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

course Of Law, and justice administered withoe
denial or delay. SsZ 1888 % -i1lz sF1t
60 ga. No hereditary emoluments, honors o
privileges shah ever BE granted or conferred b,
this StatS.,- ~ b5t.r1-s ssiHs5f.o Jon eel,
- Is. No power Of suspending laws shall b
exercised, except by the General Assembly.
Sl9.sPizate property shall ever be held ipvi
olate, but subseTTiens % the public welfare
When taken in time Of var, or other public ex
igencies fmperatively requiring lis immediate
seizure, or for the purpose Of making or repair
ing roads, which shall be open to the publi'
without charge, just compensation shall b,
made to the owners in money; and in all othe
cases where private property shall be taken FOL
public uses, compensation therefor shall frs
be made in money, or first secured by depositing
money, and such compensation shall be estima
ted by jury, without deduction for benefits t.
any property of the owner.
$40 The payment of tax shall not be q
qualification fer exercising the right of suffrage
8 81. This enumeration of rights shall not bs
construed TO impair or deny others retained by
the people; and all powers not herein delegated
remain with the people. -f -.
922. No indenture of any persons made and
executed out of the bounds of the State, shall
be valid within the State.
ARTICLE II.-ELEcrvE FRANCHISE.
SECTION 1. In all elections not otherwise pro.
vided for by this Constitution, every male citi.
zen Of the United States, of the age Of twenty.
one years, or upwards, who shall have resided
in the State six months next preceding such
election, and ten days in the precinct in which
he may offer to vote, and every male person oil
foreign birth of the age of twenty-oue years OF
upwards, and who shall have resided in the Uni
ted 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 become
citizen Of the United States, couformably to
the laws of tine United States, ten days prece-
ding such election, shall be deemed qualified
elector. s.--.-.-rT vr..Tr
81. No soldier, seaman or marine in the ar
my or navy of the United States, or of their al
lies, shall be deemed to have acquired a resi-
denco in this State in consequence of being
stationed within the same, nor shall any such
soldier. seaman or marine have theeight to vote,
- 8 3. No person shall be deemed TO have lost
his residence in this State by reason of his alb
sence either on business of this State, or of the
United States. .-.-..--.. .....
81 A. Every person shall be disqualified from
holding Office eng the term for which he may
have been elected, who shall have given or Of
fered bribe or reward to procure his election.
SIS. Every person who shall give or accept a
challenge to fight a duel, or who shall knowing
ly carry to another person such challenge, or
who shall agree to go out of this State to fight
duel, shall be ineligible to any Office of trust
or profit in this State. -.f,. .-.-..
g.. 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. ...... ...- -4., -
81. No person holding a lucrative Office or
appointment under the Constitution or laws of
the United States, or of this State, shall be eli
gible to seat. in the General Assembly, nor
shall any person hold more than ore lucrative
Office at the same time, except as in this Con-
stitution expressly Permiued; PrOuided, that
Offices in the Militia to which there is attached
no annual salsEA where the compensation does
not exceed ninety dollars per annum, shall not
be deemed lucrative. ~ .-.-
So. No person who may hereafterbe collect
or or holder Of public monies shall be eligible
to any Office of tr-st or profit inthe State until
he shall have accounted for and paid into the
proper treasury all sums for which be may be
accountable. ---...---
SO. Any person who shall commit a fraud
tending to affect the result Of any, election in
this State, shall, on conviction. thereof, be for
ever ineligible as an Elector. - --..,.r
ARTICLE III.-DIsTnBUrIoS oEPowERs.
SECTION /. The powers 0eithe Government
shall be divided into three separate departments
1.-The Legislative the Executive, including the
Administrative, and the Judicial: 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 ex.
pressly provided 1909 -.-, One --..s-., q.
-. ARTICLE IV.-LEeIsLGTrvE.
SECTION l. The Legislative pOwerof the State
shall be vested in a General Assembly, which
shall consist Of Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. -.--.,.- -a--5- ---
50. The Senators and Representatives shall
be chosen annually BY the qualified electors Of
the respective Counties or districts for which
they are chosen, OF the Tuesday next amer the
frst Monday in November. Their terms OF Of
fee shall be one year, and shall commence on
the first day of January next after their election.
SO. There shall be elected, at the first cleo
ton, Twenty-Five Senators and seventy five Re-
representatives., and the number afterward shall
be regulated By laWi and The General Assembly
shall, in all appOriiOnments for members Of the
Legislature. establish Single Representative and
Single Senatorial Districts. . -.
81. No person shall be, eligible to the 0ffce
Of Senator or Representative, ShO shall not, at
the time Of his election, pOssess the qnalihca-
tons Of an elSctOr. e s,fsr O. So G.
5. Each House, except as othervise proTlo-
ed in this Constitution, shall choose its oun ON
cers, determine its own rules OF proceeding
punish ils members for disOrderiJ conduct, and
with the concurrence Of tsO-thirds Of all the
members elected 10 the House, expel q member
but not second time for.the same eAusei ano
shAIl Judge of the qualification, election and re-
turn Of its own members, and have al ethe'
powers necessary to seenre its safety ana me
updisturbed transaction Of its business.