acts, and other local and special laws may take effect or not, upon a vote of the electors interested.

22. The operation of the laws shall never be suspended except by the authority of the Legislative Assembly.

23. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety require it. 24. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it, or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid, or comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court.

25. No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of

estate.

26. No law shall be passed restraining any of the inhabitants of the State from assembling together in a peaceable manner to consult for their common good; nor from instructing their representatives; nor from applying to the Legislature for redress of grievances.

27. The people shall have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State, but the military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power.

28. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, except in manner prescribed by law.

29. No law shall be passed granting any title of nobility, or conferring hereditary distinctions.

30. No law shall be passed prohibiting emigration from the State. 31. White foreigners who are or may hereafter become residents of this State shall enjoy the same rights in respect to the possession, enjoyment and descent of property as native born citizens. And the Legislative Assembly shall have power to restrain and regulate the immigration to this State of persons not qualified to become citizens of the United States.

32. No tax or duty shall be imposed without the consent of the people or their representatives in the Legislative Assembly; and all taxation shall be equal and uniform.

33. This enumeration of rights and privileges shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people.

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

35. No free negro or mulatto, not residing in this State at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall come, reside or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulatoes, and

for their effectual exclusion from the State, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the State, or employ or harbor them.

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, every white male citizen of the United States of the age of twentyone years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months immediately preceding such election; and every white male of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law.

SEC. 3. No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector; and the privilege of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction of any crime which is punishable by imprisonment in the Penitentiary.

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

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

vote.

SEC. 6. No negro, Chinaman or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage.

SEC. 7. Every person shall be disqualified from holding office during the term for which he may have been elected, who shall have given or offered a bribe, threat or reward to procure his election.

SEC. 8. The Legislative Assembly shall enact laws to support the privilege of free suffrage, prescribing the manner of regulating and

conducting elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence therein from power, bribery, tumult and other improper conduct.

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

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

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

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

that term.

peace,

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

SEC. 14. General elections shall be held on the first Monday of June, biennially.

SEC. 15. In all elections by the Legislative Assembly, or by either branch thereof, votes shall be given openly or vica voce, and not by ballot, forever; and in all elections by the people, votes shall be given openly, or vica voce, until the Legislative Assembly shall otherwise di

rect.

SEC. 16. In all elections held by the people under this Constitution, the person or persons who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected.

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

gress.

OF THE STATE OF OREGON.

[ Adopted by the twentieth legislative assembly; adopted by the twenty-first legislative assembly; adopted by the people, by vote of 62,024 for, to 5,668 against it, June 2, 1902.]

Section 1 of article IV of the Constitution of the State of Oregon shall be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows:— Section 1. The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly. The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than eight per cent of the legal voters shall be required to propose any measure by such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon. The second power is the referendum, and it may be ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety,) either by the petition signed by five per cent of the legal voters, or by the legislative assembly, as other bills are enacted. Referendum petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not more than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislative assembly which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures referred to the people. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be had at the biennial regular general elections, except when the legislative assembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the people shall take effect and become the law when it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall be: "Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oregon." This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the legislative assembly of the right to introduce any measure. The whole number of votes cast for justice of the supreme court at the regular election last preceding the filing of any petition for the initiative or for the referendum shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be counted. Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be filed with the secretary of state, and in submitting the same to the people he, and all other officers, shall be