Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-01-23
The New Constitution.

The New Constitution.
We continue, in this number the sections that have
been passed by The Convention and referred the
mittee revision:
SEC. = The members OF the General Assembly shall
receive for their services compensation TO be fixed by
law but increase Of compensation shall take effect
during the session which such increase be made
No session of the General Assembly except the first
under this Constitution shall extend beyond the Of
sixty days. any called session beyond the term OF
forty days.
SEC. =. Vacancies that may happen in Offices the
appointment of which is vested in the Governor in
the General Assembly, shall be filled by the Governor,
during the of the General Assembly, by granting
commissions that shall expire when their successors
elected and qualified And all offices which may be
created by the General Assembly shall be filed in such
manner as may be prescribed by law.
Sec =. The militia shall consist Of all able bodied
male persons negroes and mulattoes excepted residents
in the State between the ages of eighteen and forty five.
except such persons are may hereafter be ex
empted by the laws of the United States, or of this
State and shall be organized, Offered armed, equip
ped and trained in such manner the General Assem-
/ bly, may provide by law.
Sec. -. No person conscienciously scrupulous Of
bearing arms shall be compelled to do militia duty:
Prorided such person shall pay such equivalent for
such exemption as may beprovided by law.
| SEC. =. The Governor shall appoint the Adjutant,
Quartermaster, and Commissary Generals.
SEC All militia officers shall be commissioned by
the Governor and shall hold their commissions long
er than six years
method of dividing the militia into divisions, brgades,
regiments, batalions and companies, and fix the rank
of all staff officers.
Sec =. The militia may be divided into classes of
sedentary and active militia in such be
prescribed by law.
Sec = The commissions of all militia officers shall
expire on the adoption of this Constitution
SEC. =. No person shall hold more than lucra-
tive Office at the same time except as in this Constitu
ton expressly permitted Prorided That counties
tanning less than one thousand polls may confer the Off
ces of Clerk, Recorder, and Auditor, any two of
said offices upon person. PrOrided however, that
the office OF Postmaster, where the compensation does
not exceed ninety dollars per annm shall not be deem
ed lucrative
SEC. - No law shall he passed. restraining the free
interchange OF thoughts and opinions restricting the
right speak, write, print, freely, any subject
whatever But for the abuse OF that right every per
| on hall be responsible.
nal in civil cases. the truth of the matters alleged
be libellous may be given in Justification; and the jury
shall have the right in all criminal cases. determine
| the law and the facts.
SEC =. All courts shall be open, and every person,
for injury done to him in his person. property repu
tation, shall have remedy by due of law. JUS
ce shall be administered freely and without purchase,
completely, and without denial speedily and without
delay.
SEC - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall
have a right public trial by impartial Jury, in
the county in which the offence shall have been CON-
mitted he shall have the right 10 be heard by himself
and counsel demand the and of the
cusaton against him. and TO have copy thereof; to
the witnesses face lace and have compulso-
ry process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.
SEC. =. No person shall be compelled give evil
dence against himself, in any criminal prosecution
No person shall be put in jeopardy twice for the
offence.
Sec =. Offences other than murder or treason shall
| be bailable by sufficient sureties.
Murder treason shall not be bailable when the
proof is evident or the presumption great
SEC. -. The privilege Of the writ of habeas corpus
shall be suspended except in of rebellion
vasion and then only if the public safety demand it.
SEC. -. The military shall be kept in strict subordi-
nation to the civil power.
Sec. No soldier shall in time Of peace, be quar-.
tered in any house without the of the owner
in time of war, but in be prescribed by
law.
SEC. = That the Legislature shall not grant any ii.
tie of nobility hereditary distinctions, grant any
extraordinary privileges.
SEC. -. The legislature shall not create any office
the Of which shall be longer than four years
SEC. =. Emigration from the State shall not be pro-
hibited.
SEC. = There shall be neither slavery nor nvolunta.
ry servitnde within this State, otherwise than for the
punishment oil crimes whereof the party shall be duly
convicted No indenture of any negro mulato made
and executed out of the bounds of this State shall be
! valid within this State.
SEC. -. The General Assembly shall not grant tc
any citizen, class Of citizens privileges and immun
to all citizens
SEC. =. To guard against any encroachments on the
rights herein retained; declare, that everything in
this Article is excepted of the general powers
government and shall forever remain inviolable.
I Sec. =. Treason against this State shall only consis
in evyng against it. and giving aid and comfort
its enemies
SEC. =. No person shall be convicted Of treason I'M
less the testimony of two witnesses, the same
overt act, or his confession in open court.