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by the Governoi, no more State bonds shall thereafter be issued to said company, and the Governor shall proceed in such manner as may be prescribed by law, to sell the bonds of the defaulting company or companies, or the lands held in trust, as above, or may require a foreclosure of the mortgage executed to secure the same: Provided, that if any company so in default, before the day of sale shall pay all interest and principal then due and all expenses incurred by the State, no sale shall take place, and the right of said company shall not be impaired to a further loan of State credit: Provided, if any of said companies shall at any time offer to pay the principal together with the interest that may then be due upon any of the Minnesota State railroad bonds which may have been issued under the provisions of this section, then the Treasurer of the State shall receive the same, and the liabilities of said company or companies in respect to said bonds shall cease upon such payment into the State treasury of principal, together with the interest as aforesaid: Provided, further, that in consideration of the loan of State credit herein provided, that the company or companies which may accept the bonds of the State, in the manner herein specified, shall, as a condition thereof, each complete not less than fifty miles of its road on or before the expiration of the year 1861, and not less than one hundred miles before the year 1864, and complete four-fifths of the entire length of its road before the year 1866; and any failure on the part of any such company to complete the number of miles of its road or roads, in the manner and within the several times herein prescribed, shall forfeit to the State all the right, title and interest of any kind whatsoever in and to any lands, together with the franchises connected with the same not pertaining or applicable to the portion of the road by them constructed and a fee simple to which has not accrued to either of said com. panies by reason of such construction which was granted to the company or companies thus failing to comply with the provisions hereof, by act of the Legislature of the Territory of Minnesota vesting said lands in said companies respectively. (Expunged by amendment to section 10, article 9.) (Adopted April 15, 1858.)

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

Article

1. Distribution of powers. 2. Boundaries of the State.

3. Bill of rights.

4. Legislative department.

5. Executive.

6. Judiciary.

7. Corporations.

8. Education.

9. Militia.

10. The Penitentiary and Prisons.

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Section

8. Those who are citizens of this State.

9. The military shall be subordinate to the civil power.

10. Treason against the State defined.

11. The people have the right to assemble peaceably to consult for the common good.

12. The right to bear arms.

13. Freedom of speech and of the

press.

14. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property except by due process of law.

15. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime.

16. No ex post facto law to be passed.

17. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.

18. No religious test as a qualification for office shall be required.

19. Duelling prohibited.

20. The term of all officers will be for some specified period.

21. The writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.

22. No person shall be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense.

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shall take the following oath.

41. To be eligible for member of the house.

42. To be eligible to be a Senator. 43. No person liable as principal for public moneys unaccounted for shall be eligible to a seat in either house.

44. Bribery, perjury, etc., debar from office.

45. Members of the Legislature not eligible for any other office, etc. 46. The pay of the same.

47. They may not take fees or rewards.

48. In certain cases they are privileged from arrest.

49. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment.

50. Those liable to impeachment. 51. Judgment in such cases not to extend further than removal from office.

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66. In regard to granting a donation or gratuity.

67. New bills not to be introduced during the last three days of the session.

68. Appropriation and revenue bills shall have precedence. 69. General appropriation bills shall contain, etc.

70. Revenue bills, etc., to become a law must have at least a threefifths vote of the members of each house.

71. Every bill shall have a title. 72. Every bill to be signed by the Governor.

73. The Governor may veto, etc. 74. No bill shall become a law until referred to a committee of each house.

75. No general law shall be enforced within sixty days after its passage.

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