Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-02-27

SEC 81 No soldier shall in time of peace, be quar-
tered in any house, without the consent OF the
nor in time Owar, but in manner to be prescribed by
SEC s. The General Assembly shall not grant any
title of nobility, nor confer hereditary distinctions.
Sec. SO. Emigration from the State shall be pro-
SEC 37 There shall be neither slavery involun-
tary servtde within the State otherwise than for the
punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted No indenure Of any Negro or Muatto,
made and executed of the bounds of the State shall
be valid within the State.
ARTICLE III.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.
SECTION |. All elections shall be free and equal
SEC. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for
by this Constitution every white male citizen Of the
United States, of the age of twentyone years and up
wards who shall have resided in the State during the
six months Immediately preceding such election; and
every white male, of foreign birth, OF the age of twenty
years and upwards, who shall have resided in the
United States year, and shall have resided in this
State during the six months Immediately preceding such
election, and shall have declared his intention become
a citizen of the United States, coniormaby to the laws
ofthe United States the subject Of naturalization
shall be entitled to vote, in the township precinct
where he NAV reside.
SEC. 8 No soldier seaman, or marine, in the army
navy OF the United States of their allies shall be
deemed to have acquired residence in the State, in
consequence OF having been stationed within the
shall any such soldier seaman, marine, have the
right TO vote
SEC A. No person shall he deemed to have lost his
residence in the State by reason o his absence either
on business of this State of the United States.
SEC. 3. No Negro Mulatto shall have the right OF
sulIragei
SEC 6. Every person shall be disqualified from hold
ing office, during the term for which he may have been
elected, who shall have given or offered bflbe, threat,
or reward, to procure his election.
SEC. 7. Every person who shall give accept a
challenge to fight DUEL who shall knowingly carry
another person such challenge, who shall agree to
90 of the fight duel shall be Ineligible
any Office OF trust or profit.
SEC. 8. The General Assembly shall have power to
deprive Of the right of suffrage, and to render inelig
BILE, any person convicted of an infamous crime.
Sec 9. No person holding lucrative Office or ap-
pontment under the United States under this State,
shall be eligible to seat in the General Assemby nor
shall any person hold more than lucrative Office at
the same time except in this Constitution expressly
permitted PrOrided that offices in the militia which
there is attached annual salary and the office of Dep
uty Postmaste-, where the compensation does not ex
ceed ninety lars per annum shall be deemed lu
cratve: Aad prorided. also that countless containing
less than thousand polls, may confer the Office OF
Clerk, Recorder and Auditor any two OF said Offices
upon tho same person.
SEC. 10. Noperson who may hereafter be collector
holder of public moneys, shall he eligible to any
Office of trust profit until he shall have accounted for
and paid according to law, all sums for which he
may be liable.
SEC H. IN all cases in which it is provided that an
office shall be filled by the person. than
certain number of years continuously appointment
pro emPore shall not be reckoned part Of that term.
breach of the peace electors shall he free from arrest
in going elections during their attendance there and
in returning from the same
SEC 49, All elections hy the People shall be by bal
lot; and all elections by the General Assembly, by
either branch thereof, shall be rira
SEC. Ia. All general elections shall be held on the
second Tuesday in October
ARTICLE III.
Distribution POWERS.
SECTION |. The powers of the Government divi-
dcd into three separate departments; the Legislative,
the Executive including the Administrative, and the
Judlclal and person, charged Uh official duties un
der Of these departments shall exercise any OF the
functions Of another, except in this Constitution
pressly provided.
LEGISLATIVE.
SECTION l. The Legislative authority of the State
shall be vested in General Assembly, which shall
sist Of Senate and House of Representatives, The
style of every law shall be- Be 1t enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of Indiana - and law shall
be enacted except by bill.
Sec 2 The Senate shall not exceed fifty, nor the
House of Representatives hundred, members; and
they shall be chosen by the electors of the respective
counties or Districts which the State may from time
to time. he divided.
SEC. g. Senators shall be elected for the term of four
years and Representatives for the term OF two years
from the day after their general elections Pro1ded
howeuer that the Senators elect at the second meeting
of the General Assembly under this Constitution, shall
be divided, by lot, into equal classes, nearly
may be and the of Senators of the first class shall
be vacated the expiration of two years and OF those
Of the second class at the expiration oil four years;
that one half nearly as possible, shall be chosen ben
nely forever thereafter. And in OF increase in the
number of Senator'S they shall be annexed bv t to
the other of the two classes as to keep them as
nearly equal rs practicable.
SEc.4. The General assembly shall, at its second
session after the adoption of this Constitution and every
sixth year thereafter cause an enumeration be made
OF all the white mao inhabitants the age of twenty
years.
SEC 5. The number of Senators and Representatives
shall at the session following each period OF making
such enumeration be fixed by law, and apportoned
among the several countless according to the number o
white male inhabitants, above twentyone years OF age,
in each Prorided that the first and second elections OF
members of the General Assembly, under this Constitu
ton shall be according the apPortionment last made
by the General Assembly, before the adoption OF this
SEC. g. A Senatorial or Representative district,
where more than one county shall constitute district,
shall be composed of contiguous counties; and no
county, for Senatorial aPportionment, shall ever be
divided
SEc T. No person shall be Senator or a Represen-
tave who the time of his election, is not citizen
Of the United States any who has not been for
two years preceding his election, inhabtant oi
this States and for year preceding his election
an inhabant OF the county distrct whence he may
be chosen Senators shall be at least twenty-five and
Representatives least twenty-one, years of age.
Sec 8. Senators and Representatives, in all cases
except treason felony and breach Of the peace shall be
privileged from arrest during the session Of the General
Assembly, and in going to aud returning from the same
and shall be subject any civil process, during the
session of the General Assembly daring the fteer
days next before the commencement thereof For any
speech debate in either House, member shall not bs
questioned 10 any other place.
SECS. The sessions Of tho General Assembly shall
bc held bcnnally at the capital OF the State commenc
ing on the Thursday next after the first Monday OF Jan
uary in the year thousand eight hundred and fifty
three and on the day OF every second year there
after unless different day place shall have been ap
pointed by law But, IT, in the opinion Of the Governor
~l.I1-. he eft..o
Iy proclamation, call special session..
SEC. 10. Each House. when assembled, shall choos