SEC. 13. Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. All property, in this State, shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as directed by law; but assessors and collectors of town, county, and State taxes, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the district, county, or town, in which the property taxed for State, county, or town purposes is situated. SEC. 14. All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife, in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the restoration of the wife's separate property. SEC. 15. The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families. SEC. 16. No perpetuities shall be allowed, except for eleemosynary purposes. SEC. 17. Every person shall be disqualified from holding any office of profit in this State, who shall have been convicted of having given or offered a bribe, to procure his election or appointment. SEC. 18. Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon, from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practice. SEC. 19. Absence from this State on business of the State, or of the United States, shall not affect the question or residence of any person. SEC. 20. A plurality of the votes given at any election shall constitute a choice, where not otherwise directed in this constitution. SEC. 21. All laws, decrees, regulations and provisions, which from their nature require publication, shall be published in English and Spanish. ARTICLE XII. BOUNDARY. The boundary of the State of California shall be as follows:--