ture of the State, and of which institution the Minnesota Historical Socie shall always be a department.

SEC. 2. Persons residing on Indian lands within the State shall enjoy the rights and privileges of citizens, as though they lived in any other tion of the State, and shall be subject to taxation.

SEC. 3. The legislature shall provide for a uniform oath or affirmation be administered at elections, and no person shall be compelled to take other or different form of oath to entitle him to vote.

SEC. 4. There shall be a seal of the State, which shall be kept by secretary of state, and be used by him officially, and shall be called great seal of the State of Minnesota, and shall be attached to all official acts of the governor (his signature to acts and resolves of the le lature excepted) requiring authentication. The legislature shall provide for appropriate device and motto for said seal.

SEC. 5. The territorial prison, as located under existing laws, shall, the adoption of this Constitution, be and remain one of the state prisons the State of Minnesota.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 1. That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change a territorial to a permanent state government, it is declared that all rig actions, prosecutions, judgments, claims and contracts, as well of individ as of bodies corporate, shall continue as if no change had taken place; all process which may be issued under the authority of the Territory Minnesota previous to its admission into the Union of the United St shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State.

SEC. 2. All laws now in force in the Territory of Minnesota not rep nant to this Constitution shall remain in force until they expire by own limitation, or be altered or repealed by the legislature.

SEC. 3. All fines, penalties or forfeitures accruing to the Territory Minnesota shall inure to the State.

SEC. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken bet the change from a territorial to a permanent state government shall rem valid, and shall pass to and may be prosecuted in the name of the Sta and all bonds executed to the governor of the Territory, or to any of officer or court in his or their official capacity, shall pass to the gover or state authority and their successors in office, for the uses therein resp tively expressed, and may be sued for and recovered accordingly; and all estate of property, real, personal or mixed, and all judgments, bonds. cialties, choses in action, and claims and debts, of whatsoever descripti of the Territory of Minnesota, shall inure to and vest in the State of Min sota, and may be sued for and recovered in the same manner and to t same extent by the State of Minnesota as the same could have been by t Territory of Minnesota. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions whi may have arisen, or which may arise before the change from a territorial a state government, and which shall then be pending, shall be prosecuted judgment and execution in the name of the State. All offenses committ against the laws of the Territory of Minnesota, before the change from territorial to a state government, and which shall not be prosecuted befo such change, may be prosecuted in the name and by the authority of t State of Minnesota with like effect as though such change had not tak place, and all penalties incurred shall remain the same as if this Constitutio had not been adopted. All actions at law and suits in equity which may pending in any of the courts of the Territory of Minnesota, at the time a change from a territorial to a state government, may be continued a transferred to any court of the State which shall have jurisdiction of ti subject matter thereof.

SEC. 5. All territorial officers, civil or military, now holding their offic under the authority of the United States, or of the Territory of Minnesot

ll continue to hold and exercise their respective offices until they shall superseded by the authority of the State.

SEC. 6. The first session of the legislature of the State of Minnesota shall mence on the first Wednesday of December next, and shall be held at capitol, in the city of St. Paul.

SEC. 7. The laws regulating the election and qualification of all district, nty and precinct officers shall continue and be in force until the legisre shall otherwise provide by law.

SEC. S. The president of this convention shall, immediately after the ournment thereof, cause this Constitution to be deposited in the office the governor of the Territory; and if, after the submission of the same a vote of the people, as hereinafter provided, it shall appear that it has adopted by a vote of the people of the State, then the governor shall ward a certified copy of the same, together with an abstract of the votes ed for and against the said Constitution, to the president of the United tes, to be by him laid before the Congress of the United States. SEC. 9. For the purposes of the first election, the State shall constitute district, and shall elect three members to the House of Representatives The United States.

SEC. 10. For the purposes of the first election for members of the State ate and House of Representatives, the State shall be divided into senaal and representative districts, as follows, viz: First district, Washingcounty; Second district, Ramsey county; Third district, Dakota county; rth district, so much of Hennepin county as lies west of the Mississippi; h district, Rice county; Sixth district, Goodhue county; Seventh district, It county; Eighth district, Olmsted county; Ninth district, Fillmore county; th district, Houston county; Eleventh district, Winona county; Twelfth trict, Wabasha county; Thirteenth district, Mower and Dodge counties; teenth district, Freeborn and Faribault counties; Fifteenth district, Steele Waseca counties: Sixteenth district, Blue Earth and Le Sueur counties; enteenth district, Nicollet and Brown counties; Eighteenth district, Sibley, wille and McLeod counties; Nineteenth district, Carver and Wright counTwentieth district, Benton, Stearns and Meeker counties; Twenty-first trict, Morrison, Crow Wing and Mille Lacs counties; Twenty-second dist. Cass, Pembina and Todd counties; Twenty-third district, so much of anepin county as lies east of the Mississippi; Twenty-fourth district, Sherne, Anoka and Manomin counties; Twenty-fifth district, Chisago, Pine and nti counties; Twenty-sixth district, Buchanan, Carlton, St. Louis, Lake and sca counties.

SEC. 11. The counties of Brown, Stearns, Todd, Cass, Pembina and Rene, as applied in the preceding section, shall not be deemed to include any ritory west of the State line, but shall be deemed to include all counties 1 parts of counties east of said line as were created out of the territory either, at the last session of the legislature.

SEC. 12. The senators and representatives at the first election shall be portioned among the several senatorial and representative districts as fols. to-wit: 1st district

3 Representatives.

21

34

4th

5th

6th

7th

Sth

9th

10th

11th

2 Senators_

SEC. 13. The returns from the Twenty-second district shall be made and canvassed by the judges of election at the precinct of Otter Tail City. SEC. 14. Until the legislature shall otherwise provide, the State shall divided into judicial districts as follows, viz.

The counties of Washington, Chisago, Manomin, Anoka, Isanti, Pine, chanan, Carlton, St. Louis and Lake shall constitute the First judicial trict.

The county of Ramsey shall constitute the Second judicial district. The counties of Houston, Winona, Fillmore, Olmsted and Wabasha constitute the Third judicial district.

The counties of Hennepin, Carver, Wright, Meeker, Sherburne, Ben Stearns, Morrison, Crow Wing. Mille Lacs, Itasca, Pembina, Todd and shall constitute the Fourth judicial district.

The counties of Dakota, Goodhue, Scott, Rice. Steele, Waseca, Do Mower and Freeborn shall constitute the Fifth judicial district.

The counties of Le Sueur, Sibley, Nicolett, Blue Earth, Faribault. Leon, Renville, Brown, and all other counties in the State not included w in the other districts, shall constitute the Sixth judicial district.

SEC. 15. Each of the foregoing enumerated judicial districts may, the first election, elect one prosecuting attorney for the district.

SEC. 16. Upon the second Tuesday, the thirteenth day of October, 18 an election shall be held for members of the House of Representatives of United States, governor, lieutenant governor, supreme and district judges, me bers of the legislature, and all other officers designated in this Constituti and also for the submission of this Constitution to the people, for their ad tion or rejection.

SEC. 17. Upon the day so designated as aforesaid every free white m inhabitant over the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided with the limits of the State for ten days previous to the day of said election, m vote for all officers to be elected under this Constitution at such electio and also for or against the adoption of this Constitution.

SEC. 18. In voting for or against the adoption of this Constitution, t words, "For Constitution," or "Against Constitution," may be written printed on the ticket of each voter, but no voter shall vote for or against th Constitution, on a separate ballot from that cast by him for officers to i elected at said election under this Constitution; and if upon the canvass the vote so polled it shall appear that there was a greater number of vote polled for than against said Constitution, then this Constitution shall deemed to be adopted as the Constitution of the State of Minnesota, and 1 the provisions and obligations of this Constitution, and of the schedule ther unto attached, shall thereafter be valid to all intents and purposes as th

Constitution of said State.

SEC. 19. At said election the polls shall be opened, the election he returns made, and certificates issued, in all respects as provided by law f

ing, closing and conducting elections and making returns of the same, pt as hereinbefore specified, and excepting also that polls may be opened elections held at any point or points in any of the counties where preis may be established as provided by law, ten days previous to the day lection, not less than ten miles from the place of voting in any estab-d precinct.

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the judges and clerks of election, in addito the returns required by law for each precinct, to forward to the secreof the Territory, by mail, immediately after the close of the election, rtified copy of the poll book containing the name of each person who has 1 in the precinct and the number of votes polled for and against the adopof this Constitution.

SFC. 21. The returns of said election for and against this Constitution, for all state officers and members of the House of Representatives of the ed States, shall be made, and certificates issued in the manner now preed by law for returning votes given for delegates to Congress; and the rns for all district officers, judicial, legislative or otherwise, shall be made e register. of deeds of the senior county in each district, in the manner ribed by law, except as otherwise provided. The returns for all officers ed at large shall be canvassed by the governor of the Territory, assisted oseph R. Brown and Thomas J. Galbraith, at the time designated by law anvassing the vote for delegates to Congress.

SEC. 22. If, upon canvassing the votes for and against the adoption of Constitution, it shall appear that there has been polled a greater numof votes against than for it, then no certificate of election shall be issued any State or district officer provided for in this Constitution, and no e organization shall have validity within the limits of the Territory, otherwise provided for and until a Constitution for a State government have been adopted by the people.

CONSTITUTION OF MISSISSIPPI-1890.*

We, the people of Mississippi, in Convention assembled, grateful to mighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work, do ordain and establi this Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.

SECTION 1. The powers of the government of the State of Mississippi be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to separate magistracy, to-wit: those which are legislative to one; those wh are judicial to another; and those which are executive to another.

SEC. 2. No person or collection of persons, being one, or belonging to i of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to eit of the others. The acceptance of an office in either of said departments sh of itself, and at once, vacate any and all offices held by the person so acc ing in either of the other departments.

ARTICLE II.

BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE,

SEC. 3. The limits and boundaries of the State of Mississippi are as lows, to-wit: Beginning on the Mississippi river (meaning thereby the ter of said river or thread of the stream) where the southern boundary of the State of Tennessee strikes the same, as run by B. A. Ludlow, D. Connelly and W. Petrie, commissioners appointed for that purpose on the of the State of Mississippi in A. D. 1837, and J. D. Graham and Austin Mi commissioners appointed for that purpose on the part of Tennessee; thence along the said boundary line of the State of Tennessee to a point ou west bank of the Tennessee river, six four-pole chains south of and abovej mouth of Yellow Creek; thence up the said river to the mouth of B Creek; thence by a direct line to what was formerly the northwest col of the county of Washington, Alabama; thence on a direct line to a p ten miles east of the Pascagoula river on the Gulf of Mexico; thence w wardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the eastern junction of Pearl river with Lake Borgne; thence up said Pearl to the thirty-first degree of north latitude; thence west along the said deg of latitude to the middle or thread of the stream of the Mississippi ri thence up the middle of the Mississippi river, or thread of the stream, to place of beginning, including all islands lying east of the thread of the stre of said river, and also including any lands which were at any time heretof a part of this State.

SEC. 4. The legislature shall have power to consent to the acquisition additional territory by the State and to make the same a part thereof; # the legislature may settle disputed boundaries between this State and its cot minous States whenever such disputes arise.

ARTICLE III.

BILL OF RIGHTS.

SEC. 5. All political power is vested in, and derived from, the people: government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will on and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.

SEC. 6. The people of this State have the inherent, sole and exclus right to regulate the internal government and police thereof, and to alter a

*The constitution of Mississippi was drafted by a convention which assembled Jackson on Aug. 12, 1890, and adjourned on Nov. 1, 1890. The constitution was submitted to the people for ratification but was promulgated and proclaimed in for on Nov. 1, 1890, and in Sproule v. Frederick, 69 Miss. 898, it was held that the ra fication of the constitution by the people was not necessary to its validity.