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in any manner whatever, for the payment of 

 the liabilities of any individual, association, 

 municipal or other corporation whatever; nor 

 shall it have power to make any gift, or au- 

 thori/o tin- making of any gift, of any public 

 money or thing of value to any individual, 

 municipal or other corporation whatever ; pro- 

 vided, that imtliing in this section shall pre- 

 vent the Legislature granting aid" as above 

 mentioned ; and it shall not have power to 

 authorize the State, or any political subdivision 

 thereof, to subscribe for stock, or to become a 

 stockholder in any corporation whatever." 



" The Legislature shall have no power to 

 grant, or authorize any county or municipal 

 authority to grant, any extra compensation or 

 allowance to any public officer, agent, servant, 

 or contractor, after service has been rendered, 

 or a contract has been entered into and per- 

 formed, in whole or in part, nor to pay, or to 

 authorize the payment of, any claim hereafter 

 created against the State, or any county or 

 municipality of the State, under any agreement 

 or contract made without express authority of 

 law ; and all such unauthorized agreements or 

 contracts shall be null and void." 



" The Legislature shall pass laws for the reg- 

 ulation and limitation of the charges for services 

 performed and commodities furnished by tele- 

 graph and gas corporations, and the charges 

 by corporations or individuals for storage and 

 wharfage, in which there is a public use; and 

 where laws shall provide for the selection of 

 any person or officer to regulate and limit such 

 rates, no such person or officer shall be selected 

 by any corporation or individual interested in 

 the business to be regulated, and no person 

 shall be selected who is an officer or stock- 

 holder in any such corporation." 



" Any person who seeks to influence the 

 vote of a member of the Legislature by brib- 

 ery, promise of reward, intimidation, or any 

 other dishonest means, shall be guilty of lob- 

 bying, which is hereby declared a felony ; and 

 it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pro- 

 vide by law for the punishment of this crime. 

 Any member of the Legislature who shall be 

 influenced in his vote or action upon any mat- 

 ter pending before the Legislature by any re- 

 ward, or promise of future reward, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction 

 thereof, in addition to such punishment as may 

 be provided by law, shall be disfranchised and 

 for ever disqualified from holding any office or 

 public trust. Any person may be compelled 

 to testify in any lawful investigation or judi- 

 cial proceeding against any person who may be 

 charged with having committed the offense of 

 bribery or corrupt solicitation, or with having 

 been influenced in his vote or action, as a 

 member of the Legislature, by reward, or 

 promise of future reward, and shall not be 

 permitted to withhold his testimony upon the 

 ground that it may criminate himself or sub- 

 ject him to public infamy ; but such testimony 

 shall not afterward be used against him in any 



judicial proceeding, except for perjury in giv- 

 ing such testimony.' 1 



The term of office of the Governor and 

 State officers is four years. The Governor's 

 salary is fixed at $0,000 per annum, and those 

 of the State officers at $3,000 per annum. 

 These salaries may be reduced by the J,tgi>la- 

 ture, but they can not be increased. No fees 

 are allowed to either of these officers. The 

 Governor is made ineligible to the United 

 States Senate during his term of office. 



The Chief Justice and the six Associate Jus- 

 tices of the Supreme Court are to be chosen at 

 the State elections, and their term of office is 

 fixed at twelve years. A Superior Court is 

 created for each county. " The salaries of the 

 Justices of the Supreme Court shall be paid by 

 the State. One half of the salary of each Su- 

 perior Court Judge shall be paid by the State ; 

 the other half thereof shall be paid by the 

 county for which he is elected. During the 

 term of the first Judges elected under this 

 Constitution, the annual salaries of the Jus- 

 tices of the Supreme Court shall be $6,000 

 each. Until otherwise changed by the Legis- 

 lature, the Superior Court Judges shall receive 

 an annual salary of $3,000 each, payable 

 monthly, except the Judges of the city and 

 county of San Francisco, and the counties of 

 Alameda, San Joaquin, Los Angeles, Santa 

 Clara, Yuba and Sutter combined, Sacramento, 

 Butte, Nevada and Sonoma, who shall re- 

 ceive $4,000 each." "No Judge of a Superior 

 Court nor of the Supreme Court shall, after 

 the first day of July, 1880, be allowed to draw 

 or receive any monthly salary unless he shall 

 take and subscribe an affidavit, before an officer 

 entitled to administer oaths, that no cause in 

 his court remains undecided that has been sub- 

 mitted for decision for the period of ninety 

 days." 



" The public-school system shall include pri- 

 mary and grammar schools, and such high 

 schools, evening schools, normal schools, and 

 technical schools as may be established by the 

 Legislature or by municipal or district author- 

 ity ; but the entire revenue derived from the 

 State school fund and the State school tax shall 

 be applied exclusively to the support of pri- 

 mary and grammar schools." As to the use 

 of appropriations, it is provided that "no pub- 

 lic money shall ever be appropriated for the 

 support of any sectarian or denominational 

 school, or any school not under the exclusive 

 control of the officers of the public schools ; 

 nor shall any sectarian or denominational doc- 

 trine be taught, or instruction thereon be per- 

 mitted, directly or indirectly, in any of the 

 common schools of this State." 



Private property shall not be taken or sold 

 for the payment of the corporate debt of any po- 

 litical or municipal corporation. " No county, 

 city, town, township, board of education, or 

 school district shall incur any indebtedness or 

 liability in any manner or for any purpose, ex- 

 ceeding in any year the income and revenue 



