Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-08-16

der such laws and regulations as the
Legislature shall provide; and all gifts,
grants and appropriations Of money or
property, real and personal, heretofore
made TO said institutions, or to the Ter
ritory Of Washington therefor, are here
by confirmed toihe use and benefit Of
said institutions respectively. ]
XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION l. The political year for
the State OF Washington shall commence
on the first Monday in January in each
year.
SEC. 2. The term felony, wherever
it occurs in tho Consultation, or the
laws Of the State shall be ..eid to mean
any criminal nifense punishable by
death or imprisonment in tho peniten.
tiary, and none other.
SIC. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
Legislats re, at i.s first session, to pro
vide Seal for the State, to be called
the Great Seal of the State
of Washington = which shall be
kept by the Secretary OF State and all
official acts of the Governor. his approx
al of the laws excepted IS shall be thereby
authenticated. The Seal Of the Terri
tory of Washington shall be the Seal
Of the State until otherwise provided
by law.
SIC. 4. No county With ar area Of
900 square miles or less. shall be divid,
ed, or have any par. stricken thereirom,
without submitting the question to o
vote of the qualified electors Of the
county, nor unless a majority of those
vo,iug on the question shall vote for
the same.
SEC. 5. No county-seat shall be re-
moved until a majority of the qualified
electors of the county, voting on the
question, shall have voted in favor Of
its removal.
! SEC. 6. All county officers, who's
election or appointment is not provided
for in this Constitution, shall be elected
by the electors of the respective coun.
ties, or appointed by the Governor, oI
by the Board of County Commissioners
or nthcr county authorities, as the Leg.
islature shall direct. All city, town
and precinct officers, whose election o,
appointment is not provided for by this
Constitution. shall be elected by the
electors of such cities. towns and pre-.
cincts, or by some division thereof o,
appointed bv sucn authorities thereof
as the Legislature may designate fol
that purpose. All other officers, whose
election or appointment is not provided
for by this Constitution, and all officers
whose Offices may hereafter be created
by law, shall be elected by the people
or appointed, as the Legislature may
provide.
SEC. 7. All navigable waters with
in the State shall be and remain public
highways. free to all citizens of thu
State and Of rhc United States.
SEC. 8. No navigable stream in The
State shall be bridgcd. damned or oh
sructed by any person or corporation
without the authority Of law.
SEc. Q. None but citizens Of tn,
United States. or aliens who have de
clarcd their intentions to become such
in accordance with the laws Of Congress
shall be employed in or about any pub
lie office in the State. or in any Stat
institution, or on any public worl
prosecuted by :he State.
SEC. 10. All patents and grants o
lands, made by the United States Il
settlers and purchasers of the tide-lands
shall be ratified and confirmed by tn
State
SEC. II. In the event Of the rejec
tion Of the separate articles relative t.
Women Suffrage, the Legislature ma,
submit the question, at any genera
election, to the qualified electors Of tn
State; and if majority Of all the vote
cast at such election. on the question
shall be in favor of Woman Suffrage
then all women who are citizens 9
this State. and who possess the oihe
quail iications of voters, shall be quail
fed electors of the State.
SIC. II. The Legislature may d.
clare the cases in which any office sha
he deemed vacant, and also the ,nanne
IF filing the vacancy, where no p-ovil
ions is made Tor that purpose in tn
c institution.
SEC. l3. The County Commission
ers. Superintendent OF s ,hools and th
, County Treasurer Of each county. sha
constitute Board Of Appraisers. VIII
, shall apprsise all lands within their r,
spective counties, belonging to the Stat
except tide lands, under such regnl
'ions as may be prescribed by law b
fore they can be sold.
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