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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MAINE.

Preamble.

Objects of government.

Section

ARTICLE I.

Declaration of Rights.

1. Natural rights.

2. All power inherent in the people.

3. Religious freedom. Proviso. All sects equal. Religious test prohibited. Right to elect religious teachers.

4. Freedom of speech and publicacation. Truth may be given in evidence.

5. Unreasonable searches.
6. Rights of persons accused.

7. No person to answer to a capital or infamous crime but on indictment. Exceptions. Juries.

8. Not to be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense.

9. Sanguinary laws prohibited. 10. Bailable offenses.

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of attainder, etc., prohibited.

12. Treason.

13. Suspension of laws.

14. Corporal punishment under military law.

15. Right of petition.

16. Right to keep and bear arms. 17. Standing armies not to be kept. 18. No soldiers to be quartered on citizens in time of peace.

19. Right of redress for injuries.

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1. Qualifications of electors. Written ballot. Soldiers or seamen in U. S. service. Students at colleges and academies. Residence not lost by reason of absence, in the military service of Maine or of the United States.

2. Electors exempt from arrest on election days;

3. And from military duty.

4. Time of State election. Citizens absent in temporary military service of the U. S. or of Maine may vote. Polls, where opened. Vote, how taken. Who shall act as supervisors. Supervisors shall be sworn. Their duties. Proviso. Where certain officers may vote. Supervisors shall prepare ballot boxes. Ballots, Qualification how prepared. of voters. Supervisors shall keep correct poll lists; check

names of voters; sort, count and declare votes; and make return to Secretary of State's

office.

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ARTICLE III. Distribution of Powers.

1. Powers distributed.

2. To be kept separate.

ARTICLE IV.

Legislative Power.- House of Representatives.

1. Legislative department. Style of acts.

2. Number of representatives fixed at one hundred and fifty-one.

3. Appointment among towns. 4. Qualifications of a representative.

5. Meetings for choice of represen

tatives. Meetings of classed towns. Lists of votes shall be examined by Governor and council; and they shall summon persons who appear to be elected. Lists to be laid before the House of Representatives. Manner of electing representatives and other civi officers in cities.

6. Vacancies, how to be filled.

7. House shall choose its OWG

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8. Real and personal estate shall be taxed according to its value.

9. Taxation.

10. Sheriffs, how elected and tenure

of office.

11. Attorney-General, how to be elected. Vacancy, how filled. 12. Soldiers, who may be allowed to vote for county officers.

13. Bribery at elections.

14. Credit of State shall not be
loaned. Creation of State debt,
limited. Exceptions.

15. State may issue bonds in pay-
ment of municipal war debt.
Basis of payment. Commis- |
sion shall be appointed to
determine amount due to mu-
nicipalities. Loan limited to
$3,500,000.

16. Towns having four thousand
inhabitants, and towns having
inhabited islands, may be
divided into voting districts.

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PREAMBLE.

We, the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, insure tranquillity, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and, imploring His aid and direction in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine, and do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the government of the same.

ARTICLE I.

Declaration of Rights.

Section 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among

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