at purpose. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall te in favor thereof, it shall thereby become a part of the Constitution. The tes for and against such amendment or amendments, severally, whether prosed by the Legislative Assembly or by initiative petition, shall be canvassed the Secretary of State in the presence of the Governor, and if it shall pear to the Governor that the majority of the votes cast at said election said amendment or amendments, severally, are cast in favor thereof, it all be his duty forthwith after such canvass, by his proclamation, to declare ℗ said amendment or amendments, severally, having received said majority votes, to have been adopted by the people of Oregon as part of the Constition thereof, and the same shall be in effect as a part of the Constitution om the date of such proclamation. When two or more amendments shall submitted in the manner aforesaid to the voters of this State, at the me election, they shall be so submitted that each amendment shall be voted separately. No convention shall be called to amend or propose amendments this Constitution, or to propose a new Constitution, unless the law providing · such convention shall first be approved by the people on a referendum te at a regular general election. This article shall not be construed to pair the rights of the people to amend this Constitution by vote upon an tiative petition therefor.33

ARTICLE XVIII.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 1. For the purpose of taking the vote of the electors of the State the acceptance or rejection of this Constitution, an election shall be held the second Monday of November, in the year 1857, to be conducted according existing laws regulating the election of Delegate in Congress, so far as plicable, except as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 2. Each elector who offers to vote upon this Constitution shall be ced by the judges of election this question:

Do you vote for the Constitution-yes or no?

And also this question:

Do you vote for slavery in Oregon yes or no?

And also this question :

Do you vote for free negroes in Oregon-yes or no?

And in the poll books shall be columns headed respectively, “Constitu u. yes"; "Constitution," no"; "free negroes, yes"; "free negroes, no"; "slavery, "; "slavery, no."

And the names of the electors shall be entered in the poll books, together th their answers to said questions, under their appropriate beads. The stracts of the votes transmitted to the Secretary of the Territory shall be blicly opened and canvassed by the Governor and Secretary, or by either. them in the absence of the other; and the Governor, or, in his absence, Secretary, shall forthwith issue his proclamation, and publish the same in several newspapers printed in this State, declaring the result of the said. tion upon each of said questions.

SEC. 3. If a majority of all the votes given for and against the Constitue n shall be given for the Constitution, then this, Constitution shall be deemed be approved and accepted by the electors of the State, and shall take effect cordingly; and if a majority of such votes shall be given against the Contution, then this Constitution shall be deemed to be rejected by the electors the State, and shall be void.

SEC. 4. If this Constitution shall be accepted by the electors, and a ma rity of all the votes given for and against slavery shall be given for slavery, en the following section shall be added to the bill of rights and shall be rt of this Constitution:

"Section. Persons lawfully held as slaves in any State, Territory or

Amendment proposed by initiative petition filed February 3, 1906, ratified June 1906, and declared in effect on June 25, 1906. This amendment takes the place of iginal sections 1 and 2.

district of the United States, under the laws thereof, may be brought int this State; and such slaves and their descendants may be held as slaves within this State, and shall not be emancipated without the consent of their owners.

And if a majority of such votes shall be given against slavery, then the foregoing section shall not, but the following section shall be, added to the bill of rights, and shall be a part of this Constitution:

"Section

There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude is the State, otherwise than as a punishment for crime, whereof the party sh have been duly convicted."

And if a majority of all the votes given for and against free negroes sh! be given against free negroes, then the following section shall be added to the bill of rights and shall be part of this Constitution:

"Section

No free negro or mulatto, not residing in this State at t time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain ang suit therein; and the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for ther effectual exclusion from the State, and for the punishment of persons who sat bring them into the State, or employ or harbor them."

SEC. 5. Until an enumeration of the white inhabitants of the State sir be made, and the Senators and Representatives apportioned as directed in be Constitution, the county of Marion shall have two Senators and four Rept sentatives; Linn, two Senators and four Representatives; Lane, two Senste-s and three Representatives; Clackamas and Wasco, one Senator, jointly, Clackamas three Representatives, and Wasco one Representative: Yand one Senator and two Representatives; Polk, one senator and two Represe tives; Benton, one Senator and two Representatives; Multnomah, one Sent and two Representatives: Washington, Columbia. Clatsop and Tillamook, en Senator jointly; and Washington, one Representative, and Washington and Columbia, one Representative jointly, and Clatsop and Tillamook, one Rep sentative jointly: Douglas, one Senator and two Representatives; Jackson, cũn Senator and three Representatives: Josephine, one Senator and one Represen tive; I'mpqua, Coos and Curry, one Senator jointly, and Umpqua, one Repre sentative, and Coos and Curry, one Representative jointly.

SEC. 6. If this Constitution shall be ratified, an election shall be held the first Monday in June, 1858, for the election of members of the Legiss tive Assembly, a Representative in Congress, and State and county officers and the Legislative Assembly shall convene at the Capital on the first day of July, 1858, and proceed to elect two Senators in Congress, and m such further provision as may be necessary to the complete organization of a State government.

SEC. 7. All laws in force in the Territory of Oregon when this Consti tion takes effect, and consistent therewith, shall continue in force until altend or repealed.

SEC. 8. All officers of the Territory of Oregon, or under its laws, whet this Constitution takes effect, shall continue in office until superseded by the State authorities.

SEC. 9. Crimes and misdemeanors committed against the Territory of Ongon shall be punished by the State as they might have been punished by the Territory if the change of government had not been made.

SEC. 10. All property and rights of the Territory and of the several counties subdivisions and political bodies, corporate of or in the Territory, incinding fines, perratties, forfeitures, debts, and claims of whatsoever nature, and rent nizances, obligations, and undertakings to or for the use of the Territory, or any county, political corporation, office or otherwise, to or for the public, shall fure to the State, or remain to the county, local division, corporation, officer, e public, as if the change of government had not been made; and private rights shall not be affected by such change.

SEC. 11. Until otherwise provided by law, the judicial districts of the St." shall be constituted as follows: The counties of Jackson, Josephine and Dongiss

hall constitute the First District. The counties of Umpqua, Coos and Curry, ane and Benton shall constitute the Second District. The counties of Linn, darion, Polk, Yamhill and Washington shall constitute the Third District. The ounties of Clackamas, Multnomah, Wasco, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook hall constitute the Fourth District; and the county of Tillamook shall be ttached to the county of Clatsop for judicial purposes.

Done in convention at Salem, the eighteenth day of September, in the ear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and of the indeendence of the United States the eighty-second.

CHESTER N. TERRY, Secretary.

M. P. DEADY, President.

CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA.—1873.*

PREAMBLE.

We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.

That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free gu ernment may be recognized and unalterably established, we decide thatSECTION 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and hai certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting prop erty and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.

SEC. 2. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governmeta are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety an happiness. For the advancement of these ends they have at all times inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their gover ment in such manner as they may think proper.

SEC. 3. All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship mighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any ministry, against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience and no pr erence shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or mode of worship.

SEC. 4. No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a fur state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious s ments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under Commonwealth.

SEC. 5. Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or mi tary, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right suffrage.

SEC. 6. Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof main inviolate.

SEC. 7. The printing press shall be free to every person who may undert to examine the proceedings of the Legislature or any branch of government, an: law shall.ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communicates of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and ever citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible f the abuse of that liberty. No conviction shall be had in any prosecution f the publication of papers relating to the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or to any other matter proper for public investigation or infe mation, where the fact that such publication was not maliciously or negligent) made shall be established to the satisfaction of the jury; and in all indiet for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fr under the direction of the court, as in other cases.

SEC. S. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers alt possessions from unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant to sear

The constitution of Pennsylvania was drafted by a convention which assemble! at Harrisburg on Nov. 12, 1872, and adjourned on Nov. 27, to meet in Philadelph Jan. 7, 1873, where the remainder of the sessions were held. The convention com pleted its work on Nov. 3, 1873, and the constitution was submitted to the voters ~ December 16, 1873, and was adopted by a vote of 253,744 to 108.594. The const tion was submitted as a whole and no proposition was submitted separately, and it be came effective on Jan. 1, 1874.

y place or to seize any person or things shall issue without describing them s nearly as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmaon subscribed to by the affiant.

SEC. 9. In all criminal prosecutions the accused hath a right to be heard himself and his counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation gainst him, to meet the witnesses face to face, to have compulsory process for staining witnesses in his favor, and, in prosecutions by indictment or informan. a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the vicinage; he cannot be mpelled to give evidence against himself, nor can he be deprived of his life, erty or property, unless by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land. SEC. 10. No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against iminally by information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger, or leave of the court for oppression or misdemeanor in office. No person shall, r the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall private operty be taken or applied to public use, without authority of law and witht just compensation being first made or secured.

SEC. 11. All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury done him his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy by due course of w, and right and justice... administered without sale, denial or delay... Suits y be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and such cases as the Legislature may by law direct.

SEC. 12. No power of suspending laws shall be exercised unless by the gislature or by its authority.

SEC. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, r cruct punishments inflicted.

SEC. 14. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for pital offenses when the proof is evident or presumption great; and the priv ge of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in case rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

SEC. 15. wed.

No commission of oyer and terminer or: jail delivery shall be

SEC. 16. The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of aud. shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the nefit of his creditors in such manner as shall be prescribed by law., die i SEC. 17. No expost facto law. nor any law impairing the obligation of ntracts, or making irrevocable any grant of special privileges, or immunities, áll be passed.

SEC. 18.

ture.

SEC. 19.

No person shall be attainted of treason or felony by the Legis

No attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during e life of the offender, forfeiture of estate to the Commonwealth. The estate such persons as shall destroy their own lives shall descend or vest as in ses of natural death, and if any person shall be killed by casualty there shall no forfeiture by reason thereof.

SEC. 20. The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble gether for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes, by petition, Adress or remonstrance.

SEC. 21. The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves ad the State shall not be questioned.

SEC. 22. No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept up without the onsent of the Legislature, and the military shall in all cases and at all times * in strict subordination to the civil power.

SEC. 23. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house ithout the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be rescribed by law.

SEC. 24. The Legislature shall not grant any title of nobility or hereditary istinction, nor create any office the appointment to which shall be for a longer >rm than during good behavior.

SEC. 25.

Emigration from the State shall not be prohibited.