Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-25

stricken out and transferred to the schedule.
ARTICLE xI-EDucATIoN.
Provides for the election, once In two years. q
a Superintendent Of Public Instruction, and for
the establishment Of uniform system Of Common
Schools, to be maintained at least six months each
wear In every School District. Any School Dis.
trict falling to maintain such school for the space
of Six months, or permitting sectaran instruction
therein, may be deprived Of its proportion Of the
school Fund. The Legislature may pass such
laws as will tend to secure general attendance Of
children on the schools. The lands donated by
Congress- for educational purposes, and all other
sonrcas of income available for the purpose, are
Soismnly set apart and pledged to the School
I'D the interest only of which Is to DO diAtribn-
ted pro rata, according TO the number of children
hetyyeen six and eighteen years OF age In each
county. Floating school land warrants are TO be
sold A State University IL to be established. EN-.
bracIno agricultural, mechanical and mining de.
nartments All teachers and professors are re.
pp";rad N take IN oath Of Office. A half mill on
ho dollar SpecIal tax Is to be levied annually for
The support of the University and common
Tcbools. The Governor, Secretary OF State and
Snnerintendent of Public Instruction constitute II
BOARD of Regents of the University and public
schools for the first four years. the Legislature TO
oIact their successors. Said Board IL required to
organize the Mining Department ofthe University
as speedily and efficiently az possible. All secta'
RAN instruction I'm the schools or University il
prohibited.
This amends the corresponding Article Of the
old Constitution by striking ont 80 much as made
the attendance Of children on the schools compul
sory by asking for the consent Of Congress- 70 the
appropriation to school purposes of the 10000
acres granted for internal improvements, and in
some less important particulars
ARTICLE xn-NTLITIA.
REQUIRES the Legislature to provide for organ.
izinR and discIplining the militia and the effective
NJ I0lu ri
the Governor power to call out the militia In
emergencies. The Article IL Identical with the
one In the old Constitution
ARTICLE xIH-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
REQUIRES the State 10 foster benevolent inStIiu.
tions aud tho counties TO provide for the aged In
firm or INDECENT. The language Of the Article Is
the same az in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XIy-BoUNDARY.
Establishes the State boundary ~ In the Ena'
bling Act and provides for extending such boun'
dary one degree further east, whenever Congress-
shall assent and ~ far west as California may re-
linauish There Is no change in this fr ON the old
Constitution.
ARTICLE Xv-MIsCELLASEoUs PROVISIONS.
Section I fixes the seat Of Government at Car
son City. and prohibits appropriations TOR Caphoi
buildings for the next three years, Instead oil SIX
years. az in last years Constitution.
Section prescribes m oath Of office, inciuding
an oath of allegiance TO the United States and an
oath that the party has not, since the adoption OF
the Constitution. and wlnot be, engaged In duel
Section 3 prohibits any person not only from
holding Office, but (which is additional to the old
Constitution from voting, who has been In any
way concerned in u duel.
Section 4. No perpetuities shall be allowed ex'
cept for eleemosynary purposes.
Section fixes the general election on the tues
daNnext after the first Monday of November.
hn ia mlmDer1
the Legislature shall never exceed IS.
Section requires county officers to hold their
offices at the county seats.
Section 3 provides for the publication Of statute
laws and Supreme Court decisions.
Section Q authorizes the Legislature 10 increase
or diminish salaries Of public officers.
Sections 10 and IL relate TO the election or ap'
pointncnt Of officers and the tenure OF ofhctrs
created by the Legislature, which must never eS'
coed four years
ISecton IL of the old Constitution, providing for
State Printer was stricken out.
Section IL requires the Governor, Secretary oil
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk of the Su'
preme Court to keep their Offices at the Capital.
Section IL provides for State census, In the
discretion Of the Legislature, In 1865, 1867, 1919
and every ten years thereafter, 10 serve, together
with the United States census, as basis OF repre-
| sentaton. .."
Sec II establishes the plurality rule in elections.
ARTICLE l-AhkNDHENIss
Provides for amendment of the Constitution by
two.thirds votes of two successive Legislatures,
and subsequent ratification by the people. Also,
that the Legislature, by two thirds vote, may
submit TO the people the question Of calling Con
ventiOn 10 revise the Constitution. This Article
was, in substance the same in the old Contribution
ARTICLE XVII
Sections |, ., 3 and provide for the transfer OF
rights actions. prosecutions. judgments, claims,
etc, from the Territorial TO the State Government
| for the continuance of Territorial laws until re.
pealed altered by the State Legislature; for the
transfer Of fines and forfeitures, recogniLances,
| etc, and all legal proceedings.
Section $ fixes the salaries-for the first term OF
ofice-Goyernor, $4,000; Secretary ofState, Con.
troller and Treasurer each, $500; Surveyor
General $1,000; Attorney General, e., 500; Su'
perintendcnt Of Public Instruction g., 900 each
Judge Of the Supreme Court, $1,000; members Of
the Legislature, So per day and 10 cents per mile
each way.
Section establishes the following apportion.
ment Of the Legislature until otherwise provided
by law: Storey county, 4 Senators, IL Assembly.
men Douglas county, Senator, 2 Assemblymen:
Esmeralda county, Senators, 4Assemblymen
Humboldt county, 9 Senator's 3 AEsemblymen
Lander county, 9 Senators, 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Lyon
county, Senator, 3 Assemblymen; Lyon and
Churchill counties, Senator jointly Churchill
county, l Assemblyman; Nye county, Senator
Asse mblyman Ormsby county, J! Senators 3
Assemblymen; WaShoe and Roop counties, = Sen.
ators, Assemblymen.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory TO
the State provided snid indebtedness shall not in
terferc with the additional S:O0OO0 authorized by
| Article IN.
Section provides that the first State officers
shall hold till the Tuesday after the first Monday
| In January 1867.
Section provides that the Senators first elected
shall draw for long and short terms, onehalf going
out the day after the general election In le66, and
| the other half two years later.
| Sections 10 and IL provide for carrying ont the
same rule respecting Assemblymen.
Section l2 makes the first session Of the LeglSls
ture commence on the second Monday Of Decem.
Der next; the second on the first Monday Of Jan.
uary, 1866; succeeding sessions TO be held bienni.
ally commencing on the first Monday Of January.
Section % continues all Territorial and county
officers under the State organization till January
| 1867, and the Probate Judges till the District
| Judges are elected, with proviso for O special
election in Lander county next November.
Section IA continues the Territorial officers till
election anil qualification Of State officers.
Section Is fixes the terms Of the Supreme and
District Courts.
Section l6 and II fix the salaries Of the District
Judges, until altered by law. First Districi,
5000; Second $4,000; Third and Fourth, 5000
Fifth, 5000; Sixth, $4,000; Seventh, 5000;
Eighth, $500; Ninth, e5OO0
Section ls requires State officers first elected 10
| enter on their duties on the first Monday Of De
| cember next, and continue till January, 1857.
Section l9 makes q similar provision for the
Supreme and District Judges
Section 20 relates 10 the commissioning and
qualifying ofthe first State officers and District
Judges and requires the State Controller and
Treasurer to give bonds in $50, 900 each,
Section 81 requires counties, towns, etc. to pro.
vide for supporting their own officers.
Section ~ provides for filling vacancies.
Section % transfers cases pending in the Ter
ritorial Probate Courts TO the District Courts
Section q limits taxation for the first three
years to one per cent, and one.fourth of one per
cent. for Territorial indebtedness
Section IS attaches Roop to Washoe county,
for Judicial, Legislative, revenue and county pur.
poses.
Section 70 makes provision for publishing 60O
copies Of the debates and proceedings Of thla
Convention and for the compensation Of the
Official Reporter Of the Eame.
ELECTION ORDINANCE.
Following the Constitution proper Ia an ordi.
nance providing for the submission Of the ConHti.
tuition 10 the people At the te provided by Act OF
Congress, and also for the election Of State Officers
under the Constitution, on the Tuesday after the
first Monday Of November, 1864. The ordinance
makes detailed provisions az 10 the sodlerS' votes