Wrecks
The royal claim to Wrecks, waifs, strays, treasure-trove, royal
mines, royal fish, royal birds, are declared to have been usurpations
on common right.
Salaries
No Salaries or Perquisites shall be given to any officer but by
some future act of the legislature. No salaries shall be given to
the Administrator, members of the legislative houses, judges of the
court of Appeals, judges of the County courts, or other inferior
jurisdictions, Privy counsellors, or Delegates to the American
Congress: but the reasonable expences of the Administrator, members
of the house of representatives, judges of the court of Appeals,
Privy counsellors, & Delegates for subsistence while acting in the
duties of their office, may be borne by the public, if the
legislature shall so direct.
Qualifications
No person shall be capable of acting in any office Civil,
Military [or Ecclesiastical] *The Qualifications of all not otherwise
directed, shall be an oath of fidelity to state and the having given
no bribe to obtain their office* who shall have given any bribe to
obtain such office, or who shall not previously take an oath of
fidelity to the state.
None of these fundamental laws and principles of government
shall be repealed or altered, but by the personal consent of the
people on summons to meet in their respective counties on one and the
same day by an act of Legislature to be passed for every special
occasion: and if in such county meetings the people of two thirds of
the counties shall give their suffrage for any particular alteration
or repeal referred to them by the said act, the same shall be
accordingly repealed or altered, and such repeal or alteration shall
take it's place among these fundamentals and stand on the same
footing with them, in lieu of the article repealed or altered.
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