The Kanzas news., 1857-12-19
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SEC. g. A liberal system of internal i'm
provements being essential to the develop
u1ent of the resources of the country shall
be encouraged by the government of this
state; and it shall be the duty of the legis-
lature, as soon as practicable, TO ascertain
by law proper objects of improvement in
relation to roads, canals, and nayigable
streams, and to provide for suitable aPpii-
cation of such funds as may be appropriated
for such improvements.
CORPORATIONS.
SEC. 1. Corporations may be formed un-
der general law, but the legislature may
by special act create bodies polite for mu-
nicipal purposes, where the objects of the
corporations cannot be attained under it; all
general laws or special acts enacted under
the provisions of this section may be alter
ed, amended, or repealed, by the Legisla-
ture at any time.
SEC. 2. No corporation shall take private
property, for public use without first hav-
ing the consent of the owner, or where the
necessity thereof being first established by a
verdict of a jury and the value thereof as
sessed and paid.
SEC 8. It shall be the duty of the legis-
lature to provide for the organization of cit
les and incorporated villages, and to restrict
their power of taxation, borrowing money,
contracting debts, and loaning their credit
50 as to prevent abuses.
SEC. 4. The legislature may incorporate
banks of deposit and exchange, but such
banks shall not issue any bills, notes, checks,
or other papers as money.
SEC 5. The legislature may incorporate
one bank of discount and issue with not
more than two branches, provided that the
act incorporating the said bank and branch
es thereof shall not take effect until it shall
be submitted to the people at the general
election next succeeding the passage of the
same, aud shall have been approved by a
majority of all electors voting at such cleo
tions.
SEC. g. The said bank and branches shall
be mutually liable for each others debts OF
liabilities, for all paper, credits or bills is
sued representing money; and the stock
holders in said bank or branches, shall be
individually responsible to an amount equal
to the stock held by them for all debts or
liabilities of said bank or branches. and no
law shall be passed sanctioning directly or
Indirectly the suspension BY said bank or
Its branches of specie payment.
SEC. z. The state shall not be a stock
holder in any bank, nor shall the credit of
the state be given or loaned in aid of any
person, association, or incorporation: nor
shall the state become stockholder in any
corporation or association.
MILITIA.
SEC. 1. The militia of this state shall con-
sist of all the able bodied male citizens of
this state between the ages of eighteen and
forty-fve years, except such citizens as now
are or hereafter may be exempted by the
laws of the United States or of this state.
SEC. 2. Any citizen whose religious tenets
conflict with bearing arms, shall not be COM
PEELED to do militia duty in time of peace,
but shall pay such an equivalent for perso-
nal services as may be prescribed by law.
SEC. 8. All Militia officers shall be cleo
ted by the persons subject to military duty
within the bounds of their several compa-
nies, battalions, regiments, brigades and di
visions, under such rules and regulations as
the Legislature may from time to time direct
and establish.
EDUCATION.
SEC. /. A general diffusion of knowledge
being essential to the preservation of the
rights and liberties of the people, schools
and the means of education shall be forever
encouraged in this state.
Sec. 2. The Legislature shall take meas
ures to preserve from waste or damage such
lands as have been, or hereafter may be
granted by the United States. or lands or
funds which may be received from other
sources, for the use of schools within this
State, and shall apply the funds which may
arise from such lands, or from any other
source, in strict conformity to the object of
the grant.
SEC. 8. The legislature shall, as soon as
practicable, establish one common school for
more) in each township in the state, where
the children of the township shall be taught
gratis.
Sec. 4. The legislature shall have power
to make appropriations from the state treas
ury for the support and maintenance of
common schools whenever the funds accru-
ing from the lands donated by the United
States, or the funds received from other
sources, are insufficient for that purpose.
SEC. 5. The legislature shall have power
to pass laws for the government of all com
mon schools within this state.
MISCELLANEOUS AFFAIRS
SEC. /. Lecompton shall be the seat of
Government unit iotherwise directed by law,
two-thirds of each house of the Legislature
concurring in the passage of such law.
SEC. e. Every person chosen or appoint
ed to any Office under this state, before en-
tering upon the discharge of its duties,
shall take an oath or affirmation to support
the Constitution of the United States, the
Constitution of this state and all laws made
in pursuance thereof and faithfully to de-
mean himself in the discharge of the du-
ties of his Office.
SEC. 8. The laws, public records, and
the written Judicial and legislative proceed
ings of the state shall be conducted, promul-
gated, and preserved in the English Ian