Great Falls tribune., 1889-09-28
ARTICLE I.
BOUNDARIES.

llteIseCllon OF tne LWenly-seVentn degree
of longitude west from Washington Will
the forty-fifth degree of north latitude
thence due west on the forty fifth degree
Of latitude to a point formed by its inter
section with the thirty fourth degree O
due south along the thirty fourth degree
Of longitude, to point formed by its inter
section with the crest Of the Rock,
Mountains, thence following the crest. O
the Rocky Mountains northward to its
intersection with the Bitter Root Noun
tains; thence northward along the cres
Of the Bitter Root Mountains, to Its
intersection with the thirty ninth degree
of longitude west from Washington
thence along the thirty-ninth degree ot
longitude northward to the boundary line
OF the British Possessions; thence east
ward along that boundary line to the
twenty-seventh degree Of longitude west
from Washington; thence southward
along the twenty seventh degree Of longi-
tude to the place of beginning.
ARTICLE IL.
MILITARY RESERVATIONS.
SECTION 1. Authority is hereby granted
to and acknowledged in, the United States
to exercise exclusive legislation as pro-
vided by the Constitution Of the United
States, over the military reservations of
Fort Assinaboine, Fort Custer, Fort
Keogh, Fort Maginnis, Fort Missoula and
Fort Shaw, as now established by law, SO
long as said places remain military reser-
vations, to the same extent and with the
same effect as If said reservations had been
purchased by the United States by consent
of the Legislative Assembly of the State
ofMontana; and the Legislative Assembly
is authorized and directed to enact any
law necessary or proper to give
effect to this article. Pro-
videa, That there be and is hereby
reserved to the State the right to serve all
legal process of the State both civil and
criminal npon persons and property found
within any of said reservations in all cases
where the United States has not exclusive
jurisdiction.
ARTICLE III.
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA,
SECTION 7. All political power is
vested in and derived from the people; all
government Of right originates with the
people; is founded upon their will only
and is instituted solely for the good of the
whole.
Sec 2. The people of the State have
e--S sStANt
themselves, as a free, sovereign and inde
pendent State, and to alter and abolish
their constitution and form of government
whenever they may deem it necessary to
their safety and happiness, provided such
change be not repugnant to the Constitu-
ton Of the United States
SEC. 3. All persons are born equally
free, and have certain natural, essential
and inalienable rights, among which may
be reckoned the right of enjoying and de-
Tending their lives and liberties, Of acquir-
ing, possessing and protecting property,
and Of seeking and obtaining their safety
and happiness in all lawful ways.
SEC. 4. The free exercise and enjoy
mant Of religious profession and Worship.
without discrimination, shall forever here
after be guaranteed, and no person shall
be denied any civil or political right or
privilege on account of his opinions CON
cerning religion, but the liberty of consci-
ence hereby secured shall not be construed
to dispense with oaths or affirmations, ex-
cuse acts of icentiousness, by biganous
or poligamous marriage, or otherwise, or
order, peace or safety of the State, or
opposed to the civil authority thereof, or
Of the United States, No person shall be
required to attend any place of worship or
support any ministry, religious sect or de-
nomination, against his consent; nor shall
any preference be given by law to any
religious denomination or mode of wor-
ship.
Sec, S. All elections shall be free and
open, and no power, civil or military,
shall at any time interfere to prevent the
free exercise of the right of suffrage
SEC. 6. Courts of justice shall be open
to every person, and a speedy remedy
afforded for every injury of person, prop
erty or character and that right and
justice shall be administered without 3ale,
denial or delay.
SEC. I. The people shall be secure in
their persons, papers, homes and effects,
from unreasonable searches and seizures,
and no warrant to search any place or
seize any person or thing, shall issue
without describing the place to be searched,
or the person or thing to be seized, nor
without probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation, reduced to writing
Sec. s, Criminal offenses, of which
Justices courts and municipal and other
courts, inferior to the district courts,
have jurisdiction, shall, in all courts
inferior to the district court be prosecuted
by complaint, All criminal actions in the
district court except those on appeal, shall
be prosecuted by information, after exami-
nation and commitment by magistrate,
or after leave granted by the court, or
shall be prosecuted by indictment without
such examination or commitment, or
without such leave of the court. A grand
jury shall consist of seven persons, of
whom five must concur to find an indict-
ment. -
A grand jury shall only be drawn and
summoned when the District Judge shall
in his discretion consider il necessary, and
shall SO order.
shall consist only in levying war against it
or in adhering to its enemies, giving them
aid and comfort; no person shall be con-
of two witnesses to the same overt act, or
upon his confession in open court; no
person shall be attainted of treason or
felony by the Legislative Assembly; no
conviction shall work corruption of blood /
or forfeiture of estate; the estates of per-
sons who may destroy their own lives
shall descend or vest as in cases of natural
death.
SEC, 10. No law shall be passed i'm
pairing the freedom of speech; every per-
son shall be free to speak, write or pub
lish whatever he will on any subject, be-
ing responsible for all abuse of that liberty;
and that in all suits and prosecutions for
libel, the truth thereof may be given in /
evidence, and the jury, under the direes
ton of the Court, shall determine the law
and the facts.
SEC. II. No expost facto law, nor law
the obligation of contracts, or
making any irreyOcable grant of special |