THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN DO ORDAIN THIS CONSTITUTION:

Territory over

which the State

jurisdiction.

ARTICLE I.

BOUNDARIES.

The State of Michigan consists of and has jurisdiction over of Michigan has the territory embraced within the following boundaries, to wit Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary line of the State of Indiana, where a direct line drawn from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Maumee Bay shall intersect the same-said point being the north-west corner of the State of Ohio, as established by act of Congress, entitled, "an act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed," approved June fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; thence with the said boundary line of the State of Ohio till it intersects the boundary line between the United States and Canada in Lake Erie; thence with said boundary line between the United States and Canada through the Detroit river, Lake Huron and Lake Superior to a point where the said line last touches Lake Superior; thence in a direct line through Lake Superior to the mouth of the Montreal river; thence through the middle of the main channel of the said river Montreal to the head waters thereof; thence in a direct line to the centre of the channel between Middle and South Islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the southern shore of Lake Brule; thence along said southern shore, and down the river Brule to the main channel of the Menominie river; thence down the centre of the main channel of the same to the centre of the most usual ship channel of the Green Bay of Lake Michigan; thence through the centre of the most usual ship channel of the said bay to the middle of Lake Michigan; thence through the middle of Lake Michigan to the northern boundary of the

State of Indiana, as that line was established by the act of Congress of the nineteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen; thence due east with the northern boundary line of the said State of Indiana to the north-east corner thereof; and thence south with the eastern boundary line of Indiana to the place of beginning.

SECTION 1. The Seat of Government shall be at Lansing, Seat of Governwhere it is now established.

ARTICLE III.

DIVISION OF THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT.

ment.

SECTION 1. The powers of Government are divided into three How divided. departments: the Legislative, Executive and Judicial.

longing to one de

SEC. 2. No person belonging to one department shall exercise No person be the powers properly belonging to another, except in the cases partment to exexpressly provided in this Constitution.

ercise powers of another.

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LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. The Legislative power is vested in a Senate Legislative de and House of Representatives.

partment.

4 Selden, 483; 3 Mich. R. 330, 343.

SEC. 2. The Senate shall consist of thirty-two members. Senate. Senators shall be elected for two years, and by single districts. Such districts shall be numbered from one to thirty-two, inclusive; each of which shall choose one Senator. No county shall be divided in the formation of Senate districts, except

sentatives.

districts.

such county shall be equitably entitled to two or more Senators. SEC. 3. The House of Representatives shall consist of not House of Repreless than sixty-four, nor more than one hundred members. Representatives shall be chosen for two years, and by single districts. Each representative district shall contain, as nearly Representative as may be, an equal number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe, and shall consist of convenient and contiguous territory. But no township or city shall be divided in the formation of a representative district. When any township or city shall contain a population which entitles it to more than one Representative, then such township or city shall elect by general ticket the number of Representatives to which it is entitled. Each

Enumeration inhabitants.

Senators and

county hereafter organized, with such territory as may be attached thereto, shall be entitled to a separate Representative when it has attained a population equal to a moiety of the ratio of representation. In every county entitled to more than one Representative, the Board of Supervisors shall assemble at such time and place as the Legislature shall prescribe, and divide the same into Representative districts, equal to the number of Representatives to which such county is entitled by law, and shall cause to be filed in the offices of the Secretary of State and clerk of such county, a description of such representative districts, specifying the number of each district, and the population thereof, according to the last preceding enumeration.

of SEC. 4. The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants in the year eighteen hundred and fiftyfour, and every ten years thereafter, and at the first session after each enumeration so made, and also at the first session after each enumeration by the authority of the United States, Apportionment of the Legislature shall rearrange the Senate districts, and apporRepresentatives. tion anew the Representatives among the counties and districts, according to the number of white inhabitants, and civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe. Each apportionment and the division into representative districts, by any Board of Supervisors, shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration.

Senators and
Representatives

SEC. 5. Senators and Representatives shall be citizens of the to be citizens. United States, and qualified electors in the respective counties. What to vacate and districts which they represent. A removal from their respective counties or districts shall be deemed a vacation of their office.

office.

Certain officers ineligible to a

lature.

[SEC. 6.] No person holding any office under the United eat in the Legs States [or this State], or any county office, except notaries public, officers of the militia and officers elected by townships, shall be eligible to or have a seat in either house of the Legislature; and all votes given for any such person shall be void.

Privileges of Senators and Representatives.

SEC. 7. Senators and Representatives shall, in all cases, except treason, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest. They shall not be subject to any civil process. during the session of the Legislature, or for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the termination of each session. They shall not be questioned in any other place for any speech in either house.