Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-07
CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.


Guiding mines and mining property" This was
regarded ms the most important change made by
the Convention.
Article NJ of the old Constitution, entitled sal.
aries, was amended so as to fix the salaries OF
State officers, etc. only for the first term and then
stricken out and transferred to the schedule.
ARTICLE XI-EDUCATIoS.
Provides for the election once in two years. of
superintendent of Public Instruction and for
the establishment of uniform system of Common
Schools to be maintained at least six months each
year in every School District ANY school Dis
trict failing to maintain such school for the space
of six months, or permitting sectarian 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
sources of income available for the purpose, are
sOleInnly set apart and pledged to the School
Fund, the interest only of which il to be distribu
ted pro rata according to the number Of children
between six and eighteen years of age in each
county. Floating school land warrants arc to be
sold. a State University is to be established. en-.
bracing agricultural, mechanical and mining de-
PartmentS. All teachers and professors are re-
quired to take an oath Of Office. A half mill on
the dollar special tax IN TO be levied annually for
the support Of the University and common
schools. The Governor, Secretary of State and
Superintendent of Public Instruction constitute a
Board OF Nebenlb OF Ine university ana .puDLC
schools for the first four years, the Legislature to
elect their successors. said Board il required to
organize the Mining Department of the University
as speedily and efficiently az possible. All secta
rian instruction i'll the schools or University Is
prohibited.
This amends the corresponding Article of the
old Constitution by striking out SO much made
the attendance of children on the schools compuE
sorry by asking for the consent Of Congress TO the
appropriation TO school purposes of the 100000
acres granted for internal improvements and in
some less important particulars.
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature TO provide for organ
iZng and discipliniug the militia and the effective
encouragement of volunteer corps, etc.; also gives
the Governor power TO call out the militia in
emergencies. The Article is identical with the
one in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XIII-PUBLlc INSTITUTIONS
Requires the State to foster benevolent institu
tons and the counties to provide Tor the aged in
firm or INDECENT. The language of the Article is
the same aS in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XlY-BOUSDARY.
Establishes the State boundary rs in the Ena-
bling Act and provides for extending such boun.
Diary one degree further east, whenever Congress
shall assent, and ms far west California may
lmquish There is no change in this from the old
Constitution
ARTICLE Xr-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section fixes the seat of Government at Car.
son City. and prohibits appropriations for Capitol
buildings for the mex three years, instead of six
years, us in last years Constitution.
Section prescribes an oath of Office, including
an oath of allegiance to the United States, and an
oath that the party has not, since the adoption of
the Constitution, ndwillnot be, engaged in duel
Section } 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 duel.
Section 4. No perpetuties shall be allowed eY-
/ crpt for rlermosynary purposes.
| Section ) fixes the general election on the Tues
day next after the hrs; Monday of November.
! Section =. The aggregate humber ofmcmbers of
the Legislature shall never exceed rs
Srct0n7 requires county officers to hold their
| Offices at the county seats.
Section 8 provides for the publication Of statute
| laws and Supreme Court decisions
Sections authorizes the Legislature 10 increase
| or diminish salaries of public officers.
Sections 10 and II relate 10 the election or ap-
| ponimcnt of officers and thr tenure of officers
created by the Legislature, which must never cx-
| coed four years.
[Seclion l2 of the old Constitution, providing for
| state Printer was stricken out.
SectiOn II requires the Governor, Secretary of
| State, Treasurer. Controller and Clerk of the Sr-
prcme Court TO keep their offices 1T the Capital.
Section Is provides for Il State census, in the
| discretion Of the Legislature, in 1865, 1867, 1875
and every ten years thereafter TO serve, together
with the United States census, as basis of repre-
| Sentution.
Sec Il establishes the plurality rulein elections.
ARTICLE XyI-AMENDMENTS.
Provides for amendment Of the Constitution 10y
| 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
! vcntion 10 revise the Constitution. This Article
was, in substance the same in the old Constitution
ARTICLE XrlI-sCHEDULE.
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-
pr;Ilcd or altered by the State Legislature: for the
transfer of fines and forfeitnres recogniZanrrS,
! etc, and all legal proceedings.
Section fixes the salaries-for the first term of
| ofice-GoycTnor, 1000 Secretary Of State, Con-
| trOller and Treasurer each, $1,000; Surveyor
| General, $1,000; Attorney General, 81, 500; Su.
| prriniendcnt of Public Instruction. So 900: each
( Judge OF the Supreme Court, STOOOi members Of
the Legislature, 81 per day and 40 cents per mile
| each way
| Section establishes the following apportion.
| mcnt of the Legislature until otherwise provided
! by law Storey county, Senators, ID Assembly
1 men Douglas county, Senator, . Assrmblymrn;
ESnerada county, = Senators, +Assemblymcn !;
| Humboldt county, . Senators. 3 ASsembymrn
| Lander county, . Senator's, 4 Assemblymen; Lyon
1
Churchill counties, Senator jointly Churchill
| county, Asscmblyman Nye county, Senator
| | AsScmblyman: Ormsby county, ! Senators 3
| AssrmblymCn; Washoe aud Roop counties . Sen
! atnrS 3 Assemblymcn.
| Section ! transfers all debts of the Territory TO
the State provided said indebtedness shall not in
tcrferc with the additional S30O,nO0 authorized by
| Article IN.
! Section z provides that the first State officers
shall hold till the Tuesday after the first Monday
| in january lS6I.
Section 9 provides that the Senators first clectrd
shall draw for long and short terms onehalf going
ont the day after the general election in LOCO and
the other half two years later.
| Sections 10 and IL provide for carrying out the
same rule respecting Assemblymen.
Section IL makes the first session ofthe Legisla'
| ture commence on the second Monday of Dccem-
Der next; the second on the first Monday Of jan
uary 1906 succeeding sessions to be held bienni.
| allv commencing OIL the first Monday of january.
Section Is continues all Territorial and cOunte
officers under the State organization till January
| 1867, aud the Probate Judges till the District
Judges are elected, with proviso for \ special
election in Lander county next November.
Section IA continues the Territorial officers till
| election and 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 District,
| SbUuU; second, S4UuU L HlTu anu rouItH' So'uOVi
| Fifth $1,000; Sixth, $1,000; Seventh, $4,000 {;
| Eighth, $500; Ninth, 5000.
Section ls requires State officers first elected to
enter on their duties on the first Monday Of De-
| cember next, and continue till January, 1867.
| Section 10 makes Il 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 S30,OOO each.
Section 81 requires counties, towns, etc. 10 pro
vide for supporting their own officers.
Section 20 provides for filling vacancies.
Section % transfers. cases pending in the Ter
| ritorial Probate Courts to the District Courts.
Section "a limits taxation for the first three
years TO one per cent, and one-fOurth of one per
| cent for Territorial Indebtedness.
| Section % attaches RoOp to Washoe county,
for judicial, legislative, revenue and county pur.
poses.
Section &c makes provision for publishing GOO
copies of the debates and proceedings Of this
| Convention, and for the compensation of the
| Official Reporter of the same.
| ELECTION ORDNANCE.
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