The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-02

SEC. 80. No corporate body Nal hereafter be
created, renewed, or extended, with banking or dis
counting privileges.
SEC. 81. No private corporation shall be created,
unless the bill creating il shall be passed by two
thirds of both houses of the legislature; anu two
thirds Of the legislature shall have power to revoke
and repeal all private corporations by making COM
pensation for the franchise. And the State shall
be part owner Of the stock or property belong
ing to any corporation.
individuals from issuing bills, checks, promissory
notes. or other paper, to circulate money.
SEC. 50. The aggregate amount of debts hereaf-
ter contracted by the legislature shall exceed
the sum Of one hundred thousand dollars except in
case OF war, to repel invasons, suppress insur-
rectons. And in no case shall any amount be bor-
rowed, except by vote Of two-thrds Of both
houses of the legislature.
SEC. "a. The legislature shall, at the first session
thereof, and may at any subsequent session, estab-
lish counties for the convenience Of the inhabt-
ants Of such new county or counties; provided,
that no county shall be established, which shall
reduce the county counties, or either OF them,
from which il shall be taken, to less area than nine
hundred square miles, (except the county of Bowie,
unless by consent of two-thirds of the legislature;
nor shall any county be laid off of less contents.
Every new county, as to the right of suffrage and
representation, shall be considered as part Of the
county or counties from which it was taken, until
entitled by numbers to the right ofseparate repre-
scniation.
SEC. IS. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be
CHARTERED in the house, within the enclosure, OF
any individual, without the consent of the owner;
nor in time of war, but in manner prescribed by
law.
SEC. 80. The salaries Of the governor and Judges
of the supreme and district courts are hereby fixed
at the minimum established in the constitution, and
shall not be increased for ten years
SEC. 81. Mode Of amending the constitution The
legislature, whenever two-thirds Of each house sha
deem 1t necessary, may propose anlendments<o this
constitution; which proposed amendments shall be
duly published in the public prints Of the State, al
least three months before the next general election
Of representatives, for the consideration of the peo
pie; and it shall be the duty of the several return
ing officers, at the next election, which shall be thus
holden, to open poll for and make return to, the
| secretary Of state of the names Of all those voting
for representatives, who have voted on such pro
posed amendments; and il thereupon il shall appear
that majority Of all the cilizens Of this State, vo
ting for representatives have voted in favor Of such
proposed amendments, and two-thirds Of each house
of the next legislature SHALL after such election, and
before another, raiify the amendments by yeal
and nays they shall be valid to all ntents and pur
poses parts of this constitution: provided, tina
the said proposed amendments SHALL at each Of thu
said sessions have been read three several days
in each house. t.7N' fifn
| ARTICLE EIGHTH.
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SEC 1. The legislature shall have no power t.
pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, withou
| the consent Of their owners nor without paying
their owners previous to such emancipation, a full
equivalent in money for the slaves SO emancipated
| They shall have no power TO prevent emgrants t.
this State from bringing with them such persons a,
are deemed slaves by the laws of any of the Unet
Safes, so long any person Of the same age or de
scription shall be continued in slavery by the law.
of this State: provided, that such slave be tn,
bona.fde properly of such emigants; provided, also
that laws shall be passed TO nhibit the introdnc
ton into this State of slaves who have committee
| high crimes in other Stat or Territories. They
shall have the right to pass laws to permit the own
ers of slaves TO emancipaie them, saving the rights
| of creditors, and preventing them from becoming
| public charge They shall have full power to pas,
laws which will obige the owners Of slaves Il
cessary food and clothing; to abstain from al
injuries to them extending to life or limb; and, il
case Of their neglect refusal to comply with tn,
directions of such laws, to have such slave slave.
taken from such owner, and sold for the benefit O.
such owner or owners. They may pass laws Il
prevent slaves from being brought INTO this State al
merchandise only.
SEC. 2. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes o
higher grade than petit larceny, the Legislature
shall have no power to deprive them Of an in,parta
trial by petit jury
SEC. 8. Any person who shall maliciously dis
ucpTIVt SIuVe VI SNAIL Buuef SuCt
punishment as would be inflicted in case the lile,
offence had been committed upon free white per
son, and on like proof, except in case OF insur
rection of such slave.
1 ARTICLE NINTH.
/ Impeachment
SIC. l. The power Of impeachment shall be vest
ed in the house Of representatives.
| Sec. = lmpeachmens of the governor, lieutenAn
governor, attorney general secretary Of state
urer comptroller, and of the judges of the distric
courts shall be tried by the senate. VIVA 49,
SEC. 3. Impeachmens of judges Of the suprem,
court shall be tried by the senate When sitting
court of impeachment, the senators shall be upor
oath or affirmation; and no person shall be convi
without the concurrence Of twothrds ofthe SENATOR
present.
| SEC. A. Judgment in cases Of impeachment shall
extend only to removal from Office, and disquafca
ton from holding any Office Of honor trust or profit
under this State; but the parties convicted shall new
ertheess, be subject to Indictment trial. and punish
ment according to law. ra 9i '4.asa
Sec. 5. All officers against whom articles Of i'm
| parchment may be preferred shall be suspended
from the exercise of the duties of their Office during
the tendency of such impeachment; the appointing
power may make provisional appointment, to fif
the vacancy occasioned by the suspension Of an Of
hccr, until the decision on the impeachment eHes
SEC. 6. The legislature shall provide for the trial
punishment and removal from Office, of all other Of
fcers of the State, by indictment or otherwise. AZ
ARTICLE TENTH.
t Education. ~
SEC. /. A general diffusion of knowledge being
essential to the preservation Of the rights and ber-
ties Of the people, shall be the duty of the Iegisa
ture Of this State to make suitable provision for the
support and maintenance of public schools.
SEc. 2. The legislature SHALL as early as prsctica-
bic, establish free schools throughout the State, and
shall furnish mesns for their support by taxation
property; and il shall be the duty OF the legislature
to set apart not less than onetenh Of the annual rev
enue Of the State dcrivabe from taxation, % per
pctual fund, which fund shall be appropriated TO the
support Of free public schools and law shall ever
be made diverting said fund to any other use; and
until such time the legislature shall provide foI
the establishment of such schools in the several dis
trcts of the State the fund thus created shah remain
az charge against the State, passed to the credit Of
the free common-school fund '
SEC. j. All public lands which have been hereto
fore, or which may hereafter be, granted for public
schools, to the various counties, or other politica
divisions in this State, shall not be aenated in fee
nor disposed of otherwise than by lease, for term
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