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4. Compensation for the same. 5. The supreme executive power vested in Governor, who shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.

6. The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of the State. 7. The Governor to nominate and, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint all officers, etc. 8. A State Examiner.-His duties, compensation.

9. The Governor shall have power to grant pardons, reprieves, etc.

10. The Governor may require information from the officers of the executive department, etc. 11. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature.

12. Every bill passed by the Legis

lature, before it shall become

a law, shall be signed by the Governor.

13. The Governor shall have the power to disapprove of any item.

14. When the Lieutenant-Governor has to fill the office of Governor.

15. Lieutenant-Governor

shall be

President of the Senate.

16. When the President of the Senate pro tempore is to act as Governor.

17. Seal of State, shall be kept by the Secretary of State.

18. All grants and commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the State. 19. All moneys received and disbursed by State officers shall be accounted for.

20. Board of State Prison Commissioners.-To consist of whom.

ARTICLE VIII.

Judicial Departments.

1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Senate.

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2. A Supreme Court, except as otherwise provided, shall have appellate jurisdiction only.

3. It shall extend to all cases at law and in equity.-Its powers. 4. At least three terms in the Supreme Court shall be held each year at the seat of government.

5. The Supreme Court shall consist of three justices.

6. How they shall be elected. 7. Their terms of office.

8. Particulars in regard to election of judges of the Supreme Court.

9. Clerk of the Supreme Court, his term of office and election. 10. To be eligible to the office of justice of the Supreme Court. 11. The District Court shall have original jurisdiction, etc. 12. The State shall be divided into judicial districts, in each of which there shall be elected one judge of the District Court.

13. Until otherwise provided by law, the judicial districts of the State shall be as follows. 14. The Legislative Assembly may increase or decrease the number of judges in any judicial district.

15. Writs of error and appeal from the District Courts to the Supreme Court.

16. To be eligible to the office of judge of District Court.

17. District Court shall always be open except on legal holidays and non-judicial days.

18. There shall be a clerk of the District Court in each county. 19. Each county to have a county attorney, his qualifications,

etc.

20. Justices of the peace, their election and term of office.

21. Their Jurisdiction.

22. Justice Courts shall always be

open except on legal holidays and non-judicial days.

26. All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation.

27. The style of process shall be. 28. There shall be but one form of civil action.

29. The pay of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the District Court.

30. No justice of the Supreme Court or judge of the District Court shall receive any perquisites, etc., except the salary provided by law.

31. No justice or clerk of the Supreme Court, nor judge or clerk of any District Court shall practice law.

32. Opinions and decisions of the Supreme Court may be published.

33. All officers provided for in this article shall reside, during the term of their office, in the district, etc., from which they were elected or appointed.

34. Vacancies in Supreme and District Courts to be filled by appointment of the Governor. 35. Judges of the Supreme and District Courts shall hold no other public office.

36. A civil action in a District Court may be tried by a judge pro tempore, etc.

37. Any judicial officer who shall absent himself from the State for more than sixty consecutive days shall be deemed to have forfeited his office.

ARTICLE IX.

Rights of Suffrage and Qualifications to Hold Office.

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1. All elections by the people shall be by ballot.

2. Qualifications required to vote. 3. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the State or the United States. 4. Electors privileged from arrest. 5. No elector obliged to perform military duty, etc.

6. No soldier, or seaman or marine in the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident, etc.

7. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this State who is not a citizen of the United States, etc.

8. Those who may not vote. 9. Legislature shall have the power to secure purity of elections.

10. Women may hold office and vote in school districts.

11. Those qualified to vote shall be eligible to any office in the State, except as otherwise provided.

12. Questions submitted to the vote of the taxpayers of the State or any political division thereof, women who are taxpayers, etc., shall have the right to vote.

13. A person receiving the highest number of legal votes shall be declared elected.

ARTICLE X.

State Institutions, Public Buildings. 1. They shall be supported by the State, as prescribed by law.

2. The location of the seat of government.

Section 3. When the seat of government shall have been located it shall not be changed except by a two-thirds vote of all the electors of the State.

4. In regard to appropriations for

capital buildings, etc.

5. The counties shall provide for those in need of aid.

ARTICLE XI. Education.

1. A uniform system of free public schools.

2. Public school fund of the State and school lands.

3. Such public school funds shall forever remain inviolate.

4. State Board of Land Commissioners, to consist of whom. 5. The interest on invested school funds, etc., shall be apportioned to the several school districts of the State.

6. Additional money to be raised by the Legislature by taxation.

7. The free schools open to all children and youths between the ages of six and twenty

one.

8. No money to be granted by the State for any sectarian purpose.

9. No religious or partisan test shall be required for admission to any public educational institution.

10. All elections of school officers to be separate from those of the State.

11. State Board of Education has general supervision.

12. The funds of the State University and all other State institutions of learning shall forever remain inviolate.

ARTICLE XII.

Revenue and Taxation,

1. Necessary revenue for the support of the State shall be provided for by the Legislature.

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2. Enumeration of what property is to remain exempt from taxation.

3. All mines and mining claims of gold, silver or other valuable mineral deposits have to purchase thereof from the United States, shall be taxed at the price paid the United States therefor.

4. The Legislature shall not levy taxes upon inhabitants ог property in any county, city, town, etc.

5. Taxes for city, town and school purposes may be levied, but the assessed valuation of such property taxed shall not exceed the valuation for State and county purposes.

6. No city, county, town, etc., shall be released from its proportionate share of State taxes. 7. The power of tax corporations shall never be relinquished. 8. The corporate debts of public corporations shall be provided for by law.

9. The rate of taxation on real and personal property.

10. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except by appropriation made by law. 11. Taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects. 12. No appropriations shall be made or expenditurés authorized whereby the expenditures of the State shall exceed the total tax.

13. The Treasurer shall keep a separate account of each fund in his hands, and shall make a quarterly report to the Governor.

14. The making of profit out of public moneys shall be deemed a felony.

15. The Board of Equalization for State and county.

16. Property shall be assessed in the manner prescribed by law,

3. Laws shall be enacted to prevent the destruction by fire of the grasses and forests on the lands of the State.

4. The Legislature shall enact liberal homestead and exemption laws.

5. No perpetuities shall be allowed, except for charitable purposes.

6. County officers to keep their offices at the county seats. 7. In regard to public lands, preference shall always be given to actual settlers thereon.

8. A convention to revise, alter or amend the Constitution may be called.

9. Amendments may be proposed in either house.

ARTICLE XX. Schedule.

1. All laws of the Territory not inconsistent with the Constitution shall remain in full force. 2. The same of all lawful orders, judgments, decrees, etc.

3. No crime or criminal offense committed against the laws of the Territory shall abate by reason of the change to a State form of government. 4. In regard to the changing of certain words in the laws of the Territory.