CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 
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within this State shall amount to one hundred thousand; and after that 
period, at such ratio that the whole number of members of Assembly shall 
never be less than thirty, nor more than eighty. 
Sec. 30. When a congressional, senatorial, or assembly district, shall be 
composed of two or more counties, it shall not be separated by any county 
belonging to another district; and no county shall be divided, in forming a 
congressional, senatorial, or assembly district. 
Sec. 31. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be 
created by special act, except for municipal purposes. All general laws and 
special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time, 
or repealed. 
Sec. 32. Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual liability 
of the corporators, and other means, as may be prescribed by law. 
Sec. 33. The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed 
to include all associations and joint-stock companies, having any of the powers 
or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. 
And 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. 34. The Legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any 
charter for banking purposes; but associations may be formed under general 
laws, for the deposit of gold and silver; but no such association shall make, 
issue, or put in circulation, any bill, check, tickets, certificate, promissory note, 
or other paper, or the paper of any bank, to circulate as money. 
Sec. 35. The Legislature of this State shall prohibit, by law, any person or 
persons, association, company, or corporation, from exercising the privileges 
of banking, or creating paper to circulate as money. 
Sec. 36. Each stockholder of a corporation, or joint-stock association, shall 
be individually and personally liable for his proportion of all its debts and 
liabilities. 
Sec. 37. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organi¬ 
zation of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxa¬ 
tion, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loanihg their 
credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments, and in contracting debts by 
such municipal corporations. 
Sec. 38. In all elections by the Legislature, the members thereof shall vote 
viva voce , and the votes shall be entered on the journal. 
ARTICLE V. 
executive department. 
Sec. 1. The supreme executive power of this State shall be vested in a 
chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the State of California. 
Sec. 2. The Governor shall be elected by the qualified electors, at the time 
and places of voting for members of Assembly, and shall hold his office two 
years from the time of his installation, and until his successor shall be 
qualified. 
Sec. 3. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor, (except at the 
