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may demand, for the promotion OF
literature, the arts, and sciences, as
may be authorized by the terms OF
such grant. And the Legislature
shall, las soon as may be, provide effect
ual means for the improvement and
permanent security of the funds OF
said University.
ARTICLE XII.
Amend Article X of the present Con-
stitution by making it Article MI,
and amend section one thereof to read
as follows:
SEC. l. Any amendment or amend
ments to this Constitution may be pro-
posed in the Senate or Assembly, and
if the same are agreed to by majority
of the members elected to each of the
two Houses, such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be entered
on their Journals, with the ayes and
noes taken thereon, and shall be pub
lished for three months before the next
general election. In his proclamation
calling such election, the Governor
shall submit such proposed amend
ments to the qualified electors OF the
State for adoption or rejection, and if
a majority of the votes cast shall be
for the adoption of such amendment
or amendments, it OF they shall be-
come part of this Constitution.
Amend said Constitution by insert
ing therein new Article, to be known
as Article XIII, and to read as fol-
lows:
ARTICLE XIII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
SEC. l. Any citizen of this State
who shall, after the adoption of this
Constitution, fight duel with deadly
weapons, or send or accept q challenge
to fight a duel with deadly weapons,
either within this State or out of it, or
who shall act as second, or knowingly
aid or assist in any manner those thus
offending, shall not be allowed to hold
any office of profit, or to enjoy the
right of suffrage under this Constitu-
tiOn.
SEC. 2. Members of the Legislature,
and all officers, executive and judicial,
except such inferior officers as may be
by law exempted, shall, before they
enter on the duties of their respective
offices, take and subscribe the follow
ing oath or affirmation:
"Ido solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case
may be- that will support the Constitution
of the United States and the Constitution of
the state of California, and that will faith
fully discharge the duties of the office OF -
according TO the best of my ability"
And no other oath, declaration or
test, shall be required as q qualifica-
tion for any office or public trust.
SEC. 3. All officers whose election or
appointment is not provided for by
this Constitution, and all officers
whose office may hereafter be created
by law, shall be elected by the people,
or appointed, as the Legislature may
direct.
SEC. 4. No person shall be elected or
appointed to, or hold any office crea-
ted by this Constitution, who is not an
elector and resident of this State. No
person shall be elected or appointed to-,
or hold any district, county, or local
Office created by this Constitution,
unless he is an efector and resident OF
the district, county, or other political
division for which he is elected or ap-
pointed. And every judicial officer
must reside at the place where the
sessions of the Court of which he is a
member is held.
SEC. 5. When the duration of any
Office is not provided for by this con-
stitution, it may be declared by law;
and if not so declared, such office shall
be held during the pleasure of the au-
thority making the appointment; nor
shall the duration of any office fixed
by this Constitution ever exceed four
years.
SEC. 6. The fiscal year shall COM
menee on the first day of July.
Sec. 7. Each county, city, and in
corporated town, shall make provision
for the support of it's own officers, SUBJ
ject to such restrictions and regula-
tions as the Legislature may pre-
scribe.
SEC. s. Suits may be brought
against the State in such manner and
in such Courts as shall be directed by
law.
SEC. g. The seat of government shall
not be removed from Sacramento ex-
cept by operation of a statute enacted
for that purpose and ratified by ma
.jority Of the votes cast at the next gen.
eral election after the passage of such
statute.
Sec. 10. All property, both real and
personal, of the wife, owned or claim
ed by her before marriage, and that
acquired afterward by gift, device, or
descent, shall be her separate property,
and Laws shall be passed more clearly
defining the rights of the wife, in rela-
tion as well to her separate property
as to that held in common with her
husband. Laws shall also be passed
providing for the registration of the
wife's separate property.
SEC. II. No contract of marriage, If
otherwise duly made, shall be invali-
dated for want of conformity to the re-
quirements of any religious sect.
SEC. IL. No perpetuities shall be al
lowed except for eleemosynary pur-
poses.
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