The Kanzas news., 1857-12-19

ures, accruing to the Territory of Kanzas,
shall enure to the use of the State of Kanzas.
SIC. 4. All recognizances heretofore ia
ken shall pass to, and be prosecuted In the
name of the State of Kanzas; and all
bonds executed to the Governor of the Ter
ritory, or to any other officer or Court. in
his or their official capacity, shall pass to
the Governor and corresponding officers of
the State authority, and their successors in
Office, and for the use therein expressed,
and may be sued for and recovered accord
ingly; and all the estates or property, real,
personal or mixed, and all judgments,
bonds, specialties, chooses in action, and
claims OF debts of whatsoever description
of the Territory of Kanzas, shall enure to,
and rest in the State of Kanzas, and be
sued for and recovered in the same manner,
and to the same extent as the same could
have been by the Territory of Kanzas
Sec. 5. All criminal prosecutions, and
penal actions, which may have arisen before
the change from Territorial to a State
government, and which shall then be pend
ing, shall be prosecuted to judgment in
the name of the State of Kanzas; all ac-
tons at law. and suits in equity, which
may be pending in the courts of the Terri
tory of Kanzas, at the time of the change
from Territorial to State government,
may be continued and transferred to any
court of the State which shall have juris-
diction of the subject matter thereof.
SEC. 6. All officers, civil and military,
holding their offices under the authority of
the Territory of Kanzas, shall continue to
hold and exercise their respective Offices
until they shall be superseded by the au-
thority of the State.
Sec. Z. That this constitution shall be
submitted to the Congress of the United
States at its next ensuing session, and as
soon as official information has been re-
ceived that it is approved by the same, by
the admission of the State of Kanzas as
one of the sovereign States of the United
States, the President of this convention
shall issue his proclamation, to convene the
State Legislature at the seat of Government,
within thirty-one days after publication
Should any vacancy occur by death, resig-
nation or otherwise, in the Legislature or
other Office, he shall order an election to
fill such vacancy. Provided, however, in
case of refusal, absence or disability of the
President of this convention to discharge
the duties imposed on him, the President
pro tempore of this convention shall per-
form said duties, and in case of alb
sence, refusal, or disability of the Presi-
dent pro tera., a committee consisting of
seven, or majority of them, shall dis
charge the duties required of the Presi-
dent of this convention. Before this con-
stitution shall be sent to Congress, asking
for admission into the Union as State, it
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habitants of this Territory, for approval or
disapproval, as follows The President of
this convention shall by proclamation de-
clare, that on the 21st day of December,
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty
seven, at the different election precincts
now established by law or which may be
established as herein provided, in the Ter
ritory of Kanzas, an election shall be held,
over which shall preside three judges, or a
majority of them to be appointed as follows.
The President of this convention shall al
point three commissioners in each c9tbe s.
In the Territory, whose duty it shand knipl
appoint three judges of election In JEs. Thr
eral precincts of their respective counrfzs
and to establish precincts for voting, and
to cause polls to be opened at such places
as they may deem proper in their respective
counties, at which election the constitution
framed by this convention shall be submit
ted to all the white male inhabitants of The
Territory of Kanzas, in the said Territory
on that day and over the age of twenty-ons
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 bal
lots cast at said election shall be endorsed
-"Constitution with slavery" or "Con-
stitution with no slavery" One of said
poll books shall be returned within eight
days to the President of this convention,
and the other shall be retained by the judg-
es of election, and kept open for inspection.
The President, with two or more members
of this convention, shall examine said poll
books, and if it shall sppear upon said ex-
thata majority of the legal votes cast
at said election be in favor of the sConstitu-
ton with Slavery" he shall Immediately
have the same transmitted to the Congress
of the United States as hereinbefore provid-
ed. But if upon such examination of
said poll books, it shall appear that
at said election are in favor of the s.Constitu-
ton with no slavery" then the article pro-
viding for slavery shall be stricken from
this constitution by the President of this
convention, and slavery shall no longer ex-
ist in the State of Kanzas, Except that
the right of property in slaves now in this
Territory, shall in no manner be interfered
with, and he shall have transmitted the
constitution so ratified, to the Congress of
the United States, as herein before provided.
In case of the failure of the President of
this convention to perform the duties i'm
posed on him in the foregoing section, by
reason of death, resignation or otherwise, |
the same duties shall devolve upon the Pres
ident pro tenspore.
SFC 2 There shall he a oanera1 aIoct;or |