"SECTION 1. No corporation shall be created nor shall its charter be extended, altered, or amended by special act, except corporations for charitable, educational, penal, or reformatory purposes that are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the State; but the General Assembly shall provide by general laws for the chartering and organization of all corporations, and for amending, extending, and forfeiture of all charters, except those above permitted by special act. All such general laws and special acts may be altered from time to time or repealed; and the General Assembly may at any time by special act repeal the charter of any corporation." IX. By striking out section four of article eight, and substituting therefor the following: [Sidenote: General laws for organization of cities, towns, and incorporated villages.] "It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide by general laws for the organization of cities, towns, and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessment and in contracting debts by such municipal corporations." [Sidenote: School term.] X. By striking out the words "four months" in section three of article nine, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "six months." [Sidenote: Amendments to be submitted to qualified voters of State.] SEC. 2. That the several amendments to the Constitution hereinbefore set forth as numbered from I to X, inclusive, respectively, shall be and are hereby submitted to the qualified voters of the whole State at the next general election as separate amendments to the Constitution, all amendments proposed under each number respectively being regarded as one amendment. [Sidenote: Ballots.] SEC. 3. That the said several proposed amendments shall be designated on one ballot by their appropriate article and section numbers, and also by their appropriate descriptive titles, and as so designated on said ballot shall be consecutively numbered in the manner and form hereinafter set forth. [Sidenote: Effect of adoption of any amendment.] [Sidenote: Effect of rejection of any amendment.] SEC. 4. That the adoption of any amendment by its title by marking the said ballot as hereinafter indicated shall have the effect of adopting the amendment in full as agreed upon by the General Assembly; and the rejection of any amendment by its title, by marking the said ballot as hereinafter indicated, shall have the effect of rejecting said amendment as a whole, but shall not affect any other amendment. [Sidenote: Form of ballot.] SEC. 5. The said ballots shall be in form substantially as follows: OFFICIAL BALLOT.