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SEC. 5. The pardoning power herein granted shall extend to all persons have been convicted of offenses against the laws of the Territory of • Mexico.

SEC. 6.

All property, real and personal, and all moneys, credits, claims, choses in action belonging to the Territory of New Mexico, shall become property of this State; and all debts, taxes, fines, penalties, escheats, and itures which have accrued or may accrue to said Territory shall inure is State.

SEC. 7. All recognizances, bonds, obligations, and undertakings entered or executed to the Territory of New Mexico, or to any county, school ict, municipality, officer, or official board therein, shall remain valid accordo the terms thereof, and may be sued upon and recovered by the proper ority under the State law.

EC. 8. All lawful process, writs, judgments, decrees, convictions, and nces issued, rendered, had, or pronounced, in force at the time of the ssion of the State, shall continue and remain in force to the same extent the change of government had not occurred, and shall be enforced and ted under the laws of the State.

EC. 9. All courts existing, and all persons holding offices or appointments authority of said Territory, at the time of the admission of the State, continue to hold and exercise their respective jurisdictions, functions, , and appointments until superseded by the courts, officers, or authorities proby this constitution.

ntil otherwise provided by law, the seal of the Territory shall be used seal of the State, and the seals of the several courts, officers, and boards in the Territory shall be used as the seals of the corresponding , officers and official boards in the State; and for any new court, office, or created by this constitution a seal may be adopted by the judge of ourt, or the incumbent of said office, or by the said board. x. 10. All suits, indictments, criminal actions, bonds, process, matters, oceedings pending in any of the courts in the Territory of New Mexico time of the organization of the courts provided for in this constitution e transferred to and proceed to determination in such courts of like or onding jurisdiction. And all civil causes of action and criminal offenses shall have been commenced, or indictment found, shall be subject to prosecution, indictment, and review in the proper courts of the State ‣ manner and to the same extent as if the State had been created and ourts established prior to the accrual of such causes of action and the ssion of such offenses.

c. 11. This constitution shall be signed by the president and secreof the constitutional convention and such delegates as desire to sign me, and shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the Territory, it may be signed at any time by any delegate.

C. 12. All lawful debts and obligations of the several counties of the ory of New Mexico not assumed by the State, and of the school districts, ipalities, irrigation districts, and improvement districts therein, existing time of its admission as a State, shall remain valid and unaffected by ange of government until paid or refunded according to law; and all es, municipalities, and districts in said Territory shall continue with the names, boundaries, and rights until changed in accordance with the tution and laws of the State. EC. 13.

This constitution shall be submitted to the people of New o for ratification at an election to be held on the 21st day of January, at which election the qualified voters of New Mexico shall vote directly against the same, and the governor of the Territory of New Mexico forthwith issue his proclamation ordering said election to be held on day.

xcept as to the manner of making returns of said election and canvassad certifying the result thereof, said election shall be held and conducted e manner prescribed by the laws of New Mexico now in force.

SEC. 14. The ballots cast at said election in favor of the ratification 'this constitution shall have printed or written thereon in both English Spanish the words "For the constitution," and those against the ratifical of the constitution shall have written or printed thereon in both English Spanish the words "Against the constitution," and shall be counted and retur accordingly.

SEC. 15. The returns of said election shall be made by the election off direct to the secretary of the Territory of New Mexico at Santa Fe, at with the governor and the chief justice of said Territory, shall constit canvassing board, and they, or any two of them, shall meet at said cit Santa Fe on the third Monday after said election and shall canvass the Said canvassing board shall make and file with the secretary of the Ter of New Mexico a certificate signed by at least two of them, setting forth number of votes cast at said election for or against the constitution, tively.

.SEC. 16. If a majority of the legal votets cast at said election, as cer to by said canvassing board, shall be for the constitution, it shall be de to be duly ratified by the people of New Mexico, and the secretary Territory of New Mexico shall forthwith cause to be submitted to the dent of the United States and to Congress, for approval, a certified copy constitution, together with the statement of the votes cast thereon.

SEC. 17. If Congress and the President approve this constitution. the President approves the same and Congress fails to disapprove the during the next regular session thereof, the governor of New Mexico within thirty days after receipt of notification from the President cen said facts, issue his proclamation for an election at which officers for State government including a governor, county officers, members of the "Legislature, two Representatives in Congress to be elected at large fr State, and such other officers as this constitution prescribes, shall be by the people; said election to take place not earlier than sixty days not than ninety days after the date of said proclamation by the governor ing the same."

SEC. 18. Said last-mentioned election' shall be held, the returns madé, canvassed, and certified to by the secretary of said Territory. same manner, and under the same laws, including those as to quali of electors, shall be applicable thereto, as hereinbefore prescribed för making of the returns, canvassing, and certifying the same, of the electi the ratification or rejection of this constitution.

When said election of State and county officers, members of the ture, Representatives in Congress, and other officers provided for in th stitution, shall be held and the returns thereof made, canvassed, and as hereinbefore provided, the governor of the Territory of New Mexic immediately certify the result of said election, as canvassed and certi hereinbefore provided, to the President of the United States.

: SEC. 19. Within thirty days after the issuance by the President United States of his proclamation announcing the result of said electi ascertained, all officers elected at such election, except members of the lature, shall take the oath of office and give bond as required by this tution or by the laws of the Territory of New Mexico in case of like in the Territory, county, or district, and shall thereupon enter upon the of their respective offices; but the legislature may by law require such to give other or additional bonds as a condition of their continuance in

SEC. 20. The governor of the State, immediately upon his qualifying entering upon the duties of his office, shall issue his proclamation conve the legislature at the seat of government on a day to be specified therein Jess than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date of said proclama

The members-elect of the legislature shall meet on the day specified. the oath required by this constitution and within ten days after organiza shall proceed to the election of two Senators of the United States for the of New Mexico, in the manner prescribed by the constitution and laws

United States; and the governor and secretary of the State of New Mexico shall certify the election of the Senators and Representatives in Congress in the manner required by law.

SEC. 21. The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to carry into effect the provisions of this constitution.

SEC. 22. The term of office of all officers elected at the election, aforesaid shall commence on the date of their qualification and shall expire at the same time as if they had been elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November in the year nineteen hundred and twelve.

Done in open convention at the city of Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico, this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

[SEAL.]

(Signed) CHARLES A. SPIESS, President of the Constitutional Convention. (Signed) GEO. W. ARMIJO, Secretary.

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CONSTITUTION OF NEW YORK-1894.*

We, the People of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our Freedom, in order to secure its blessings, do establish this Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1. No member of this State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.

SEC. 2. The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law.

SEC. 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty đ conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licen tiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.

SEC. 4. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may requir its suspension.

SEC. 5. Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed nor shall cruel and unusual punishments be inflicted, nor shall witnesses le unreasonably detained.

SEC. 6. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise in famous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia whe in actual service, and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep with the consent of Congress in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature), unless on presen ment of indictment of a grand jury, and in any trial in any court whatever the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person and with counsel as in civil actions. No person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty or prop erty without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for pub use without just compensation.

SEC. 7. When private property shall be taken for any public use. the compensation to be made therefor, when such compensation is not made by the State, shall be ascertained by a jury, or by the Supreme Court with or without a jury, but not with a referee, or by not less than three commissioners appointed by a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law. Private roads may be opened in the manner to be prescribed by law; but in every case the necessity of the road and the amount of all damage to be sustained by the opening thereof shall be first determined by a jury of freeholders, and such amount, together with the expenses of the proceeding, shall be paid b the person to be benefited. General laws may be passed permitting the owners or occupants of agricultural lands to construct and maintain for the drainage thereof, necessary drains, ditches and dykes upon the lands of others. under proper restrictions and with just compensation, but no special laws shall be enacted for such purposes.

The constitution of New York was drafted by a convention which assembled at Albany on May 8, and adjourned on Sept. 29, 1894. The following questions were submitted to the people at the election of Nov. 6, 1894: Legislative apportionment, which was adopted by a vote of 404,335 to 350,625; canal improvement, which was adopted by a vote of 442,998 to 327,645; and the constitution as a whole, which was adopted by a vote of 410,697 to 327,402. With certain exceptions, the constitution became effective on January 1, 1895.

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The Legislature may authorize cities to take more land and property is needed for actual construction in the laying out, widening, extending elocating parks, public places, highways or streets; provided, however, that additional land and property so authorized to be taken shall be no more sufficient to form suitable building sites abutting on such park, public highway or street. After so much of the land and property has been >priated for such park, public place, highway or street as is needed therethe remainder may be sold or leased.1

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EC. 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments I subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall issed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. iminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in ice to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged elous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to dele the law and the fact.

x. 9. No law shall be passed abridging the right of the people peaceo assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; all any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings: all any lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, other kind of gambling hereafter be authorized or allowed within this and the Legislature shall pass appropriate laws to prevent offenses t any of the provisions of this section.

C. 10.

The people of this State, in their right of sovereignty, are deemed ess the original and ultimate property in and to all lands within the tion of the State; and all lands the title to which shall fail, from a of heirs, shall revert, or escheat to the people.

11. All feudal tenures of every description, with all their incidents. lared to be abolished, saving, however, all rents and services certain it any time heretofore have been lawfully created or reserved.

12. All lands within this State are declared to be allodial, so that. only to the liability to escheat, the entire and absolute property is vested owners, according to the nature of their respective estates.

13. No lease or grant of agricultural land for a longer period than years, hereafter made, in which shall be reserved any rent or service kind, shall be valid.

14.

All fines, quarter-sales, or other like restraints upon alienation. 1 in any grant of land hereafter to be made shall be void.

15. No purchase or contract for the sale of lands in this State made he fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventywhich may hereafter be made of, or with the Indians, shall be valid made under the authority and with the consent of the Legislature. 16. Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the Legislathe colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and seventyd the resolutions of the Congress of the said colony, and of the conof the State of New York, in force on the twentieth day of April, one d seven hundred and seventy-seven, which have not since expired, or pealed or altered; and such acts of the Legislature of this State as v in force, shall be and continue the law of this State, subject to such ons as the Legislature shall make concerning the same. of the common law, and such of the said acts, or parts thereof, as But all such ugnant to this Constitution, are hereby abrogated.

17. All grants of land within this State, made by the king of Great or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void: 1 thing contained in this Constitution shall affect any grants of land

mendment proposed and adopted by the legislature of 1912, re-adopted by the re of 1913, and ratified on Nov. 4, 1913. In the first paragraph, the words "or Supreme court with or without a jury, but not with a referee" are new; the f the second paragraph is new.

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