Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1846-03-04

saTy .Cants Of Tie community; and that Me,
therefore, ask With HIN - Jffhere, then, Is
the use Of paper currency?n
20. Resolved, That the following proyi.
sions Gin sabstance) ought, il, the opinion
of this meeting, TO be adopted Is part 81
the Constitution for the fnr!ure State 81
Iowa, by the Convention Which. will as
sembie at Iowa City, ON the iirst Monday
Of May next, to vii:
/ No religious test to be 4 quired as a
qualification for holding office, OF for any
other purpose, under any pretenee what
soever
2. The right Of suffrage Il be made a.
broad and comprehensive as It is in any OF
the states that now compose the Union,
texeept that negroes shall never vote J
and to embrace persons not yet citizens OF
the United States, but who shall Fave du-
" declared their intentions TO become such,
have resided in the stale for;, year there
after, and possess the other qualifications
Tor electors required Of citizens
3. All elections to be by baAot, except
those by the Legislature. The latter to
be uaCu roce = and the vote If each mem
Der 10 be entered upon the record.
4. No Bank, or other institution, ever
to be erected BY the Legislature with the
power Of issuing either its own notes or
the notes Of any other Bank, public insti-
tuition, or private individual; and i further
prohibition against The issuing, BY any in
dividual, or individuals, Of allbiils; checks,
prornissory notes, or other paper, to cir
cutate as money.
3. .Nonopoties, being contrary to the
genius OF a Tree government, never to be
allowed. A total prohibition, therefore,
to be made against the passage, by the
Legislature, Of any special nct Of iincorpo-
ration, for any purpose whatsoever; but
that body to be- to enac, general laus,
under which associations MAY be formed,
and regulated for literary, religious, and
other purposes every member Of such
association being held individually liable
for all claims against the body Of which he
is member
3. The election Of every public officer
(including Judges OF the Supreme and
Circui. Courts that can co,ayeniently be
chosen by the people, to be given to
them.
Z. The credit Of the state never to be
loaned to any man, or set of men; and the
provision against the creation, Of a State
debt enacted by the Convention which as
sembled at Iowa City in 1914, 10 be SUBJ
stantially adopted.
8. The Legislature not to.asseinble Of
tener than once in two years: unless call
ed together in recess by the proclamation
o!ilhe Cover ;and that never to be done
for light and trivial causes, but only in
cases of pressing emergency.
8. The per diem compensation of mem
bers nf the Leg stature rot . exceed So
per day, for the first 90 days from the
commencement Of the sess.5n-If they
continue TO sit lorger than that, they shall
receive no compensation fer il.
10. No confinement for deb. to be al
lowed.
II. No divorce to be granted by The
Legislature.
IL. No lottery TO be authorized, and the !
sale Of lottery tickets in Iowa to De pro-
lib tel.
IL. No law passed by the Legislature
to embrace more than one object; and that |
to be distinctly stated in the talle.
IA. The duration OF all Office not fixed
by the constitution never to txceed four
years.
Is. The sessions Of neither house ofthe
Legislature TO be held with closed doors,
except in time of war.
T.,
made for the cause Of educatios, sand espe-
c;ally for the increase and encouragement
Of common schools.
II. Every person to be Disqualified from
holding Office il Iowa who: shall have
been convicted Of having gi,:eh:or offered
bribe to secure his electiun| sI appoint
ment. ~
Is. All civil officers 10 be i quired to
reside within The stale; and all district or
county officers within the districts or
counties, and 10 keep their o|fia:s at such
places therein as may be reqaissd by law.
IS. The extension Of our territory to
the Missouri river, as the Western beun-l
Diary Of the state to be adfA,eI to and
made SINE qua non TO our admission ito
the Cnlan.
20. And, lastly, provision sh1;nld be ex-
pressly made that, as true .basis of rep
resentation, a new census Of lac people
shall be taken prior to the sirsa election
under state government; ana further,
that the Constitution, after hasing been
submitted to Congress, if altarea by that
body, either in regard to the boundaries
Of the state, or any other esspt,H parlic-
ular, shall not 60 into effect usless first
ratified by the votes of majyray Of the
qualified electors Of this Tetrlsory, at an
election to be subsequently 1ipEtn.
A motion Of Col Coop thaGtlle resolu-
tons be adopted, having, on motion Of G..
Negus Esq. been SO amended as to in
clude the first nineteen resolutions, was
unanimously adopted by the raeeting.
Thereupon, on motion Of AIr. Negns,
the Goth resolution was consiaered By Sec
tioa,s, End the first three sections were
separately and unanimously 4dopted.-
The 18th section CREATIVE TO B5nks) hav-
I,.. .ooJ M. NI,fs,,o ,noxo1