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pair other rights retained by the people.

ARTICLE II.

Distribution of Powers.

1. Legislative, executive and judicial.

ARTICLE III. Legislative.

1. Legislative authority is vested in the Senate and House of Representatives.

2. An enumeration of the inhabitants to be taken every ten years.

3. The House of Representatives shall consist of eighty-four members; the Senate of thirty members.

4. Members of the Legislature.Their term of office and pay. 5. To be eligible to the office of Senator or Representative.

6. No person holding office under the United States, etc., shall be eligible to have a seat in the Legislature.

7. When the session of the Legislature shall commence.- The majority of members of each house shall constitute a quorum.

8. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings.

9. A bill may originate in either house.

10. The enacting clause of the law. 11. Every bill and resolution should

be read at large at three different days in each house. 12. When members shall be privileged from arrest.

13. No person elected to the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State. 14. The Senate and House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. 15. The Legislature shall not pass local or special law in any of the following cases.

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16. It shall not grant extra compensation, nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office. 17. The Legislature shall never alienate the salt springs belonging to the State.

18. State lands shall never be donated to companies, nor private individuals.

19. Appropriations for the expenses of the government shall be made.

20. What is to vacate an office. 21. Lotteries illegal.

22. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except by appropriation.

23. Freedom of speech in debate. 24. When an act shall take effect.

ARTICLE IV.

Legislative Apportionment.

1. Until otherwise provided for by law, the senatorial and representative districts shall be as follows.

ARTICLE V.
Executive Department.

1. To consist of whom.

2. To be eligible to the office of Governor, or Lieutenant-Gov

ernor.

3. Treasurer shall be ineligible for office for two years next after two consecutive terms.

4. What shall be done with the election returns for the offices of the executive.

5. All civil officers liable to inpeachment.

6. Supreme executive power vested in the Governor. 7. Governor's message. 8. He may convene the Legislature. 9. In case of disagreement between the two houses, he may adjourn them.

10. He shall nominate all officers, etc.

11. In case of vacancy, how filled.

1. A board of commissioners shall be constituted for selling and! leasing lands for educational purposes.

2. All land and money bequeathed for educational purposes shall be used in accordance with the terms of such bequest. 3. Enumeration of perpetual fund for common school purposes. 4. All other grants, gifts, etc., hereafter made to this State and not otherwise provided for, shall be used for maintenance of the common schools. 5. All fines, penalties and license money shall be paid over to the counties for the use of common schools.

6. The Legislature shall provide for free instruction in common schools.

7. The income of the school fund shall be equitably distributed among the several school districts of the State.

8. Lands for educational purposes shall not be sold for less than seven dollars an acre.

9. All funds belonging to the State for educational purposes shall be deemed trust funds.

10. The general government of the University of Nebraska, how vested.

2. What property is to be exempt from taxation.

3. The right of redemption from all sales of real estate for the nonpayment of taxes shall exist in the favor of owners. 4. The Legislature shall have no power to release any of the subdivisions of the State, nor the inhabitants from their proportionate share of taxes. 5. The limit of tax to be assessed by Congress.

6. Cities, towns, etc., shall have the power to make local improvements by special assessments. 7. Private property not taken and held for payment of the corporate debt of municipal corporations.

8. The Legislature at its first sessions shall provide by law for the funding of all outstanding indebtedness, at a rate of interest not to exceed eight per cent per annum.

9. The order to examine and adjust all ciaims upon the treasury.

ARTICLE X. Counties.

1. New counties shall not be formed with an area of less than four hundred square miles.

2. No county shall be divided without first submitting it to the people.

3. There shall be no territory stricken from an organized county unless a majority of the voters therein petition for such division.

3. Railroads, railroad companies and telegraph may not consolidate with a parallel or competing line.

4. Railroads are considered public highways, and the Legislature may establish reasonable rates.

5. No railroad corporations shall issue stock or bonds except for money, etc.

6. The right of eminent domain shall never be abridged.

7. Laws shall be passed to correct abuses and prevent unjust discriminations in charges of express, telegraph and railroad companies.

8. No railroad corporation, organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States, doing business in this State, shall be entitled to exercise the right of eminent domain.

ARTICLE XII.

Municipal Corporations.

1. No subdivision of the State shall be subscriber to the capital stock in any railroad or private corporation.

ARTICLE XIII.

Miscellaneous Corporations.

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1. No corporation shall be created by special law, etc.

2. The street railways in cities and towns before building must get the consent of a majority of the electors.

3. All corporations may sue and be sued.

4. In cases of claims against corporations, etc., the exact amount justly due shall first be ascertained.

5. The Legislature shall provide by law for the election of directors, etc.

6. All existing charters or grants of special or exclusive privileges under which organizations shall not have taken place within sixty days from the time this Constitution takes effect, shall have no validity.

7. Every stockholder in a banking corporation shal be responsible and liable to its creditors, etc.

ARTICLE XIV.

State, County and Municipal Indebtedness.

1. The State may, to meet casual deficits in the revenues, contract debts not to exceed $100,000.

2. No subdivision of

the State shall make donations to any railroad, etc., for works of internal improvement.

3. The credit of the State shall never be given or loaned.

ARTICLE XV.

Militia.

1. The Legislature shall determine what persons shall constitute the militia of the State.

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ARTICLE XVI. Miscellaneous Provisions.

1. Executive and judicial officers and members of the Legislature to take the following oath. 2. Any person who is in default as a collector and custodian of public money shall not be eligible to any office of trust. 3. Drunkenness shall be cause of impeachment and removal from office.

ARTICLE XVII.

Amendments.

1. Amendments may be proposed in each branch of the Legislature.

2. A convention to revise and amend the same may be called. ARTICLE XVIII.

Schedule.

1. All laws in force at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, etc., shall continue to be valid.

2. Taxes, penalties, etc., existing before the Constitution, shall continue.

3. Bonds, obligations, etc., entered into upon the adoption of this Constitution shall remain

valid.

4. All courts not in this Constitution specifically enumerated, shall continue in existence.

5. All persons filling office shall continue.

6. The district attorneys shall continue.

7. The Constitution shall be submitted to the people of the State. 8. Election returns to be conducted according to the laws regulating general elections.

9. The duties of the Secretary of State twenty days before each election.

10. Form of ballots for said election. 11. Returns

to be made within fourteen days after the election.

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12. In regard to the acceptance or rejection of the Constitution. 13. The time for holding a general election.

14. Terms of all State and county officers, or judges of the Supreme District Courts, etc., when to begin.

15. The Supreme, District and County Courts shall be the successors respectively of the Supreme, District and Probate Courts, having jurisdiction under the existing Constitution.

16. The Supreme, District and Probate Courts now in existence shall continue.

17. All cases, etc., pending and undetermined in the several courts, and all records, etc., are transferred.

18. Existing Constitutions shall cease, when.

19. The provisions of this Constitution required to be executed prior to the adoption or rejection thereof shall take effect and be in force immediately.

20. The Legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Constitution.

21. Oath of affirmation to be retaken in the support of this Constitution.

22. In regard to the Regents of the University.