NEW SERIES. No. 4-VOL. VII.] BALTIMORE, SEPT. 23, 1820.

[No. 4-VOL. XIX. WHOLE NO. 472

THE PAST THE PRESENT-YOR THE FUTURE.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY H, NILES, AT §5 PER ANNUM, FATABLE IN ADVANCE.

As the constitution of Missouri is not very long,] through that country, we may expect that the corwe thought it best to completeit at once. Its length, tes will punish the want of good faith. however, with that of the foreign articles, has nearly filled our sheet. The Russian state papers will claim the attention of every reader. Their principle is an outrage on human nature.

FOREIGN NEWS. We have extracts from London papers to the 9th of August, among which are two very extraordinary and very important Russian state papers, disapproving the revolution in Spain, and calling upon the cortes to compel the army and the people to retrace their steps!

Our information from the Two Sicilies is not so distinct as we could have wished for. But it seems that the king and his two sons swore to the constitution on the 19th of July, on which occasion there were great public rejoicings. The English interest is extremely powerful in Sicily, and perhaps the movements towards independence are promoted by it; that, like the Ionian Islands, this luxurious country may be protected by Great Britain. Austria seems alarmed at the movements in Italy, and ap pears to be preparing to resist the progress of re

The tone assumed by "Alexander the deli-volution there, by reinforcing her armies therein. verer," and member of several "peace societies;" vested as he is with so great a power and influence to give effect to his determinations, is truly alarming, as shewing a disposition to dungeon the human mind forever in monarchy and superstition, if he can do it--by interfering with things that do not concern him, except as affecting the general principle contended for by the "legitimates," that the people are slaves, destitute of the freedom of will, and without right to change their systems of government, be they ever so unfitted for their condition, unless by the grant of those whose interests are opposed to the interests of communities.

Prices of Bank Notes, at Baltimore.

Alexander is too proud to go back-he will in-
sist on the conditions he has laid down, and proba-
bly attempt to enforce them on the people of Spain.
The cortes is composed, perhaps, of as fine a body
t of warriors and statesmen as ever was collected in
Europe, and it is not to be supposed that they will
tacitly submit to such preposterou dictation-they
will again render their country an aceldama, and
combat with partizan fury for liberty. Napoleon,
in the zenith of his power, with means of subjuga-
tion greater than Alexander can command and
close at hand, sacrificed legion after legion, army
after army in Spain, without conquering the king-
dom; and, even if the allied powers should act against
her, they will hardly do it. But France dares not
move one step in this matter in military array, nos
can she permit a foreign army to pass through her
country to act against Spain; and England, we should
suppose, will not join in the crusade of monarchs
against liberal ideas-she already has enough to do
at home to keep her people quiet, without giving
any new excitement to their feelings in a case like
this.

But, without speculating as to particulars, we
think it may be fairly calculated that Europe is
on the very eve of as mighty events as any
which we have witnessed, and many believe that a
general war is inevitable. It is impossible that the
people of that quarter of the world can submit to
the haughty dictation of the emperor of Russia.
It will be seen that France has fully retaliated
our navigation act, by the decree copied into
page 61.

A counter revolution and under pretty imposing
circumstances, was attempting in Spain-but pro-
bably, before this time has been completely sup-
pressed. Portugal seems to have been used as the
rallying place of the disaffected, and if arms, and
armed men and supplies are permitted to pass
VOL, XIX.-4.

At the request of many friends at a distance, we have prepared a list of the prices of bank notes at Baltimore, which shall be corrected and re-pub. lished occasionally, or more briefly noticed as the case may require. The price of these commodities is becoming pretty regular and steady, except as to the bills of the bad banks, which should be uniformly rejected, except in their several neighborhoods, wherein it is presumed that their value must

be known.

2 dis.

New Hampshire-generally 1 1-2 to 2 dis.
Massachusetts and Maine-Boston, par; others, from 1 to 2 dis.
Rhode Island-generally, 1 1-2 to 2 dis.
Vermont-bap of Windsor and Burlington, 2 dis.
Connecticut veel at par, if payable in New-York-others, 1 1-2 tô.
New-York-city banks, par; country notes, generally good, several
as par, the rest at 1 a 3 dis. except the bank of Hudson, the
Washington and Warren bank, Jefferson county bank, bank of
Niagara, Jacob Barker's bank, and all the unincorporated banks
and other money-manufacturing institutions, few notes of which-
are afloat, and these very bad.
New-Jersey-nearly all as par; the rest at 1 1-2 to 2, dis.
Pennsylvania-Philadelphia and S. Girard's banks, par; Easton,
Germantown, Montgomery co. Chester co. Delaware co. banks
at Lancaster, Harrisburg, Northampton, Columbia, York, Cham-
bersburg, Gettysburg, Carlisle, (bank), Swatara, at Harrisburg,
Farmers of Bucks co. New-Hope bridge company-all good,
many of them depositing in Philadelphia, and at from, 1 1-2 to 2
per cent. dis. Pittsburg, 2 to 3; Farmer's bank of Reading, 6;
Greensburg and Brownsville, 8 to 10. Other banks, uncertain
or no sale.
Delegave Bank of Delaware. Wilmington and Brandywine Far-
Smyrna, all at par,

mer's bank, and Commercial bank

depositing in Philadelphia. Bank at Laurel, 35 to 40-no sales. Maryland-The Baltimore banks, except the City bank, par, the

latter at 1 to 2 dis. Frederick co. Havre de Grace, Farmers' bank

at Annapolis, par; branches of the latter, and bank at Hagers
town, Conococheague, Westminster, and Prince George's, all
good, at 1 to 2 dis.; Caroline, 10; Elkton, Somersett, Soinersett
and Worcester, Cumberland and Port Deposite, all very bad, and
should not be taken.

District of Columbin-All the banks of Washington, Georgetown
and Alexandria, good at 1 per cent. dis except the Franklin
bank of Alexandria-no sales.
Virginia-Bank of Virginia and Farmers', with the branches, 1 dis
bank of the Valley and branches, 1 1-2 N. W. at Wheeling, 5 to 6.
North-Carolina-generally, 3 1-2 dis.
South-Carolina-ditto, 1 1-2 dis.
Georgia-ditto, 2 1-2 dis.; Augusta Bridge company, 40 to 45.
Kentucky-bank of Kentucky and branches, few sales, even at 25

cent. dis. and uncertain; new banks, no sale.
Tennessee-no sales of the bills of any of the banks in this state.
Ohio-Chillicothe, Lancaster, Marietta, Belmont, Mount Pleasant,
Western Reserve and the two banks at Steubenville, at 5 per
cent. dis. All the rest unsteady or without sale.
Indiana and Illinois--no sales.
Missouri-none in the market; bank of Missouri is good.
canada banks, if payable in New-York, par; others, 3, except t

"bank of Canada," which is at 8 per cent. dis. Few in the r

NOTES AND KEMARKS.

In the six New England states there are nowe, three banks in bad repute-these are the Core land bank, the Hallowell and Augusta banke in

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bank of Wiscasset, all in Maine, at from 55 to 70 per cent. dis..

The bills of all the banks which are not at more than 5 per cent. dis. may be generally regarded as payable in specie; and, in many cases, are quite as valuable, if not more valuable at home, than the bills of the banks of Baltimore.

COUNTERFEITS.

We intended to have attempted a list of these, but it must needs be so imperfect that it might lead to error, and some are so well done that it is nearly impossible for the people at large to detect them. Multitudes are afloat from the regular manufactoies in Canada, and we can only recommend this general rule to persons who do not handle many notes-not to receive any of strangers, without great caution and such enquiry as it may be within their power to make. And it is with serious regret that we have to make it known, that Murray, Dra. per and Fairman's celebrated plate has been suecessfully imitated. We hoped that it would have remained a barrier to villainy.

Constitution of Missouri.

We, the people of Missouri, inhabiting the limits hereinafter designated, by our representatives in convention assembled, at St. Louis, on Monday the 12th day of June, 1820, do mutually agree to form and establish a free and independent republic, by the name of the "State of Missouri," and for the government thereof do ordain and establish this constitution.

ARTICLE I.

Of boundaries.

ARTICLE III,

Of the legislative power.

Section 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a "General Assembly," which shall consist of a "Senate," and of a "House of Representatives."

Sec. 2. The house of representatives shall con. sist of members to be chosen every second year by the qualified electors of the several counties. Each county shall have at least one representative, but the whole number of representatives shall never exceed one hundred.

Sec. 3 No person shall be a member of the house of representatives who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-four years; who shall not be a free white male citizen of the United States; who shall not have been an inhabitant of this state two years, and of the county which he represents one year next before his election, if such county shall have been so long established, but if not, then of the county or counties from which the same shall have been taken; and who shall not, moreover, have pald a state or county tax.

Sec. 4. The general assembly at their first ses sion, and in the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, respectively, and every fourth and twenty-two, and one thousand eight hundred year thereafter, shall cause an enumeration of the inhabitants of this state to be made; and at the first session after each enumeration, shall apportion the number of representatives among the several counties according to the number of free white male inhabitants therein.

Sec. 5. The senators shall be chosen by the quali fied electors for the term of four years. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years; who shall not be a free white male citizen of the United States; who shall not have been an inhabitant of this state four years, and of the district which he may be chosen to represent one year next before his election, if such district shall have been so long established, but if not, then of the district or districts from which the same shall have been taken; and who shall not, moreover, have paid a state or county tax.

We do declare, establish, ratify and confirm the following as the permanent boundaries of said state, that is to say: "Beginning in the middle of the Mississippi river, on the parallel of thirty six degrees of north latitude; thence west, along the said parallel of latitude to St. Francois river; thence up and following the course of that river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the parallel of latitude of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes; thence west, along the same to a point where the Sec. 6. The senate shall consist of not less than said parallel is intersected by a meridian line pass-fourteen nor more than thirty-three members; for ing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas the election of whom the state shall be divided into river, where the same empties into the Missouri convenient districts, which may be altered, from river; thence from the point aforesaid, north, along time to time, and new districts established, as pubthe said meridian line, to the intersection of the lic convenience may require; and the senators shall parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids be apportioned among the several districts accord. of theirus Du. Muinor making the said line coring to the number of free white male inhabitants respond with the Indian boundary line; thence in each; provided, that when a senatorial district east, from the point of intersection last aforesaid, along the said parallel of latitude, to the middle of the channel of the main fork of the said river Des Moines; thence down and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence due east to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence down and following the course of the Mississippi river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning."

ARTICLE II.

Of the distribution of powers. The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate magistracy, and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly beanging to one of those departments shall exercise y power properly belonging to either of the tors, except in the instances hereinafter expressHvSected or permitted.

shall be composed of two or more counties, the counties of which such district consists shall not be entirely separated by any county belonging to another district, and no county shall be divided in forming a district.

bly, the senators shall be divided by lot, as equally Sec. 7. At the first session of the general assemas may be, into two classes. The seats of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the second year, and the seats of the second class at the end of the fourth year; so that one half of the senators shall be chosen every second year.

sand eight hundred and twenty-two, all general Sec. 8. After the first day of January, one thoueletions shall commence on the first Monday in August, and shall be held biennially; and the electors in all cases, except of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during their continuance at elections, and in going to, and returning from the same.

Sec. 9. The governor shall issue writs of election

to fill such vacancies as may occur in either house of the general assembly.

the yeas and nays on any question shall be entered on the journal at the desire of any two members.

Sec. 19. The doors of each house, and of comSec. 10. Every free white male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained to the age of mittees of the whole, shall be kept open, except in twenty-one years, and who shall have resided in this cases which may require secrecy; and each house state one year before an election, the last three may punish, by fine or imprisonment, any person, months whereof shall have been in the county or not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to district in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed the house by any disorderly or contemptuous bes a qualified elector of all elective offices; provided, havior in their presence, during their session; pro. that no soldier, seaman, or marine, in the regular vided, that such fine shall not exceed three hundred army or navy of the United States shall be entitled | dollars, and such imprisonment shall not exceed forty-eight hours for one offence.

to vote at any election in this state.

Sec. 20. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days at any

Sec. 11. No judge of any court of law or equity secretary of state, attorney general, state auditor, state or county treasurer, register or recorder, clerkoue time, nor to any other place than to that in which the two houses may be sitting. of any court of record, sheriff, comer, member of Sec. 21. Bills may originate in either house, and congress, nor other person holding any lucrative office under the United States or this state, militia may be altered, amended, or rejected by the other; and every bill shall be read on three different days officers, justices of the peace and post masters ex-in each house, unless two-thirds of the house where cepted, shall be elegible to either house of the ge- the same is depending shall dispense with this rule; neral assembly. and every bill, having passed both houses, shall be signed by the speaker of the house of representatives and by the president of the senate. Sec. 22. When any officer, civil or military, shall be appointed by the joint or concurrent vote of both houses, or by the separate vote of either house of the general assembly, the votes shall be publicly given viva voce, and entered on the journals. The whole list of members shall be called, and the names of absentees shall be noted and published with the journal.

Sec. 12. No person who now is, or who hereafter may be, a collector or holder of public money, nor any assistant or deputy of such collector or holder of public money, shall be eligible to either house of the general assembly, nor to any office of profit or trust until he shall have accounted for and paid all sums for which he may be accountable.

Sec. 13. No person, while he continues to exercise the functions of a bishop, priest, clergyman, or teacher of any religious persuasion, denomination, society or sect whatsoever, shall be eligible to either Sec. 23. Senators and representatives shall, in all hause of the general assembly; nor shall he be ap-eases, except of treason, felony, or breach of the pointed to any office of profit within the state, the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session office of justice of the peace excepted. of the general assembly, and for fifteen days next before the commencement, and after the termination of each session; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.

Sec. 14. The general assembly shall have power to exclude from every office of honor, trust or profit within this state, and from the right of suffrage, all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime.

Sec. 15. Every person who shall be convicted of having, directly or indirectly, given or offered any bribe to procure his election or appointment, shall be disqualified for any office of honor, trust or proht, under this state; and any person who shall give or offer any bribe to procure the election or appointment of any person, shall, on conviction thereof, be disqualified for an elector, or for any office of honor, crust or profs under this state, for ten years after such conviction.

Sec. 24. The members of the general assembly shall severally receive from the public treasury a compensation for their services, which may from time to time be increased or diminished by law; but no alteration, increasing or tending to increase the compensation of members, shall take effect during the session at which such alteration shall be made.

Sec. 25. The general assembly shall direct by law in what manner, and in what courts, suits may he brought against the state,

Sec. 16. No senator or representative shall, durer ing the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this state which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during his continuance in office, except to such offices as shall be filled by elections of the people.

Sec. 17. Each house shall appoint its own offi. cers, and shall judge of the qualifications, elections, and returns of its own members. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.

Sec. 18. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings; punish its members for disorderly behavior; and, with the concurrence of two thirds of all the members elected, expel a member, but no member shall be expelled a second time for the same cause. They shall each, from time to time, publish a journal of their proceedings, except such parts as may in their opinion require secrecy; and

Sec. 26. The general assembly snail have no powto pass laws,

First, For the emancipation of slaves without the
consent of their owners; or without paying
them before such emancipation, a full equiva
lent for such slaves so emancipated; and,
Second, To prevent bona fide emigrants to this
state, or actual settlers therein, from bringing
from any of the United States, or from any of
their territories, such persons as may there be
deemed to be slaves, so long as any persons of
the same description are allowed to be held as
slaves by the laws of this state.

They shall have power to pass laws,
First, To prohibit the introduction into this state
of any slaves who may have committed any
high crime in any other state or territory;
Second, To prohibit the introduction of any slave
for the purpose of speculation, or as an article
of trade or merchandise;

Third, To prohibit the introduction of any slave,
or the offspring of any slave, who heretofore
may have been, or who hereafter may be im-
ported from any foreign country into the Unit

ed States, or any territory thereof, in contravention of any existing statute of the United States; and, Fourth, To permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the right of creditors, where the person so emancipating will give security that the slave so emancipated shall not become a public charge.

Sec. 34. No county now established by law shall ever be reduced by the establishment of new counties to less than twenty miles square; nor shall any county hereafter be established which shall contain less than four hundred square miles.

Sec. 35. Within five years after the adoption of this constitution, all the statute laws of a general nature, both civil and criminal, shall be revised, digested, and promulgated in such manner as the general assembly shall direct, and a like revision, First, To prevent free negroes and mulattoes digest and promulgation shall be made at the exfrom coming to, and settling in this state, underpiration of every subsequent period of ten years. any pretext whatsoever; and,

It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary,

Second, To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb. Sec. 27. In prosecutions for crimes, slaves shall not he deprived of an impartial trial by jury, and a slave convicted of a capital offence shall suffer the same degree of punishment, and no other, that would be inflicted on a white person for a like of fence; and courts of justice, before whom slaves shall be tried, shall assign them counsel for their defence.

Sec. 28. Any person who shall maliciously deprive of life, or dismember a slave, shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted for the like of fence if it were committed on a free white person. Sec. 29. The governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, and all judges of the courts of law and equity, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such case shall not extend farther than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this state. The party impeached, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to be indicted, tried and punished according to

law.

Sec. 30. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. All impeach. ments shall be tried by the senate, and when sit ting for that purpose, the senators shall be on oath or affirmation to do justice according to law and evidence. When the governor shall be tried, the presiding judge of the supreme court shall preside; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of all the senators present.

Sec. 31. A state treasurer shall be biennially appointed by joint vote of the two houses of the piral asaway, way chail kvep like unit at the seat of government. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and an accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of the public money shall be annually published.

Sec. 36. The style of the laws of this state shall be, “Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Missouri.

ARTICLE IV.

Of the executive power.

Sec. 1. The supreme executive power shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled "the Governor of the state of Missouri."

Sec. 2. The governor shall be at least thirty-five years of age, and a natural born citizen of the United States, or a citizen at the adoption of the constitution of the United States, or an inhabitant of that part of Louisiana now included in the state of Missouri at the time of the cession thereof from France to the United States, and shall have been a resident of the same at least four years next before his election.

Sec. 3. The governor shall hold his office for four years, and until a successor be duly appointed and qualified. He shall be elected in the manner following: At the time and place of voting for members of the house of representatives, the qua lified electors shall vote for a governor; and when two or more persons have an equal number of votes, and a higher number than any person, the election shall be decided between them by a joint vote of both houses of the general assembly at their next session.

Sec. 4. The governor shall be ineligible for the next four years after the expiration of his term of service.

Sec. 5. The governor shall be commander in chief of the militia and navy of this state, except when they shall be called into the service of the United States; but he need not command in person unless advised so to do by a resolution of the general assembly.

Sec. 6. The governor shall have power to comit tines and forteftures, and, except in cases of impeachment, to grant reprieves and pardons.

Sec. 7. The governor shall, from time to time, give to the general assembly information relative to the state of the government, and shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he *Sec. 32. The appointment of all officers, not shall deem necessary and expedient. On extraor otherwise directed by this constitution, shall be dinary occasions he may convene the general asmade in such manner as may be prescribed by lasembly by proclamation, and shall state to them the and all officers, both civil and military, under the purposes for which they are convened. authority of this state, shall, before entering on the duties of their respective offices, take an oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States, and of this state, and to demean themselves faithfully in office.

Sec. 8. The governor shall take care that the laws be distributed and faithfully executed; and he shall be a conservator of the peace throughout the state.

Sec. 33. The general assembly shall meet on the the governor shall appoint a person to fill such vaSec. 9. When any office shall become vacant, third Monday in September next; on the first Mon-cancy, who shall continue in office until a succesday in November eighteen hundred and twenty-sor be duly appointed and qualified according to one; on the first Monday in November eighteen law.

hundred and twenty-two, and thereafter the gene- Sec. 10. Every bill which shall have been passed ral assembly shall meet once in every two years, by both houses of the general assembly shall, beand such meeting shall be on first Monday in No-fore it becomes a law, be presented to the governor vember, unless a different day shall be appointed for his approbation. If he approve, he shall sign by law. it; if not, he shall return it with his objections to the

the late governor shall have been elected, the same shall not be filled.

Sec. 18. The lieutenant governor, or president of the senate pro-tempore, while presiding in the senate, shall receive the same compensation as shall be allowed to the speaker of the house of representatives.

Sec. 19. The returns of all elections of governor and lieutenant governor shall be made to the secretary of state, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

house in which it shall have originated, and the house shall cause the objections to be entered at large on its journals, and shall proceed to reconsider the hill. If, after such re-consideration, a majority of all the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall be in like manner re-considered, and if approved by a majority of all the members elected to that house, it shall become a law. In all such cases the votes of both houses shall be taken by yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to Sec. 21. There shall be a secretary of state, whom him, the same shall become a law in like manner the governor, by and with the advice and consent as if the governor had signed it, unless the general of the senate, shall appoint. He shall hold his of assembly, by its adjournment, shall prevent its rc-fice four years, unless sooner removed on impeachturn, in which case it shall not become a law.

Sec. 11. Every resolution to which the concurrence of the senate and house of representatives may be necessary, except on cases of adjournment, shall be presented to the governor, and before the same shall take effect shall be proceeded upon in the same manner as in the case of a bill.

Sec. 20. Contested elections of governor and lieutenant governor shall be decided by joint vote of both houses of the general assembly, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

ment. He shall keep a register of all the official acts and proceedings of the governor, and when necessary, shall attest them; and he shall lay the same, together with all papers relative thereto, before either house of the general assembly whenever required so to do, and shall perform such other duties as may be enjoined on him by law.

Sec. 22. The secretary of state shall, as soon as Sec. 12. There shall be an auditor of public accounts, whom the governor, by and with the ad- may be, procure a seal of state, with such emblems vice and consent of the senate, shall appoint. He and devices as shall be directed by law, which shall shall continue in office four years, and shall per-not be subject to change. It shall be called the form such duties as may be prescribed by law. His office shall be kept at the seat of government.

Sec 13. The governor shall,' at stated times, receive for his services an adequate salary to be fixed by law, which shall neither be increased nor di minished during his continuance in office, and which shall never be less than two thousand dollars annually.

Sec. 14. There shall be a lieutenant governor, who shall be elected at the same time, in the same manner, for the same term, and shall possess the same qualifications as the governor. The electors shall distinguish for whom they vote as governor, and for whom as lieutenant governor.

"great seal of the state of Missouri;" shall be kept by the secretary of state, and all official acts of the governor, his approbation of the laws excepted, shall be thereby authenticated.

Sec. 23. There shall be appointed in each county a sheriff and coroner, who, until the general assembly shall otherwise provide, shall be elected by the qualified electors at the time and place of electing representatives. They shall serve for two years and until a successor be duly appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed for misdemeanor in office, and shall be ineligible four years in any period of eight years. The sheriff and coroner shall each give security for the faithful discharge of the Sec. 15. The lieutenant governor shall, by vir- duties of his office in such manner as shall be pretue of his office be president of the senate.-Inscribed by law. Whenever a county shall be herecommittee of the whole he may debate on all questions; and when there is an equal division, he shall give the casting vote in senate, and also in joint votes of both hʊasos.

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after established, the governor shall appoint a sheriff and coroner therein, who shall each continue in office until the next succeeding general election, be and until a successor shall duly qualified. Sec. 16. When the office of governor shall pe 17han we shall the office of come vacant by death, resignation, absence from sheriff or coroner, they the state, removal from office, refusal to qualify, ment of the governor; and the persons so appoint. impeachment, or otherwise, the lieutenant govern-ed shall continue in office until successors shall or; or, in case of like disability on his part, the pre- be duly qualified, and shall not be thereby render. sident of the senate pro-tempore; or if there be no ed ineligible for the next succeeding term. Sec. 25. In all elections of sheriff and coroner, president of the senate pro-tempore, the speaker of the house of representatives, shall possess all the when two or more persons have an equal number powers, and discharge all the duties of governor, of votes, and a higher number than any other perand shall receive for his services the like compen-son, the circuit courts of the counties respectively, sation, until such vacancy be filled, or the governer, so absent or impeached, shall return or be acquitted.

shall give the casting vote; and all contested elections for the said offices shall he decided by the cir cuit courts respectively, in such manner as the ge neral assembly may by law prescribe.

ARTICLE V.

Of the judicial power.

Sec. 1. The judicial powers, as to matters of law and equity, shall be vested in a "supreme court," in a "chancellor," in "circuit courts," and in such inferi or tribunals as the general assembly may, from time to time, ordain and establish.

Sec. 17. Whenever the office of governor shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal from office, or otherwise, the lieutenant governor, or other person exercising the powers of governor for the time being, shail, as soon as may be, cause an election to be held to fill such vacancy, giving three months previous notice thereof; and the person elected shall not thereby be rendered ineligible to Sec. 2, The supreme court, except in cases otherthe office of governor for the next succeeding term. Nevertheless, if such vacancy shall happen within wise directed by this constitution, shall have appeleighteen months of the end of the term for which | late jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive