General Assembly may, when necessary, provide for the electi or appointment of county solicitors. 26. There shall be elected by the qualified electors of ea precinct of the counties, not exceeding two justices of peace and one constable. Such justices shall have jurisdict in all civil cases wherein the amount in controversy does exceed one hundred dollars, except in cases of libel, slan assault and battery, and ejectment. In all cases tried before such justices, the right of app without repayment of costs, shall be secured by law: Prov That the Governor may appoint one notary public for election precinct in counties, and one for each ward in of over five thousand inhabitanas, who, in addition to powers of notary, shall have and exercise the same jurisdi as justices of the peace within the precincts and ward which, they are respectively appointed: And provided, notaries public without such jurisdiction may be appo The term of office of such justices and notaries public sh prescribed by law. 27. An Attorney-General shall be elected by the qu electors of the State at the same time and places of elec members of the General Assembly, whose term of offic be for two years, and until his successor is elected and qu After his election he shall reside at the seat of governme shall be the law officer of the State, and shall perfor duties as may be required of him by law. 28. The style of all process shall be "The State of Al and all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name the authority of the same, and shall conclude "Against t and dignity of the State." ARTICLE VII. Impeachments. 1. The Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Education and the Supreme Court, may be removed from office neglect of duty, corruption in office, habitual dru incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpit in office, or committed under color thereof or conne with, by the Senate, sitting as a court for that purp oath or affirmation, on articles or charges preferred by the House of Representatives. 2. The chancellors, judges of the circuit courts, judges of the probate courts, solicitors of the circuits and judges of the inferior courts, from which an appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme Court, may be removed from office for any of the causes specified in the preceding section, by the Supreme Court, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. 3. The Sheriffs, clerks of the circuits, city or criminal courts, Tax Collectors, Tax Assessors, County Treasurers, Coroners, Justices of the Peace, Notaries Public, Constables, and all other County officers, Mayors and Intendants of incorporated cities and towns in this State, may be removed from office for any of the causes specified in section one of this article, by the circuit, city or criminal court of the county in which such officers hold their office, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law: Provided, That the right of trial by jury and appeal in such cases be secured. 4. The penalties in cases arising under the three preceding sections shall not extend beyond removal from office, and disqualification from holding office under the authority of this State, for the term for which he was elected or appointed; but the accused shall be liable to indictment and punishment as prescribed by law. ARTICLE VIII. Suffrage and Election. 1. Every male citizen of the United States, and every male person of foreign birth who may have legally declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States before he offers to Tote, who is twenty-one years old, or upwards, possessing the following qualifications, shall be an elector and shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people, except as hereinafter provided: First. He shall have resided in this State at least one ar immediately preceding the election at which he offers to ofe. Second. He shall have resided in the county for three onths, and in the precinct or ward for thirty days immediately receding the election at which he offers to vote: Provided, That the General Assembly may prescribe a longer or shorter sidence in any precinct in any county, or in any ward in any Corporated city or town having a population of more than five sand inhabitants, but in no case to exceed three months; And, provided, That no soldier, sailor or marine, in the military or naval service of the United States shall acquire a residence by being stationed in this State. 2. All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all elec tions by persons in a representative capacity shall be viva voce. 3. The following classes shall not be permitted to register, vote or hold office: First. Those who shall have been convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, larceny, bribery, or other crime, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. Second. Those who are idiots or insane. 4. Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections, or while going to or returning therefrom. 5. The General Assembly shall pass laws, not inconsisten with the Constitution, to regulate and govern elections in this State, and all such laws shall be uniform throughout th State. The General Assembly may, when necessary, provid by law for the registration of electors throughout the State, o in any incorporated city or town thereof, and when it is so pr vided no person shall vote at any election unless he shall hav registered, as required by law. 6. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pas adequate laws giving protection against the evils arising fro the use of intoxicating liquors at all elections. 7. Returns of elections for all civil officers who are to commissioned by the Governor, except Secretary of State, Sta Auditor, State Treasurer and Attorney-General, and for t members of the General Assembly, shall be made to the Sec tary of State. ARTICLE IX. 1. The whole number of Senators shall be not less than o fourth, or more than one-third, of the whole number of rep sentatives. 2. The House of Representatives shall consist of not m than one hundred members, who shall be apportioned by General Assembly among the several counties of the St according to the number of inhabitants in them respectiv as ascertained by the decennial census of the United St for the year eighteen hundred and eighty; which apportionment, when made, shall be subject to alteration until the first session of the General Assembly after the next decennial census of the United States shall have been taken. 3. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, at its first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of representatives and apportion them among the several counties of the State: Provided, That each county shall be entitled to at least one representative. 4. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly at its first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of Senators and to divide the State into as many Senatorial Districts as there are Senators, which districts shall be as nearly equal to each other in the number of inhabitants as may be, and each shall be entitled to one Senator and no more; and which districts when formed, shall not be changed until the next apportioning session of the General Assembly after the next decennial census of the United States shall have been taken. county shall be divided between two districts and no district shall be made of two or more counties not contiguous to each other. No 5. Should the decennial census of the United States, from any cause, not be taken, or if when taken, the same as to this State is not full and satisfactory, the General Assembly shall have power, at its first session after the time shall have elapsed for the taking of said census, to provide for an enumeration of all the inhabitants of this State, and once in each ten years thereafter, upon which it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to make the apportionment of Representatives and Senators as provided for in this article. Until the General Assembly shall make an apportionment of Representatives among the several counties, after the first decennial census of the United States, as herein provided, the counties of Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chilton, Cherokee, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, DeKalb, Elmore, Etowah, Escambia, Fayette, Franklin, Geneva, Henry, Lauder dale, Marion, Morgan, Monroe, Marshall, Randolph, Sanford, Shelby, St. Clair, Walker, Washington and Winston shall each have one Representative; the counties of Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Greene, Hale, Jackson, Jefferson, Limestone, Lawrence, Lowndes, Lee, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Russell, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuskaloosa, and Wilcox shall have each two Representatives; the county of Madison shall have three Representatives; the counties of Dallas and Montgomery shall have each four Representatives. 7. Until the General Assembly shall divide the State int senatorial districts, the senatorial districts shall be as follows: First district, Lauderdale and Limestone; second distric Colbert and Lawrence; third district, Morgan, Winston an Blount; fourth district, Madison; fifth district, Marshall, Jac son and DeKalb; sixth district, Cherokee, Etowah, and St. Clai seventh district, Calhoun and Cleburne; eighth district, Tall dega and Clay; ninth district, Randolph and Chambers; ten district, Macon and Tallapoosa; eleventh district, Bibb a Tuskaloosa; twelfth district, Franklin, Marion, Fayette a Sanford; thirteenth district, Walker, Jefferson and Shell fourteenth district, Greene and Pickens; fifteenth distri Coosa, Elmore and Chilton; sixteenth district, Lowndes a Autauga; seventeenth district, Butler and Conecuh; eighteen district, Perry; nineteenth district, Choctaw, Clarke and Wa ington; twentieth district, Marengo; twenty-first distr Monroe, Escambia and Baldwin; twenty-second district, Wil twenty-third district, Henry, Coffee, Dale and Geneva; twe fourth district, Barbour; twenty-fifth district, Pike, Crensh and Covington; twenty-sixth district, Bullock; twenty-seve district, Lee; twenty-eighth district, Montgomery; twenty-n district, Russell; thirtieth district, Dallas; thirty-first dist Sumter; thirty-second district, Hale; thirty-third Mobile. ARTICLE X. Exempted Property. dist 1. The personal property of any resident of this State t value of one thousand dollars, to be selected by such resi shall be exempted from sale on execution, or other proce any court, issued for the collection of any debt contracted, |