SEC. 34. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the te, otherwise than as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have 1 duly convicted.

SEC. 35. No free negro or mulatto, not residing in this State at the time of adoption of this Constitution, shall come, reside or be within this State, old any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by ic officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclufrom the State, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them the State, or employ or harbor them.1

SEC. 36. From and after January first, 1916, no intoxicating liquors shall anufactured, or sold within this State, except for medicinal purposes upon cription of a licensed physician, or for scientific, sacramental or mechanical

oses.

This section is self-executing and all provisions of the Constitution and of this State and of the charters and ordinances of all cities, towns and municipalities therein, in conflict with the provisions of this section, are by repealed.2

SEC. 36a. No intoxicating liquors shall be imported into this State for age purposes.

This section is self-executing and all provisions of the Constitution and of this State and of the charters and ordinances of all cities, towns and · municipalities therein, in conflict with the provisions of this section, are by repealed.3

SEC. 36. The death penalty shall not be inflicted upon any person under the of Oregion. The maximum punishment which may be inflicted shall be mprisonment.

All provisions of the Constitution and laws of Oregon in conflict with this on are hereby abrogated and repealed in so far as they conflict herewith, this section is self executing.4

ARTICLE II.

SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS.

SECTION 1. All elections shall be free and equal.

SEC. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution. citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards. shall have resided in the State during the six months immediately preceding election, shall be entitled to vote.5

SEC. 3. No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an

These restrictions on the rights of negroes and mulattoes were abrogated by the eenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

Section 36 is a new section; it was proposed by initiative petition filed on July 4, ratified at the election of November 3, 1914, and became effective on Der 3. 1914.

Section 36a is a new section; it was proposed by initiative petition filed on July 6, ratified on November 7, 1916, and became effective on December 5, 1916. Section 36 is a new section; it was proposed by initiative petition filed on July 4, ratified at the election of November 3, 1914, and declared effective on Decem1914. It will be observed that the last two sections of this article are each num36: this occurred by reason of the fact that both sections were designated as the petition by which they were proposed.

Section 2 has been amended twice; the first amendment was proposed by initiaetition filed on December 20, 1910, ratified at the election of November 5, 1912. ecame effective on November 30, 1912. The second amendment was proposed by gislative assembly of 1913 and ratified at the election of November 3, 1914, and effect on December 3, 1914. The text of the amendment of 1912 is as follows: 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen › United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have d in the State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall resided in this State during the six months immediately preceding such election, hall have declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States ear preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the t of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law.

elector; and the privilege of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction any crime which is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary.

SEC. 4. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to han gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employ in the service of the United States or of this State; nor while engaged in navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the big seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at an alms-house or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any publ prison.

SEC. 5. No soldier, seaman, or marine in the army or navy of the Cat States, or of their allies, shall be deemed to have acquired a residence in 1 State in consequence of having been stationed within the same; nor shall such soldier, seaman, or marine have the right to vote.

SEC. 6. No negro, Chinaman, or mulatto shall have the right of suffrag SEC. 7. Every person shall be disqualified from holding office during term for which he may have been elected, who shall have given or offer-1| bribe, threat, or reward to procure his election.

SEC. S. The Legislative Assembly shall enact laws to support the privile of free suffrage prescribing the manner of regulating and conducting eleen and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence therein from p bribery, tumult and other improper conduct.

SEC. 9. Every person who shall give or accept a challenge to fight a or who shall knowingly carry to another person such challenge, or shall agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to office of trust or profit.

SEC. 10. No person holding a lucrative office or appointment under United States, or under this State, shall be eligible to a seat in the Leg tive Assembly; nor shall any person hold more than one lucrative office at same time, except as in this Constitution expressly permitted; provided. officers in the militia, to which there is attached no annual salary, and office of postmaster, where the compensation does not exceed one hundred dea per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative.

SEC. 11. No person who may hereafter be a collector or holder of moneys shall be eligible to any office of trust or profit until he shal accounted for and paid over, according to law, all the sums for which he liable.

SEC. 12. In all cases in which it is provided that an office shall £4. filled by the same person more than a certain number of years continuo an appointment pro tempore shall not be reckoned a part of that term

SEC. 13. In all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace. tors shall be free from arrest in going to elections, during their attends there, and in returning from the same; and no elector shall be obliged to duty in the militia on any day of election, except in time of war or pu danger.

SEC. 14. The regular general biennial election in Oregon for the year 1910 and thereafter shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Mond-y November. All officers except the Governor, elected for a six-year term in or for a four-year term in 1906, or for a two-year term in 1908, shall cont to hold their respective offices until the first Monday in January, 1911; all officers, except the Governor, elected at any regular general biennial elect after the adoption of this amendment, shall assume the duties of their spective offices on the first Monday in January following such election. laws pertaining to the nomination of candidates, registration of voters, and other things incident to the holding of a regular biennial election shall be forced and be effected the same number of days before the first Tuesday aft the first Monday in November that they have heretofore been before the fire Monday in June biennially, except as may hereafter be provided by law."

"The restrictions imposed by this section on the right of suffrage were abroga" by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution.

Amendment proposed by the legislative assembly of 1907, ratified on Jun1908, and declared effective on June 23, 1908.

SEC. 15. In all elections by the Legislative Assembly, or by either branch ereof, votes shall be given openly or viva voce, and not by ballot, forever; and all elections by the people, votes shall be given openly, or viva voce, until e Legislative Assembly shall otherwise direct.

SEC. 16. In all elections authorized by this Constitution until otherwise ovided by law, the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes all be declared elected, but provisions may be made by law for elections by ual proportional representation of all the voters for every office which is led by the election of two or more persons whose official duties, rights and wers are equal and concurrent. Every qualified elector resident in his preact and registered as may be required by law, may vote for one person under e title for each office. Provision may be made by law for the voter's direct indirect expression of his first, second or additional choices among the canlates for any office. For an office which is filled by the election of one person may be required by law that the person elected shall be the final choice of majority of the electors voting for candidates for that office. These prinles may be applied by law to nominations by political parties and organitions. S

SEC. 17. All qualified electors shall vote in the election precinct in the unty where they may reside, for county officers, and in any county in the ate for State officers, or in any county of a Congressional District in which sh electors may reside, for Members of Congress.

SEC. 18. Every public officer in Oregon is subject, as herein provided, to all by the legal voters of the State or of the electoral district from which is elected. There may be required twenty-five per cent, but not more, of the mber of electors who' voted in his district at the preceding election for Juse of the Supreme Court to file their petition demanding his recall by the ople. They shall set forth in said petition the reasons for said demand. If shall offer his resignation, it shall be accepted and take effect on the day is offered, and the vacancy shall be filled as may be provided by law. If shall not resign within five days after the petition is filed, a special election ill be ordered to be held within twenty days in his said electoral district determine whether the people will recall said officer. On the sample ballot said election shall be printed in not more than two hundred words, the asons for demanding the recall of said officer as set forth in the recall petition, d in not more than two hundred words, the officer's justification of his urse in office. He shall continue to perform the duties of his office until * result of said special election shall be officially declared. Other candites for the office may be nominated to be voted for at said special election. e candidate who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be deemed cted for the remainder of the term, whether it be the person against whom recall petition was filed, or another. The recall petition shall be filed th the officer with whom a petition for nomination to such office should be d. and the same officer shall order a special election when it is required. such petition shall be circulated against any officer until he has actually held s office six months, save and except that it may be filed against a senator representative in the Legislative Assembly at any time after five days from a beginning of the first session after his election. After one such petition d special election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same icer during the term for which he was elected unless such further petitioners all first pay into the public treasury which has paid such special election penses, the whole amount of its expenses for the preceding special election. ich additional legislation as may aid the operation of this section shall be ovided by the Legislative Assembly, including provision for payment by the blic treasury of the reasonable special election campaign expenses of such icer. But the words "the Legislative Assembly shall provide" or any similar equivalent words in this Constitution or any amendment thereto, shall not construed to grant to the Legislative Assembly any exclusive power of law

$ Amendment proposed by initiative petition filed January 30, 1908, ratified on ne 1, 1908, and declared in force on June 23, 1908.

making nor in any way to limit the initiative and referendum powers reservel by the people.9

ARTICLE III.

DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.

SECTION 1. The powers of the government shall be divided into three sepe rate departments--the Legislative, the Executive, including the Administrative and the Judicial; and no person charged with official duties under one of these departments shall exercise any of the functions of another except in this Constitution expressly provided.

ARTICLE IV.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. The Legislative authority of the State shall be vested in Legislative Assembly, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independ of the Legislative Assembly, and also reserve power at their own opti to approve or reject at the polls any Act of the Legislative Assembly. first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than eizis per cent of the legal voters shall be required to propose any measure by sun petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the meas so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the Secretary of State less than four months before the election at which they are to be v upon. The second power is the referendum, and it may be ordered (esme. as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, bering. or safety), either by the petition signed by five per cent of the legal vers or by the Legislative Assembly, as other bills are enacted. Referendum p tions shall be filed with the Secretary of State not more than ninety after the final adjournment of the session of the Legislative Assembly w passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to measure referred to the people. elections on measures referred to the people of the State be had at the biennial regular general election, except when the Legislat Assembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the pes shall take effect and become the law when it is approved by a majority the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall "Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oregon." This section shall be construed to deprive any member of the Legislative Assembly of the rig to introduce any measure. The whole number of votes cast for Justice

the Supreme Court at the regular election last preceding the filing of petition for the initiative or for the referendum shall be the basis on whic the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be countse Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be f with the Secretary of State, and in submitting the same to the people he, sh all other officers shall be guided by the general laws and the act sute ting this amendment, until legislation shall be especially provided therefor. SEC. 1a. The referendum may be demanded by the people against one more items, sections, or parts of any act of the Legislative Assembly in the same manner in which such power may be exercised against a complete et The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections parts of an act shall not delay the remainder of that act from becoming oper tive. The initiative and referendum powers reserved to the people by th Constitution are hereby further reserved to the legal voters of every mun}*** pality and district, as to all local, special and municipal legislation, of ever! :

Section 18 is a new section; it was proposed by initiative petition filed Januar

29, 1908, ratified June 1, 1908, and declared effective on June 23, 1908.

10 Amendment proposed and adopted by the legislative assembly of 1899, re-adopted by the legislative assembly of 1901, and ratified on June 2, 1902.

aracter, in or for their respective municipalities and districts. The manner exercising said powers shall be prescribed by general laws, except that cities 1 towns may provide for the manner of exercising the initiative and referenn powers as to their municipal legislation. Not more than ten per cent the legal voters may be required to order the referendum nor more than een per cent to propose any measure by the initiative, in any city or town:11 SEC. 2. The Senate shall consist of sixteen, and the House of Representaes of thirty-four members, which number shall not be increased until the r eighteen hundred and sixty, after which time the Legislative Assembly y increase the number of Senators and Representatives; always keeping near as may be. the same ratio as to the number of Senators and Repretatives; provided, that the Senate shall never exceed thirty, and the House Representatives sixty members.

SEC. 3. The Senators and Representatives shall be chosen by the electors the respective counties or districts into which the State may from time to e be divided by law.

SEC. 4. The Senators shall be elected for the term of four years, and resentatives for the term of two years from the day next after their genelection; provided, however, that the Senators-elect, at the first session the Legislative Assembly under this Constitution, shall be divided by lot ⚫ two equal classes, as nearly as may be; and the seats of Senators of the : class shall be vacated at the expiration of two years, and those of the nd class at the expiration of four years; so that one-half, as nearly as sible, shall be chosen biennially forever thereafter. And in case of the ease in the number of Senators, they shall be so annexed by lot to one the other of the two classes as to keep them as nearly equal as possible.. SEC. 5. The Legislative Assembly shall, in the year eighteen hundred and y-five, and every ten years after, cause an enumeration to be made of all white population of the State.

SEC. 6. The number of Senators and Representatives shall, at the session : following an enumeration of the inhabitants by the United States or this e. be fixed by law, and apportioned among the several counties according he number of white population in each. And the ratio of Senators and resentatives shall be determined by dividing the whole number of white lation of such county or district, by such respective ratios; and, when raction shall result from such division, which shall exceed one-half of i ratio, such county or district shall be entitled to a member for such tion. And in case any county shall not have the requisite population to tle such county to a member, then such county shall be attached to some ›ining county for senatorial or representative purposes.

SEC. 7. A senatorial district, when more than one county shall constitute same, shall be composed of contiguous counties, and no county shall be ded in creating senatorial districts.

SEC. 8. No person shall be a Senator or Representative who, at the time his election, is not a citizen of the United States; nor any one who has been for one year next preceding his election an inhabitant of the county, listrict whence he may be chosen. Senators and Representatives shall be east twenty-one years of age.

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SEC. 9. Senators and Representatives in all cases, except for treason, or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the ion of the Legislative Assembly, and in going to and returning from same; shall not be subject to any civil process during the session of the Legisve Assembly, nor during the fifteen days next before the commencement reof. Nor shall a member, for words uttered in debate in either House, jestioned in any other place.

SEC. 10. The sessions of the Legislative Assembly shall be held biennially he Capital of the State, commencing on the second Monday of September, the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and on the same day of every

11 Section 1a is a new section it was proposed by initiative petition filed Febru3, 1906, ratified on June 4, 1906, and declared in force on June 25, 1906.