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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

16.

open, except.

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.

88. 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-
nary occasions convene the
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.

17. Governor shall not hold any
other office during his term.
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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18. In any case, civil or criminal,

pending in any Circuit, Chan-
cery or City Court in this
State, if the presiding judge or
chancellor shall be incompet-
ent 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 Rec-
ord 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 reg-
isters 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 ap-
peal in cases tried before jus-
tices.

27. Election of the Attorney-Gene-
ral. His residence.

28. The style of all process shall be.

ARTICLE VII.

Impeachment.

1. Enumeration of those who may
be removed from office by im-
peachment.

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

3. All county officers may be re-
moved 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.

ARTICLE X.
Exempted Property.

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

2. When homesteads shall be ex-
empt 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 hereinbefore
secured may be waived.

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6. Property of private corporations
and individuals shall forever
be taxed, provided.

7. Rate of taxation to be levied by
city, town or other municipal
corporation.

8. Enumeration of the officers
whose salaries shall be re-
duced after the ratification of
this Constitution.

9. The General Assembly shall not
have the power to require the
counties or other municipal
corporations to pay any
charges which are now payable
out of the State treasury.

ARTICLE XII.

Militia.

1. Those who are liable to do mili-
tary duty in the militia of the
State.

2. The duties of the General Assem-
bly in organizing and equip-
ping a militia.

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

4. Volunteer organizations of in-
fantry, 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 Commander-
in-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 appropria-
tions.

3. In regard to property given by
individuals or appropriated by
the State for educational pur-
poses.

4. The General Assembly shall pro-
vide for the levying and col-
lection 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 ex-
pended.

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 Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Col-
lege shall be. Of whom the
board of the University shall
consist.

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

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