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facture or commodity, but any county may appoint such offi

cers.

39. General Assembly shall not change the seat of government. 40. Corrupt solicitation; shall be guilty of bribery.

41. Bribery defined.

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

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.

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48. Salaries of public officers; ducted 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 this any foreign territory to 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 power authorize to any county, city or other sub-di

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vision of this State to lend its credit.

56. There shall be no law in this remedy State impairing the

for the enforcement of contracts.

ARTICLE V.

Executive Department.

1. Of whom the executive department 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 information in writing under oath. 10. The Governor may on extraordinary 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 disapprove 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-inChief of the militia, except. 19. Qualifications necessary to hold the office of Secretary of State, State Treasurer, etc.

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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.

22. How grants and commissions are to be issued.

23. The Governor to have power to

fill any vacancy which may

occur in any of the State offices.

24. Duties of the State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor,

etc.

25. In regard to fees, costs, perquisites of office, other than the salaries prescribed by law. 26. Term of office of the sheriff.His election, etc.

ARTICLE VI.

Judicial Department.

1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Senate.

2. Power of the Supreme Court. 3. Supreme Court to be held at the seat of government.

4. Division of the State by the General Assembly.

5. Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court. 6. Where the Circuit Court shall be held.- Power of the judges. 7. Power of the General Assembly. Division of the State by the General Assembly.

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, Circuit Courts, chancellors, etc.

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15. Their term of office.

16. Duties of the judges of the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts and inferior courts.

17. Vacancies in the office of any of the judges.

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 IX.
Representation.

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 resident 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.

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4. Power of the General Assembly to levy taxes.

5. Power of the counties to levy taxes.

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 shall whose salaries 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 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.

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 expended.

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.

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charter of any corporation, now existing.

4. Foreign corporations.

5. No corporation shall engage in any business other than that expressly authorized in its charter.

6. In regard to the issue of bonds by corporations.

7. Private property taken for public use. Right to appeal from an assessment.

8. How dues from private corporations shall be secured. No stockholder liable for more than the paid up stock owned by him.

9. The issue of preferred stock by corporations.

10. Power of the General Assembly to alter, revoke or amend any charter of incorporation now existing.

11. 12.

Rights of telegraph companies. All corporations shall have the right to sue or to be sued. 13. The term corporation defined. Banks and Banking.

14. Power of the General Assembly to establish or incorporate any bank or banking company. 15. All banks to be established under the banking law.

16. In regard to bills and notes issued as money.

17. Holders of bank notes and depositors.

18. Every bank or banking company shall be required to cease all banking operations within twenty years from the time of its organization, unless.

19. The rate of interest to be received by banks.

20. The State shall not be a stockholder in any bank, or give its credit.

Railroads and Canals.

21. All railroads and canals shall be public highways.- Every railroad shall have the right to connect with any other railroad, etc.

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altering or amending the Constitution of this State, unless. SCHEDULE.

1. All laws in force at the ratification of this Constitution shall remain in force, until.

2. In regard to the bonds executed by any officer of this State.All indictments found or which may be found shall be proceeded upon in the same manner as if this Constitution had not been ratified.

3. All judicial and executive officers and all other officers holding office at the time of the ratification of this Constitution shall continue to hold office, except.

4. This Constitution shall be submitted to the qualified electors of this State for ratification or rejection.

6. Steps to be taken to give publicity and circulation to this Constitution.

7. All laws requiring an enumeration of the inhabitants of this State during the year 1875 are hereby voided.

8. The Board of Education in this State is hereby voided.

9. The salaries of the executive and judicial and all other officers of this State who may be holding office at the time of the ratification of this Constitution shall not be affected by the provisions of this Constitution.