The Kanzas news., 1857-12-19
The Kanzas News.
saTURDAY,=#=DEcEABER re, 1857.
The Bogus Baby---The Mrs. Cunning
ham Constitution.

nam COnSJlCuLlOn.
ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS: The Government of the Uni
ed States is the proprietor, or viii become
so. of all or most of the lands lying within
the limits of kanzas, as determined under
this Constitution and whereas the State OF
Kanzas will possess the undoubted right to
tax such lands for the support of her State
Government, or for other proper and legiti-
mate purposes connected with her existence
as State Now, therefore, be il ordained
nv this Convention, on behalf of and by the
authority of the people of Kanzas, that the
RIGHT aforesaid to tax such lands shall be
and is hereby forever relinquished, If the
conditions following shall be accepted and
agreed to by the Congress of the United
States:
SECTION /. That sections numbered eight,
sixteen, twenty four and thirty six, in every
township in the State, or in case either OF
said numbered sections are or shall be other
wise disposed of, that other lands equal
thereto in value, and as contiguous as may
be, shall be granted to the State, to be ap-
Piled exclusively to the support of Common
Schools.
SEC. g. That all salt springs, and gold,
silver, copper, lead or other valuable mines,
togetheg with the lands necessary for their
full occupation and use, shall be granted to
said State for the use and benefit of said
State, and the same shall be used or disposed
of under such terms and conditions and
regulations as the Legislature of said State
shall direct.
SEC. 3. That five per centum of the pro-
ceeds of the sales of all public lands sold,
or held in trust, or otherwise, lying within
the said State, whether sold before or after
the admission of the State into the Union,
after deducting all expenses incidental to the
same, shall be paid to the said State.
Sec. a. That seventy-two sections, or two
entire townships, shall be designated by the
President of the United States, which shall
be reserved for the use of seminary of
learning, and appropriated by the Legisla-
ture of said State solely TO the use of said
seminary.
SEC. s. That each alternate section of land,
now owned or which may hereafter be ac-
quired by the United States, for twelve miles
on each side of line of railroad to be
established or located from some point on
the northern boundary of the State, leading
southerly through said State in the direction
of the Gulf of Mexico, and on each side of
line of railroad to be located and established
from some point on the Missouri river west
wardlly through said State in the direction
of the Pacific Ocean, shall be reserved and
conveyed TO said State of Kanzas for the
purpose of aiding in the construction of said
railroads. And it shall be the duty of the
Congress of the United States, in coniunc-
ton with the proper authorities of this State,
to adopt immediate measures for carrying
the several provisions herein contained into
full effect.
PREAMBLE.
We, the people of the Territory of Kan
zas, by our representatives IN Convention
assembled at Lecompton, in said Territory,
on Monday, the 9TH day of September, 1857,
and of the Independence of the United
States the eighty second year, having the
right of admission into the Union as one of
the United States of America, consistent
with the Federal Constitution and by vir-
tue of the treaty of cession by France to
the United States of the province of Louis
lana, made and entered into on the thirtieth
day of April, 1908; and by virtue of and
IN accordance with the act of Congress
passed March the 30th, 1854. entitled can
Act to organize the Territories of Nebraska
and kanzas." In order to secure to our
selves and our posterity the enjoyment of all
the rights of life, liberty and prosperity, and
the free pursuit of happiness, do mutually
agree with each other to form ourselves into
free, independent and sovereign State, by
the name of the State of Kanzas, and do
ordain and establish the following Constitu.
uon for the government thereof.
boundaries.
ARTICLE l. We do declare and establish,
ratify and confirm the following as the per-
manent boundaries of the said State of Kan
las, that is to say Beginning at point on
the western boundary of the State of Mis-
souri,, where the thirty-seventh parallel OF
north latitude crosses the same thence west
on said parallel to the eastern boundary OF
New Mexico; thence north on said bound
ary to latitude thirty thence follow
ing said boundary westward to the east
boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the
summit of the Rocky Mountains thence
horthward on said summit to the fortieth
parallel of latitute thence east on said par
alel to the western boundary of the State of
Missouri; thence south with the western
boundary of said State to the place of be-
ginning.
County boundaries.
Arr: 2. No county, now established,
which borders upon the Missouri river, or
upon either bank of the Kanzas river, shall
ever be reduced by the formation of new
Counties to less than twenty miles square
nor shall any other county now organized,
Ir hereafter to be organized. be reduced to
e'S than five hundred square miles.
Distri6ation Of Posoer.
@ ihe powers of the Government of the
-9Ate OF kanzas shall be divided into three
EParate departments-the Legislative, the
AecullVe. and the Judicial; and no person
Hafeed with the exercise of powers proper