SEC. 5. No right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation, until full compensation therefor be first made in money or secured by a deposit of money to the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall be ascertained by a jury of twelve men, in a court of record, as shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall not have power to establish or incorporate any bank or banking company, or monied institution, for the purpose of issuing bills of credit, or bills payable to order or bearer, except under the conditions prescribed in this Constitution.

SEC. 7. No bank shall be established, otherwise than under a general banking law, as provided in the first section of this article.

SEC. 8. The General Assembly may enact a general banking law, which law shall provide for the registry and countersigning by the Governor of the State, of all paper credit designed to be created as money; and ample collateral security, convertible into specie, or the redemption of the same in gold or silver, shall be required, and such collateral security shall be under the control of such officer or officers as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 9. All bills or notes issued as money, shall be, at all times, redeemable in gold or silver, and no law shall be passed sanctioning, directly or indirectly, the suspension, by any bank or banking company, of specie payment.

SEC. 10. Holders of bank notes shall be entitled, in case of insolvency, to preference of payment over all other creditors.

SEC. 11. Every bank or banking company shall be required to cease all banking operations within twenty years from the time of its organization, and promptly thereafter close its business.

SEC. 12. No bank shall receive, directly or indirectly, a greater rate of interest than shall be allowed by law to individuals for lending money.

SEC. 13. The State shall not be a stockholder in any bank, nor shall the credit of the State ever be given or lent to any banking company, association or corporation, except for the purpose of expediting the construction of railroads, or works of internal improvement, within this State, and the credit of the State shall, in no case, be given or lent without the approval of two-thirds of both houses of the General Assembly.

SEC. 15. All corporations shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts, in like cases as natural persons.

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide for the organization of cities, and incorporated towns, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment and contracting of debt.

ARTICLE XIV.

EXEMPTED PROPERTY.

SEC. 1. The personal property of any resident of this State to the value of one thousand dollars, to be selected by such resident, shall be exempted from sale on execution, or other final process of any court, issued for the collection of any debt con tracted after the adoption of this Constitution.

SEC. 2. Every homestead, not exceeding eighty acres of land, and the dwelling and appurtenances thereon, to be selected by the owner thereof, and not in any town, city or village, or in lieu thereof, at the option of the owner, any lot in the city, town or village, with the dwelling and appurtenances thereon, owned and occupied by any

resident of this State, and not exceeding the value of two thousand dollars, shall be exempted from sale, on execution, or any other final process from a court, from any debt contracted after the adoption of this Constitution. Such exemption, however, shall not extend to any mortgage lawfully obtained, but such mortgage or other alienation of such homestead, by the owner thereof, if a married man, shall not be valid without the voluntary signature and assent of the wife of the same.

SEC. 3. The homestead of a family, after the death of the owner thereof, shall be exempt from the payment of any debts contracted after the adoption of this Constitution, in all cases, during the minority of the children.

SEC. 4. The provisions of sections one and two of this article shall not be so construed as to prevent a laborer's lien for work done and performed for the person claiming such exemption, or a mechanic's lien for work done on the premises.

SEC. 5. If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow, but no children, the same shall be exempt, and the rents and profits thereof shall inure to her benefit. SEC. 6. The real and personal property of any female in this State, acquired before marriage, and all property, real and personal, to which she may afterward be entitled by gift, grant, inheritance, or devise, shall be and remain the separate estate and property of such female, and shall not be liable for any debts, obligations, and engagments of her husband, and may be devised or bequeathed by her, the same as if she were a femme sole.

ARTICLE XV.

OATH OF OFFICE.

SEC. 1. All civil officers of this State, legislative, executive and judicial, before they enter upon the execution of the duties of their respective offices, shall take the following oath:

"I, - do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am not disfranchised by the Constitution of Alabama, or by the Constitution or laws of the United States; that I will honestly and faithfully support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States, the union of the States, and the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, so long as I remain a citizen thereof; and that I will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter to the best of my ability. So help me God."

ARTICLE XVI.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

SEC. 1. The General Assembly, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution, which proposed amendments shall be duly published in print at least three months before the next general election of representatives, for the consideration of the people; and it shall be the duty of the several returning officers at the next general election which shall be held for representatives, to open a poll for, and make a return to the Secretary of State for the time being, of the names of all those voting for representatives who have voted on such proposed amendments, and if thereupon it shall appear that a majority of all the citizens of the State voting for representatives have voted in favor of such proposed amendments, and two-thirds of each house of the next General Assembly shall, after such an election, and before another, ratify the same amendments, by yeas and nays, they shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution: Provided, That the said proposed amendments shall, at each of the said sessions, have been read three times on three several days in each house.

After the expiration of twelve months from the adoption of this Constitution, no Convention shall be held for the purpose of altering or amending the Constitution of this State, unless the question of Convention or no Convention shall be first submitted to a vote of all the electors, twenty-one years of age and upward, and approved by a majority of the electors voting at said election.

BOARD Of EDUCATION.

First District-G. L. Putnam, of Mobile; W. P. Miller, of Conecuh.
Second District-C. H. Adams, of Montgomery; A. H. Allen, of Lowndes.
Third District-Thomas A. Cook, of Talladega; Thomas J. Jackson, of Chambers.
Fourth District-Jesse H. Booth, of Autauga; H. W. Davis, of Marengo.
Fifth District-W. H. Clayton, of St. Clair; James Nichols, of Jackson.
Sixth District-G. A. Smith, of Lawrence; A. B. Collins, of Franklin.

LEGISLATURE.

The following are the members of both Houses of the Alabama Legislature:

THE STATE SENATE.

1. Limestone and Lauderdale - Ben

jamin Lentz.

2. Franklin and Lawrence-D. V. Sevier.

15. Russell-Wm. B. Martin.
16. Bullock-Benjamin Royal.
17. Barbour-J. W. Mabry.

18. Autauga and Elmore-J. A. Far

3. Morgan, Blount, Winston and Ma- den. rion-J. J. Hinds.

4. Madison-I. D. Sibley.

5. Jackson, Marshall and DeKalb-C. O. Whitney.

6. Cherokee and Calhoun-H. C. Sanford.

7. Walker, Jefferson and St. Clair John Oliver.

8. Shelby and Bibb-Jesse W. Mahan. 9. Tuscaloosa and Fayette - J. F. Morton.

10. Talladega and Clay-Green T. McA fee.

11. Chambers, Randolph and Cleburne -Hicks H. Wise.

12. Coosa and Tallapoosa-Thomas Lambert.

13. Lee—J. L. Pennington,

14. Macon-Robert Mitchell.

Autanga-Alfred Baker.

Baldwin-A. L. Holman.

Bullock-D. H. Hill, S. Speed.

Bibb-P. A. Kendrick.

19. Montgomery-J. P. Stow.
20. Lowndes-Wm. M. Buckley.
21. Dallas-D. E. Coon.

22. Perry-F. D. Wyman.
23. Hale-B. Johnson.

24. Green and Pickens-Charles Hays.
25. Sumter J. A. Yordy.

26. Marengo-W. B. Jones.

27. Choctaw, Clarke and Washington —John T. Foster.

28. Mobile-F. G. Bromberg.

29. Baldwin and Monroe-R. N. Barr, 30. Wilcox-J. D. F. Richards. 31. Butler and Conecuh Willlam Miller, Jr.

32. Covington, Crenshaw and PikeA. N. Worthy.

33. Coffee, Dale and Henry-Phillip King.

REPRESENTATIVES.

Barbour-David Low, O. C. Doster,

Thomas Diggs.

Blount-George White.

Butler-John A. Hart.

Chambers-W. L. Taylor.
Calhoun-Thomas D. Fister.
Clay-T. W. Newsom.
Clarke-B. R. Wilson.

Cherokee-R. A. Reeves.
Cleburne-M. R. Bell.
Crenshaw-Wm. Mastin.

Coffee-J. G. Moore.

Conechu-John Yates.

Choctaw-L. R. Smith.

Coosa-James Vanzandt.

Covington-E J. Mansel.
Dale John R. Ard.

Dallas-Alden Emmons, Jos. Drawn,
S. Weaver, John Hardy, W. A. Brantley
DeKalb-George W. Malone.