which may be established in pursuance of this consti tution. Salary of su. how paid. SEC. 13. No judicial officer, except court commis- Compensation of judicial sioners and unsalaried justices of the peace, shall officers. receive to his own use any fees or perquisites of office. The judges of the supreme court and judges of the superior court shall severally, at stated times, during their continuance in office, receive for their services the salaries prescribed by law therefor, which shall not be increased after their election, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected. The salaries of the judges of the supreme court shall be paid perior judge, by the state. One-half of the salary of each of the superior court judges shall be paid by the state, and the other one-half by the county or counties for which he is elected. In cases where a judge is provided for more than one county, that portion of his salary which is to be paid by the counties shall be apportioned between or among them according to the assessed value of their taxable property, to be determined by the assessment next preceding the time for which such salary is to be paid. annum. SEC. 14. Each of the judges of the supreme court Salaries of judges, shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars amount per ($4,000); each of the superior court judges shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000), which said salaries shall be payable quarterly. The legislature may increase the salaries of the judges herein provided. gible to any SEC. 15. The judges of the supreme court and the Judges inelijudges of the superior court shall be ineligible to any other office, Charge to jury. Eligibility to judgeship. Reporter for supreme court. Judges shall not practice law: Decision of cases by su limit of time. other office or public employment than a judicial office or employment, during the term for which they shall have been elected. SEC. 16. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, nor comment thereon, but shall declare the law. SEC. 17. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the supreme court or judge of a superior court unless he shall have been admitted to practice in the courts of record of this state or of the Territory of Washington. SEC. 18. The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a reporter for the decisions of that court, who shall be removable at their pleasure. He shall receive such annual salary as shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 19. No judge of a court of record shall practice law in any court of this state during his continuance in office. SEC. 20. Every cause submitted to a judge of a perior judge, superior court for his decision shall be decided by him within ninety days from the submission thereof: Provided, That if, within said period of ninety days a rehearing shall have been ordered, then the period within which he is to decide shall commence at the time the cause is submitted upon such a rehearing. SEC. 21. The legislature shall provide for the supreme court. speedy publication of opinions of the supreme court, and all opinions shall be free for publication by any Publications of opinions of Clerk of su preme court. person. SEC. 22. The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a clerk of that court, who shall be removable at their pleasure, but the legislature may provide for the election of the clerk of the supreme court and prescribe the term of his office. The clerk of the supreme court shall receive such compensation, by salary only, as shall be provided by law. Salary of. sioners, pow SEC. 23. There may be appointed in cach county, Court commisby the judge of the superior court having jurisdiction ers of. therein, one or more court commissioners, not exceeding three in number, who shall have authority to perform like duties as a judge of the superior court at chambers, subject to revision by such judge, to take depositions and to perform such other business connected with the administration of justice as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 24. courts. The judges of the superior courts shall, Rules of from time to time, establish uniform rules for the government of the superior courts. judges to re preme judges. SEC. 25. Superior judges shall, on or before the superior first day of November in each year, report in writing port to su to the judges of the supreme court such defects and omissions in the laws as their experience may suggest, and the judges of the supreme court shall, on or before the first day of January in each year, report in writing to the governor such defects and omissions in the laws as they may believe to exist. SEC. 26. The county clerk shall be, by virtue of Clerk of su his office, clerk of the superior court. perior court. cesses. SEC. 27. The style of all process shall be, "The style of proState of Washington," and all prosecutions shall be conducted in its name and by its authority, Oaths of office of judges. SEC. 28. Every judge of the supreme court and every judge of a superior court shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath that he will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Washington, and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of judge to the best of his ability, which oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Proceedings in impeachment cases. Impeachment for what offences. ARTICLE V.-IMPEACHMENT. SECTION I. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. The concurrence of a majority of all the members shall be necessary to an impeachment. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate, and when sitting for that purpose the senators shall be upon oath or affirmation to do justice according to law and evidence. When the governor or lieutenant-governor is on trial, the chief justice of the supreme court shall preside. No person shall be convicted without a concurrence of two-thirds of the senators elected. SEC. 2. The governor and other state and judicial officers, except judges and justices of courts not of record, shall be liable to impeachment for high crimes or misdemeanors, or malfeasance in office, but judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, in the state. The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall, nevertheless, be liable to prosecution, trial, judgment and punishment according to law, office. SEC. 3. All officers not liable to impeachment Removal from shall be subject to removal for misconduct or malfeasance in office, in such manner as may be provided by law. ARTICLE VI.-ELECTIONS AND ELECTIVE RIGHTS. SECTION I. All male persons of the age of twenty- Qualifications one years or over, possessing the following qualifica-of electors. tions, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: They shall be citizens of the United States; they shall have lived in the state one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote: Provided, That Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise: Provided further, That all male persons who at the time of the adoption of this constitution are qualified electors of the territory shall be electors. elections. SEC. 2. The legislature may provide that there In school shall be no denial of the elective franchise at any school election on account of sex. sons not elec SEC. 3. All idiots, insane persons, and persons Certain perconvicted of infamous crime, unless restored to their tors. civil rights, are excluded from the elective franchise. gained or lost service, etc. SEC. 4. For the purpose of voting and eligibility to Residencenot office no person shall be deemed to have gained a by military residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while in the civil or military service of the state or of the United States, nor while a student at any institution of learning, nor while kept at public expense at any poor house or other asylum, nor while |