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or hereditary distinction, nor create any office, the appointment to which 

 shall be for a longer term than during good behavior. 



Sect. XXV. The emigration from the State shall not be prohibited. 



Sect. XXVI. To guard against transgressions of the high powers 

 which we have delegated, we declare, that every thing in this article is 

 excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall for ever 

 remain inviolate. 



ARTICLE X. 



OF AMENDMENTS. 



Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed 

 in the Senate or House of Eepresentatives, and if the same shall be agreed 

 to by a majority of the members elected to each House, such proposed 

 amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the 

 yeas and nays taken thereon, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth 

 shall cause the same to be published three months before the next elec- 

 tion, in at least one newspaper in every county in which a newspaper 

 shall be published ; and if in the legislature next afterwards chosen, such 

 proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of 

 the members elected to each House, the Secretary of the Commonwealth 

 shall cause the same again to be published in the manner aforesaid, and 

 such proposed amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the people 

 in such manner and at such time, at least three months after being so 

 agreed to by the two Houses, as the legislature shall prescribe; and if the 

 people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a 

 majority of the qualified voters of this State voting thereon, such amend- 

 ment or amendments shall become a part of the constitution ; but no 

 amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the people oftener than 

 once in five years : Provided^ That if more than one amendment be sub- 

 mitted, they shall be submitted in such manner and form that the people 

 may vote for or against each amendment separately and distinctly. 



ARTICLE XI. 



OF PUBLIC DEBTS. 



Sect. I. The State may contract debts, to supply casual deficits or 

 failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for ; but 

 the aggregate amount of such debts direct and contingent, whether con- 

 tracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at dif- 

 ferent periods of time, shall never exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, and the money arising from the creation of such debts, shall be 

 applied to the purpose for which it was obtained, or to repay the debts 

 so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever. 



Sect. II. In addition to the above limited power, the State may contract 



