Office, member of Legislature not to be appointed to any civil office of profit created during his term... to be ineligible to......... crimes how tried for misdemeanors.. Schedule Schedule to be elected at first election........... ..Schedule, when to be installed...... ..Schedule stitution...... Powers of Government, distribution of.... sation....... .Schedule not to render witness incompetent. licentiousness, not allowed........ Representation, to be apportioned according to population..... Residence, for the purpose of voting, what not to affect ...... absence from State on business of State, not to affect...... term of, not to apply to certain officers...... ............. Schedule Rights, natural...... enumeration of, not to impair others retained...... .Schedule pay of members of the Legislature............ .Schedule of certain officers, to be fixed by Legislature...... .Schedule Schools, fund for support of..... provision to be made for system of common.. Scientific improvement, to be encouraged........ Searches, etc., security against, provided for.................... warrant for, when to issue.......... Seat of Government, where located...... Secretary of State, liable to impeachment..... how chosen, term and eligibility.... the Senate...... Secretary of State, duties of...... compensation of, not to be increased or diminished, etc.. Senators, to be qualified electors...... chosen for two years...... months ....... 1 1 1 1 11 1 9 9 9 1 ..................... 11 5 5 5 5 Art. Sec. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ....................................... 30 11 12 6667B3%B7B9B1Bn 155922333344479 BBBB O d.o.o.O.O.O.O. ................... Senators (continued) number of.. .Schedule right of, who entitled to.. persons convicted of certain crimes disqualified from ...... Suits against State, how brought.......... Superintendent of Public Instruction, election, term, duties, and com pensation Supervisors, Board of, may be created ................. duties, to be prescribed by law ......... Supreme Court, Justices of, liable to impeachment.. how composed....... during term..... Justices ineligible to other office during term for which elected Taxation, to be equal and uniform..... on property, to be according to value......... Assessors and Collectors, how elected........ throughout the State....... Treasurer of State, liable to impeachment. how chosen, term, and eligibility. compensation of, not to be increased or diminished during term Treasury, no money to be drawn from, but by appropriations.. an accurate statement of receipts and expenditures to be pub lished annually, with the laws...... members of Legislature to be paid out of..... Trial, rights of accused.... no person to be twice tried for the same offense........... nor deprived of lite, liberty, etc., without due process of law residence of, what not to atfect......... tered on journal...... person convicted of certain crimes disqualified as.. 74-vol. ii. ..................... 6 6 6 6 11 15 16 13 13 13 11 11 4 .......................... 4 11 1 11 PART V.-POLITICAL CODE. OF THE DEFINITION AND SOURCES OF LAW-EFFECT AND PUBLICATION OF THE CODES, AND THE EX- NOTE.—The subjects embraced within this Part will be found carefully annotated and discussed in the Political Code. TITLE I. DEFINITION AND SOURCES OF THE LAW. II. EFFECT OF THE CODES. CONTINUED IN FORCE. S TITLE I. DEFINITION AND SOURCES OF THE LAW. SECTION 4466. Definition of law. 4467. How expressed. of law. 4466. Law is a solemn expression of the will of Definition the supreme power of the State. 4467. The will of the supreme power is expressed: How expressed. 4468. The common law of England, so far as it is common law, when not repugnant to or inconsistant with the Constitution rule of decision. of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of this State, is the rule of decision in all the Courts of this TITLE II. EFFECT OF THE CODES. SECTION 4478. Construction of the Codes with relation to the laws passed at the present session. 4479. Laws passed at present session prevail. 4480. Construction of Codes with relation to each other. 4481. Conflicts between Titles, which to prevail. 4482. Conflicts between Chapters, which to prevail. 4483. Conflicts between Articles, which to prevail. 4454. Conflicting sections of the same Title, which to prevail. Construction of the relation to the laws passed at session. Laws passed at present session provail. 4478. Withe relation to the laws passed at the Cordes with present session of the Legislature, the Political Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, and Penal Code, the present must be construed as though each had been passed on the first day of the present session. 4479. If the provisions of any law passed at the present session of the Legislature contravene, or are inconsistent with, the provisions of either of the four Codes, the provisions of such law must prevail. NOTE.—This section is but another form of stating the proposition contained in the preceding one. It is placed here, not because it is necessary, but to convey to the layman the idea what the preceding section con veys to the professional reader. Construc- 4480. With relation to each other, the provisions tion of Codes with of the four Codes must be construed (except as in the each other. next two sections provided) as though all of such Codes had been passed at the same moment of time and were parts of the same statute. 4481. If the provisions of any Title conflict with or contravene the provisions of another Title, the provisions of each Title must prevail as to all matters and relation to Conflicts between Titles, which to prevail. |