SEC. 18. The style of all process shall be: "The Peo- Style of ple of the State of California," and all prosecutions shall be conducted in their name and by their authority. SEC. 19. In order that no inconvenience may result to the public service from the taking effect of the amendments proposed to said Article VI, by the Legislature of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, no officer shall be superseded thereby, nor shall the organization of the several Courts be changed thereby, until the election and qualification of the several officers provided for in said amend ments. "Process." Amend- ments to not to affect official in cumbency. ARTICLE VII. MILITIA. SECTION 1. Organization and disciplining of the militia. 2. Officers, how elected or appointed. 3. Governor to call out the militia. tion and SECTION 1. The Legislature shall provide by law for Organizaorganizing and disciplining the militia, in such manner discipline. as they shall deem expedient, not incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the United States. SEC. 2. Officers of the militia shall be elected or ap- Officers. pointed in such manner as the Legislature shall from time to time direct, and shall be commissioned by the Gov ernor. SEC. 3. The Governor shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. Governor to call out the militia. ARTICLE VIII. STATE DEBTS. SECTION 1. Restriction on the legislative power to contract debts. SECTION 1. The Legislature shall not in any manner create any debt or debts, liability or liabilities, which shall, singly or in the aggregate, with any previous debts. Restriction on the legislative power to contract debts. or liabilities, exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, except in case of war, to repel invasion, or suppress insurrection, unless the same shall be authorized by some law for some single object or work, to be distinctly specified therein, which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest of such debt or liability as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt or liabil ity within twenty years from the time of the contracting thereof, and shall be irrepealable until the principal and interest thereon shall be paid and discharged; but no such law shall take effect until, at a general election, it shall have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election; and all money raised by authority of such law shall be applied only to the specific object therein stated, or to the payment of the debt thereby created; and such law shall be published in at least one newspaper in each Judicial District, if one be published therein, throughout the State, for three months next preceding the election at which it is submitted to the people. Superin- ARTICLE IX. EDUCATION. SECTION 1. Superintendent of Public Instruction. 2. Duties of Legislature to promote and encourage education. Proceeds of school lands. School Fund. 3. To provide a system of common schools. 4. University Fund-how created, managed, and applied. SECTION 1. A Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, at the special election for judicial officers to be held in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and every four years thereafter, at such special elections, be elected by the qualified voters of the State, and shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of December next after his election. SEC. 2. The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and to promote lands. agricultural improvement. The proceeds of all lands Legislature that may be granted by the United States to this State education. for the support of schools, which may be sold or disposed School of, and the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new States, under an Act of Congress distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the several States of the Union, approved A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and all estates of deceased persons who may have died without leaving a will or heir, and also such per cent as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual Fund, the interest of which, together with all the School rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of common schools throughout the State. Fund. Schools. SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide for a system of Common common schools, by which a school shall be kept up and supported in each district at least three months in every year; and any school district neglecting to keep up and support such a school may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of the public Fund during such neglect. Fund. SEC. 4. The Legislature shall take measures for the University protection, improvement, or other disposition of such lands as have been or may hereafter be reserved or granted by the United States, or any person or persons, to this State, for the use of a University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent Fund, the interest on which shall be applied to the support of said University, with such branches as the public convenience may demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be authorized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the Legislature, as soon as vide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said University. may be, to pro Amendments. Constitutional Convention. ARTICLE X. MODE OF AMENDING AND REVISING THE CONSTITUTION. SECTION 1. Proposals of amendments. Submission to the people. SECTION 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or Assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their Journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature then next to be chosen, and shall be published for three months next preceding the time of making such choice. And if, in the Legisla ture next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become part of the Constitution. SEC. 2. And if at any time two thirds of the Senate and Assembly shall think it necessary to revise and change this entire Constitution, they shall recommend to the electors at the next election for members of the Legislature to vote for or against a Convention; and if it shall appear that a majority of the electors voting at such election have voted in favor of calling a Convention, the Legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling a Convention, to be holden within six months after the passage of such law; and such Convention shall consist of a number of members not less than that of both branches of the Legislature. The Constitution that may have been agreed upon and adopted by such Con tional Con vention shall be submitted to the people, at a special Constituelection to be provided for by law, for their ratification vention. or rejection. Each voter shall express his opinion by depositing in the ballot box a ticket, whereon shall be written or printed the words "For the New Constitution," or "Against the New Constitution." The returns of such election shall, in such manner as the Convention shall direct, be certified to the Executive of the State, who shall call to his assistance the Controller, Treasurer, and Secretary of State, and compare the votes so certified to him. If, by such examination, it be ascertained that a majority of the whole number of votes cast at such election be in favor of such new Constitution, the Executive of this State shall, by his proclamation, declare such new Constitution to be the Constitution of the State of California. ARTICLE XI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SECTION 1. Seat of Government. 2. Dueling disqualifies for office. 3. The oath of office. 4. Legislature to provide a system of uniform county and 5. Boards of County Supervisors. 6. All officers not otherwise provided for elected by the peo- 7. Duration not declared by Constitution to be fixed by law. 9. Provision for support of county and other inferior officers. 11. Suits against the State. 12. Marriage contracts to be valid. 13. Taxation shall be equal and uniform. 14. Separate property of wife defined and provided for. 15. Homesteads of heads of families to be provided for. 16. Perpetuities not to be allowed. 17. Giving or taking a bribe disqualifies for office. 18. Rights of suffrage to be protected, and improper persons 19. Residence not affected by absence on the business of the State or Federal Government. |