White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-01
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to sit in any case.
ARTICLE ".
ELECTIONS.

Sec. l. All elections by the peopl
shall be by ballot, and all elections b,
the Legislature shall be RIGA Uoce.
Sec. 2. General elections shall be he'll
annually on the Tuesday succeeding tn
first Monday in November. Township
elections shall be held on the first Tues
day in April, until otherwise provided b!
law.
ARTICLE V.
SUFFRAGE.
Sec. 1. Every white male person o
twenty-one years and upwards. belonging
to either of the following classes-whC
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: LIST. Citizens of the United
States f; 81, Persons of foreign birth who
shall have declared their intention to be-
come citizens conformably to the laws of
the United States on the subject of nat
uralization.
Sec. 2. No person under guardianship,
non compos mentis or insane, shall be
qualified to vote; nor any person convic-
ted 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 allies, shall be deemed to have
acquired residence in the State in con-
sequence of being stationed within the
same, nor shall any soldier, seaman or
marine have the right to vote.
Sec. 4. The Legislature shall pass
such laws as may be necessary for ascer-
tanning by proper proofs, the citizens who
shall be entitled to the right of suffrage
hereby established.
Sec. 3. Every person who shall give
or accept a challenge to fight a duel, or
who shall knowingly carry to another
person such challenge. or shall go ont of
the State to fight duel, shall be ineligi-
BILE to any office of trust or profit.
Sec. 6. Every person who shall have
given or offered a bride to procure his
shall be disqualified from holding
Office during the term for which he may
have been elected.
Sec. 7. 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, fell
ony, or breach of the peace.
ARTICLE VI.
EDUCATION.
Sec. 1. The State Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall have the general
of the common school funds
and educational interest of the State, and
perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by law. A Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall be elected in each
County, whose term of office shall be two
years, and whose duties and compensation
shall be prescribed by law.
Sec 2. The Legislature shall encourage
the promotion of intellectual, moral, sci
sntifc and agricultural improvement, by
a uniform system of common
schools, and schools of higher grade.
normal, preparatory, collegiate
and university departments.
Sec 3. The proceeds of all lands that
have been, or may be granted by the Uni
ted States tn the State, for the support of
schools, and the five hundred thousand
acres of land granted to the new States,
under an act of Congress distributing the
proceeds of public lands among the sew
,rsl States Of the Union. approved Sept.
{, A. d. 1S41, and all estates Of persons
lying without heir or will, and such per
cent. as may be granted by Congress, on
he sale of lands in this State, shall be
he common property of the State, and
hall be a perpetual school fund, which
shall not be diminished. but the interest
IF which, together with all the rents Of
he lands, and such other means as the
may provide, by tax or other
wise, shall be inviolsbly appropriated to
he support of common schools.
Sec. 4. The income Of the State school
'unds shall be disbursed annually, BY or
Ter of the State Superintendent. to the sew
,ral County Treasurers, and thence to the
reasurers of the several school districts,
in equitable proportion to the number Of
children and youth resident therein, be-
.ween the ages Of FIVE and twenty one
years; Provided, That no school district,
in which a common school has not been
at least three months in each
year, shall be entitled to receive any por-
ion of such funds.
Sec. 5. The school lands shall not be
,old unless such sale shall be authorized
BY a vote Of the people at a general cleo
ion; but subject to re-valuation every FIVE
Years, they may be leased for any number
IF years not exceeding twenty-five, ct q
rate established by law.
Sec. 6. All money which shall be paid
By persons as an equivalent for exemption
rom military duty the clear proceeds of
.strays, ownership Of which shall vest in
he taker up; and the proceeds of fines
or any breach of the penal laws, shall be
exclusively applied in the several Coun-
les in which the money is paid or fines
collected, to the support Of common
schools.
Sec. Z. Provision shall be made BY
aw for the establishment, at some eligi-
Die and central point. of State Univer-
'ity, for the promotion of literature. and
he arts and sciences. including a Normal
md an Agricultural department. All
iunds arising from the sale or rents Of
ands granted by the United States to the