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


Convention to revise, amend or change
this Constitution, they shall recommend
to the electors to vote at the next election
Of members to the Legislature, for oil
against Convention; and if a majority
of all the electors voting at such election
shall have voted for a Convention. the
Legislature shall, at the next session, pro.
vide for calling the same.
ARTICLE XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sec. /. All officers whose election oil
appointment is not otherwise provided
for shall be chosen or appointed as may
be prescribed by law.
Sec. 2. The tenure of any Office moi
herein provided for may be declared by
law; when not so declared such Office
shall be held during the pleasure of the
authority making the appointment. buI
the Legislature shall not create any office
the tenure of which shall be longer thar
four years.
Sec. 8. Lotteries, and the sale of lot
terry tickets are forever prohibited.
Sec. 4. All public printing shall be let
on contract, to the lowest responsible bid.
der, by such executive officers, and il
such manner, as shall be prescribed by
law.
Sec. 5. An accurate and detailed state
ment of the receipts and expenditures o
the public moneys, and the several
amounts paid, to whom, and on what &C
count, shall be published, as prescribed
by law.
Sec. 6. The Legislature shall provide
for the protection of the rights of women
in acquiring and possessing property, real
personal and mixed, separate and apart
from the husband, and shall also provide
for the equal rights of women in posses.
sion of their children.
Sec. 7. The Legislature may reduce
the salaries of officers who shall neglect
the performance of any legal duty.
Sec. 8. The temporary seat of govern
ment is hereby located at the city of To
peka, County of Shawnee. The first
Legislature under this Constitution shall
provide by law for submitting the ques
ton of the permanent location of tn,
Capital to a popular vote, and majority
of all the votes cast at such general cleo
tion shall be necessary for such location.
Sec. 9. A Homestead to the extent o
one hundred and sixty acres of farming
land, or of one acre within the limits o
any incorporated town as a residence by
the family of the owner, together will
all the improvements on the same, shall
be exempted from forced sale under any
process of law, and shall not be alienateC
without the joint consent of husband and
wife when that relation exists but nc
property shall be exempt from sale for tax
es or for the payment of obligations con
tracted for the purchase of said premises
or for the erection of improvements there
on. ProUided. the provisions of thi
section shall not apply to any process o
law obtained by virtue of a lien given BY
the consent of both husband and wife.
SCHEDULE.
Sec. l. That no inconvenience MAJ
arise from the change from a Territorial
Government to permanent State Gov
eminent, it is declared by this Constitu
ton that all suits, rights, actions, prose
cutions, recognizances. contracts, iudg
ments and claims. both as respects indi
viduals and bodies corporate, shall con
time as if no change had taken place.
Sec. 2. All fines. penalties and forfeit
ures, owing to the Territory of Kansas
or any County, shall inure to the use o
the State or County. All bonds executed
to the Territory, or any officer thereof, il
his official capacity, shall pass over to tn,
Governor, or other officers of the State o.
County, and their successors in Office, fo
the use of the State or County. or by hin
or them to be respectively assigned owe
to the use of those concerned as the cas-,
may be.
Sec. 8. The Governor, Secretary ant
Judges, and all other officers, both civil
and military, under the Territorial gov
eminent, shall continue in the exercise o
the duties Of their respective department.
until the said officers are superseded undel
the authority of this Constitution.
Sec. 4. All laws and parts of laws il
force in the Territory, at the time of thu
acceptance of this Constitution by Con
gress, not inconsistent with the Constitu.
ton, shall continue and remain in full
force until they expire, or shall be re
pealed.
Sec. 5. The Governor shall use his pri
vate seal until State seal is provided.
Sec. 6. The Governor, Secretary Of
State. Auditor of State, Treasurer o
State, Attorney General, and Superinten.
dent of Public Instruction. shall keeT
their respective offices at the seat of gov
eminent
Sec. Z. All records, documents, books
papers, monies and vouchers belongings
and pertaining to the several Territorial
Courts. and offices, and to the several dis.
tricts and County Offices, at the date Of
the admission of this State into the Union,
shall be disposed of in such manner as
may be precribed by law.
Sec. 8. All suits, pleas, plants and
other proceedings pending in any court o.
record, or Justices court, may be prose
cuted to final Judgment and execution; and
all appeals, writs Of error, certiOrari, In