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Constitution of the State of Missouri. 1822 126 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0009 and id is 1 raw text is: 1l20i OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. WE the people of .Missouri, inhabiting the hmits hereinafter designa. ted, byV our repres- iaativeq in convention assembled, at St. Louis, on ilfonday the I 2th day of June, 1820, do mutually agree toforin and establish a free and independent republic, bY the nan of THE STATE OF MISSOURI, and for the governmert thercof, do ordain and establish this constitution. ARTICLE OF BOUNDARIES. We do declare, establish. ratify and confirm the following as the permanent boundaries of said state, that is to Say Beginning In the middle of the Missis-ippi river on the parallel of thirty-six de- grees of north latitude ; thence west along the said parallel of lati- tde to the St. Francois river ; thence up and following the course of that river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to 1lie par- allel of latitude of thirty-six degree and thirty minutes; thence west along the same to a point where the said parallel is intersected by a meridian line passing through the middle of tie mionh of the Kansas river, where the same empties into the Missouri river; thence from the point aforesaid north, along the said meiidian line, to the intersection of the parallel of latitude, whicl passes throtigh the rapids of the river Des Moines, making the said line correspond with the Indian boundary line ; thence east from (he point of inter- so :tion last aloresaid, along the said parallel of latitude, to the mid- die of the channel of the main fork of the said river Des Moines ; thence down and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river ; thence due east to the middle of the maini channel of the Mississippi river; thence down and followiing the course of the Mississippi river,,in the niddle of the main chaniie1 thereof to the place of beginning. ARTric II. OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS. The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct de- partments, each of which shall be confided to a separate mn-pstr, cy ; and no person charged with the exercise of powers property belonging to one of those departmenis, shall exercise any power pro perly belonging to either of the others, except inthe instenci lyereinafter expressly directed or permitted.

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