1 ORDER OF BUSINESS OF THE DAY. 53. The Speaker shall call for petitions from members of the House. The petitions having been presented and disposed of, reports first from the standing and then from the select committees shall be called for and disposed of. And the above 'business shall be done in no other part of the day, except by permission of the House. 54. The unfinished business in which the House was engaged at the last preceding adjournment, if called for by any member, shall have the preference over all other business except the general order of the day; and no motion, or any other business except the general order of the day, shall be received without special leave of the House, until the former is disposed of. OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. PART FIRST.-BILL OF RIGHTS. ARTICLE 1. Equality of men; origin and object of government. 2. Natural rights. 3. Society, its organization and purposes. 4. Rights of conscience unalienable. 5. Religious freedom recognized. 6. Public worship of the Deity to be encouraged; right of electing religious teachers; free toleration; existing contracts not affected. 7. State sovereignty. 8. Accountability of magistrates and officers to the people. 9. No hereditary office or place. 10. Right of revolution. 11. Elections and elective franchise. 12. Protection and taxation reciprocal; private property for public use. 13. Conscientiously scrupulous not compellable to bear arms. 14. Legal remedies to be free, complete and prompt. 15. Accused entitled to full and substantial statement of charge; not obliged to furnish evidence against himself; may produce proofs and be fully heard, etc. 16. No person to be again tried after an acquittal; trial by jury in capital cases. 42. In case of disagreement, governor to adjourn or prorogue legislature; if infectious distemper or other causes exist, may convene them elsewhere. 43. Veto of governor to bills, provisions as to. 44. Resolves to be treated like bills. 45. Governor and council to nominate and appoint officers; nomination three days before appointment. 46. Governor and council have negative on each other. 47. Field officers to recommend, and governor to appoint, company officers. 48. President of senate to act as governor when office vacant. 49. Governor to prorogue or adjourn legislature and call extra sessions. 50. Power and duties of governor as commander-in-chief; limitation. ARTICLE 1. All men are born equally free and independent; therefore all government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent, and instituted for the general good. ART. 2. All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. ART. 3. When men enter into a state of society they sur |