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FROM THE

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE II.

SECTION 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, no native of China, no idiot, no insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his or her name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age and upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect. [Amendment adopted October 10, 1911.]

ARTICLE IV.

SEC. 22. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and upon warrants duly drawn thereon by the controller; and no money shall ever be appropriated or drawn from the state treasury for the purpose or benefit of any corporation, association, asylum, hospital, or any other institution not under the exclusive management and control of the state as a state institution, nor shall any grant or donation of property ever be made thereto by the state; provided, that notwithstanding anything contained in this or any other section of this constitution, the legislature shall have the power to grant aid to the institutions conducted for the support and maintenance of minor orphans, or half-orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances such aid to be granted by a uniform rule, and proportioned to the number of inmates of such respective institutions; provided, further, that the state shall have at any time the right to inquire into the management of such institution; provided, further, that whenever any county, or city and county, or city, or town, shall provide for the support of minor orphans, or half-orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances, such county, city and county, city, or town shall be

entitled to receive the same pro rata appropriations as may be granted to such institutions under church or other control.

SEC. 25. The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say:

First-Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police judges, and of constables.

Second-For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors.
Third-Regulating the practice of courts of justice.

Fourth-Providing for changing the venue in civil or criminal actions.
Fifth-Granting divorces.

Sixth-Changing the names of persons or places.

Seventh-Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plots, parks, cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the state.

Eighth Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation.

Ninth Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and township officers.

Tenth-For the assessment or collection of taxes.

Eleventh-Providing for conducting elections, or designating the places of voting, except on the organization of new counties.

Twelfth Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities.

Thirteenth-Extending the time for the collection of taxes.

Fourteenth-Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills, or other instruments. Fifteenth Refunding money paid into the state treasury.

Sixteenth-Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any corporation or person to this state, or to any municipal corporation therein.

Seventeenth-Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease, or incumber his or her property.

Eighteenth-Legalizing, except as against the state, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer.

Nineteenth-Granting to any corporation, association, or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege, or immunity.

Twentieth-Exempting property from taxation.
Twenty-first-Changing county seats.

Twenty-second-Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous

crimes.

Twenty-third-Regulating the rate of interest on money.

Twenty-fourth-Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of

liens.

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