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Kansas Constitutional ConvsntIon.
AL CONVENTION.

SCHEDULE AS ADOPTED BYTHE CONSTITUTION.
AL CONVENTION. -
SECTION !. That no inconvenience may
arise by reason Of q change from terri
torial to . permanent State Government,
it is declared that all rights, actions, pros
ecutions, judgments, claims and contracts,
as well Of individuals as Of bodies corpo-
rate, except the bill Incorporating banks,
by the last Territorial Legislature, shall
continue as If no change had taken place.
and oil processes which may have issued
under the authority of the Territory OF
Kansas, shall be as valid as If issued in
the name of the State of Kansas.
Sec. 3. All laws now in force in the
Territory Of Kansas, which are not rcpug-
nant to this Constitution, shall continue
and be Of force until altered, amended or
repealed by Legislature assembled by
the provisions of this Constitution.
Sec. 8. All fines, penalties and forfeit
ures accruing to the Territory of Kansas
shall inure to the use of the State of Kan
Sas.
Sec. 4. All recognizanccs heretofore
taken shall pass to and be prosecuted in
thename of tho State of Kansas :, and all,
bonds executed to the Governor Of the
Territory, or any other officer or Court in
his or their official capacity, shall pass to.
the Governor and corresponding officers
of the State authority, and their success
seFs in Office, and for the use therein ex--
pressed, and may be sued for and recov-
cred accordingly, and all the estates or
property, real, personal, or mixed, and
oil judgments, bonds, specialitics, cases in
action, and claims or debts ofwhatsoever
description Of the Territory of Kansas,
and be sued for and recovered in the same
manner and to the same extent that the
same could have been by the Territory of
Kansas.
Sec. 8. All criminal prosecutions and
penal actions which may have arisen be-
fore the change from a Territorial to a
State Government, and which shall then
be pending, shall be prosecuted to judg-
ment in the name Of the State of Kansas;
all actions at law and suits in equity which
may be pending in the Courts of the Ter
ritory of Kansas at the time of change
from Territorial to State Government
may be continued and transferred to any
Court Of the State which shall have iuris-
diction of the subject matter thereof
SEC. 6. All officers, civil and military,
holding their Offices under the authority
of the Territory of Kansas, shall continue
to hold and exercise their respective
offices until they shall be superseded by
the authority of the State.
SEC. Z. This Constitution shall be SUBJ
mitted to the Congress of the United
States at its next ensuing Session and
as soon as official information has been
received that it is approved by tho same,
| by the admission of the State of Kansas
as one of the sovereign States of the Uni.
ted States, the President Of this Conven-
ton shall issue his proclamation to con-
vene the State Legislature at the seat Of
Government, within thirty-one days after
publication. Should any vacancy occur
by death, resignation, or otherwise, in the
Legislature or other Office, he shall order
an election to fill such vacancy: provided,
however, in case of refusal, absence, or
disability of the President of this Con-
venti0n to discharge the duties herein i'm
posed on him, the President pro tempore
duties; and in case Of absence, refusal, or
disability Of the President pro tempore, a
committee consisting of seven or a major
ity of them, shall discharge the duties re-
quiz ed Of the President of this Conven-
ton.
SEC. 6. The Governor and all other
officers shall enter upon the discharge of
their respective duties as soon after the
admission of the State of Kansas as one
of the Independent and sovereign States
Of the Union, as may be convenient.
Sec. o. Oaths of Office may be admins
tered by any Judge, Justice of the Peace,
or any Judge Of any Court Of record Of
the Territory or State of Kansas, until
the Legislature Of the State may otherwise
direct.
SEC. 10. After the year one thousand
eight hundred & sixty-(our, whenever the
Legislature shall think it necessary to
amend, alter and change this Constitution,
they shall recommend to the electors at
the next general election, two-thirds Of
the mcmbcrsof each House concurring. to
vote for or against the calling of a Conven-
ton; and, if it appear that a majority OF
all the citizens of the State have voted for
a Convention, the Legislature shall at the
next regular session, call Convention, to
consist Of as many members rs there may
be in the House of Representatives at the
time: to be chosen in the same manner,
at tho same places, and by the same cleo,
tors that choose the representatives; and
delcghtes SO chosen shall meet within
three months after said election, for the
purpose Of amending, revising or changing
the Constitution.
Sec. II. Before this Constitution shall
be sent to Congress for admission into the
Union as State, it shall be submitted to
all the white male inhabitants of this
Territory for approval, as follows The
President Of this Convention shall by
proclamation declare that on the 2lst day
Of ofDecember, 1857, at the different election
precincts row established by law, or which
may be established as herein provided, in
| the Territory Of fKansas, an election shall
be held over which shall preside three
Judges, or q majority Of three, to be ap.
pointed as follows: The President Of this
Contention shall appoint three COmmis-
siOneTS IN each County IN the Territory
WhOss duty it shGN Be to appoint three
Judges Of election in the several precincts
Of their respective counties, at which elec.
ton the Constitution framed by this Con.
vention shall DO submitted to ell the white
male inhabitants Of the Territory Of Kan.
sas in said Territory upon that day, and
over the ago of twenty-one years, for
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