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pelling any person so bribing, or attempting to bribe, or
so demanding or receiving a bribe, fee, reward or testi-
monial, to testify against any person or persons who may
have committed any of said offenses; provided, that any
person so compelled to testify shall be exempted from
trial and punishment for the offense of which he may
have been guilty, and any person convicted of such offense
shall, as part of the punishment thereof, be forever dis-
franchised and disqualified from holding any office of
trust or profit in this State.
Sec. 47. The personal property of residents of this State
shall be subject to taxation in the county or city where
the resident bona fide resides for the greater part of the
year for which the tax may or shall be levied, and not
elsewhere, except leasehold property and goods and chat-
tels permanently located, which shall be taxed in the city
or county where they are so located.
Sec. 48. The General Assembly shall have power to
pass all such laws as may be necessary and proper for
carrying into execution the powers vested by this consti-
tution in any department or office of the government, and
the duties imposed on them thereby.
The consideration of the bill of rights being the un-
finished business, was then proceeded with, the question
being on article 4, which is as follows:
"Article 4. That the people of this State ought to have
the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal
government and police thereof. "
Mr. Alvey moved to amend by inserting at the end the
words "as a free, sovereign and independent State. "
Mr. Alvey thought the sovereignty of the State should
be asserted. In Massachusetts the principle of State sov-
ereignty was asserted, in the strongest terms, in the con-
stitution, and he thought we should not be behind Massa-
chusetts.
Messrs. Archer, Wethered, Brown and Nelson also fav-
ored the amendment.
Mr. Hayden moved to strike out the words "ought to. "
Mr. Archer thought those words should not be stricken
out. They were the words adopted by our ancestors,
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