Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-30
CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA.

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Guiding mines and mining property. This was
regarded rs the most important change made by
the Convention.
Article NJ of the old Constitution, entitled sal.
aries was amended so IA 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
u Superintendent of Public Instruction, and for
the establishment of Il uniform system OF Common
Schools to be maintained ut least six months each
year in every School District. Any school Dis
trict failing 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 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
solemnlv set apart and pledged TO the School
Fund, the interest only Of which is 10 be distrbu.
ted pro rata according TO the number of children
between six and eighteen years of age iu each
county. Floating school land warrants are 10 be
sold \ State University is to be 5st6b..shad en-
bracine agricultural, mechanical ana ming de-
partmentS. All teachsrS and profesSCTs ure re-
uured to take AN oath of Office. a hC mill on
the Collar special tax is 10 be levied annually for
the support nf the University and common
schools The Governor, Secretary of State and
Superintendent of Public Instruction destitute
Board of Regents of the University ed public
sch OILS for the first four years, the lie slature to
exec: their successors. said Board IL required TO
organize the Mining Department the University
as speedily and efficiently possible. All sects.
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.
sOry by asking for the consent of Congress to the
appropriation 10 school purposes of the 500, 900
acres granted for Internal improvements, and in
some less important particulars.
ARTICLE XII-MILITIA.
Requires the Legislature to provide for organ.
king 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 il identical with the
one In the old Constitution.
ARTICLE NIII-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Requires the State to foster benevolent institu-
tions and the counties TO provide for the aged, in
firm or INDECENT The language of the Article il
the same rs in the old Constitution.
ARTICLE NIY-BOUNDARY.
Establishes the State boundary as in the Ena.
bling Act and provides for extending such bOun.
shall assent, and as fur west as California may re-
linquish. There is no change in ,s from the old
Constitution.
ARTICLE xv-MISCELLANEoUS PROVISIONS.
Section fixes the seat of Government ut 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
IN 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 Il duel
Section 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 duel
Section l. No perpetuites 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 6. The aggregate number ofmembers OF
the Legislature shall never exceed 10
Seetion7 requires county officers to hold their
offices at the county seats.
Section provides for the publication of statute
laws and Supreme Court decisions
Sections authorizes the Legislature to 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
q state Printer, was stricken ont.
Section IL requires the Governor, Secretary OF
State, Treasurer, Controller and Clerk of the Su.
preme 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, rs basis of repre-
sentation.
Sec II establishes TIE plurality rulein elections
ARTICLE XvI-AMEHDMESTS.
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 a two-t 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 XvI-SCHEDULE.
Sections l. =, 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 IT,
peaed or altered by the State Legislature; fox the
transfer OF fines and fOrfeitures, recognize. cs
etc, and all legal proceedings.
Section fixes the saaries--for ;he first term OF
Ofice-Governor, i,0OG; Secretary Of State, Con
troller and Treasurer, each, $500; Surveyor
General, $1,000; Attorney General, S2,5OO; Su
perintendent Of Public Instruction, g, 600; each
Judge of the Supreme Court, $1,000; members OF
the Legislature So per day and 40 cents per mile
each way.
Section establishes the following apporton.
meni of the Legislature until otherwise provided
by law: Storey county, Senator'S, 10 Assembly.
men Douglas county, Senator, . Assemblymcn;
Esmeralda county, . Senators, 1 Assemblymen
Humboldt county, Senators. Assemblymen
Lander county, Senators, 4 Assemblymen; Lyon
county, Senator, 3 Assemblymen; Lyon and
Churchill counties, Senator jointly; Churchill
county, Assemblyman Nye county, Senator
| Assemblyman; Ormsby county, , Senators 3
AsSemblymen; Washoe and Roop counties, Sen
ttors, 3 Assemblymen.
Section transfers all debts of the Territory to
the State provided said indebtedness shall not In.
tcrfere with the additional S3O0,OOO authorized by
Article TX. ..--
Section 8 provides that the first State officers
shall hold till the Tuesday after the first Monday
in January 1867.
Section 9 provides that the Senators Unsolicited
shall draw for long and short terms, half going
out the day after the general election in ls66, and
the other half two years later.
Sections 10 and II provide for carrying 9ut the
same rule respecting Assemblvmen.
Section ~ makes the first session OF The Legsia'
ture commence on tho second Monday e. Decem-
Der next; .he second on the first MonGGy of jan
uay 1866 succeeding sessions to be hR.5 bienn!-
ally commencing on the first Monday o. January.
Section l3 continues all Territorial and county
officers under the State organization till January,
1867, and the Probate Judges till he District
Judges are elected, with aproviso .Os 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,
$1,000; Second, $4,000; Third and Fourth, $1,000
Fifth, $500; Sixth, $4,000; Seventh, 5000 (;
Eighth, $500; Ninth, e5,OOO.
Section ls requires State officers first elected to
enter their duties ON the first Monday Of De-
cember next, and continue till January, 1867.
Section 10 makes a 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, 900 each. 90,
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 "a limits taxation for the first three
years to one per cent and one.fourth of one per
cent for Territorial Indebtedness.
Section IS attaches Roop to WashOe county,
for judicial, legislative revenue and county pur-
poses
Section 70 makes provision for publishing 600
copies of the debates and proceedings of this
Convention, and for the compensation of the
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