Section

27. Superseded.

28. Treasurer's accounts to be audited.

29. Oaths of allegiance and office.Every officer to take and subscribe them.

30. Eligibility of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.

31. Trials of proper issues to be by jury.

32. Form of prosecutions and indictments.-Fines.

33. Imprisonment for debt restricted.-Prisoners bailable.-No excessive bail.

34. Elections to be free and volun-
tary; punishment for corrup-
tion.

35. Deeds to be recorded.
36. Entails to be regulated.
37. Punishment for crimes not capi.
tal to be hard labor.

38. Suicide's estate not to be for-
feited.-No deodand.

39. Citizenship, how obtained.
40. Liberty to hunt, fowl and fish.
41. Laws to encourage virtue and
prevent vice to be kept in
force. Schools to be main-
tained and religious societies
encouraged.

42. Declaration of rights not to be violated.

43. Abrogated.

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT.

Article

1. Foreigners to be naturalized before becoming freemen.

2. House of Representatives.

3. General assembly; like powers of Senate and House in legislation. Revenue bills. Adjournment.

4. Superseded.

5. Election of Senators; duties of several officers therein.-Legislature may regulate the election.

6. Powers of the Senate.-Lieuten

Article

7. Senate to try impeachments.Extent of judgment.

8. Governor supreme executive, his powers.-May appoint secretary of civil and military affairs.

9. General assembly to canvass votes for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Treasurer; and to elect these officers if the freemen do not.

10. General assembly to elect Secretary of State and certain other officers.

11. Bills to be sent to the Governor; to be signed by him if ap proved.-Veto and proceedings thereon.-Bills not returned.

12. Writs of habeas corpus not to be suspended.

13. Effects of certain amendments
to the Constitution.

14. Freemen to elect assistant
judges of the County Court.
15. Freemen to elect sheriffs and
high bailiffs.

16. Freemen to elect State's attor
neys.

17. Freemen to elect judges of probate.

18. Freemen to elect justices of the peace.-Number of justices in each town.

19. Officers named in five preceding
sections to be elected by bal-
lot.

20. Election of assistant judges of
the
County Court, sheriffs,
high bailiffs, State's attorneys,
judges of probate, and justices
of the peace; the Governor to
commission them.

21. Legislature to provide for va-
cancy in offices of Governor,
and Lieutenant-Governor. -
Governor may appoint a treas-
urer to fill a vacancy.

22. Securities to be given by treasurer, sheriffs and high balliffs.

ant-Governor to be present 23. Senators; their number, qualifi

and have casting vote.

cations and apportionment.

A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont.

That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Therefore, no male person born in this country, or brought from over the sea, ought to be holden by law, to serve any person as a servant, slave or apprentice, after he arrived to the age of twenty-one years, nor female in like manner, after she arrives to the age of eighteen years, unless they are bound by their own consent, after they arrive to such age, or bound by law for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, or the like.

ARTICLE II.

That private property ought to be subservient to public uses when necessity requires it; nevertheless, whenever any person's property is taken for the use of the public, the owner ought to receive an equivalent in money.

ARTICLE III.

That all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings, as in their opinion shall be regulated by the word of God; and that no man ought to, or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister contrary to the dictates of his conscience, nor can any man be justly deprived or

abridged of any civil right as a citizen on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no authority can or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship. Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of Christians ought to observe the Sabbath or Lord's day, and keep up some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God.

ARTICLE IV.

Every person within this State ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character; he ought to obtain right and justice, freely and without being obliged to purchase it, completely and without any denial, promptly and without delay, conformably to the laws.

ARTICLE V.

That the people of this State, by their legal representatives, have the sole, inherent and exclusive right of governing and regu lating the internal police of the same.

ARTICLE VI.

That all power, being originally inherent in and consequently derived from the people, therefore, all officers of government, whether legislative or executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times, in a legal way, accountable to them.

ARTICLE VII.

That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are a part only of that community; and that the community hath an indubitable, unalienable and indefeasible right to reform or alter government in such manner as shall be, by that community, judged most conducive to the public weal.

ARTICLE VIII.

That all elections ought to be free and without corruption, and that all freemen, having a sufficient, evident, common interest