Apportionment, when cities and towns may have a separate representa-

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Arbitration, General Assembly shall pass laws to decide differences by,
Army, standing, none to be kept in time of peace without the consent
of the Legislature,

Assembly, when to convene, and where to hold sessions,

a majority of each house to constitute a quorum,

a smaller number may adjourn, and compel the attendance
of absent members,

each house to judge of qualifications, elections and returns
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contested elections determined by law,

each house to determine rules of its proceedings,

may punish a member for disorderly conduct,

two thirds may expel a member, but not a second time for the

same cause,

each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and pub-
lish the same weekly,

General, any two members of may require the yeas and nays,
neither house of shall adjourn for more than three days, nor
to any other place, without the consent of the other house,
members to receive three dollars per day during their attend-
ance on, and 121⁄2 cents per mile for the necessary travel
in going to and returning from the sessions of their respec-
tive houses,

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may be increased or diminished, but no alteration shall take
effect the session it is made,
General, session of, not to continue longer than sixty days,
except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected
to each house,

General, members of, privileged from arrest, except for trea-
son, felony, breach or surety of the peace,

not to be questioned elsewhere for any speech or debate in the
house,

shall not be appointed to offices created, or whose emolu-
ments have been increased during the terms for which they
were elected, nor for one year thereafter,

no collector of public moneys eligible, unless he shall have
obtained a quietus for amounts collected six months pre-
vious,

General, shall direct the mode of conducting and making re-
turns of all elections of the Judges and Clerk or Clerks of
the Court of Appeals, and of determining contested elec-
tions of any of these officers,
General, shall provide for an additional Judge or Judges, to
constitute a Special Court, when a majority of the regular
Judges are disqualified to sit,

General, may establish an additional judicial district every
four years; said districts not to exceed sixteen, until the
population of the State shall exceed one million five hun-
dred thousand, .

Assembly, General, shall divide each county of this Commonwealth into
election precincts, or delegate power so to do, to county
authorities designated by law,

shall regulate by law, by whom and in what manner writs of
election shall be issued to fill vacancies which may occur
in either branch thereof,

shall have no power to grant divorces, change the names of
individuals, or direct the sales of estates belonging to in-
fants; but shall confer such powers on Courts of Justice,
General, shall not pass laws to diminish the resources of the
Sinking Fund, until the debt of the State shall be paid,
may contract debts not exceeding five hundred thousand dol-
lars, to meet casual deficits or failures in the revenue, and
may contract debts to repel invasions, &c.,
General, under what circumstances may contract debts on be-
half of the Commonwealth,

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may pass laws authorizing writs of error, in criminal or penal

General, shall not change venue in any criminal or penal
prosecutions,

shall have no power to appropriate any sum of money ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, except by a vote of all the
members of both houses,

General, shall divide the State into twelve judicial districts,
shall direct elections for Judges in each district,

to provide for vacancies in office,

shall prescribe the manner of electing or appointing officers
for new counties,

may provide for election or appointment of other county, dis-
trict, ministerial and executive officers,

General, who ineligible to,

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shall pass laws making it felony for any free negro or mulatto
to immigrate to this State hereafter,

Assessor, County, to be elected-time of election and-term of office-may

appoint assistants,

subject to indictment and removal,

Attainder, bill of, prohibited,

shall not work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during
the life of the person attainted,

Attorney, General, elected for a term of four years,

Commonwealth's, for each judicial district to be elected,
term of office same as that of Circuit Judges,

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term of office same as that of Presiding Judge of County Court,
subject to indictment and removal,

who may be a Commonwealth's or county,

Auditor, of Public Accounts, elected for four years, duties prescribed by

prisoners to be admitted to, unless for capital offences, when proof
is evident or presumption great,

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Bill, each to be read on three several days before passage, in each house,
unless four-fifths dispense with this rule,

for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives,
Senate may propose amendments to

no new matter to be introduced by the Senate by way of amendment,
before it become a law shall be passed by both houses and approv-
ed by the Governor, or if disapproved shall be passed by a majority
of all the members elected of both houses,

if not returned by Governor in ten days, unless an adjournment in-
tervene, shall be a law, and if an adjournment intervene it shall
be a law unless returned within three days after meeting of next
General Assembly,

Bribing or treating, disqualification for certain offices, .

C.

Chancellor of Louisville Chancery Court, how and by whom elected,

qualifications of,

Claims, of individuals and bodies corporate not affected by constitution,

Clergymen, priest, or teacher of any religious persuasion, ineligible to

General Assembly,

Clerk, of Court of Appeals, to be elected,

term of office eight years, (after 1858,)

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should the General Assembly district Court of Appeals a clerk
shall be elected for such district by qualified voters of same,
term of office, qualifications, and subject to removal same as the
Clerk of the Court of Appeals,

of Court of Appeals to be elected by remaining districts, in case
the General Assembly directs Court of Appeals to hold sessions
in more than one district,

term of office to be six years should number of Judges be reduced,
of Court of Appeals to be elected by special election in case of
vacancy, to serve until the end of the term,
Judges of Court of Appeals shall have power to appoint a protem., 4
of Court of Appeals not to be elected by special election, unless
the unexpired term exceed one year,

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of Court of Appeals, Circuit and County Courts, subject to be
removed by the Court of Appeals,

Commonwealth, credit of, to whom shall never be loaned or given,
Commissioners shall be appointed by the General Assembly to revise
and arrange the statute laws of this Commonwealth,
shall be appointed to prepare a code of practice for the
Courts of this Commonwealth,

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Constable, shall be elected in every Justice's district, jurisdiction of,

to give bond,

subject to indictment and removal,

Constitution, when in force,

mode of revising, (see Convention,) all laws contrary
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Contracts, law impairing not to be made,

Convention, majority of all members elected within first twenty days of
their regular session, may pass a law to take the sense
of the people on the expediency of,

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how and when to be called,

how many members to consist of,

when to meet,

to be authorized only by a majority of all the qualified vo-
ters of the State,

General Assembly shall provide for ascertaining number of
persons in the State entitled to vote for the calling of,

to judge of the election of its members and decide contested
elections,

Coroner for each county to be elected, and term of office fixed,

qualification of,

when and how elected,

subject to indictment and removal,

to give bond and security,

Courts, Circuit in each county established,

jurisdiction of, as now established,

right of appeal from decisions of

holding of shall be provided for by law when the Judge is ab-
sent or incompetent to preside,

County to be established, whom composed of,

County, Judges of elected, term of office four years, compensa-
tion fixed by law,

County, jurisdiction of regulated by law,

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Louisville Chancery, subject to repeal, and its jurisdiction to en-
largement, qualifications of its officers,

City Court of Louisville, of Lexington, and other Police Courts,
to remain with present powers and jurisdictions,
officers of election, term of office and qualification fixed,

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Education, common school fund defined,

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to be held inviolate for the purpose of sustaining a system of
common schools,

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common school fund, interest and dividends of, and certain
other sums, to be appropriated only in aid of common
schools,

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what shall be done with balance of interest of the year 1848
and other sums raised for school purposes,

each county entitled to a proportion of income,
for representatives for the several counties shall be held at the
places of holding their respective courts, and in the election
precincts,

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Elections, for county not to be held in any city or town entitled to sepa-
rate representation,
contested, for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to be de-
termined by the General Assembly,

first under the Constitution, for Governor, Lieutenant Gover-
nor, &c., to be held on first Monday in August, 1851,

for Circuit Judges, when held,

what returns of to be made to the Secretary,

by viva voce, except dumb persons,

between what hours to be held,

certain contested, General Assembly shall regulate trial of,
returns of by proper officers to be regulated by General As-

sembly,

Electors, qualifications of and where shall vote,

when privileged from arrest, except for treason, felony, breach

or surety of the peace,

qualified to vote for judges,

Ex post facto law not to be made,

G.

Government, seat of, shall continue in Frankfort until removed by law,
two-thirds of all the members elected to both houses re-
quired to remove,

Governor, term of office, when and where elected, in ease of a tie, to be
determined by lot, as the General Assembly may direct,
ineligible for four years after the expiration of his term of of-
fice,

military powers and privileges of,

shall have power to grant commissions to fill vacancies,
powers of to grant remissions, reprieves and pardons,
may require information in writing from any officer of the
executive department,

shall give information to the General Assembly and recom-
mend measures,

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when and where may convene the General Assembly, and
when adjourn the two houses thereof,

shall commission Auditor, Register, Treasurer, President of
the Board of Internal Improvement, Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, and other officers,

Lieutenant, when he shall exercise the power and authority of
Governor,

when a special election for shall take place,
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