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

may offer to vote, and every male person
i of foreign birth of the age of twenty one
years, or upwards, and who shall have re-
sided in the United States one year, in
this State six months and in the precinct
in which he may offer to vote, ten days
next preceding such election and who
shall have declared his intention to be-
come citizen of the United States, con-
4 formally to the laws of the United
States, ten days preceding such election,
shall be deemed qualified elector.
/ Sec. 2. No soldier, seaman, or marine,
in the army or navy of the United
4 States, OF of their allies, shall be deemed
to have acquired residence in this State
in consequence of being stationed within
the same, nor shall any such soldier, sea-
man or marine have the right to vote.
i Sec. 8. No person shall be deemed to
have lost his residence in this State by
reason of his absence either on business
of this State or of the United States.
Sec. 4. Every person shall be disquali-
fed from holding Office during the term
4 for which he may have been elected, who
shall have given or offered bribe or re-
ward to procure his election.
! Sec. 5. Every person who shall give
or accept challenge to fight a duel, or
who shall knowingly carry to another
person such challenge, or who shall agree
to go out of this State to fight a duel.
j shall be ineligible to any Office of trust
4 or profit in this State.
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 Constitu-
ton or laws of, the United States, or of
this State, shall be eligible to seat in
the General Assembly, nor shall any per-
son hold more than one lucrative Office at
the same time, except as in this Constitu-
ton expressly permitted Provided, that
offices in the Militia to which there is at
tached no annual salary, where the COM
pensation does not exceed ninety dollars
per annum, 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 ac-
counted for and paid into the proper treas
ury all sums for which he may be account
able.
Sec g. ANY person who shall commit
a fraud tending to affect the result of any
election in this State, shall, on conviction
thereof, be forever ineligible as an Elec-
| tor
ARTICLE HI.-DIsTR1BUTIoN OF Powers
Section /. The powers of the Govern
ment shall be divided into three separate
! departments-the Legislative, the Exec
utiye, including the Administrative, and
/ the Judicial; and no person charged with
official duties under one of these depart
ments shall exercise any of the functions
/ of another, except as in this Constitution
expressly provided.
ARTICLE IV.-LEGIsLATIvE
Section l. The Legislative power Of
the State shall be vested in a General
Assembly which shall consist of Senate
and House of Representatives.
! Sec. 2. The Senators and Representa-
tives shall be chosen annually by the
qualified electors of the respective coun-
ties or districts for which they are chosen,
on the Tuesday next after the first Mon
day in November Their terms of office
shall be one year, and shall commence on
the first day of January next after their
election.
Sec. 8. There shall be elected at the first
election, twenty-five Senators and seven
ty-fve Representatives, and the number
afterward shall be regulated by law and
the General Assembly shall, in all appor-
tionments for members of the Legislature,
establish single Representative and single
Senatorial Districts.
Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to
the Office of Senator or Representative,
who shall not at the time of his election,
possess the qualifications of an eiector.
Sec. 5. Each House, except as otherwise
provided in this Constitution, shall choose
its own officers, determine its own rules
of proceeding, punish its members for dis
orderly conduct, and, with the concur
renee of two-thirds of all the members
elected to the House, expel a member,
but not second time for the same cause;
and shall judge of the qualification, cleo
ton and return of its own members, and
have all other powers necessary to secure
its safety, and the undisturbed transaction
of its business.
Sec. 6. Each House shall keep a jour
nal of its proceedings, which shall be
published. The yeas and nays on any
question shall, at the request of two
members, be taken and entered on the
| journal.
+ Sec. z. Any member of either House
shall have the right to protest against any
act or resolution thereof; and such. pro-
test and reason therefor shall, without al
i teratiop, commitment or delay, be entered
on the journal.
Sec. 8. All vacancies which may occur
in either House, shall, for the unexpired
term, be filled by election as shall be pre-
scribed by law
Sec 8. Senators and Representatives
shall, in all cases except treason, felony or
breach of the peace. be privileged from
arrest during the session of the General
Assembly, and in going to and returning
from the same; and for words spoken in
debate they shall not be questioned in any
other place.
i Sec. TO- a majority of all the men,
I bers elected to each House voting in the
affirmative, shall be necessary to pass a
bill or joint resolution, and all bills aud
Il joint resolutions so passed shall be sign
ed by the presiding officers of the respec-
tive Houses. and presented to the Gov
eFnor for his approval.
! Sec. H. The doors of each House, and
of Committees of the Whole, shall be
kept open. Neither House shall, with
ont the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than two days, nor to any other
place than that in which the two Houses
shall be sitting, except for personal safety
/ Sec II. Every bill shall be read BY
Sections in each House on three several
days, except in case of emergency. Two
, thirds of the House where such bill is
{ pending, may, il deemed expedient sus-