It shall pass laws prohibiting free negroes or mulattoes from coming into the
state, and obliging the owners to treat slaves with humanity. Slaves shall
have a trial by jury, in criminal cases, and shall have the same protection in
their lives and persons as whites. The laws shall be revised and digested
once in every ten years. The governor and lieutenant-governor, who shall
preside in the senate, shall be 35 years old, natives of the United States, or
citizens thereof at the adoption of the constitution, or inhalntants of the
territory now called Missouri, at the time of its cession, — shall have been
residents of the state for four years next before the election, shall be chosen
for four years by a plurality of votes, and shall be ineligible for the next
four years. The governor may veto a bill ; but a majority of both houses
may pass it, notwithstanding his vdo. If the office of governor be vacant,
it shall be "filled by Ihe lieutenant-governor, and after him by the president
of the senate pro tem.y and after him by the speaker of the house ; but a new
election shall be called after three months' notice, unless the vacancy occur
within 18 months of the end of the term. Sheriffs and coroners serve for
two years, and are ineligible for four years in every eight. The supreme
court shall consist of three judges, and shall have appellate jurisdiction only.
Circuit courts have exclusive criminal jurisdiction, unless deprived of it by
law, and hear all civil cases not cognizable by a justice of the peace The



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