Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-11-26
FROM KANSAS.
Final Adjournment of the Constitu-
tiOnal Convention.

tiOnal Convention.
Correspondence of the Missouri Democrat
LEcoMProS, Nov. 9.
The last agony is over. The bogus Con-
stitutionoI Convention was finally adjourn
ed at one O'Clock on the morning OF Sun
day the 9Th inst. For q few days previous
the members had been closely occupied
with business, continuing their session un-
til the small hours of the night.
The reports OF the committee on sched-
ule were before the Convention for several
days preceding the adjournment. There
was a great deal Of wrangling ane debating
as to which OF these reports should be adopt
ed.
1t was found impossible to adopt either
of the reports separately, and The two were
merged into one, which was ADOPTED.
The following is the schedule as adopted:
SCHEDULE OF THE BOGUS CONSTITUTION IS
ADOPTED.
Section /. That no Inconvenience NAV
arise by reason OF a change from a Terrific
rial to a permanent State government, it is
declared that all rights, actions, prosecu-
tion>, judgments, claims, and Contracts, as
well OF individuals as OF bodies corporate,-
except the act incorporating a bank passed
by the last session of the Territorial Leg
i%slature, which is hereby declared null and
void, shall continue as it no such change
had taken pace, and all processes which
may have issued under the authority of the
Territory Of Kansas, shall be as valid as it
issued in the name Of The Stale of Kansas
Sec. 2. All laws now in force in the ter
ritOry o.. Kansas, which are not repugnanl
to this constitution. shall continue and b.
OF iurcs until / itered, am tnJej Or repealed,
by a Legislature assembled by the proyIs-
ions of this constitution.
Sec. 8. All fines, penalties, all forfeit
ures, accruing to the territory OF Kansas.
shall cnure to the use Of the State of Kan
saS.
Sec. 4. All recognizances heretofore Ia
ken shall pass to, und be prosecuted in the
name OF the State OF Kansas; and all bonds
to the governor of the territory,
or to any other officer or court, in his ur
their official capacity, shall pass to the gov
ernor of the State and theic SUCCESSORS IN
office, and tor the use therein expressed,
and may be sued for anC recovered accord
and ali the estates or property, real,
personal, or mixed, and all Judgments, bonds,
speciaitles, Cases in action, and claims or
debts of whatsoever description uf the ter
ritury of Kansas, shall eDure to, and TEST
in the State of Kansas, aud be sued for and
r. covered in the same manner and 10 the
same extent as the same could have beeu
BY the territory OF Kansas.
Sec. 5. All criminal prosecutions, and
penal actions, which may have arisen be-
lore the change from a territorial to a State
government, and which shall then be peni-'
ing, shall De prosecuted to Judgment in the
name OF the STATE; all actions at law, and
in equity. which may be pending in
The courts OF the territory OF Kansas, al the
lime of the change from a territorial to a
State government, may be continued and
transferred to any court OF the State which
shall have jurisdiction OF the subject matter
hereof.
Sec. 6. All officers, civil and military,
their offices under the authority OF
he United States, or the the territory of
Kansas, shall continue to hold and exercise
hen respective offices until they shall be
uuerceded by the authority OF the State.
Sec. 7. Al! county and township officers
hall Continue to hold their respective Off
es unless removed by a law OF the Legs
ature provided for by the Constitution.
Sec. s. This Constitution shall be sub
litted to the Congress of the U tied States
t its next ensuing session, and as soon as
Information has been received that
is Apr veu by the same, 3y the admiss-
on OF the State OF Kansas as one of the
1vereign States of the United States, the
resident of this Conventions shall issue
is proclamation to convene the State Leg s
stature at the seat OF Government, within I
days after its publication. Should 5
nv vacancy occur Oy the death, resignation I
otherwise, in the Legislature or other {
flee, he shall order an election to dill such {
.cancy: Provided, however, in case OF re-
Isal, absence or disability OF the President i
this Convention to discharge the duties c
srein imposed on him, the President pro I
IN. of this Convention shall perform said s
tiles, and in case of absence, refusal or
OF the President pro ten., a CON- ]
ittee consisting OF -. or Il majority q
them, shall discharge the duties required b
the President OF the Convention. s
Before this Constitut ion is sent 10 Con- n
Tess, the President OF this Convention, or q
his absence by reason oi his deuth, resig, o
ltion or otherwise, the President pro TEN. {,
all by proclamation dec are, that on the p
ST day OF December, 1887, at the different
ecIion precincts now establ ished by law
the Territory Of Kansas, an election shall o
held, over which shall preside three v
dges, to be appointed by the President OF /
is Convention, OF in his absence by reas- }
OF death, ~reaignation or otherwise, the c
pro tenn. at which election the y
institution framed bv this Convention u
all be submitted to all the male citizens