Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-16
CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.


,luding mines and mining property his vas
regarded rs the most important change mace Dy
The Convention. .eFS ~ .1 tyitgy
Article XII 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 ''a
~ ARTICLE XI-EDUCATloK.u -EH
Provides for the election, once In two years OF
4 Superintendent Of Public Instruction, and for
The establishment ola uniform system OF Common
schools, to be maintained at least SIX months eacn
year In every School District. Any school DE-
trct 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 WIN 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
soIe,nnly set apart and pledged to the School
Fund the interest only of which ID 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 are TO be
sold AState University il to be established. en-
bracinG agricultural, mechanical and mining de-
partmenis. All teachers and professors are re-
qured to take an oath Of Office. A half mill on
tne dollar special tax IL to be levied annually for
tCe support Of the University and common
schools The Governor, Secretary of State and
superintendent Of Public Instruction constitutes
Board OF Regents Of the University and public
schools for the first four years. the Legislature 10
elect their successors. said Board is required TO
organize the Mining Department the University
as speedily and etfciently as possible. All secta.
rign instruction In 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.
sorry, by asking for the consent Of Congress to the
appropriation 10 school purposes of the 5oO,O0O
al f,tat o.H
some less important particulars. .Y
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature to provide for organ.
izlng and dscipliung the militia and the effective
encouragement of volunteer corps, etc; also giver
the Governor power to call out the militia In
emergencies The Article Is identical with the
one in the old Constitution. " .ai'
ARTICLE xlTI-PUBLlc 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 Is
the same az IN the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XIv-BoUSDARY.
Establishes the State boundary as In the EnH.
bling Act and provides for extending such boun.
dairy one degree further east, whenever Congress
shall assent. and as far west California may re-.
linquish There IL no change in this from the old
Constitution.
ARTICLE Xy-AIscELLAHEoUs Provisions.
Section ] fixes the seat of Government at Cur
son City. and prohibits appropriations for Capitol
buildings for the mex three years. instead Of six
years. MS In last years Constitution.
Section 2 prescribes an oath of Office, including
an oath of allegiance to the United States mud au
oath that the party has not, since the adoption
the Constitution, andwilnot be, engaged in a drel
Section prohibits my person not only FROM
holding Office, but which IL additional TO the old
constitutional from voting, who has been in any
way concerned In duel
Section 4. No perpetuities shall be allowed ex.
cept for elecmosynary purposes.
Section fixes the general election on the TueE
day next after the first Monday of November.
Section 6. The aggregate number ofmembers OF
the Legislature shall never exceed IS. a..1..
Section requires county officers to hold their
| offices at the county seats. .f.. .
Section provides for the publication of statute
! laws and Supreme Court decisions.
| Section authorizes the Legislature 10 increase
or diminish salaries of public officers.
Sections 10 and IL relate TO the election or ap
pointment of officers and the tenure of officers
created by the Legislature which must never ex.
| coed four years
[Section l2 of the old Constitution providing for
aState Printer, was stricken out
Sect ~ requires the Governor, Secretary OF
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk of the Su
preme Court to keep their offices at the Capital.
| Section 10 provides for State eensus, in the
discretion of the Legislature, In 1865, 1867, 1873
and every ten years thereafter 10 serve, together
with the United States census, as basis Of repre-
sentation. E. ....u g. ..
Sec IA establishes the plurality rlein elections.
ARTICLE XvI-AMEEDNESTs.
% ioI ~ VI VIZ ,1a. ~
Iw9'lniIus votes on !"o SUCCESSIVE ,
anu tuosTqutnt Iutihe"ioh W tne peopie. nis" '
'nas iie Lssislu'uie, y! nv, H"!
submit 10 tue Peopte tHe quesuoh vi eaihs In
vention to revise the Constitution: This Article
was, in substance, the same In the old Constitution
~ ARTICLE xvI-scHEDULE
| Sections /, q 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 or altered by the State Legislature for the
transfer of fines and forfeitures, recognizances,
| etc., and all legal proceedings.
Section s fixes the salarles-for the first term Of
office-Goyernor, s., 900; Secretary of State Con.
| trollcr and Treasurer each 50 600; Surveyor
| General 81 OOO. Attorney General SO 500. Su.
periatendcnt6f Public Instruction, 80 600: each
| Judge of the Supreme Court, $1,000: members of
the LEGISLATURE az uer day and 40 cents per mile
each way,
Section, 6 establishes the following apportion.
ment of the LEGISLATURE until Otherwise provided
! by law Storey county, 4 SENATOR, 70 Assembly.
men Douglas county. / Senator. . AssrmbIymrn.
Esmeralda county, 9 Senators 4ASsenblymen ;
Humboldt county, 9 Senators. 3 AssemLlymen =,
Lander county 9 Senator'S 4 Assem- blymep; Lyon
county, senator. 3 Assemblymen; Lyon and
Churchill counties, l Senator Jointly; Churchill
county, / Assemblyman Nye county, Senator
| Asse mblyman Ormsby county, Z Senators 3
Assemblymen; Washoe and Roop counties, Sen
| utors, 3 Asemblymen. -.-.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory TO
the State provided said Indebtedness shall not In
terfere with the additional S3OO 200 authorized by
| Article tx -
Section provides that the first State officers
shall hold till the Tuesday after the first Monday
| in January 1861 I.l .r.r- 49,. rrH