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Seventeenth. Adopting, by any person, any

named person ~ his child or heir;
Eighteenth. Vacating or altering any road
laid out by Commissioners of Highways, or
any street, alley, or public ground in any city
or village, or in any recorded town plat or
for altering the boundaries of any school dis
trict, for building or repairing bridges, or
for draining swamp or other low lands, ex-
cept by expenditure of grants to the State;
Nineteenth. Exempting any property from
taxation. The Legislature shall provide by
general laws for the cases enumerated In this
section, and for all other cases which, in its
Judgment, may be provided for by general
laws.
Sec. %. The Legislature shall not estab-
lish a State paper.
Sec "a. The Legislature may authorize the
employment of Chaplain for the State
Prison
Sec. %. No collector. holder, or disburser
OF public moneys shall have a seat in the
Legislature or be eligible to any Office of
trust or profit under this State, until he shall
have accounted for and paid over as pro-
vided by law, all sums for which he may be
liable.
Sec. &C. The Legislature shall not audit OF
allow any private claim or account.
Sec. q. The Legislature shall meet at the
seat of government on the first Wednesday
i'm January. in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy five, and on the first Wednesday in
January in every second year thereafter, and
at no other place or time unless al provided
in this Constitution, and shall adjourn with
out day at such time as the Legislature shall
fix by concurrent resolution.
Sec. %. The Legislature on the day OF
final adjournment, shall adjourn at twelve
o'clock at noon.
Sec. 30. The election of Senators and Rep
resentatives pursuant to the provisions of
this Constitution, shall be held on the Tues
day succeeding the first Monday of Novem-
hari in afr httv,1 and
ty-six. and on tho Tuesday succeeding the
first Monday of November of every second
year thereafter.
Sec So The Legislature shall provide for
the speedy publication of all statute laws of
public nature, and of such judicial decis-
ions "a it may deem expedient. All laws and
judicial decisions shall be free for publication
by any person.
Sec 81. The Legislature may declare the
cases in which any Office shall he deemed
vacant, and also the manner of filling the
vacancy, where no provision is made for that
purpose in this Constitution.
Sec. 80. The Legislature may confer upon
organized townships, Incorporated cities aud
villages, and upon the Board of Supervisors
of the several counties, such powers of a
local. legislative and administrative character
az it may deem proper.
Sec. 33. The Legislature shall not author
ize any lottery or permit the sale OF lottery
tickets.
Sec. "a. No money shall be appropri-
ated or drawn from the treasury of
this State, or OF any municipal corporation,
for the benefit OF any religious sect or society,
theological or religious seminary, or school
under private or denominational control, nor
shall property belonging to the State or any
municipal corporation be appropriated for any
such purpose.
Sec. 80. The assent of two-thirds of the
members elected to each House of the Legis-
lature shall be requisite to every bill appro-
priating the public money or property for local
or private purposes.
Sec. &c. The Legislature shall not pass any
act authorizing the grant of license for the
sale of ardent spirits or other Intoxicating
liquors.
Sec. 81 The Legislature shall provide by
law for an enumeration OF the inhabitants of
the State in the year eighteen hundred and
eigbty-four, and every ten years thereafter,
and for the collection of such general statis-
tics and information as shall be deemed neces-
sary.
Sec. 49, The style of the laws shall be:
1.-The People of the State of Michigan enact"
NoTE.-oection of this article provides for thir-
tythree Senator's to be chosen for four years. The
present Senate consists Of thirty-two members who
are elected for two years. Sections and einbody
the general provisions of the corresponding sections
of the present Constitution, with some changes Of
arrangement. Section fixes the number of Rep
resentatves definitely at one hundred and ten The
present Constitution makes the House to consist
Of not less than siXty-fOur, nor more than one
hundred members, the number now being fixed by
law at one hundred. Counties having one-third OF
a ratio are allowed Representative; by the present
Constitution nothing less than moiety of the ratio
entities to "a Representative. The provision is
framed with reference to the more rapds growth OF
the newer counties. The provision of the present
Constitution against the division of cities III the
formation of Representative districts il changed 30
as to read that - no ward or township" shall be
divided. All that part of section commencing
with the word "boundaries" after the words
q Representative district" IL new. The inter-
veuing sections to and including section II
have some changes Of phraseoogy. Section Is
embodes the provisions OF sections - ana % OF the
present Constitution, and that portion of section Is
which restricts legislation at extra sessions TO sub
provision permitting the introduction Of bills after
nifty days at regular sessions ON recommendation
of the Governor Sections IA and Is "a and ~ of
the present Constituton) are changed to place
bills aud joint resolutions, and concurrent resou-
tiOns appropriating money or property on the same
footing. by section 10 the compensation Of mem
beers il made four dollars per day instead OF three
now, and the clause limiting the pay to twenty
days at extra sessions Is omitted Section II Us
present Constituton) IL somewhat changed in
phraseology and has added III the first clause the
words "Or be eligible to any office which shall
have been created or the emouments of which shall
have been increased by the Legislature of which he
is member" The words, municipal corporation"
are also added in the last clause in place of the
word county" Section 10 embodies the provisions
of sections 20 aud 25 Of the present Constitution the
words, Such vote to be taken by yeas and nays,
il demanded, by any member" at the end
Of the section, being new. Section II
has some slight changes of phraseo.ogy, and
has added at the end of the section the words @ or
any contract with the State Section % is new
section, although some OF its provisions
cred by sections % and 90 Of article ". of the
present Constitution. The Constitutional Connie
son, in their report to the Governor, say with
reference TO this section: " The RESTRICTIONS pro-
posed by some of the subdivisions of this section
are now embodied IN the Constitution. Others Of
them are already covered by general laws. They
are all found in some one or other of the Constitu-
tons of the States. II is believed that the adol-
expense of Legislative sessions fully one-thrd az
well as be safeguard against much hasty, corrupt
and partial legislation" The words, "but no
money shall be appropriated for the payment of
any religious services in either House OF the Legis
lature l." are omitted from section "a. Sections q
and 49, corresponding to sections SO aud "a of the
present Constitution, are changed in phraseology
to adapt them to the changes of time. Section "a
(section 40 present Constitution has added the
control" and is further made applicable TO mu-
nicipal corporations Section 81 covers the
ground Of the first clause of section of
the present Constitution, but the last
clause relative to the collection of statistics etc.
is new. The numbering of the sections OF the
amended article does not correspond in ali cases TO
those of the present Constitution, owing to the
OMISSION reconstruction aud transportation of Sec
tions. Corresponding references are given, how
ever, in all cases deemed important. The language
of sections g. IL, IL, 1G, 20, 49, 25, &C. 49, 49, 81 81
80, IS, SO and 80 IL unchanged from what it Is in
the present Constitution. Section i6 of the cor
article of the present Constitution rea-