Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-08-22

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ted shall not become public charge.
1t shall be their duty as soon as may be, to pass
such laws as may be necessary,
Let, To prevent freenegroes and mulattoes
from coming to, and settling in this state,
under any pretext whatsoever; and
I'd, To obGge the owners Of slaves to treat
them with humanity, and to abstain from
all injuries to them extending to life or
limb
Sec. u. In prosecutions for crimes, slaves
shall not be deprived of an impartial trial by
jury, and slave convicted ola capital offence
shall suffer the same degree of punishment,
and no other, that would be inflicted on a
white person fora like offence; and courts of
justice before whom slaves shall be tried shall
assign them counsel for their defence.
Sec. %. Any person who shall maliciousy
deprive of life, or dismember a slave, shall
suffer such punishment as would be inflicted
for the like offence if it were committed on
| free white person.
| Sec. 20. The governor, lieutenant governor,
secretary OF state, auditor treasurer, attorney
general, and all judges of the courts of law
and equity, shall be liable to impeachment
for any misdemeanor in Office; but judgment
in such case shall not extend farther than re-
moyal from Office, and disqualification to hold
any Office of honor, trust or profit under this
state. The party impeachcd, whether con-
victed or acquitted, shah nevertheless be La
Bile 10 be indicted, tried and punished accord
ing 10 law.
Sec. so. The house OF representatives shall
have the sole power OF impeachment All
impeachments Shall be tried by the senate,
! and when sitting for that purpose, the sena-
tors shall be on oath or affirmation to do JUS
tee according to law and evidence. When
the governor shall be tried, the presiding
Judge ofthe supreme court shall preside and
no person shall be convicted without the con-
culrence OF two thirds of all the senators pre-
sent.
Sec. 81. A state Treasurer shall be bien-
nially appointed by Joint vote Of the two
houses of the General Assembly, who shall
keep his office at the seat Of government
No money shall be drawn from the treasurer
but in consequence Of appropriations made
by law; and an accurate account Of the re-
ccipts and expenditures of the public money
shall be annually published.
Sec. 80. The appointment of all officers
not otherwise directed by this constitution,
shall be made in such manner as may be pre-
SC rihed by law; and all officers, both ciyil and
military, under the authority this state shall,
before entering on the duties of their respec-
tive Offices, take an oath CT affirmation to sup
port the constitution ofthe United States, and of
this state, and to demean themselves faithfully
in Office.
Sec. 49, The General Assembly shall meet
On the third Monday in September next; on
the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
bred and twenty -one; on the first Monday in
November eighteen hundred and twenty
two and thereafter the General Assembly
shall meet once in every two years, and such
meeting shall be on the first Monday in No
yember, unless u different day shall be APP
pointed by law.
Sec. "a. No county now established by Law
shall ever be reduced by the establishment
of new counties to less than twenty miles
square nor shall any county hereafter be
established which shall contain less than four
hundred square miles.
Sec IS. Within FIVE years after the adop-
ton Of this constitution all the statute laws of
general nature, both civil and criminal, shall
be revised, digested, and promulgated in such
manner as the General Assembly shall direct;
and q like revision, digest and PRONUNCIATION
shall be made at the expiration Of every sub
scqacnt period often years.
Sec. So. The style Of the laws of this state
shall be, " BE IL enacted By tie General Assem-
by efthe STATE Of Missouri"
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