The Kanzas news., 1858-04-24

any such soldier, seaman OF marine have
the right to VOTE
SEC. 8. No person shall be deemed to
have lost his residence in this State by rea-
son of his absence either on business of this
State or of the United States.
SEC. f. Every person shall be disqualified
from holding Office during the term for
which he may have been elected, who shall
have given or offered bribe or reward to
procure his election.
SEC. 5. Every person who shall give or
accept challenge to fight duel, or who
shall knowingly carry to another person
such challenge, or who shall agree to so
out of this State to fight duel, shall be
Ineligible to any Office of trust or profit in
SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall have
power to deprive of the right of suffrage
and to render ineligible to Office any person
convicted of an Infamous crime.
| SEC. z. No person holding lucrative
Office or appointment under the Constitution
or laws of the United States, or of this
State, shall be eligible to seat in the Gen
eral Assembly, nor shall any person hold
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time, except as in this Constitution express
" permitted PROVIDED, that Offices in the
Militia, to which there is attached no annual
salary, where the compensation does not ex-
ceed ninety dollars per annun, shall not be
deemed lucrative.
SEC. 8. No person who may hereafter be
collector or holder of public monies shall
be eligible to any Office of trust or profit in
the State until he shall have accounted for
and paid into the proper treasury all sums
for which he may be accountable.
Sec. 9. Any person who shall commit a
fraud tending to affect the result of any cleo
ton in this State, shall, on conviction there
of, be forever ineligible as an elector.
ARTICLE REDISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
Sec 1. The powers of the Government
shall be divided into three separate depart
ments-the Legislative, the Executive, in
cluding the Administrative, and the Judi
cial and no person charged with official
duties under one of these departments shall
exercise any of the functions of another,
except as in this Constitution expressly pro
vided.
ARTICLE Iv.-LEGIsLATIvE.
Sec. /. The Legislative power of the
State shall be vested in General Assembly,
which shall consist of Senate and House
of Representatives.
Sec. 2. The Senators and Representatives
shall be chosen annually by the qualified
electors of the respective counties or dis
tricts for which they are chosen, on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in No
vember. Their terms of Office shall be one
year. and shall commence on the first day
of January next after their election.
Sec 3. There shall be elected at the first
election, twenty five Senators and seventy
FIVE Representatives, and the number after.
ward shall be regulated by law and the
General Assembly shall, in all apportion.
ments for members of the Legislature, es-
tablish single Representative and single Sen
. atorial Districts.
Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to the
: Office of Senator or Representative who shal
not, at the time of his election, possess the
qualifications of an elector.
Sec 5. Each House, except as otherwis,
provided in this Constitution, shall choost
; its own officers, determine its own rules o
proceeding, punish its members for disor
; derly conduct, and, with the concurrence o
two thirds of all the members elected to thu
House, expel member, but not a seconC
time for the same cause; and shall Judge o
the qualification, election and return of it
own members, and have all other powers
necessary to secure its safety, and the un
disturbed transaction of its business.
Sec. g. Each House shall keep journa
of its proceedings, which shall be pub
lished. The yeas and nays on any question
shall, at the request of two members, b
taken and entered on the journal.
, Sec. 7. Any member of either Hous
shall have the right 10 protest against an,
act or resolution thereof; and such protes
and reason therefor shall, without alteration
commitment or delay, be entered on tn
journal.
SEC. 8. All vacancies which may occu
in either House, shall, for the unexpire'
term, be filled by election as shall be pre-
scribed by law.
SEC. 9. Senators and Representative
shall. in all cases except treason, felony
: = or breach of the peace, be privileged fron
: =, arrest during the session of the Geners
= Assembly, and in going to and returnin
:. from the same and for words spoken j
g g debate they shall not he questioned in an
u other place.
SEC. 10. A majority of all the member
: elected to each House voting in the affirm
= alive, shall be necessary to pass a bill o
!, joint resolution, and all bills and joint reso
! lutions 80 passed shall be signed by tn
presiding officers of the respective Houses
: and presented to the Governor for his ap
proval.
SEC. IL. The doors of each House, an
of Committees of the Whole, shall be keE
open. Neither House shall, without th
consent of the other. adjourn for more tina
= two days, nor to any other place than ths
e in which the two Houses shall be sitting
# except for personal safety.
II SEC. 12. Every bill shall be read by sec