The herald., 1896-09-27

! both Of the supreme and inferior courts,
shall hold their offices during good be-
havior, and shall at stated times receive
for their services a compensation which
shall not be diminished during their con-
tinuance in Office.
Section II. 2.-The judicial power shall
extend to all cases in law and equity
| arising under this constitution, the laws
OF the United States, and treaties made, or
which shall be made, under their author
fty; to all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers, and consuls; to
all cases of admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction; to controversies to which
the United States shall be party; to
controversies between two or more
states, between state and citizens of
another state, between citizens of diff
ferent states, between citizens of the
same state claiming lands under grants
| of different states, and between state,
or the citizens thereof, and foreign
states, citizens or subjects.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public minister's and consuls, and
those in which state shall be party,
| the supreme court shall have original
! jurisdiction. In all the other cases be-
fore mentioned the supreme court shall
! nave appellate Jurisdiction both as to
law and fact, with such exceptions and
under such regulations as the congress
! shall make.
, cases of impeachment, shall be by jury,
and such trial shall be held in the state
where the said crimes shall have been
committed; but when not committed
within any state the trial shall be at
such place or places as the congress NAV
by law have directed.
Section III. Treason against the
| United States shall consist only in levy
ing war against them, or in adhering to
, their enemies, giving them aid and COM
| fort. No person shall be convicted of
| treason unless on the testimony. of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on
confession in open court.
q. The congress shall have power to
4, declare the punishment of treason, but
| no attainder Of treason shall work cor
| ruption of blood of forfeiture except dur
ing the life of the person attained.
ARTICLE ".
Section Full faith and credit shall
! De given each state to the public acts.
records and judicial proceedings of
every other state And the congress
may by general laws prescribe the man
ner in which such acts, records, and pro-
ceedings shall be proved, and the effect
| thereof
Section II. 1.-The citizens of each
state shall be entitled to all the privil-
eyes and immunities Of citizens in the
| several states.
| 2. A person charged in any state with
treason. felony. or other crime, who
snail flee from justice. and be found in
another state, shall. on demand of the
executive authority Of the state from
which he fled, be delivered up, to be re-
moved to the state having jurisdiction
| of the crime.
8. No person held to service or labor
In one state, under the laws thereof, es-
Gaping into another shall, in conse-
| quence of any law or regulation therein.
be discharged from such service or labor,
but shall be delivered up on claim of the
party to whom such service or labor
may be due.
Section III. New states may be
admitted by the congress into this
Union; but no new state shall be formed
or erected within the Jurisdiction of any
other state. nor any state be formed by
by the junction of two or more states,
or parts of states. without the
consent of the legislatures Of the
states concerned, as well as of the
| congress.
| 2. The congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules
and regulations respecting the territory
or other property belonging to the
United States; and nothing in this con-
stition shall be so construed as to pre-
judice any claims of the United States
| or of any particular state.
Section IV.-The United States shall
guarantee to every state in this Union a
republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against inva-
sion, and, on application of the legisla-
ture, or of the executive (when the leg
islature cannot be convened), against
domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
The congress, whenever two-thirds of
both houses shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this constitution,
or, on the application Of the legislatures
| Of two-thirds Of the several states, shall
call convention for proposing amend
ments, which, in either case, shall be
valid to all intents and purposes, as part
of this constitution, when ratified by the
legislatures of three-fourth of the sew
eral states or by conventions in three
fourths thereof, as the one or the other
mode of ratification may be proposed by
the congress; provided that no amend
| ment which may be made prior to the
year one thousand eight hundred and
eight shall in any manner affect the first
and fourth clauses in the ninth section
of the first article; and that no state,
| without it's consent, shall be deprived of
it's equal suffrage in the senate.
ARTICLE VI.
l. All debts contracted and engage
ments entered into before the adoption