Section 2. What is required to move a county seat. 3. To establish new counties. 4. County government shall be uniform throughout the State. 5. General and uniform laws shall provide for the election of county and other officers.-It shall prescribe their duties and fix their term of office, etc. 6. The Board of County Commissioners shall fill all vacancies by appointment. 7. No county officer shall be eligible to hold his office more than two terms. 8. The salaries of all county officers, etc., shall be fixed by law. 9. No county, or the inhabitants thereof, shall be released from its or their proportionate share of taxes. 10. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special law. 11. Any county, city, town or township may make within its limits all such local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws. 12. The Legislature shall have no power to impose taxes upon any of the sub-divisions of the State, but may, by general laws, vest in corporate authorities thereof the power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes. 13. Private property Ishall not be taken or sold for the payment of any corporate debt, except. 14. The making of profit out of public money shall be a felony. 15. All moneys and taxes belonging to any sub-division of the State shall be immediately deposited with the treasurer. ARTICLE XII. Corporations other than Municipal. Section 1. Corporations may be formed under general laws.-All laws relating to corporations may be altered, amended or repealed. 2. All existing charters, etc., under which an actual organization shall not have taken place at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall not be valid. 3. The Legislature shall not extend any franchise or charter, nor remit the forfeiture of the same, of any corporation now existing. 4. Stockholders and all other incorporated companies, except banking or insurance, shall be liable for the debts of the oorporation to the amount of his unpaid stock annually. 5. The term corporation defined. 6. Regulations in regard to the issue of stock by corporations. 7. Foreign corporations shall not be allowed to do business in this State on more favorable conditions than domestic corporations have. 8. No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise, etc. 9. The State must not loan its credit. Section 3. The right to extend streets over intervening tide lands. ARTICLE XVI. School and Granted Lands, 1. All public lands granted by the State are held in trust for the people. Regulations in regard to the sale of the same. 2. School lands to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. -Terms of payment. 3. No more than one-fourth of the land granted for educational purposes shall be sold prior to January 1, 1895, etc. 4. No more than one hundred and sixty acres of granted lands shall be offered for sale in one parcel. 5. None of the permanent school fund shall ever be loaned to private persons corporations. or 1. No existing rights, etc., shall be effected by a change in the form of government.-All Territorial laws shall remain in force until they expire. 3. All debts, fines, etc., which have accrued to the Territory shall accrue to the State. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken before the change from a Territorial to a State government shall remain valid, etc. 5. All criminal prosecutions shall continue. 6. All officers now holding office shall continue. 7. The time of election for all officers provided for in this Constitution. 8. All things appertaining or pending in the District Court of the Territory shall pass into the jurisdiction of the Superior Court. 9. The seal of the Supreme Court of the Territory shall be the seal of the Supreme Court of the State, etc. 10. The books, records, papers and proceedings of the Probate Court in each county and all cases pending therein shall pass into the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of the same county created by this Constitution. 11. The Legislature shall at its first session provide for the election of its officers whose election is not otherwise provided for. 12. In case of contested election, how settled. 13. One Representative in the Congress of the United States shall be elected from the State at large. 14. All district, county and precinct officers who may be in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, etc., shall We, the people of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution. ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights. Sec. 2. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. Sec. 3. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Sec. 4. The right of petition and of the people peaceably to assemble for the common good shall never be abridged. Sec. 5. Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. Sec. 6. The mode of administering an oath or affirmation shall be such as may be most consistent with and binding upon the conscience of the person to whom such oath or affirmation may be administered. Sec. 7. No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law. Sec. 8. No law granting irrevocably any privilege, franchise or immunity shall be passed by the Legislature. Sec. 9. No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself, or be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. Sec. 10. Justice in all cases shall be administered openly and without unnecessary delay. Sec. 11. Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. No public money or property shall be appropriated for, or applied to, any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment. No religious qualifications shall be required for any public office or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or juror, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief to affect the weight of his testimony. Sec. 12. No law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations. Sec. 13. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires it. Sec. 14. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishment inflicted. Sec. 15. No conviction shall work corruption of blood, nor forfeiture of estate. Private property shall not be taken for private use, except for private ways of necessity, and for drains, flumes or ditches on or across the lands of others for agricultural, domestic or sanitary purposes. No private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation having been first made, or paid into court for the owner, and no right-of-way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal, until full compensation therefor be first made in money, or ascertained and paid into the court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall be ascer tained by a jury, unless a jury be waived as in other civil cases in courts of record, in the manner prescribed by law. Whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to |