Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-12
&. CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.

sists in substituting the words real personal anu
possessory, excepting mines and mining claims
the proceeds Of which alone shall be taxed, IN
place OF the words both real and personal, In.
Guiding mines and mining property" This was
regarded as the most important change made by
the Convention ''.'''
Article XI of the old Constitution, entitled sal.
aries, was amended so as to fix the salaries OF
State ofcers, etc, only for the first term ana tnen
stricken out and transferred to the schedule,
ARTICLE XI-EDUcATIoN. .-s.
Provides for the election, once in two years, OF
a Superintendent Of Public Instruction, and Tor
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 10 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
SolemnIy yet apart and pledged to the School
Fund, the interest only Of which Is TO be distrbu'
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 b.
sold. A State University IL to be Established. en-
bracing agricultural mechanical and mining de-
partments. All teachers and professors are r..
quircd to take IN oath Of Office. A half mill OH
tle support of the University and common
schools The Governor, Secretary Of State and
superintendent Of Public Instruction cenrituiea
BOARD OF Regents of the University and public
schoois Tor the first four years. the Legislature TO
eject tnelr successors. said Board ~ required 10
organize the Mining Department ofthe University
as speedily md efficiently as possible All secta.
rlan instruction in the schools or University IL
prohibited.
This amends the corresponding Article of the
nps Nf1,,Nif ht,a ,-;l,t
the attendance of children on the schools compuI.
sorry, by asking for the of Congress 10 the
appropriation TO school purposes of the 500 OCu
acres granted for internal improvements and in
some less important particulars.
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature to provide for organ
izIng and dscipning 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 XlH-PUBLIc INSTITUTIONS.
Requires the State to foster benevolent institu.
tons and the counties 10 provide for the aged, in
firm or INDECENT. The language of the Article IL
the same an in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XIv-BoUSDARY.
Establishes the State boundary as in the Eua.
bling Act and provides for extending such boun.
dairy one degree further east, whenever Congrrp.
shall assent and az far west as California may re-
linquish. There Is no change in this from the old
Constitution.
ARTICLE Xy-MIsCELLGSEoUs PROVISIONS
Section ! fixes the seat Of Government at Car
son City. and prohibits appropriations for Capitol
buildings for the mex three years, instead Of siS
years, us In last years Constitution.
Section prescrbes an oath of office, including
an oath Of allegiance to the United States and al
oath that the party has not, since the adoption al
the Constitution, and willnot be, engaged In a duel
Section 3 prohibits any person not only from
holding office, but (which IL additional TO the old
Constitution from voting, who has been In auy
way concerned in 4 duel.
Section 4. No perpetuites shall be allowed TX,
cept for eleemosynary purposes.
Section fixes the general election on the Tues.
day next after the first Monday of November.
Section 6. The aggregate number ofmembers Of
the Legislature shall never exceed75
Section requires county officers 10 hold their
offices at the county Keats.
Section G 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 II relate 10 the election or ap.
poiutment OF officers and the tenure OF oficers
created by the Legislature, which must never rn,
coed four years
Section l2 of the old Constitution, providing for
State Printer, was stricken out.
Section 10 requires the Governor, Secretary OF
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk of the Su
preIDe COuTI 10 Keep OHlCCk NJ lUe I4plaI.
Section 10 provides for State census, in the
discretion Of the Legislature in 1865, 1867, 1915
and every ten years thereafter 10 serve, together
with the United States census, as basis of reprr
sentation.
Sec IA establishes the plurality rulein electous.
ARTICLE XvI-AMESDMESTS.
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 TO revise the Constitution. This Article
was, in substance the same in the old Constitution
ARTICLE XvH-sCHEDULE
Sections !, 9, 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, rccogniZancrS.
etc, and all legal proceedings. ...
Section fixes the salares-for the first term Of
ofice--Governor, $4,000; Secretary ofStatc, Con.
troller and Treasurer, each, $500; Surveyor
General, $1,000; Attorney General, $500; SUI
perintendent Of Public Instruction, $1,000; each
Judge of the Supreme Court, 81, 600; members of
the Legislature, Sc 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, Senators, - Assembly.
men DOuBlhs CtuhtOIf
Esmeralda county, . Senators, 4Assemblymen
Humboldt county, 9 Senators. ASsemblymen
Lander county, = Senators, 4Assemblymen: Lyon
county, Senator, 3 Assemblymen; Lyon and
Churchill counties, l Senator jointly Churchill
county, Assemblyman Nye county, Senator
Asse mblyman Ormsby county, = Senators >
Assemblymen; Washoe and Roop counties, . Sen.
ators, 3 ASsembymen.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory TO
the State provided said indebtedness shall not IN.
terfere with the additional $500 200 authorized by
Article TX.
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 ind short terms one half going
out the day after the general election In 1866 ana
the other half two years later. E ~
Sections 10 and IL provide for carrying out the
same rule respecting Assembymen.
Section - makes the first session of the Legisla.
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 l3 continues all Territorial and county
officers under the State organization till January
1867, and the Probate Judges till the District
Judges are elected, with q proviso for special
election in Lander county next November.
Section IA continues the Territorial officers till
election and qualification of State officers.
SeCtiOn 10 nXeB the OF supreme huu
District Courts
Section l6 and II fix the salaries Of the District
Judges, until altered by law First District,
$4,000; Second, $4,000 Third and Fourth, $4,000;
Fifth, $500; Sixth, $1,000; Seventh, 5000
Eighth, $500; Ninth. S5,0OO. -.
Section 10 requires State officers first electedtO
enter on their duties on the first Monday Of De.
cember next, and continue till January, 1867.
Section l9 makes similar provision for the
Supreme and District Judges. r...
Section 20 relates to the commissioning and
qualifying ofthe first State officers and District
Judges, and requires the State Controller and
Treasurer to give bonds in 10000 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 a limits taxation for the first three
years to one per cent. and onefourth Of one per
cent for Territorial Indebtedness
Section 25 attaches Roop to WaShoe county,
for judicial. Legislative, revenue and county pur-
poses. +. 1870.
Section 26 makes provision for publishing Gov