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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA.

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6. The people shall be secure from any unreasonable searches or seizures.

7. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused has a right to be heard for himself.

8. No person shall be accused, arrested or detained, except.

9. No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information, except.

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

11. No person shall be debarred from prosecuting or defending any civil cause to which he is a party.

12. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.

13. In prosecutions for investigating conduct of officers, the truth may be given in evidence.- In regard to indictments for libel. 14. All courts shall be open, and justice shall be administered without delay or denial. 15. The State of Alabama shall never be made a defendant in any court of law or equity. 16. Excessive fines shall not be imposed nor cruel punishment inflicted.

17. All persons shall be bailable before conviction, except.

18. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended by the authorities of the State.

19. Treason against the State de

fined.

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shall not be taken nor applied for public use, except.

25. All navigable waters shall remain forever public highways. 26. The citizens have the right to assemble together peaceably to consult for the common good.

27. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and State.

28. No standing army shall be kept without the consent of the General Assembly.

29. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house

without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, except.

30. No title of nobility, etc., shall ever be granted. No office shall be created, the appointment of which shall be for a longer time than during good behavior.

31. Immigration shall be encouraged; emigration shall not be prohibited, and no citizen shall be exiled.

32. Temporary absence from State shall not cause forfeiture of residence once obtained.

33. Slavery shall not exist in this State; no involuntary servitude.

34. The right of suffrage shall be protected by law.

35. There can be no secession of any State from the Federal Union.

36. Foreigners who may hereafter become bona fide residents.

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resentatives shall elect one of its members speaker.-Term of office of president of Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives.

9. When Senators shall be elected; their term of office.- Election of the members of the House of Representatives. When a vacancy shall occur in either house.

10. A majority in each house shall constitute a quorum.

11. Each house shall have the power to determine the rules of its proceedings and to punish members or other persons for contempt.

12. In regard to a member of either house being expelled.

13. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings. 14. Members of the

General Assembly shall be privileged from

arrest, except.

15. The doors of each house shall be

open, except.

16. In regard to adjournment. 17. No

Senator or Representative shall be appointed to any other civil office during his term.

18. No person convicted of embezzlement of the public money, bribery, perjury, etc., shall be capable of holding any office of trust or profit in this State.

19. No law shall be passed except by bill.

20. No bill shall become a law until it shall have been referred to a committee of each house and returned therefrom.

21. Every bill shall be read on three

different days in each house, and no bill shall become a law, unless.

22. In regard to amendments.

23. No special or local law shall be enacted for the benefit of individuals or corporations, in cases which are or can be provided for by general law, or where the relief sought can be

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27. The presiding officer of each house shall sign all bills and resolutions passed by the General Assembly.

28. The number, duties and compensation of the officers and employes of each house; no payment to be made from the State treasury, except."

29. Extra compensation to any public officer, servant or employe after the services shall have been rendered.

30. Stationery, printing, paper and fuel used in the Legislature and other departments of the government.

31. Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose amendments. 32. The general appropriation bill. 33. No money shall be paid out of the treasury except by appropriation.

34. To whom no appropriation shall. be made.

35. In regard to the investment of any trust fund to executors,

etc.

36. The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases. 37. When the General Assembly

shall be convened in special session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor calling such session.

38. There shall be no State offices for the inspection or measur ing of any merchandise, manu

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ARTICLE V.

Executive Department.

1. Of whom the executive department shall consist.

2. The supreme executive power to
be vested in the Governor.

3. Election of State officers.
4. Election returns.

5. Terms of office of State officers.
6. Qualifications for Governor.
7. Qualifications for the other State
officers.

laws are faithfully executed.

46. The public statutes, both civil 8. Governor shall take care that the and criminal, to be revised by the General Assembly every ten years.

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9. The Governor may require information in writing under oath. The Governor may on extraordinary occasions convene the General Assembly.

47. It shall pass such penal laws as 10. may be deemed expedient to | suppress duelling.

48. Salaries of public officers; deducted from for neglect of duty.

49. The General Assembly shall require the counties of this State to provide for the poor.

50. It shall not have the power to authorize municipal corporations to pass laws inconsistent with general laws.

51. In the event of annexation of any foreign territory to this State.

52. The General Assembly shall not tax the property, real or personal, of the State, counties and other municipal corporations.

53. To ascertain the value of real and personal property.

54. The State shall not engage in

works of internal improvement nor lend its credit, nor shall the State be interested in any corporation. 55. The General Assembly shall have no power to authorize any county, city or other sub-di

11. The Governor shall give

the

General Assembly information of the State of the government, etc.

12. Governor shall have the power to remit fines and forfeitures and grant reprieves and pardons, except.

13. In regard

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passed both houses.

14. Governor to have power to disapprove of any item or items

of any bill.

15. In case of impeachment of the Governor. His removal from

office, etc.- The president of
the Senate shall exercise all
power.

16. Compensation of the president of
Senate and the speaker of the
House of Representatives.
17. Governor shall not hold any
other office during his term.
18. Governor to be Commander-in-
Chief of the militia, except.
19. Qualifications necessary to hold
the office of Secretary of State,
State Treasurer, etc.

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