White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-29

Sc. The General Assembly shall make such
peovision, b. taxation or Otherwise Is with the
income arising from the school fund, viii secure
throughout the State, the maintenance Of thor.
ough and uniform system of common schools,
which shall be kept up and supported In each
district Ct least four months In each year, and
shall be open andfree to every child IN the State,
between the ages Of AFs and txeuty-ons years.
81. As the means Of the State viii admit,
educational institutions Of higher grade shall
be established BY Law. % az TO form complete
system Of public Instruction, embracing he Pd-
nary, Normal, Preparatory, Collegiate and Uni
versity departments.
sc. At the frst election Of Stats of6cers, and
biennislly thereafter. the people shall elect q
Superintendent Of Public Instruction, whose du-
ties and compensation shall be prescribed By
law. $50 2
SO. At the first election of State oficers, and
biennially thereafter, there shall be elected BY
the people, Commissioner Of School Funds,
who shall have the charge Of the school lands
and the principal Of the school fund, whose du-
ties and compensation shall be prescribed BY
Law.
ARTICLE VIII-fcsuc INSTITUTIONS
SrcrIoH l. Il shall be the duty Of the General
Assembly, at as early date as possible, to pro-
vide State Asylnms for the benefit, treatment,
and INSTRUCTIONS of the blind, deaf and dumb,
and insane. rt a-
l 80. The General Assembly shall make pro-
vision for the establishment of an asylum for
idiotsy to be regulated BY law.
SO. The General Assembly shall make pro-
vision for the establishment of Houses Of Ref
uge for the correction, reform and instruction Of
Juvenile offenders. .. -.,--....-
| "a. II shall be the duty Of the General As
sembly to make provision as soon as possible for
State Hospital, and State Peniteutiary; Pro-
Uided, that not more than one Of the aforesaid
institutions shall be located in any one County Of
this State, the location to be determined by 8
vote of the electors at large, at any general cleo
ton, and that the Directors and Superintend-
ents Of the same shall be elected by the people.
IS. The respective Counties Of the State
| shall provide in some suitable manner for those
inhabitants, who, by reason of age, inirmity 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.-MILrTrA.
SECTION l. The Governor shall be COmman-
der.in-ehief Of the Military forces Of the State,
excepting when these forces shall 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 instruction, and to repe inya-
sion. r.
SO. All male citizens of this State, between
the ages of eighteen and forty five years, e1cep-
ting those who are conscientiously 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 rsquired.
SO. The General Assembly shall provide BY
law for organizing and disciplining the militia,
in such manner as it shall deem expedient.
ARTICLE X.-PuBLIc DEBT.
T. SEcrroS1. No. money shall be paid out of the
Treasury; except in pursuance of an appropria.
ton BY Law.
~ The credit of the State shall never be
given or loaned in aid of any individual, asso-
citation or corporation.
SO. For the purpose of defraying eItraordina-
ry expenditures, the State may contract public
debts, but such debt shall never in the aggregate
exceed one hundred Thousand dollars, unless au-
thOrized by direct vote Of the people at gen.
eral election. Every such debt shall be author
lied by law, and every such law shall provide
for the payment Of the annual interest of such
debt, and the principal within ten years from the
passage of such Law: and such appropriation
shall not be repealed until the principal and in.
terest shall have been wholly paid.
"a. The Legislature may also borrow money
to repel invasion, suppress instruction, or de-
fend 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 re-
payment of the debts thereby created.
IS. No scrip, certificate, or other evidence Of
State debt whatever. shall be issued, except for
such debts as are authorized by the third and
fourth sections of this article.
ARTICLE XI.-FINANcE AND TAxArIos.
SrcrIoS i. The leVying of taxes BY the poll,
is grieVous and oppressive; therefore the Gen.
eral Assembly shall never levy poll tax for
County or State puEpOses. =
ga Laws shall be passed, taxing, by uni
form rule, all real and personal property, accor-
ding to its true value in money; but buryingI
grounds, school houses, and other property used
exclusively for educational purposes, houses
used exclusively for public worship, not exceed
ing fifty thousand dollars in value, institutions
of public charity. public and municipal purposes,
and personal property to an amount not exceed
ing in value two hundred dollars, for each head
Of 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 exempted. shall from time to time
be ascertained and published as may be directed
BY Law. -
81. The General Assembly shall provide for
raising revenue sufficient to defray the expenses
Of the State for each year; and also sufficient
sum TO pay The interest and such part of the
principal Of State debt, il any such debt shall
accrue, rs may be directed by Law.
SIS. No tax shall be levied, except in pursu-
anee of law; and every law imposing tar shall
state, distinctly, the object Of the same to which
only il shall be applied.