counties of Wyandot and Hardin, one district; the counties of Mercer and Van Wert, one district; the counties of Paulding, Defiance and Williams, one district; the counties of Putnam and Henry, one district; and the counties of Wood and Ottawa, one district; each of which districts shall be entitled to one Repre sentative in every session of the decennial period. Done in convention at Cincinnati, the tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-fifth. WILLIAM MEDILL, Attest: WM. H. GILL, Secretary. President. CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OREGON. Articles Section 18. Private property taken for public use. 19. Imprisonment for debt. 20. Exclusive privileges shall not be granted to any class of citizens. 21. What laws shall not be passed. 22. How laws may be suspended. 23. Habeas corpus. 24. Treason against the State, evidence of. 25. No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. 26. The people shall have the right to assemble together in a peaceable manner for the common good. 27. The right to bear arms. 28. Quartering soldiers. 29. Titles of nobility. 30. Emigration. 31. Rights of white foreigners.- What emigration may be restrained. 32. Taxes and duties. 33. Enumeration of rights, how con strued. 34. Prohibition of slavery. 35. Free negroes and mulattoes. ARTICLE II. Suffrage and Elections. 1. Elections free. 2. Qualifications of voters. 3. Idiotic, insane or convict persons not voters. 4. Residence. 5. Soldiers, seamen or marines may not vote. 6. Negroes, Chinamen or mulattoes may not vote. 7. Bribery at elections disqualifies from holding office. 8. Laws concerning elections. 8. In case of vacancy or disability. 9. Governor commander-in-chief of military and naval forces of the State. 10. To take care that the laws are executed. 11. He shall, from time to time, give the Assembly information. 12. He may convene the Legislature. 13. To transact all necessary business with officers. 14. May grant reprieves and pardons. 15. Veto power.-Reconsideration.Vote to be by yeas and nays. 16. Governor to fill vacancies by appointment. 17. He shall issue writs of election. 18. Commissions. ARTICLE VI. 1. Election of Secretary and Treasurer of State. |