any State, or of any county or municipality therein, shall ever be eligible to any office of honor, trust, or profit under this State, and the Legislature shall provide, by law, for the punishment of embezzlement or defalcation as a felony. § 22. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and upon warrants duly drawn thereon by the Controller; and no money shall ever be appropriated or drawn from the State treasury for the use or benefit of any corporation, association, asylum, hospital, or any other institution not under the exclusive management and control of the State as a State institution, nor shall any grant or donation of property ever be made thereto by the State; provided, that notwithstanding anything contained in this or any other section of this Constitution, the Legislature shall have the power to grant aid to institutions conducted for the support and maintenance of minor orphans, or half orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances such aid to be granted by a uniform rule, and proportioned to the number of inmates of such respective institutions; provided further, that the State shall have, at any time, the right to inquire into the management of such institutions; provided further, that whenever any county, or city and county, or city, or town shall provide for the support of minor orphans, or half orplans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances, such county, city and county, city, or town shall be entitled to receive the same pro rata appropriations as may be granted to such institutions under church or other control. An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of public moneys shall be attached to and published with the laws at every regular session of the Legislature. § 23. The members of the Legislature shall receive for their services a per diem and mileage, to be fixed by law, and paid out of the public treasury; such per diem shall not exceed eight dollars, and such mileage shall not exceed ten cents per inile, and for contingent expenses not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each session. No increase in compensation or mileage shall take effect during the term for which the members of either House shall have been elected, and the pay of no attaché shall be increased after he is elected or appointed. § 24. Every Act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in its title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an Act which shall not be expressed in to its title; but in such case the Act revised or section amended shall be re-enacted and published at length. ARTICLE XI. § 21. All laws, decrees, regulations, and provisions which from their nature require publication shall be published in English and Spanish. ARTICLE IV. § 26. No divorce shall be granted by the Legislature. its title, such Act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in its title. No law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title; but in such case the Act revised or section amended shall be re-enacted and published at length as revised or amended; and all laws of the State of California, and all official writings, and the executive, legislative, and judicial proceedings shall be conducted, preserved, and published in no other than the English language. § 25. The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: First-Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace, Police Judges, and of Constables. Second-For the punishment of crimes and misdemean ors. Third-Regulating the practice of courts of justice Fourth-Providing for changing the venue in civil or criminal actions. Fifth-Granting divorces. Sixth--Changing the names of persons or places. Seventh-Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plats, parks, cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the State. Eighth-Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation. Ninth-Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and township officers. Tenth-For the assessment or collection of taxes. Eleventh-Providing for conducting elections, or designating the places of voting, except on the organization of new counties. Twelfth Affecting the estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities. Thirteenth-Extending the time for the collection of taxes. Fourteenth-Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills, or other instruments. Fifteenth-Refunding money paid into the State treas ury. Sixteenth-Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any corporation or person to this State, or to any municipal corporation therein. Seventeenth-Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease, or encumber his or her property. § 27. No lottery shall be authorized by this State, nor shall the sale of lottery tickets be allowed. § 30. When a Congressional, Senatorial, or Assembly District shall be composed of two or more counties, it shall not be separated by any county belonging to another district. No county shall be divided in forming a Congressional, Senatorial, or Assembly District* so as to attach one portion of a county to another county; but the Legislature may divide each county into as many Con[Words following the * were added by amendment of 1862.] Eighteenth-Legalizing, except as against the State, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer. Nineteenth-Granting to any corporation, association, or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege, or immunity. Twentieth-Exempting property from taxation. Twenty-second-Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes. Twenty-third-Regulating the rate of interest on money. Twenty-fourth-Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens. Twenty-fifth-Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges, or roads. Twenty-sixth-Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures. Twenty-seventh-Providing for the management of com mon schools. Twenty-eighth--Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, cities and counties, townships, election or school districts. Twenty-ninth-Affecting the fees or salary of any officer. Thirtieth-Changing the law of descent or succession. Thirty-first-Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children. Thirty-second-For limitation of civil or criminal actions. Thirty-third-In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable. § 26. The Legislature shall have no power to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any purpose, and shall pass laws to prohibit the sale in this State of lottery or gift enterprise tickets, or tickets in any scheme in the nature of a lottery. The Legislature shall pass laws to regulate or prohibit the buying and selling of the shares of the capital stock of corporations in any stock board, stock exchange, or stock market under the control of any association. All contracts for the sale of shares of the capital stock of any corporation or association, on margin or to be delivered at a future day, shall be void, and any money paid on such contracts may be recovered by the party paying it by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. § 27. When a congressional district shall be composed of two or more counties, it shall not be separated by any county belonging to another district. No county, or city and county, shall be divided in forming a congressional district so as to attach one portion of a county, or city and county, to another county, or city and county, except in cases where one county, or city and county, has more |