Section 6. Plurality of offices. 8. Deductions from salaries of off- 9. Creation of additional permanent State offices prohibited. 10. Returns of election, to whom made. 11. Salaries of State officers.- Fees and maximum salaries of State officers. 12. Publication of receipts and expenditures of public money. 13. Usury and rate of interest. 14. Lotteries prohibited. 15. Contracts for stationery, etc., for State government. 16. Contracts for public buildings, bridges, etc.- Care of paupers. 17. Revision, publication, etc., of laws. 18. Security of miners and travelers. 19. Education of deaf and dumb, blind and insane. 20. Oath of office. 21. Securities upon official bonds. 22. Amendments to Constitution, how originated.- To be published and submitted to the people. 23. Maximum of officers' salaries and fees. 24. Contested elections not herein specifically provided for. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government, for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the same to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE I. We do declare and establish, ratify and confirm, the following as the permanent boundaries of the State of Arkansas, that is to say: Beginning at the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, on the parallel of thirty-six degrees of north latitude, manning thence west with said parallel of latitude to the middle of the main channel of the St. Francis river; thence up the main channel of said last-named river to the parallel of thirty-six |