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12. No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture

of estate.

13. No person arrested and confined in jail shall be treated with unnecessary rigor.

14. No person shall be put to answer any criminal charge but by presentment, indictment or impeachment.

15. All prisoners shall be bailable, except for capital offenses.

16. Excessive bails or fines shall not be required.

17. All courts shall be open and justice shall be administered without delay.

18. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.

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19. The printing presses shall be free to every person to amine the proceedings of the Legislature.

20. No law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made. 21. No man's services or property shall be taken without just compensation being made therefor.

22. Perpetuities and monopolies shall not be allowed.

23. The people have a right to assemble in a peaceable manner to consult for the common good.

24. There shall be a militia.-No standing army.

25. No person shall be subject to military law except those employed in the army or militia. 26. The citizens have the right to keep and bear arms for their common defense.

27. No soldier shall, in the time of be quartered in any peace,

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house without the consent of the owner.

28. No person shall be compelled to bear arms, provided he will pay an equivalent.

29. An equal participation in the free navigation of the Mississippi is one of the inherent rights of the citizens of the State.

30. No hereditary emoluments, privileges or honors shall ever be granted or conferred in this State.

31. The boundary of the State shall be as follows.

32. The erection of safe and comfortable prisons shall be provided for.

33. Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited in this State.

34. The General Assembly shall make no law recognizing the right of property in man.

ARTICLE II.

Distribution of Powers.

1. The powers of the government shall be the legislative, executive and judicial.

2. No person or persons belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to any of the others.

Legislative Department.

3. The Legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly.

4. An enumeration of the qualified voters and an apportionment of the Representatives in the General Assembly.

5. The number of representatives shall be.

6. The number of Senators shall be. 7. The first election of Senators

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and Representatives shall be held.

8. When the first session of the General Assembly shall com

mence.

9. Qualifications necessary to become a Representative. 10. Qualifications necessary to become a Senator.

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11. The Senate and House of Representatives shall each choose a speaker.---Two-thirds each house shall constitute a quorum.

12. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly conduct and expel a member by a two-thirds vote. 13. When Senators and Representatives shall be privileged from arrest.

14. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house. 15. The Governor shall have power to fill vacancies.

16. In regard to the adjournment of the two houses.

17. Bills may orignate in either house.---No bill shall embrace more than one subject. 18. Every bill shall be read once on three different days.

19. No bill shall be passed after it has been rejected (during the same session).

20. The style of the laws of this State shall be.

21. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings.

22. The doors of each house shall be kept open.

23. In regard to the salary of the members of the General Assembly.

24. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except by appropriation.