or other political corporation or subdivision of the State, incurring any indebtedness, requiring the assent of the voters as aforesaid, shall, before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same; Provided, further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to counties having cities that now have or which may hereafter have, one hundred thousand or more inhabitants; nor to cities that now have or may hereafter have over three hundred thousand inhabitants; [Provided, That in the City of St. Louis the amount of bonds now aggregating $6,111,000, that being the amount assumed by said city in the scheme of separation from the county of St. Louis, and the sum of $5,808,000, heretofore, prior to January 1, 1901, expended in the construction of waterworks for the City of St. Louis, and any bonds which may be hereafter issued by said city in the construction and improvement of waterworks, the payment of the interest whereon and the principal whereof shall be provided from the revenue of said waterworks; that is to say, the amount of said bonds which shall be outstanding at any time shall not be included in the computation of the existing bonded indebtedness in determining the amount of bonds authorized to be issued by said city with the assent of two-thirds of the voters under the provisions of this article, but said city shall be authorized at any time to issue bonds with the assent aforesaid, to an amount including the outstanding indebtedness other than that above named, to the amount of five per cent. of the value of the taxable property in said city, to be ascertained as above provided, and said city shall have power, with such assent of the voters, to issue bonds for the construction and improvement of waterworks, the interest whereon and the principal whereof shall be provided for from the income of said waterworks. Said city shall establish a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds so authorized according to the time fixed for the maturity of the same; Provided, further, That in the city of Kansas City, the amount of bonds issued by said city, bearing date July 1, 1895, for acquiring waterworks and all bonds hereafter issued in renewal of said bonds or any portion thereof shall not be included in the computation of the existing bonded indebtedness of said city in determining the amount of bonds authorized to be issued by said city, with the assent of two-thirds of the voters under the provisions of this article, but said city shall be authorized at any time to issue bonds with the assent aforesaid to an amount including outstand

ing indebtedness, other than that above named, to the amount of five per centum of the value of the taxable property in said city to be ascertained as above specified; And provided, further, That the corporate authorities of the City of St. Louis are hereby authorized to issue interest bearing bonds of said city in the amount of five million dollars, at a rate of interest not to exceed four per cent. per annum, the principal payable within thirty years from the date of their issue, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid to the corporation or ganized for the celebration of the Louisiana Purchase Centennial in said city, to be used by said corporation for said celebration, in holding a world's fair or exposition in said city. And said corporate authorities of St. Louis shall be repaid as large a proportionate amount of the aid given by them as shall be repaid to the stockholders of said corporation on the sum subscribed and paid by them, and any surplus remaining from the assets of said corporation after said stockholders and said city shall have been paid in full, shall be divided between said stockholders and said city in proportion to the aggregate amount of said stock so paid in and the amount so loaned by said city; and any amount so received by said city from said corporation shall be paid into the sinking fund of said city for the redemption of its outstanding bonds; Provided, That if at the election for the adoption of this amendment to the Constitution a majority of the votes cast within the limits of said City of St. Louis voting for and against this amendment shall be against its adoption, then no bonds shall be issued under this amendment; And provided, further, That no such indebtedness so created shall be in any part thereof paid by the State or from any State revenue, tax or fund, but the same shall be paid by the City of St. Louis alone.]

Sec. 13. Private Property Not to Be Sold For Corporate Debt.-Private property shall not be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debt of a municipal corporation.

Sec. 17. Officer Not to Speculate in Public Funds-Felony.The making of profit out of State, county, city, town or school district money, or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any public officer, shall be deemed a felony, and shall be punished as provided by law.

Sec. 20. Money From Loans-How Applied.-The money arising from any loan, debt or liability, contracted by the State, or any county, city, town or other municipal corporation, shall be applied to the purposes for which they were obtained, or to the repayment of such debt or liability, and not otherwise.

ARTICLE XI.

EDUCATION.

Sec. 11. Religious or Sectarian Schools-Public Funds Not to Be Paid or Property Granted to.-Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall ever make an appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose, or to help to support or sustain any private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university or other institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or real estate ever be made by the State, or any county, city, town or other municipal corporation, for any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose whatever.

ARTICLE XII.

CORPORATIONS.

Sec. 4. Eminent Domain, Right of State in Corporation Property Trial.-The exercise of the power and right of eminent domain shall never be so construed or abridged as to prevent the taking, by the General Assembly, of the property and franchises of incorporated companies already organized, or that may be hereafter organized, and subjecting them to the public use, the same as that of individuals. The right of trial by jury shall be held inviolate in all trials of claims for compensation, when in the exercise of said right of eminent domain, any incorporated company shall be interested either for or against the exercise of said right.

Sec. 5. Police Power of the State.-The exercise of the police power of the State shall never be abridged, or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals, or the general well-being of the State.

Sec. 20. Street Railroad, Franchise, How Granted.-No law shall be passed by the General Assembly, granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, village,

or on any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad; and the franchises so granted shall not be transferred without similar assent first obtained.

Section 1.

ARTICLE XIV.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Public Lands-Taxing Land of United States and Non-Residents.-The General Assembly of this State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States, nor with any regulation which Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; nor shall lands belonging to persons residing out of the limits of this State ever be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to persons residing within the State.

Sec. 5. Tenure of Office.-In the absence of any contrary provision all officers now or hereafter elected or appointed, subject to the right of resignation, shall hold office during their official terms, and until their successors shall be duly elected or appointed and qualified.

Sec. 7. County, City, Etc., Officers-Removed From Office, When. The General Assembly shall, in addition to other penalties, provide for the removal from office of county, city, town and township officers, on conviction of willful, corrupt or fraudulent violation or neglect of official duty.

Sec. 8. Officers' Fees, Etc., Not to Be Increased Nor Term Extended.-The compensation or fees of no State, county or municipal officer shall be increased during his term of office; nor shall the term of any office be extended for a longer period than that for which such officer was elected or appointed.

Sec. 9. Appointment of Officers.-The appointment of all officers not otherwise directed by this Constitution shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 11. Officers Having Public Funds, Grand Jury to Investigate. It shall be the duty of the grand jury in each county, at least once a year, to investigate the official acts of all officers having charge of public funds, and report the result of their investigations, in writing, to the court.

Enabling Act and Statutes Applicable to Kansas City

REFERENCES ARE TO REVISED STATUTES OF MISSOURI FOR 1909.

Section 9703. City of Over 100,000 May Frame Charter— Procedure-Amendments.-Any city having a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this State, by causing a board of thirteen freeholders, who shall have been for at least five years qualified voters thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of such city at any general or special election, which board shall, within ninety days after such election, return to the chief magistrate of such city a draft of such charter signed by the members of such board, or a majority of them. Within thirty days thereafter such proposed charter shall be submitted to the qualified voters of such city at a general or special election, and if four-sevenths of such qualified voters voting thereat shall ratify the same, it shall, at the end of thirty days thereafter, become the charter of such city and supersede any existing charter and amendments thereof. A duplicate certificate shall be made setting forth the charter proposed and its ratification, which shall be signed by the chief magistrate of such city and authenticated by its corporate seal. One of such certificates shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, and the other, after being recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county in which such city lies, shall be deposited among the archives of such city, and all courts shall take judicial notice thereof. Such charter so adopted may be amended by a proposal there for made by the law-making authorities of such city, published for at least thirty days in three newspapers of largest circulation in such city, one of which shall be a newspaper printed in the German language, and accepted by threefifths of the qualified voters of such city voting at a general or special election, and not otherwise; but such charter shall always be in harmony with and subject to the Constitution and laws of the State. A duplicate certificate shall be made, setting forth such amendment and its ratification, which shall be signed by the chief magistrate of such city and authenticated by its corporate seal. One of such certificates shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of