointed fails to be quali- 145 qualifications requisite, 145 Attorney-general, initiative petition, etc., to be submitted to, PAGE 129, 132 description on ballot under initiative and referendum to be determined by, to exercise powers of governor and lieutenant-governor in succession . Attorneys, district, elected by the people of the several districts, Auditor, to be chosen by the people biennially in November, beginning in to hold office for two years from third Wednesday in January next there- election determined by legislature, vacancy filled in same manner as in office of attorney-general, 117, 145 145 145 145 not eligible, unless an inhabitant of the state for five years next preceding 146 office to be deemed vacant if person elected or appointed fails to be quali- 145 qualifications requisite, to exercise powers of governor and lieutenant-governor in succession 145 145 B. protection from unreasonable, not a subject for initiative or referendum 129 Ballot, voting by, and voting machines, 117, 123 form for popular legislation and vote on constitutional amendment, 137 law submitted to the people, 132, 136 Biennial election of senators, representatives and certain state officers to 117, 145 Bill, the general appropriation, to be based upon the budget, etc., 138 138 Bill of rights, declaration of, 110-116 certain individual rights not to be subject of initiative petition, 129 124 Bills, special appropriation, may be enacted after final action on general appropriation bill, 138 119 119 Bills and resolves, to be laid before governor for revisal, to have force of law if signed by governor, if objected to by governor in writing, to be returned to branch in which if not returned by governor within five days after presentation, to have 119 119 119 128, 134 111 |