Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-12-15

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 Sebastian Co.,, Ark, Nov 5th, 1857
 
 Schedule of the Kansas Constitution.
 SECTION l. That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change from a territorial to a per matet State government 1t is declared that all rights, actlons prosecutions, judgments, claims, and contracts, as well of individuals as of bodies corporate, except the bill incorporating banks, by the last territorial legislature, shall continue as If no such change had taken place, and all processes which may have issued under the authority of the territory of Kansas shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State of | kansas.
 SEC. 2. All laws now of force in the territory oi Kansas which are not repugnant 10 this con- stitutlon, shall continue ard be of force until al- tered, amended, or repealed by a legislature as sembled by the provisions of this constitution. SEC. 5. All fines penalties and forfeitures accruing to the territory of Kansas shall inure to the use of the State of Kansas.
 SEC. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken shall pass to, and be prosecuted in the name of the State of Kansas; and all bonds executed to ', officer or court in his or their official capacity. shall pass to the Governor and corresponding officers of the State authority, and their success sors ln office, and for the use therein expressed and may be sued for and recovered accordingly: and all the estates or property, real, personal or mixed, and all judgments, bonds, specaties, cases in action, and claims or debts of whatso- ever description, of the territory of Kansas, shall lnure to and vest in the State of Kansas, and be sued for and recovered in the same manner and ! to the same extent that the same could have been by the territory of Kansas
 SEC. D. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have arisen before the change from territorial to State government, and which shall then be pending shall be prosecu- ted to judgment in the name of the State of Kansas; all actions at law in suits in equity which may be pending in the courts of the territory of | Kansas at the time of the change fiom a terri torlal to a State government may be continued and transferred to any court of the State which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter | thereof.
 | SEC. 6. All officers, civil and military, hold ing ther offices under the authority of the ter ritory of Kansas, shall continue to hold and ex- crcise their respective offices until they shall be superseded by the authority of the State
 SEC. z. That constitutions shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States, at its next ensuing session; and as soon as official informa- ton has been received that it is approved by the same by the admission of the State of Kansas as one of the sovereign States of the United States, the president of the convention shall is- sue his proclamation to convene the State egis- ature at the seat of government, within thirty one days after publication. Should any vacan | cy, bv tb he legislature or other office, he shall order an ft;on to fill such vacancy: Promded, hoU-
 ef, in of refusal, absence or disability of he president of this convention to discharge Ehe duties herein imposed on him, the president pro tempore of this convention shall perform said duties; and in case ot absence refusal, or disabi- | ty of the president pro tempore committee con- sistng of seven, or majority of them, shall discharge the duties required of the president of this convention.
 SEC. 5. The Governor and all other off cers shall enter upon the discharge of their respective duties as soon after the admission of the Stat of Kansas as one of the independent and sov- ereign States of the Union as may be conven- tent.
 SEC. 9. Oaths of office may be administered by any judge, justice of the peace or any judge C, any court of record of the territory or State of Kansas until the legislature of the State may otherwise direct.
 SEC. 10. After the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, whenev CT the egisature shall think it necessary to amend, alter. and change this constitution they shall recommend to the electors at the next general election. two- thirds of the members of each house concurrino. to vote for or against the calling of the conven- tion; and, if it appears that majority of all the citizens of the State have voted for conven- ton, to consist of as many members as there may be Tn the house of representatives at the tme to be chosen Tn the same manner at the same place, and by the same electors, that choose the representatives; said delegates so chosen shall meet within three months after said election for the purpose of amending, revising, or changing the constitution.
 SEC. II. Before this constitution shall be sent to Congress for admission into the Union as a State, it shall be submitted to all of the white male inhabitants of this territory for approval or dsapproval, as follows: The president of this convention shall, by proclamation, declare that on the 21st day of December, 1857, at the different election precincts now established by law, or which may be established as herein pro- vided in the territory of Kansas, an election shall be held, over which shall preside three judges or majority of three. to be appointed as follows: The president of this convention shall appoint three commissioners in each coun- ty in the territory, whose duty it shall be to appoint three judges of election in the SC, eral precincts of their respective counties, at which election the constitution framed by this conven- ton shall be submitted to all the white male inhabitants of the territory of Kansas in the said territory upon that day, and over the age of twenty one years, for ratification or rejection, in the following manner and form: The voting shall be by ballot. The judges of said election shall cause to be kept two poll books by two clerks, by them appointed The ballots cast at said election shall be endorsed constitution with slavery" and "consttution with no slave ry." One of the said poll-books shall be return ed within eight days to the president of this convention, and the other shall be retained by the judges of election and kept open for inspec. ton. The president, with two or more members ofthis convention, shall examine said poll books and if it shall appear upon said examination, that a majority of the legal votes cast at said election be In favor of the constitution with slavery, he shall immediately have the same transmitted to the Congess of the United States, as hereinbe- fore provided. But if, upon such examination of said poll. books, it shall appear that majority of the legal votes cast at said election be in favo, of the constitution with no slaverv.' then the article providing for slavery shall be stricken from the constitution by the president of this convention, and no slavery shall exist in the State of Kansas except that the right of proper ty in slaves now in this territory shall in no