White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-01

Sec. II. All bills shall originate in tn
House of Representatives, and be subiec
to amendment or rejection by the-Senate
} Sec. Is. A majority of all the member
, elected to each House, voting in the afr
NATIVE. shall be necessary to pass any bill
or joint resolution.
Sec. IA. Every bill and joint resolution
passed by the House of Representative
and Senate, shall. within two day there
after, be signed by the presiding officers
and presented to the Governor. If HI
approve. he shall sign it but if not, h
shall return it to the House of Represen'
tatives, which shall enter the objection:
at large upon its journal and proceed tc
reconsider the same. II, after such re.
consideration, two thirds of the members
elected shall agree to pass the bill or res
olution. it shall be sent. with the objec-
tons, to the Senate. by which it shall
likewise be reconsidered; and if approved
by two-thirds of all the members elected,
it shall become a law. Bet in all such
cases, the votes shall be taken by yeas and
nays, and entered upon the journals Of
each House. If any bill shall not be re-
turned within three days, SUNDAYS ex-
cepted, after it shall have been presented
to the Governor, it shall become law in
like manner as if he had signed it, unless
the Legislature, by its adjournment, pre-
vent its return, in which case it shall not
become a law.
Sec Is. Every bill shall be read on
three successive days in each House, I'M
less in case of emergency. Two thirds
of the House where such bill is pending
may. if deemed expedient. suspend the
rules but the reading of the bills by
sections. on its final passage, shall in no
case be dispensd with.
Sec. 16. No bill shall contain more
than one subject, which shall be clearly
expressed in the title, and no law shall be
revived or amended, unless the new act
contain the entire act revived, or the Sec
ton or sections amended, and the section
or sections so amended shall be repealed
Sec. II. All laws of general nature
shall have uniform operation throughout
the State and in all cases where a gen.
eral law can be made applicable, no spe-
cial law shall be enacted.
Sec. Is. All power to grant divorces
is vested in the District Courts, subject to
regulation by law.
Sec. 10. The Legislature shall prescribe
the time when It's acts shall be in force,
and shall provide for the speedy publica-
ton of the same; and no law of gen.
eral nature shall be in force until the same
be published. 1t shall have the power to
provide for the election or appointment of
all officers, and the filling OF all vacancies
not otherwise provided for in this Con-
Stitution.
Sec. 90. The enacting clause Of all
laws shall be 'Be it enacted by the Leg
islature of the State of Kansas :" and no
law shall be enacted except by bill.
Sec. 81. The Legislature may confer
upon tribunals transacting the County
business of the several Counties, such
powers of local legislation and admins
tratiOn as it may deem expedient.
Sec. %. For any speech or debate in
either House, the members shall not be
questioned elsewhere. No member Of the
Legislature shall be subject to arrest-ex-
cept for felony or breach of the peace
in going to, or returning from, the place
of meeting, or during the continuance of
the session; neither shall he be subject to
the service of any civil process during the
session, nor for fifteen days previous to
its commencement.
Sec. %. The Legislature, in providing
for the formation and regulation of
schools. shall make no distinction be-
between the rights of males and females.
Sec. "a. No money shall be drawn
from the treasury, except in pursuance Of
a specified appropriation made by law,
and no appropriation shall be for longer
term than one year.
Sec. %. All sessions of the Legisla-
ture shall be held at the State Capital,
and all regular sessions shall commence
annually on the second Tuesday of Jan
'uary.
Sec 26. The Legislature shall provide
for taking an enumeration Of the inhabi-
tants of the State at least once in ten
years. The first enumeration shall be ia
ken in A. d. 1865.
Sec. 81. The House Of Representatives
shall have the sole power to impeach.
All impeachments shall be. tried by the
Senate; and when sitting for that purpose,
the Senators shall take oath to do justice
according to the law and the evidence.
No person shall be convicted without the
concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators
elected.
See. 90. The Governor and all other
officers under this Constitution, shall be
subject to impeachment for any misde-
meanor in office; but judgment in all
such cases shall not be extended further
than to removal from Office and disquali
ficatiou to hold any office Of profit. honor
or trust under the Constitution but the
party. whether acquitted or convicted,
shall be liable to indictment. trial, jadg-
ment and punishment, according to law.
ARTICLE III.
JUDICIAL.
Sec. 1. The Judicial power of this
State shall be vested in supreme court,
district courts, probate courts. justices of
the peace, and such other courts, inferior
to the supreme court, as may be provided
BY law and all courts of record shall
have seal, to be used in the authentica-
ton of all processes.