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also for supplying vscaaeies created by such
removal.
SIC. s. The Legislature may declare the
cases in which any Office shall be deemed
vacant. where no provision is made for that
purpose in this Constitutions.
AETIcLE xIII.-ELEcTIoEs.
See. 1. All elections shall be free and
equal.
/ Sec. 2. Electors shall in ali cases, except
treason. felony and breach Of the peace, be
privileged from arrest during their attend
snce on elections. and in going to and re-
turning from them.
Sec. 8. All elections by the people shall
be by ballot, and all elections by the Gene
raj Assembly, or by either branch thereof,
shall be by viva voee.
Sec. 4. All general elections shall De held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first
Monday in November of each year.
Sec. 5. Returns of elections for members
of Congress, the General Assembly, and
all other officers not otherwise provided for,
shall be made to the Secretary of State in
such manner as may be prescribed by law.
ARTICLE xIv.-coRPoRATIoSs.
Sec. 1. Corporations may be created un-
der general laws but shall not be created by
special acts, except for municipal purposes.
All general laws and special acts authoriz-
ing or creating corporations may be altered
from time to time, or repealed.
Sec. 2. Dues from corporations shall be
secured by such individual liability of the
stockholders and other means as shall be
prescribed by law, and each stockholder of
corporation or joint stock association. ex-
cept corporations for charitable purposes
and railroad corporations, shall be individ-
ually liable over and above the stock by him
or her owned and any amount unpaid there
on, to further sum at least equal in amount
to such stock.
Sec. 8. The property of corporations, ex-
cept for charitable and religious purposes,
now existing and to be hereafter created,
shall be subject to taxation the same as the
property of individuals.
Sec. 4. AL real estate or other property
of religious corporations shall vest in trus-
tees whose election shall be by the members
of such corporation.
Sec s. The General Assembly shall pro-
vide for the organization of cities and villa
ges by general laws, and restrict their pow
er of taxation, assessment, borrowing mon
ey, contracting debts, and loaning their cred
it SO as to prevent the abuse of such power.
SEC. 6. The term corporations as used in
this article shall be construed to include all
associations and joint stock companies hav-
ing any of the powers or privileges of cor
porations not possessed by individuals or
partnerships, and all corporations shall have
the right to sue and shall be subject to be
sued in all courts the same as natural persons.
ARTICLE xv.-JURIsPRUDENCE.
Sec. /. The General Assembly at its first
session under this Constitution shall consti-
tute a commission to consist of three per-
sons not members of the Senate or House of
Representatives, whose duty it shall be to
revise, reform, simplify, and abridge the
rules of Practice, Pleading and Proceeding
in the courts of record of this State, abol-
ishing the forms of action known to the
Common Law, and distinctions as to form,
between proceedings at law and in equity.
Sec. e. The proceedings of the Commis-
sioners shall be reported to, and be subject
to the action of the General Assembly.
Sec. 3. All the proceedings of the Courts
of this State shall be instituted and con-
Quoted in the English language, avoiding,
as far as practicable, the use of technical
terms.
ARTICLE xvI.-MIsCELLANEoUs.
Sec. 1. No person shall be taken, impris-
oned or disseized of his freehold, outlawed,
exiled, or In any manner deprived of his
life. liberty or property but by the Judge
ment of his peers and the law of the land.
Sec. e. The printing of the laws and
journals, bills, Legislative documents and
papers for each branch of the General As
sembly and all printing for the Executive
and other departments of State, shall be let
to the lowest responsible bidder by such of
6cers and in such manner as shall be pre-
scribed by law.
Sec. 3. The General Assembly shall pro-
vide by law for the protection of the rights
of women, married and single, in the ae-
quiring and possessing of property, real,
personal and mixed, separate and apart from
the husband or other person, and shall al
so provide for the equal rights of women in
the protection, with the husband, of their
children, during their minority; also shall
proyidefor the securing of homestead
which, without the consent of the wife, she
cannot be Invested of.
Sec. 4. No person shall be elected or ap
pointed to any Office in this State unless be
possesses the qualifications of an elector al
the time of his election or appointment
Sec. 5. There shall be established in the
Secretary of States Office, Bureau of Sta
tistics and Agriculture, under such regula-
tons as may be prescribed by law, and
provision shall be made by the General As
sembly for the organization and encourage
ment of State and County Agricultural As
sociations.
Sec. s. Lotteries, Gift Enterprises, and
the sale of Lottery and Gift Enterprise Tick
cts for any purpose whatever shall be for
ever prohibited in the State.
Sec. a. A homestead of one hundred and
sixty acres of land, or in lieu thereof, 1
house and lot, or other property not exceed
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