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4186. 8. All taxes upon real and personal estate, assessed by authority of this State, shall be apportioned and assessed equally, according to the just value thereof.

. 9. The legislature shall never, in any manner, suspend or surrender the power of taxation.

. 10, of the amendments. Amended, by striking out the words “land agent and.”

. 9. The legislature shall, by a two-thirds concurrent vote of both branches, have the power to call constitutional conventions, for the purpose of amending this constitution. The legislature may enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage, for a term not exceeding ten years, all persons convicted of bribery at any election, or of voting at any election, under the influence of a bribe.

. 6. After the amendments proposed herewith shall have been submitted to popular vote, the chief justice of the supreme judicial court shall arrange the constitution, as amended, under appropriate titles, and in proper articles, parts and sections, omitting all sections, clauses, and words not in force, and making no other changes in the provisions or language thereof, and shall submit the same to the legislature at its next session. And the draft, and arrangement, when approved by the legislature, shall be enrolled on parchment and deposited in the office of the secretary of state; and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the books containing the laws of the State. And the constitution, with the amendments made thereto, in accordance with the provisions thereof, shall be the supreme law of the State.

. 7. Sections one, two, and five, of article ten of the existing constitution, shall hereafter be omitted in any printed copies thereof prefixed to the laws of the State; but this shall not impair the validity of acts under those sections; and said section five shall remain in full force, as part of the constitution, according to the stipulations of said section, with the same effect as if contained in said printed copies.

One. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying