CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OREGON. Section 18. Private property taken for pub lic use. 19. Imprisonment for debt. 20. Exclusive privileges shall not be granted to any class of cit. izens. 21. What laws shall not be passed. 22. How laws may be suspended. 23. Habeas corpus. 24. Treason against the State, evi. dence of. 25. No conviction shall work cor ruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. 26. The people shall have the right to assemble together in peaceable manner for the com a Articles pruvement. ARTICLE I. Bill of Rights. Section 1. All men are of equal rights. 2. Religious worship. 3. Religious opinion. 4. Religious test. 6. State money shall not be given to any religious sect or denomi. nation. 6. Witnesses. 7. Oath or affirmation. 8. Freedom of speech. 9. Searches, seizures and warrants. 10. Courts not to be secret. 11. Rights of defendant, 13. Not to be tried twice for same crime. 13. Treatment of persons under ar rest. 14. Ball. 16. Punishment of crime. 10. Excessive ball and fines.-Pow er of jury in criminal cases. 17 Civil cases.-Right of trial by Jury shall be inviolate. mon good. 27. The right to bear arms. 28. Quartering soldiers. 29. Titles of nobility. 30. Emigration. 31. Rights of white foreigners. What emigration may be re strained. 32. Taxes and duties. 33. Enumeration of rights, how con strued. 34. Prohibition of slavery. 85. Free negroes and mulattoes. ARTICLE II. Suffrage and Elections. 1. Elections free. 2. Qualifications of voters. 3. Idiotic, insane or convict per sons not voters. 4. Residence. 5. Soldiers, seamen or marines may not vote. 8. Negroes, Chinamen or mulattoen may not vote. from holding office. Section 9. Duels, disqualify from holding any office of trust or profit. 10. Lucrative offices. 11. Collector, when ineligible to of fice. 12. Appointment pro tempore. 13. When electors are free from arrest, 14. General elections to be held bi ennially. 15. Votes to be given viva voce. 16. Plurality shall elect. 17. Electors. ARTICLE III. Distribution of Powers, 1. Powers of government. ARTICLE IV. Legislative Department. 1. Legislative authority.-Style of a bill. 2. The Senate shall consist of six teen and the House of thirty four members. 8. By whom chosen. 4. Terms of senators and repre sentatives, Senators, how classified. 8. Census to be taken every ten years. 6. Apportionment. 7. Senatorial districts. 8. Qualifications of senators, etc. 9. Senators, when they are to be free from arrest.-Words ut tered in debate. 10. Sessions of the Legislative As sembly. 11. Election of officers.-Judge of 1 Section final passage. not be passed. 24. Suit against the State. 25. Majority necessary to pass A bill.Bill to be signed bri speaker. to office. qualifications of members, etc. Yeas and nays. 14. Open doors.-When sessions may be secret. 16. Punishment and expulsion of members. 16. Punishment of a person not a member. 17. General powers. 18. Bills may originate in either house. ARTICLE V. Executive Department. 1. Executive power vested in than Governor.-Term of office. 2. Qualifications of Governors. 3. Who not eligible. 4. Election of Governor. 5. In case of a tie how decided. 6. Contested elections. 7. Term of office. 8. In case of vacancy or disability. 9. Governor commander-in-chief of military and naval forces of the State. 10. To take care that the laws ar. executed. 11. He shall, from time to time, give the Assembly information. 12. He may convene the Legislature. 13. To transact all necessary bun ness with officers. 14. May grant reprieves and par đong. 15. Veto power.-Reconsideration. Vote to be by yeas and nagı. 16. Governor to fill vacancies by appointment. 17. He shall issue writs of election. 18. Commissions. ARTICLE VI. Administrative Department. 1. Election of Secretary and Treus urer of State. ARTICLE IX. Finance. Section 1. Assessment and taxation. 2. Current expenses. 3. Law levying taxes. 4. Money to be drawn from treas ury only by appropriation. 5. Publication of receipts and ex penses. 6. Tax for deficiency. 7. Appropriations. 8. Stationery, how furnished. ARTICLE X. Militia. 1. Militia. 2. Who are exempt. 3. Governor to appoint Adjutant General and other chief ot ficers. 4. Staff officers.-Governor to com mission. 5. Legislature to make regulations for militia. ARTICLE XI. Corporations and Internal Improve Section officers. ARTICLE VII. Judicial Department. 1. Judicial power of the State, in whom vested. Municipal Court. 2. Supreme Court, Justices of. 3. Term of office. 4. Vacancy. 5. Who to be Chief Justice. 6. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court. 7. Terms of Supreme Court. 8. Circuit Courts. 9. Jurisdiction of Circuit Courts. 10. When the Supreme and Circuit Judges may be elected in dis tinct classes.-Duties of. 11. County Court. 12. Jurisdiction.—Commissioners of County Courts. 13. Writs granted by County Judges. -Habeas corpus. 14. Expenses of court in certain counties. 15. Election of County Clerk, etc. Legislature may divide the duties of County Clerk. 16. Sheriff. 17. Prosecuting attorneys. 18. Jurors. 19. Official delinquencies. 20. Removal of judges. 21. Oath of office, ments. 1. Prohibition of banks. 2. Corporations to be formed under general laws.-Municipal cor porations. 3. Liability of stockholders. 4. Compensation for property taken by corporations. 5. Restrictions upon municipal cor porations. 6. State not to be a stockholder in a corporation. 7. Credit of the State not to be loaned. The power of con tracting debts. 8. State not to assume county debts, unless. 9. Municipal corporations. 10. Limitations upon powers to con tract debts by counties. ARTICLE VIII. Education and School Lands. 1. Superintendent of Public In struction. 2. Common school fund. 3. System of common schools. 4. Distribution of school funds. 3. Board of commissioners for sale of school lands. ARTICLE XII. State Printer. 1. State printer.-The rates to be paid him to be fixed by law. ARTICLE XIII. Salaries. Section 1. Salaries of State officers.-They shall receive no fees. ARTICLE XVII. Amendments. Section 1. Amendments to Constitution. 2. Two or more amendments. ARTICLE XIV." Seat of Government. moved.—Taxation of public in- ARTICLE XV. Miscellaneous 1. Officers to hold office till Suc cessors are elected. 2. Tenure of office. 3. Oath of office. 4. Lotteries are prohibited. 6. Property of married women. 6. New counties. 7. Officers to receive fee in certain cases. tate or work mining claims, ARTICLE XVIII. Schedule. 1. Election for acceptance or rejec tion of the Constitution. 2. Questions.-Returns of election. 3. When Constitution to be accept ed or rejected. 4. If majority of votes cast for slavery, then this section to be added to bill of rights.-If majority of votes given against slavery. 5. Apportionment of Senators and Representatives. 6. Election, under the Constitution and organization of the State. 7. Former laws. 8. Officers to continue in office until. liabilities. ARTICLE XVI. Boundarics. 1. Boundaries of State. PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of Oregon, to the end that justice be established, order maintained, and liberty perpetuated, do ordain this Constitution. ARTICLE I. Bill of Rights. 1. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights; that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper. 2. All men shall be secured in their natural right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. |