Done in open convention at the city of Helena, in the Territory of Montana, this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eightynine. WILLIAM A. CLARK, President. E. D. AIKEN. WALTER M. BICKFORD. J. F. BRAZLETON. PETER BREEN. SIMON R. BUFORD. WILLIAM MASON BULLARD. WALTER A. BURLEIGH. ALEX F. BÚRNS. ANDREW J. BURNS. EDWARD BURNS. JAMES E. CALLAWAY. B. PLATT CARPENTER. WILLIAM A. CHESSMAN. TIMOTHY E. COLLINS. CHARLES E. CONRAD. WALTER COOPER. THOMAS F. COURTNEY. ARTHUR J. CRAVEN. W. W. DIXON. D. M. DURFEE. WILLIAM DYER. GEORGE O. EATON. WILLIAM T. FIELD. J. E. GAYLORD. PARIS GIBSON. WARREN C. GILLETTE. O. F. GODDARD. FIELDING L. GRAVES. R. E. HAMMOND. CHARLES S. HARTMAN. HENRI J. HASKELL. LUKE D. HATCH. LEWIS H. HERSCHFIELD. RICHARD O. HICKMAN. S. S. HOBSON. JOSEPH HOGAN. THOMAS JOYES. ALLEN R. JOY. LLEWELLYN A. LUCE. J. E. MARION. CHARLES S. MARSHALL. WM. MAYGER. P. W. M'ADOW. C. R. MIDDLETON. SAMUEL MITCHELL. WILLIAM MUTH. ALFRED MYERS. WILLIAM PARBERRY. W. R. RAMSDELL. G. J. REEK. JOHN C. ROBINSON. L. ROTWITT. J. E. RICKARDS. FRANCIS E. SARGEANT. LEOPOLD F. SCHMIDT. GEORGE W. STAPLETON. JOSEPH K. TOOLE. J. R. TOOLE. CHARLES S. WARREN. WILLIAM H. WATSON. CHAS. M. WEBSTER. H. R. WHITEHILL. AARON C. WITTER. DAVID G. BROWN. Section Bill of Rights. have 1. All persons are by nature free and independent, and certain inherent rights. 2. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime. 3. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. 4. Freedom of religious thought and worship. 5. Freedom of speech.- In trials for libel, truth may be given in evidence. 6. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. 7. Unreasonable searches and seizures prohibited. 8. The privilege Section imposed, nor cruel punishment inflicted. 10. No person shall be held for a criminal offense, unless on indictment of the grand jury. 11. In the criminal prosecutions, accused shall have the right to defend in person or by counsel. 12. No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself or be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. 13. All courts shall be open.- Justice shall be administered without delay. 14. Treason against the State de fined. 15. Conviction shall not work cor ruption of blood. 16. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law shall be passed. 17. Military shall be subordinate to the civil power. 18. The quartering of soldiers. 19. The people have the right to assemble peaceably to consult for the common good. 20. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, unless. 21. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. 22. All elections shall be free. 23. The writ of error shall be a writ of right in all cases of felony. 24. The right to be heard in all civil cases in a court of last resort shall not be denied. habeas corpus shall writ of not be 25. Resident suspended. 9. Excessive bail shall not be refines quired, nor excessive have same right in property. 26. The enumeration of these rights shall not be construed to im |