The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-08-13

Sec. IL. The style of all process shall
be The State of Kansas" and all prose-
cutions shall be carried on in the name of
the State.
Sec. Is. Until otherwise provided by
law, the first district shall consist of the
counties of Wyandott, Leavenworth, JEFF
shall consist of the counties of Atchison,
Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall and
Washington. The third district shall
consist of the counties of Pottawattamie,
Riley, Clay, Dickinson, Davis, Wabaun-
see and Shawnee. The fourth district
shall consist of the counties of Douglas,
johnson, Lykins, Franklin, Anderson,
Linn, Bourbon and Allen. The fifth dis
trict shall consist of the counties of Usage,
Coffey, Woodson, Greenwood. Madison,
Breckenridge, Morris, Chase, Butler and
Hunter.
Sec. 10. New or unorganized counties
shall, by law, be attached for judicial pur-
poses to the most convenient judicial dis
trict.
Sec. 20. Provision shall be made by
law for the selection, by the bar, of pro
tenn. judge of the district court, when the
Judge is absent or otherwise unable or dis
qualified to sit in any case.
ARTICLE Iv-ELEcTIoNs.
Section l. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot, and all elections by
the Legislature shall be viva uoce.
Sec. 2. General elections shall be held
annually on the Tuesday succeeding the
first Monday in November. Township
elections shall be held on the first Tuesday
in April, until otherwise provided by law.
ARTICLE v.-sUFFRAGE.
Section l. Every white male person of
twenty one years and upwards belonging
to either of the following classes-who
shall have resided in Kansas six months
next preceding any election, and in the
township or ward in which he offers to
vote, at least thirty days next preceding
such election-shall be deemed a qualified
elector.
1st, Citizens of the United States; I'd,
persons of foreign birth who shall have
declared their intention to become citi-
zens conformably to the laws of the
United States on the subject of naturali-
cation.
Sec 2. No person under guardianship,
non compos mentis or insane, shall be
qualified to vote; nor any person convicted
of treason or felony, unless restored to
civil rights.
Sec. 8. No soldier seaman or marine
in the army or navy of the United States,
or of their all es, shall be deemed to have
acquired residence in the State in con-
sequence of being stationed within the
same; nor shall any soldier, seaman OF
marine have the right to vote.
Sec f. The Legislature shall pass such
laws as may be necessary for ascertainina
by proper proofs, the citizens who shall
be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby
established.
Sec. 5. Every person who shall give oil
, accept challenge to fight duel, or who
shall knowingly carry to another person
such challenge, or shall 60 out of the
State to fight duel, shall be ineligible to
any office Of trust or profit.
Sec. g. Every person who shall have
given or offered bride to procure his
election, shall be disqualified from holding
office during the term for which he may
have been elected.
Sec. Z. Electors, during their attend.
ance at elections, and in going to and re.
turning therefrom, shall be privileged from
, arrest in all cases except treason, felony
or breach of the peace.
, ARTICLE vI-EDUcATIoN.
Section 1. The State Superintenden
t Of Public Instruction shall have the gene
{ raj supervision of the common schoo
4 funds and educational interest of the State
!, and perform such other duties as may b.
$ prescribed by law. A Superintendent o
e Public Instruction shall be elected in eacl
5 county, whose term of Office shall be tive
| years, and whose duties and compensation
e shall be prescribed BY law.
g Sec. 2. The Legislature shall encour
l age the promotion of intellectual, moral
: scientific and agricultural improvement
i by establishing uniform system Of com
mon schools, and schools of highe
| grade, embracing normal, preparatory, col
q legiate and university departments.
e Sec 8. The proceeds Of all lands tina
Y have been. or may be, granted by tn
Q United States to the State, for the supper
:. of schools, and the five hundred Thousand
$ acres of land granted to the new States
e under an act of Congress distributing tn
proceeds of public lands among the seve
: raj States of the Union, approved Sept
d 4, A. D. 1871, and all estates of person
/ dying without heir or will, and such pc
e cent. as may be granted by Congress, o
g the sale of lands in this State, shall be th
e common property of the State, and shal
II be a perpetual school fund, which shs
" not be diminished, but the interest c
II which, together with all the rents of th
b lands, and such other means as the Legi:
lecture may provide, by tax or otherwis,
d shall be inviolably appropriated to th
IL support of common schools.
Sec. 4. The income of the State schoc
e funds shall be discussed annually, b
is order Of the State Superintendent, to th
II several county. treasurers, and thence
'e the treasurers of the several school di.
L tricts, in equitable proportion to the nun
Of Der of children and youth resident therein
ii between the ages of five and twenty or
rs years: PROVIDED, That no school distric
ID in which a common school has not bee
10 maintained at least three months in eac
f. year, shall be entitled to receive any Pc
y ton of such funds.
r Sec. 5. The school lands shall not |
s. sold unless such sale shall be authorize
or by vote of the people at general ele
he tiou; but, subject to revaluation evel
. Eve years, they may be leased for al
W number of years not exceeding twent.
al five, at rate established by law.
D. Sec. 6. All money which shall be pa
ID by persons as an equivalent for exem
n ton from military duty; the clear pr
I'd ceeds of estrays, ownership of which shs
ce vest in the taker up; and the proceeds
fines for any breach of the penal Law
Irt shall be exclusively applied in the sever
be counties in which the money is paid
tn fines collected, to the support of comm'
of schools.
al Sec. Z. Provision shall be made by Ia
he for the establishment, at some eligible Al
on central point, of State University,
ed the promotion of literature, and the Al