Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-24
CONSTITUTION or NEVADA,

The amendment Of the old Constitution con-
sists in substituting the words real personal and
possessory, excepting mines and INNING 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 maze oy
the Convention.
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.
ARTICLE xI-EDUCATIoN.
Provides for the election, once in two years, OF
Superintendent of Public Instruction, ana lor
the establishment of uniform system Of Common
Schools, to be maintained at least six months eaeh
year in every School District. Any school DE-
trict falling to maintain such school Tor the space
of six months, or permitting sectarian instruction
therein may be deprived Of its proportion OF the
School Fund. The Legislature may pass sucn
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
solemnly set apart and pledged to the School
Fund, the interest only of which Is to be dlstrDu-
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 is to be established, en-
braeing 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 il to be levied annually for
the support of the University and common
schools The Governor, Secretary of State and
Superintendent of Public Instruction constitute
Board of Regents of the University and public
schools for the first four years, tho Legislature to
elect their successors Said Board is 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 as made
the attendance of children on the schools compul-
sorry by asking for the consent of Congress to the
appropriation TO school purposes of the 50O,O 900
acres granted for internal improvements, and in
some less important particulars.
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature to provide for organ.
zing and disciplining 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-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Requires the State to foster benevolent insttu.
tions and the counties TO provide for the aged In
firm or INDECENT The language Of the Article is
the same as in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE XIv-BoUEDARY.
Establishes the State boundary as in the Ena.
bling Act and provides for extending such bOun-
Diary one degree further east, whenever Congress
shall assent, and rs far west as California may re-
linQuish. There is no change in this from the old
Constitution.
ARTICLE Xv-MIsCELLAHEoUs 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 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, andwillnot be, engaged in duel
Section 8 prohibits any person not only from
holding office, but (which is additional to the old
constitutional from voting, who has been in any
way concerned in u duel.
Section 4. No perpetuties shall be allowed ex.
cept for eleemosynary purposes.
Section fixes the general election on the Tues.
day next after the first Monday of November.
Section g. The aggregate number ofmembers OF
the Legislature shall never exceed rs.
Section7 requires county officers to hold their
offices at the county seats.
Section provides for the publication of statute
laws and Supreme Court decisions
Section9 authorizes the Legislature to increase
or diminish salaries of public officers.
Sections 10 and II 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
l
Section l2 requires the Governor, Secretary OF
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk of the Su.
premc Court to keep their offices at the Capital.
Section - provides for 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-
sentation.
Sec. IA establishes the plurality rulein elections.
ARTICLE XvI-AMENDMENTs.
Provides for amendment of the Constitution by
| twothirds 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
ventOn 10 revise the Constitution. This Article
was, in substance. the same in the old Constitution
ARTICLE XYII-SCHEDULE.
Sections l, 2, 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, recogniZanccs,
etc, and all legal proceedings.
Section 5 fixes the salaries-for the first term of
office-Governor, $4,000 Secretary of State, Con-
trOllcr and Treasurer, each, $500; Surveyor
General, $1,000; Attorney General, 81, 500; Su-
| perntendent of Public Instruction, $4,000; each
Judge Of the Supreme Court, 81, 600; members of
the Legislature, So per 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, 4Senators, l2 Assembly
men Douglas county, Senator, . Assemblymen;
Esmeralda county, Senators, 4 Assemblymen
Humboldt county, Senator'S 3 ASsemblymen
Lander county, 2 Senators, 4 Assemblymen; Lyon
county, Senator, Assemblymen; Lyon and
Churchill counties, Senator jointly; Churchill
county, Assemblyman; Nye county, Senator
Assemblyman; Ormsby county, , Senators 3
Assemblymeni WashOe and Roop counties, 2 Sen.
ators, 3Assemblymen.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory to
the State provided said indebtedness shall not in
terfere with the additional 100000 authorized by
Article IN.
Section provides that the first State officers
shall hold till the Tuesday after the first Monday
in January 1867.
Section 9 provides that the Senators frstelected
shall draw for long and short terms one-haf going
out the day after the general election in lS66, and
the other half two years later.
Sections 10 and II provide for carrying out the
same rule respecting Assemblymen.
Section l2 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 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 special
election IN LanueT county ueAt NONemoel.
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,
5000; Second, $4,000; Third and Fourth, s5,0O0i
Fifth, $500; Sixth, $4,000; Seventh, 5000 |;
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 similar provision for the
Supreme and District Judges.
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 $50, 600 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
wears to one per cent, and one-fourth of one per
cent for Territorial indebtedness
Section 25 attaches Roop to Washoe county,
for judicial, legislative, revenue and county pur-