The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-17

the blind, deaf and dumb, aud insane
Sec. g. The General Assembly shall
make provision for the establishment of |
an asylum for idiots. to be regulated by
| law.
Sec. s. The General Assembly shall
make provision for the establishment
Of Houses Of Refuge for the correction,
reform and instruction of juvenile often
! ders.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Gen
eral Assembly to make provision as soon
as possible for a State hospital. and State|
| penitentiary; Progidea, thasnet more than
one o. The aforesaid institutions shall be
| located in any county of this State, the
location to be determined by vote of the
electors at large, at any general election.
and that the directors and SGperintend-
ents of the same shall be elected by the
! people.
Sec. 5. The respective counties of the
State shall provide in some suitable man
ner, for those inhabitants, who, by reason
of age, infrmity or other misfortune, may
have claims upon the sympathy and aid Of
society, under provision to be made by
the laws of the General Assembly.
/ ARTICLE IX.-MmITIA.
Section 1. The Governor shall be Com
mander-in-C Chief of the military forces of
the State, excepting when these forcesshall
be actually in the service of the United
States, and shall have power to call out
any part, or the whole, of said military
forces to aid in the execution of the laws,
to suppress insurection, and to repel in
kvasion.
Sec. 2. ALI male citizens of this State,
between the ages of eighteen and forty
! five years, excepting those who are con-
scienciously opposed to bearing arms, and
such others as may be, by law, exempted,
shall be enrolled in the militia, and held
to perform such military duty as by law
may be required.
Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for organizing and disci-
plining the militia, in such manner as it
shall deem expedient.
i ARTICLE X.-PUBLIC DEBT.
7 Section 1. No money shall be paid cut
of the Treasury except in pursuance of an
appropriation by law.
Sec. 2. The credit of the State shall
never be given or loaned in aid of any
individual. association or corporation.
Sec. 3. For the purpose of defraying
extraordinary expenditures, the State may
contract public debts, but such debt shall
neverin the aggregate exceed one hundred
thousand dollars, unless authorized by a
direct vote of the people at a general
election. Every such debt shall be au-
thorized by law, and every such law shall
,, provide for the payment of the annual in
terest of snch debt, and the principal with
: in ten years from the passage Of such law:
and such appropriation shall not be re-
pealed until the principal and interest
shall have been wholly paid.
Sec 4 The Legislature may also bor-
row money to repel invasion, suppress
insurrection, or defend the State in time OF
war; but the money thus raised shall be
applied exclusively to the object for which
the loan was authorized, or repayment OF
the debts thereby created.
Sec. 5. No scrip, certificate, or other
evidence Of State debt whatever, shall be
issued, except for such debts as are author
lied by the third and fourth sections oi
this article.
r ARTICLE XL-FNAScE AND TAXATION
Section 1. The levying of taxes by the
poll is grevious and oppressive; therefore
the General Assembly shall never levy a
poll tax for county or state purposes.
Sec. 2. Laws shall be passed taxing, by
uniform rule, all real and personal prop
erty, according to its true value in money;
but burying grounds, school houses, and
I ,.cal A.,
cational purposes, houses used exclu-
sively for public worship, not exceeding
fifty thousand dollars In value, inStitu-
tions of public charity, public aud mu-
nicipal property, used exclusively for
public and municipal purposes, and per-
sonal property to an amount not exceed
ing in value two hundred dollars, for each
head of a family, may by general laws be
exempted from taxation, but all such laws
shall be subject to alteration or repeal;
and the value of all such property, SO ex-
empted, shall from time to time be ascer-
tanned and published as may be directed
by law
Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall
provide for raising revenue sufficient to
defray the expenses of the State for each
4 year; and also sufficient sum to pay the
interest and such part of the principal of
State debt, if any such debt shall accrue,
as may be directed by law.
i Sec. 4. No tax shall be levied, except
in pursuance of law; and every law i'm
posing tax shall state, distinctly, the OBJ
ject of the same, to which only itshall be
applied.
| Sec. 5. The State shall never contract
any debt for purposes of Internal I'm
/ proyements.
i Sec. s. In the passage in either house
of the General Assembly, of any law
which imposes, continues, orrenews a tax,
or makes, continues, or renews, an appro-
priation of public or trust moneys, or to
| release, discharge. or commute claim or
demand of the State, the vote shall be
taken by yeas and nays, which shall be
duly entered on the journal; and three
/ fifths of all the members elected TO such
house, shall, in all such cases, be requisite
to constitute q quorum.
1 ARTICLE XII.-CoUETIEs AND CoUxTY
AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
Section l. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for submitting to the peo-
/ pie of each county, at an annual election,
the question of the location Of the county
seats; and the General Assembly may
change the lines Of counties, but shall by
law submit such proposed alterations to
the electors of the county OF counties
affected thereby, at a general election; said
alteration to be made to township lines,
as far as practicable.
Sec 2. The General Assembly shall
provide By law, for the creation and cleo
ton Of county, city, town and township
! officers.
Sec. 3. AIIoficers whose election or
appointments Is not provided for BY this
Constitution, shall be elected by the peo-
pie or appointed as the General Assembly
may by law direct.