Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-10
CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.

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lists In substituting the words ''resl, personal ana
oossessory, excepting mines and mining claims'
he proceeds of which alone shall be taxed, In
place Of the words "both real and personal, in
,luding mines and mining property" This was
regarded rs the most important change mace Dy
he Convention.
Article XI 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 thrn
stricken out and transferred to the schedule
ARTICLE MEDICATION.
Provides for the election, once in two years. OF
q Superintendent OF Public Instruction and LOT
The establishment Of uniform system Of Common
Schools to be maintained at least six months each
year in every School District. Any School Dis.
rict falling to maintain such school for the space
IF six months, or permitting sectarian instruction
thorein may be deprived Of its proportion Of the
school Fund. The Legislature may pass such
avs as will tend to secure general attendance OF
,bildren on the schools The lands donated BY
Congress for educational purposes and all other
sources of income available for the purpose, are
solemnly set apart and pledged to the school
Fund, the interest only of which is to be distribu
ted pro rata, according to the number OF enhuren
between six and eighteen years OF age In eaeh
county Floating school land warrants are TO be
sold. A State University is to be established. em
bracing agricultural mechanical and mining de-
partments. All teachers and professors are re-
qnlred to take an oath Of office. A half mill on
'|S uohdE special TAX IL 10 De lfVleu Huuuhu1 loi
the support of the University and common
schoois The Governor, Secretary of State and
superintendent Of Public Instruction cenStituteR
Board OF Regents Of the University and public
schools for the first four years. the Legislature 10
elect their successors said Board Ii required TO
organize the Mining Department ofthe University
as speedily and efficiently as possible All secta.
rian instruction in the schools or University Is
prohibited
This amends the corresponding Article of the
old Constitution by striking out SO much US made
the attendance of children on the schools compul.
sorry by asking for the consent of Congress to the
appropriation 10 school purposes of the 50O0O0
acres granted for internal improvements and in
some less important particulars
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature to provide for organ
izing and disciplining the militia and the effective
encouragement of volunteer corps etc. also gives
the Governor power to call ont the militia in
emergencies. The Article Is identical with the
one In the old Constitution.
ARTICLE NlH-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Requires the State to foster benevolent institu
tons and the counties to provide for the aged, in
firm or INDECENT The language of the Article II
the same ny in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XGv-BoUSDARY.
Establishes the State boundary in the Ena.
bling Act and provides for extending such boun.
Diary one degree further east, whenever Congress
shall assent, and as far west as California may
uDuulhU. IHtIc Is HO CuuUBt III tIllh IT ON Int OH
Constitution.
ARTICLE Xv-MISCELLASEoUs 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, as in last years Constitution.
Section 9 prescribes an oath Of office, including
an oath Of allegiance 10 the United States, and an
oath that the party has not, since the adoption OF
the Constitution, ind wilnot 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 q duel.
Section l. No perpetuites shall be allowed cX.
cept for eleemosynary purposes.
Section fixes the general election on the Tues
day next after the first Monday Of November.
Section Il. The aggregate number ofmembers OF
the Legislature shall never exceed IS.
Section requires county officers TO hold their
offices at the county seat.
Section 8 provides for the publication Of statute
laws and Supreme Court decisions.
Section authorizes the Legislature to increase
or diminish salaries of public officers.
Sections 10 and il relate to the election or ap.
pontment of officers and the tenure Of officers
created by the Legislature which must never TX
coed four years
Section 10 of the old Constitution, providing lOr
a State Printer, was stricken out
Section IL requires the Governor, Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk Of the Su
preme Court TO keep their Offices ut The Capital.
Section - provides for State census. in the
discretion Of the Legislature, in 1865, le61, 1915
and every ten years thereafter 10 serve, together
with the United States census as basis Of repre-
sentatiOn.
Sec IA establishes the plurality rulein elections.
ARTICLE XvI-AMENDMESTs.
Provides for amendment Of the Constitution by
two-thirds votes Of two successive Legislatures,
and subsequent ratification by the people. Also.
that tha arfSlnfuFp hxy IA fyHn .tlfr1g
submit 10 the people the question of calling Con
vention to revise the Constitution. This Article
was, in substance, the same in the old Constitution
ARTICLE Xvu-sCHEDULE
Sections l, 2, 3 and provide for the tr!Insfrr 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 forfeiturcs, rccognzances
ETC., and all legal proceedings.
Section 5 fixes the saaries-for the first term Of
oficc-Governor, S4,0O0; Secretary ofState, Con
troller and Treasurer, each, $1,000; Surveyor
General, $1,000; Attorney General, $500; Su'
perintendent Of Public Instruction, 5000; each
Judge of the Supreme Court, s., 900; members OF
the Legislature, S. per day and 40 cents per mile
each way.
Section establishes the following appOrtion.
ment of the Legislature until otherwise provided
by law: Storey county, 4 Senators, i2 Assembly
men Douglas county, Senator, . ASscmbiymen;
Esmeralda county, . Senator's. 4 ASemblymen
Humboldt county, Senators. Assemblymen.
Lander county, ? Senators, AsScmblymen Lyon
county, senator, 3 Asscmblymen Lyon and
Churchill counties, ! Senator jointly; Churchill
county, Asscmblyman Nye county, Senator
Asse mblyman Ormsby county, Senators 3
Asscmblymen; Washoc and RoOp counties, 2 Sen.
ators, 3 Assemblymen.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory to
the State provided said indebtedness shall not in
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Article TX.
Section provides that the first State officer
shall hold till the Tuesday after the frst Monday
in January 1867.
Section provides that the Senators frstelected
shall draw for long and short TERMS one.haf going
ont the day after the general election In le66, and
the other half two years later.
Sections 10 and II provide for carrying out the
same rule respecting Assembymen.
Section u makes the first session Of the Legisla.
ture commence on the second Monday Of Deeem-
Der next; the second on the first Monday of Jan
uary, 1866; succeeding sessions to be held blenni.
ally, commencing on the first Monday Of January.
Section Is 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 n 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 Pnd
District Courts.
Section l6 and II Tx the salaries Of the District
Judges, until altered by law. First District,
S6OOOi Second, $4,000; Third and Fourth, $1,000;
Fifth, $1,000; Sixth, $1,000; Seventh, $1,000
Eighth, $500; Ninth, 5000.
Section ls requires State officers first electedto
enter on their duties on the first Monday of De-
cember next, and continue till January 1867.
Section 10 makes u similar provision for the
Supreme and District Judges.
Section 90 relates to the commissioning and
qualifying ofthe first State officers and District
Judges and requires the State Controller and
Treasurer to give bonds in $685. each.
Section 81 requires counties, towns, etc. TO pro-
vide for supporting their own officers.
Section % provides for filing vacancies.
Section % transfers cases pending In the Ter
ritorial Probate Courts TO the District Courts.
Section q limits taxation for the first three
wears to one per cent and onefourth Of one per
cent. for Territorial indebtedness
Section % attaches Roop TO WashOe county,
for judicial, legislative, revenue and county pur