White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-03

white person, and on the ike proof except in
case of instruction of such slave.
ARTICLE VIII.-ELEcrIoNs AND RSeH1. ~
Suffrage.
SECTION /. Every male citizen Of the United
States, above the age Of twenty one years, hav.
ing resided in this State one year, and in he
county, city or town, in which be may offer %
vote, three months next preceding any election,
shall have the qualifications of an elector, and
be entitled to vote at all elections; and every
male citizen of the United States above the age
aforesaid, who may be resident of the State az
the time that this Constitution shall be adopted,
shall have the right Of voting as aforesaid, but
no such citizen or inhabitant shall be entitled to
vote except in the county in which he shall ac-
tually reside at the time of the election.
SEC. ? All voting by the people, shall be BY
ballot.
SEC. 3. Electors during their attendance at
elections, and going to or returning therefrom,
shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except
treason, felony and breach of the peace.
SEC. 4. No elector shall be obliged to do mi
itia duty on the days of election, except in time
Of war or public danger.
SEC. 5. No elec:or shall be deemed to have
lost his residence in this State by reason of his
absence on business of his own, or Of the United,
States, or of this State. ~ -.a
SEC 6. No person employed in the military,
naval or marine service Of the q nited States
stationed in this State, shall BY reason Of his
service therein, be deemed a resident of this
State.
SEC. 7. No person shall be elected or appoint
ed to any office in this State, civil or military,
who shall not be possessed of the qualification,
hereinbefore prescribed for an elector.
SEC. 6. The Legislature shall have the power
to exclude from the privilege of voting or being
eligible to Office, any person convicted of bride
~, perjury, or other infamous crime.
SEC. 9. The first general election in this State
shall be held on the day and year provided By
this Constitution, and all general elections there
after, on the day and year as provided by subse-
quent Legislative enactments.
ARTICLE IX.-FNANcE.
SECTION /. The rule of taxation shall be uni
form, and taxes shall be levied upon such prop
erty as the Legislature shall from time TO time
prescribe.
SEC. Q. The Legislature shall provide for an
annual tax sufficient to defray the estimated e1-
penses of the government for each year, and
whenever the expenses of any year, shall exceed
the income, the Legislature shall provide for
levying tax for the ensuing year, sufficient
with other sources Of income, to pay the def
cheney as well as the estimated expenses of such
ensuing year.
SEC. ,. For the purpose of defraying extraor-
binary expenditures, the State may contract pub
lie debts, but such debts shall never, in the ag-
gregate, exceed FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
Every such debt shall be authorized by law, for
some purpose or purposes, to be distinctly speci-
fed therein, and vote Of majority of all the
members elected TO both houses shall be neces-
sary to the passage of such law, and every such
law shall provide for an annual tax to be levied.
sufficient to pay the interest of such debt crea-
ted, and such appropriation shall not be repealed
nor the taxes postponed until the principal and
interest of such debt shall be wholly paid
SEC. 4. The Legislature may also borrow mo-
ey for the purpose of repeIlng invasion, suppress.
sing Instruction, and defending the State in
time of war; but the money thus raised, shall be
applied exclusively to the purposes for which it
was raised. 400 ..z-
SEC. 5. No scrip, certificate or other evidence
of State debt shall be issued, except for such
debts as are authorized by the third or fourth
sections of this article.
SEC. 6. The property Of the State and eoun-
ties, both real and personal, and such other pro-
perty as the Legislature may deem necessary
for school, religious or charitable purposes, may
be exempted from taxation.
SEC. I. No money shall at any time be paid
out of the Treasury, except in pursuance Of an
appropriation by law.
SEC. 8. An accurate statement Of the receipts
and expenditures of the public money, shall be
published with the laws of each regular session
of the Legislature.
ARTICLE X-REvESUE.
SECTION l. All bills for raising revenue, shall
originate in the House of Representatives.
SEC. 3. Taxation shall be equal and uniform,
and all property on which taxes may be levied,
shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be
ascertained as directed by Legislative enact
ment, and no one species of property shall be
taxed higher than another species Of property Of
equal value, on which taxes shall be levied.
SEE. 3. The Legislature shall have power to
levy an income tax, and to tax all persons pur-
suing any occupation, trade or profession.
SEC. 4. The Legislature shall provide for the
classification Of the lands Of this State into three
distinct classes, to be styled respectively, class
one, two and three, and each Of these classes
shall have a fixed value in so much money, up
on which there shall be assessed an ad-valorem
tax.
SEC. 5. The Legislature shall provide for
capitation or poll-tax, to be paid by every able
bodied male citizen over twenty-oHe years and
under sixty years Of age, but nothing herein con-
tanned shall prevent the exemption Of taxable
polls in cases Of bodily infrmity.
SIC. 6. The Legislature shall levy tax on
all railroad incomes proceeding from giAs Of
public land at the rate Of ten cents on the one
hundred dollars.
SEC T. No Lotteries shall be authorized By
law, as a source of Revenue.
SEC. 8. Whatever donations Of lands or mon
ey that may be received from the general gov
ernnent by this State, shall be regarded As
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