Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-08-06

the value OF 5000 dollars, and amer The Sc
cond election for governor, ne person shall
be eligible unless he shall have resided in
the state at least four years the governor
is to have a negative on all bills passed by
the legislature. which shall nevertheless
become laws. provided two thirds of both
houses concur.
The Legislature is divided into Two
branches. viz house Of representatives
and sepate-the former is TO be chos u by
the people annually, observing the present
ratio of representation, except that the
counties of Marengo and Dallas are 10
send each two members. instead OF one,
and Monroe FIVE. This branch of the le-
gislature is never to exceed lou members,
who are to be appor.ioned among the Sc
veral counties, according to the popula-
ton of the same, respectively. as 1scer-
tanned bv census to be taken in the years
1890. 1922, and 1895, and every years
thereafter
The senate is to be composed OF fifteen
members, and is never to exceed one
third of the whole number of the house of
representatives. The state is TO he divid-
ed into fourteen senatorial districts, Of
which Madison county is to form one, and
10 send two senators, Limestone one, DC.
This apportionment isssuhject to alteration
as the population varies; senators are to
be elected for three years.
The judiciary is TO consist of superior
court, composed Of judges and such infe-
rior courts as the legislature shall deem,
expedient to establish in the respective
counties.
The judges Of the superior court are to
perform the duties of district judges, to
have chancery jurisdiction, and 10 form
the supreme court Of appeals, till 1925,
when the legislature shall have power to
establish a separate chancery court, and a
supreme court of appeals.
The judges are TO be appointed by
joint vote (viuo voce) Of the senate and le-
gislature, and Excepting those first APP
pointed, whose term shall expire in the
year 1925, they are to hold their office
during good behaviour, limiting the term
Of service to the 10th year of their age
they are made liable to removal by i'm
parchment, and for other reasonable cause,
on the petition of two-thirds of both branch
es of the legislature, which reasonable
cause shall be spread upon the journals of
both houses, and the accused shall have an
opportunity OF defending himselfon the &C
cusation alleged against him, at the bar Of
each house.
Sheriffs are to be elected by the people,
TO hold their office three years, and after.
wards 10 be ineligible, either as principal
or deputy.
Clerks to be appointed by the courts.
Magistrates and other officers, to be ap-
pointed by the Legislature.
The seat of government is TO remain at
Huntsville, till after the session of the first
legislature, and then is to be at Cahaba ill
the session after the census of 1926, when
the legislature shall fix it permanently.
Bnnks--The proposed plan contem-
plates the establishment of State Bank,
and branches, by the legislature, restrict
ing them however to the establishment OF
but one branch, at any enc session.
No bank shall be established except the
legislature subscribe t,roJD1hs OF the stock,
and appoint number Of directors equal to
the interest of the state in The bank. And
no bank is 20 60 into operation until the
payment in gold or silver of the whole a.
mount of the stock subscribed for, which
cannot be less than 100000. dollars. Eve
ry stakeholder IS TO be liable in his indi'i-
dual capacity for the debts OF The bank, to
the amount Of his stock. /
York, August 8.
By the ship Morning Star, and brig Han
nah and Rebecca, from New-Orleans, We
learn. that several vessels had been robbed
in the Mississippi river. near the ). W.
Pass, by an open boat, manned by ten or
twelve desperadoes. Amongst the vessels
robbed were the ship Governor Griswold,
brigs Argo. Calypso, Clio. and the Dutch