____ So help me, God."

[Sidenote: Disqualification for office.]

SEC. 8. The following classes of persons shall be disqualified for
office: _First_, all persons who shall deny the being of Almighty God.
_Second_, all persons who shall have been convicted or confessed their
guilt on indictment pending, and whether sentenced or not, or under
judgment suspended, of any treason or felony, or of any other crime for
which the punishment may be imprisonment in the penitentiary, since
becoming citizens of the United States, or of corruption or malpractice
in office, unless such person shall be restored to the rights of
citizenship in a manner prescribed by law.

[Sidenote: When amendment to take effect.]

SEC. 9. That this amendment to the Constitution shall go into effect on
the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two, if a majority of votes
cast at the next general election shall be cast in favor of this
suffrage amendment.

ARTICLE VII.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

[Sidenote: County officers.]

SECTION 1. In each county there shall be elected biennially by the
qualified voters thereof, as provided for the election of members of the
General Assembly, the following officers: A treasurer, register of
deeds, surveyor, and five commissioners.

[Sidenote: Duty of county commissioners.]

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to exercise a general
supervision and control of the penal and charitable institutions,
schools, roads, bridges, levying of taxes, and finances of the county,
as may be prescribed by law. The register of deeds shall be, _ex
officio_, clerk of the board of commissioners.

[Sidenote: Counties to be divided into districts.]

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioners first elected in each
county to divide the same into convenient districts, and to report the
same to the General Assembly before the first day of January, 1869.

[Sidenote: Said districts shall have corporate powers as townships.]

SEC. 4. Upon the approval of the reports provided for in the foregoing
section by the General Assembly, the said districts shall have corporate
powers for the necessary purposes of local government, and shall be
known as townships.

[Sidenote: Officers of townships.]

SEC. 5. In each township there shall be biennially elected by the
qualified voters thereof a clerk and two justices of the peace, who
shall constitute a board of trustees, and shall, under the supervision
of the cou