The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-18

I for himeelf and family homestead OUT OF
INV uroperty hereby exempted; and may,
in it's discretion, determine in what manner
and on what conditions he may thereafter
hold for the benefit Of himself and family
such personal property as he may have,
and coming within the exemption hereby
made. But this section shall not be con-
strued as authorizing the General Assem-
bly, to defeat or impair the benefits intend
cd to be conferred by the provisions OF this
article.
SECTION 6. An act Of the General AS
sembly entitled San net to exempt the
homesteads of families from forced sales, -
passed April 80, 1867, and an act entitled
- an act to stay the collection debts for q
limited PERIOD" passed March 2, 1866, and
the acts amendatory thereof, are hereby
abrogated.
Section I. The provisions CT this article
shall be con:trued literally, to the end that
ell the intents thereof may be fully and
perfectly carried out.
Church Property.
The rights of ecclesiastical bodies in
and to church property conveyed TO them
| by regular deed Of conveyance shall not be
affected by the late civil war, nor By any
antecedent or subsequent event, nor by any
act of tho Legislature purporting to govern
the same, but all such property shall pass
to and be held by the parties get forth in
the original deeds Of conveyance, or the
Legal assignees of such original parties
holding through or by conveyance, and any
act or acts of the Legislature in opposition
thereto shall be null and void.
Heirship Of Property.
The children of parents, one or both of
whom were slaves at and during the period
of cohabitation, and who we're recognized
by the father as his children, and whose
mother was recognized by such father as
his wife, and was cohabited with ssuch,
shall be as capable of inheriting any estate
whereof such father may have died seized
OF possessed as though they had been born
in lawful Wedlock.
ARTICLE XII.
FUTURE CHANGES ~ THE CONSTITUTION.
ANY amendment or amendments to the
Constitution may be proposed IN the Senate
and House Of Delegates and If the same
shall be agreed to BY majority Of the
members elected to each Of the two Houses,
such proposed amendment or amendments
shall be entered on their journals, with the
ayes and noes taken thereon, and referred
to the General Assembly TO be chosen ct
the next general election of senators and
members Of the House Of Delegates, and
shall be published for three months pre-
vious to the time of making such choice.
And if in the General Assembly SO next
chosen az aforesaid such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be agreed to by
majority of all the members elected to
each House, then it shall be the duty Of the
General Assembly to submit such proposed
amendment or amendments to the people in
such manner and at such times as the Gene
raj Assembly shall prescribe and if the
people she'll approve and ratify such amend
ment or amendments by majority of the
electors qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly voting thereon such
amendment or amendments shall become
part of the Constitution,
At the general election to be held in the
year 1888, and in each twentieth year
thereafter, and also at such time as the
General Assembly may by law provide, the
question, "Shall there be convention to
revise the Constitution and amend the
same ?" shall be decided by the electors
qualified to vote for members Of the Gene
raj Assembly; and in case q majority Of
the electors go qualified voting al such
election shall decide in fsyor OF q conven-
ton for such purpose, the General Assem-
bly,, at its next session, shall provide By
law for the election Of delegates to such
convention: ProUjded, That no amendment
or revision shall be made which shall deny
or in any way impair the right Of suffrage,
or any civil and political right as conferred
by this Constitution, except fer causes
which apply to ali persons and classes with
out distinction.
JOHN G. UNDERWOOD, President.
GEORGE RYE, Secretary.
Attest:
J. Ii. PAINTER, Assistant Secretary.