The Brookhaven leader., 1890-11-06

person.
% The removal Of the disability Of in
. Granting to any person, corporation. or
bridge, road or hsh trap.
~ Exemption Of property from taxation,
o ProyidinG for the adoption or legitima-
% Changing the Law Of descent and dis
tribution.
dl Exempting any person from Jury. road,
or other civil duty tand no person shall be
exempted therefrom By force Of any local or
% Laying out, opening, altering and work
ing roads and highways.
6p) Nacating any road or highway, town
plat, street alley or public grounds.
Wl Selecting, drawing, sunmoning or
lmpaneling grand or petit Juries.
(O) Creating, increasing, or decreasing the
officer.
port OF any private or common school, in
cooperating the same or granting such
school any privileges.
"a Relating to stock laws, water courses
and fences.
~ Comforting the power to exercise the
night OF eminent domain, or granting to any
person, corporation or association the right
to lay d down 2, railroad tracks or street car
scribed by general law
% Regulating the practice in courts Of
justice.
% Providing for the creation of districts
cOnstables.
,60 Granting any lands under control Of
the state to any person or corporation.
PROHIBITIONS.
SEC. 81. The Legislature shall not enact
any law for one or more counties not appli-
cable to all the counties in the State, increas-
ing the uniform charge for the registration
OIL deeds. fHpmlaffnu C0efa and charges
and fees of officers.
SEC OF. The Legislature shall not author
lZe payment to any person of the salary of a
death.
SIC. %. The Legislature shall not retire
any officer on pay, or part pay, or make any
grant to such retiring officer.
SEC. 81. The Legislature shall never create
by law any distinction between the rights of
men and women tolaequire, own enjoy and
dispose OF property of all kinds. or their
power to contract in reference thereto. Mar
ried women are hereby fully emaneipated
from all disability on account OF coverture.
But this shall not prevent the Legislature
from regulating contracts between husband
and wife; nor shall the Legislature be pre-
vented from regulating the sale of home
steads.
SEC. %. Lands belonging to or under the
control OF the State. shall never be donated
directly or indirectly, to private corpora
tons or individuals, or to railroad compa-
MES. Nor shall such land be sold to corpora
tons or associations for a less price than
that for which 1t Is subject to sale to indi-
yiduais. This, however, shall not prevent
the Legislature from granting right of
way, not exceeding 100 feet in width, as
mere easement, e, railroads across State.
land, and the Legislature shall never dispose
of the land covered by said right of way SO
long as such easement exists.
SEC. 90. The Legislature shall never grant
extra compensation, fee or allowance TO any
public officer, agent, servant or contractor,
after service rendered, or contract made,
nor authorize payments or part payment, of
any claim under any contract, not author
lied by law; but appropriations may be
made for expenditures in repelling invasion,
preventing or suppressing instructions.
SEC. %. The Legislature shall have no
power to revive any remedy which may have
become 5'ETed Sg Iapss Ct TINE, or by any
SEC. %. No lottery shall ever be allowed,
or be advertised by newspapers, or other
wise, or its tickets be sold in this State; and
the Legislature shall provide by law for the
enforcement Of this provision; nor shall any
lottery heretofore authorized be permitted
to be drawn or its tickets sold.
SEC. 90. The Legislature shall not elect
any other than its own officers, State Libra
rian and United States Senators; but this
section shall not prohibit the Legislature
from appointing presidential electors.
SEC 100. No obligation or liability of any
person. association, or corporation held or
owned by this State, or Levee Board, or any
county, city, or town thereof, shall ever be
RENTED, released or postponed, or IN any
way diminished by the Legislature, nor
shall such liability or obligation be extin-
guished except by payment thereof into the
proper treasury; nor shall such liability or
obligation be exchanged or transferred ex-
cept upon payment of its face value; but
this shall not be construed to prevent the
Legislature from providing by general law
for the compromise of doubtful claims.
SEC. I0I. The seat of government of the
State shall be at the City Of Jackson, and
shall not be removed or relocated without
the assent of a majority of the electors OF
the State.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SEC. 100 All general elections for State
and county officers shall commence and be
holden every four years, on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, until
altered by law; and the electors, in all cases
eXceDt in cases of treason, felony and breach
during their attendance at elections and in
going TO and returning therefrom.
SEC l03. In all cases not otherwise pro
vided for in this Constitution, the Legisla-
ture may determine the mode of filing all
vacancies. in all Offices, and in cases of
emergency provisional appointments may
be made by the Governor, to continue until
the vacancy is regularly filled; and the Leg
islature shall provide suitable COMPENSATION
for all officers, and shall define their re-
spective powers.
SEC. 104. Statutes of limitation in civil
causes shall not run against the State, or
any subdivision, or municipal corporation
thereof.
SEC. lO5. The Legislature shall provide
for the enumeration of the whole number of
inhabitants, and the qualified electors of
the State, once in every ten years; and the
first enumeration shall be made during the
two months beginning on the first Monday
of June, 1895, and the Legislature shall
provide for the same by law.
SEC 106. There shallbe State Librarian,
TO be chosen by the Legislature, ecu joint
vote of the two houses, to serve for four
la.tf.2 IL hall
be prescribed by law. Any woman, resi-
dent of the State four years, and who has
attained the age of twenty years, shall be
eligible to said office.
and fuel used by the Legislature
and other departments of the govern
ment, shall be furnished, and the printing
and binding of the laws, journals, depart
ment reports, and other printing and bind
ing, and the repairing and furnishing the
halls and rooms used for the meeting of the
Legislature and its committees, shall be per-
lowest responsible bidder, below such maxi
mum and under such regulations as may be
prescribed by law. No member or the Leg
islature or officer OF any department shall be
in any way interested in such contract; and
all such contracts shall be subject TO the APP
proval of the Governor and State treasurer.
SEC. los. Whenever the Legislature shall
take away the duties pertaining to any office,
then the salary of the officer shall cease.
SEC. 100. No public officer or member Of
the Legislature shall be interested directly
or indirectly in any contract with the State,
or any district, county, city or town there
made by any board of which he may be or
may have been member, during the term
for which he shall have been chosen, or
within one year after the expiration OF such
term.
SEC. no. The Legislature may provide, by
general law, for condemning rights of way
for private roads, where necessary for IN
gress and egress by the party applying, on
owner OF the property; but such rights of
way shall not be provided for in Incorporated
cities and towns.
SEC. III. ALI lands comprising a single
tract sold in pursuance of decree of court.
or execution, shall be first offered in sub
divisions not exceeding 100 acres, or one
quarter section, and then offered as an en-
tirety, and the price bid for the latter shall
control only when it shall exceed the aggre-
% e Of the hida Tor the same in suhdi4isinns