Sec. 30. No hereditary emoluments, privileges or honors ought to be granted or conferred in this State.
Perpetuities, etc.
Sec. 31. Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State and ought not to be allowed.
Ex post facto laws.
Sec. 32. Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are oppressive, unjust and incompatible with liberty; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made. No law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts previously done, ought to be passed.
Slavery prohibited.
Sec. 33. Slavery and Involuntary servitude, otherwise than for crime, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and are hereby forever prohibited within the State.
State boundaries.
Sec. 34. The limits and boundaries of the State shall be and remain as they now are.
Courts shall be open.