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

members in such manner as each House may
prescribe. -,
SEC. I6. Each member of the Legislature shall
receive from the public treasury such compensa-
ton for his services as may be fixed by Law; but
no increase of compensation shall take effect
during the term for which the members we're
/ elected, when such law passed
SEC. IL. Bills may originate in either House,
but may be altered, amended or rejected BY the
other, and all bills shall be read BY sections on
three several days, except on an extraordinary
occasion, two thirds of the members may die
pense with such reading, but in no case shall a
bill be passed without having once been read
and every bill having passed both Houses, shall
be signed BY the Speaker and President in the
presence of their respective Houses.
SEC Is. The Legislature shall provideby law
for filling all vacancies that may occur in either
House BY the death, resignation or otherwise of
any of its members.
SEC. I9. The doors of each House shall be
: open except on such occasions as in the opinion
of the House the public safety may require Sc
crecy.
SIC. 90. Every law enacted by the Legisla-
ture shall embrace but one subject and that shall
be expressed in its title; and any extraneous
matter introduced in bill that shall pass shall
be void; and no law shall be amended by its
title, but in such case the act or section amend
ed shall be re-enacted and published at length.
SEC, 81. Every act and joint resolution shall
be plainly worded, avoiding as far as practicable,
the use Of technical terms.
SEC. %. The Legislature shall meet every
two years at the seat of Government.
SIC. %. The Legislature shall provide for an
enumeration of inhabitants by law. An appor-
tonment of Representatives in the Legislature
shall be provided by law according to population
as nearly equal as may be.
SEC. "a. The Legislature shall have no power
to grant divorces, to change the names Of indi-
viduals, or direct the sales of estates belonging
to infants or other persons laboring under legal
disabilities by special Legislation, but by gen.
eral laws shall confer such powers on the courts
Ofjustice.
SEC. 25. 1t shall be the duty of all civil Off
GERS of this State to use due diligence in the Sc
curing and redemption ofpersOns held to service
or labor in this State, either of the States or
Territories Of the United States, and the Legs
lature shall enact such laws as may be necessary
for the honest and faithful carrying out of this
provision of the Constitution.
, ELECTION DISTRICTS.
At the frSoelection holden under the Consti-
tuition for members of the State Legislature the
Representative and Senatorial Districts shall be
rs follOws:-
, The first Representative District shall consist
of Doniphan County and shall be entitled to four
= Representatives. The second shall be Atchison
, and shall be entitled to four Representatives;
the third shall be Leavenworth and shall be en-
titled to eight Representatives; the fourth shall
be Brown and Nemaha and shall be entitled to
, one Representative; the fifth shall be Calhoun
r and Pottawatamie and be entitled to one Repre-
sentat:ve the sixth shall be Jefferson and be en-
titled to two Representatives; the seventh shall
+ be Marshall and Washington and entitled to one
Representative; the eighth shall be Riley and
, entitled to one Representative; the ninth shall
be Johnson and entitled to four Representatives;
the tenth Lykins and entitled to one Represen-
f tative; the eleventh Linn and entitled to two
| Representatives; the twelfth BOURBON and en-
titled to two Representatives the thirteenth
MCGEE, Dorm and Allen entitled to one Repre-
. sentative; the fourteenth Douglass and entitled
to FIVE Representatives; the fifteenth Anderson
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tive; the sixteenth Shawnee and entitled to two
| Representatives; the seventeenth W eller and
, Coffee and entitled to one Representative; the
eighteenth Woodson, Wilson, Godfrey, Green
wood, and Madison and entitled to one Repre-
: sentative; the nineteenth Breckenridge and
Richardson and entitled to one Representative;
the twentieth Davis, Wise, Butler, Hunter, and
that portion of coantry west, and shall be emit
tied to one Representative. Total number OF
Representatives, Forty -four.
The first Senatorial District shall be Doni-
phan, one Senator; the second Atchison, one
Senator; the third Doniphan and Atchison one
Senator; the fourth Leavenworth three Sena-
tors; the fifth Brown, Nemaha and Potawatamie,
one Senator; the sixth Riley, Marshall, Dickin-
son, and Washington one Senator; the seventh
Jefferson and Calhoun one Senator; the eighth
Johnson two Senators; the ninth Lykins, Ander-
son and franklin one Senator; the tenth Linn
one Senator; the eleventh Bourbon and MCGEE
one Senator; the twelfth Douglas two Senators;
the thirteenth Shawnee one Senator; the four
teenth Dern, Allen, Wilson, Woodson, Godfrey,
Greenwood, Madison and Coffee one Senator;
the fifteenth Richardson, Davis, Breckenridge,
Butler, Hunter, and all west of Davis, Wise and
Butler one Senator; in all ninteen.
ARTICLE VI-JUDicIART.
SECTION 1sr. Judicial powers of this State
shall be vested in one Supreme Court, Circuit
courts, Chancery courts, courts of Probate, and
T justices of the Peace and such other inferior
courts, as the legislature may, from time to time
ordain and establish.
SEC. 2. The Supreme Court, except in cases
otherwise directed in this Constitution, shall
have appellate jurisdiction only. which shall be
coeEtensiTe with the State, under such restric-
tons and regulations, not repugnant to this
Constitution, as may from time to time be pre-
scribed by law, provided, that the supreme court
shall have power to issue Writs of injunctions,
mandamus, quo woranto, heabeas corpus, and
such other remedial and original writs as may
be necessary to give it general superintendent
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