and maintenance of said University and common schools; provided, that at the end of ten years they may reduce said tax to one quarter of one mill on each dollar of taxable property. SEC. 7. The Governor, Secretary of State, and Superintend. Regents. ent of Public Instruction shall, for the first four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, constitute a Board of Regents, to control and manage the affairs of the University, and the funds of the same, under such regulations as may be provided by law. But the Legislature shall, at its regular session next preceding the expiration of the term of office of said Board of Regents, provide for the election of a new Board of Regents, and define their duties. SEC. 8. The Board of Regents shall, from the interest accru- Duties of Regents. ing from the first funds which come under their control, immediately organize and maintain the said mining department in such manner as to make it most effective and useful; provided, that all the proceeds of the public lands donated by Act of Congress, approved July second, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for a college for the benefit of agriculture, the mechanic arts, and including military tactics, shall be invested by the said Board of Regents in a separate fund, to be appropriated exclusively for the benefit of the first named departments to the University, as set forth in section four above, and the Legislature shall provide that if, through neglect or any other contingency, any portion of the fund so set apart shall be lost or misappropriated, the State of Nevada shall replace said amount so lost or misappropriated in said fund, so that the principal of said fund shall remain forever undiminished. rianism SEC. 9. No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or toler- Sectaated in any school or University that may be established under prohibitthis Constitution. ed. ARTICLE XII. MILITIA. tion of SECTION 1. The Legislature shall provide by law for organ- Organiza izing and disciplining the militia of this State, for the effectual militia. encouragement of volunteer corps, and the safe keeping of the public arms. call out. SEC. 2. The Governor shall have power to call out the mili- Power to tia to execute the laws of the State, or to suppress insurrection or repel invasion. ARTICLE XIII. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. lent insti SECTION 1. Institutions for the benefit of the insane, blind, Benevo and deaf and dumb, and such other benevolent institutions as tutions the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported to be by the State, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. fostered. SEC. 2. A State Prison shall be established and maintained State in such manner as may be prescribed by law, and provision Prison. Counties to provide for aged may be made by law for the establishment and maintenance of a House of Refuge for juvenile offenders. SEC. 3. The respective counties of the State shall provide, as may be prescribed by law, for those inhabitants who, by reason and infirm of age and infirmity, or misfortunes, may have claim upon the sympathy and aid of society. ARTICLE XIV. Boundary BOUNDARY. SECTION 1. The boundary of the State of Nevada shall be as follows: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the thirty-eighth degree of longitude west from Washington with the thirty-seventh degree of north latitude; thence due west along said thirty-seventh degree of north latitude to the eastern boundary line of the State of California; thence in a north westerly direction along the said eastern boundary line of the State of California to the forty-third degree of longitude west from Washington; thence north along said forty-third degree of west longitude and said eastern boundary line of the State of California to the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence due east along the said forty-second degree of north latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the aforesaid thirty-eighth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence due south down said thirty-eighth degree of west longitude to the place of beginning. And whensoever Congress shall Addition authorize the addition to the Territory or State of Nevada of any portion of the territory on the easterly border of the foregoing defined limits, not exceeding in extent one degree of longitude, the same shall thereupon be embraced within and become a part of this State. And, furthermore provided, that all such territory lying west of and adjoining the boundary line herein prescribed, which the State of California may relinquish to the Territory or State of Nevada, shall thereupon be embraced within and constitute a part of this State. may be made. Seat of Government. Oath of office. ARTICLE XV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SECTION 1. The seat of government shall be at Carson City; but no appropriation for the erection or purchase of capitol buildings shall be made during the next three years. SEC. 2. Members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive, judicial, and ministerial, shall, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation: “I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States, and the Constitution and Government of the State of Nevada, against all enemies, whether domestic or for eign; and that I will bear true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to on eligible to SEC. 3. No person shall be eligible to any office who is not who not a qualified elector under this Constitution. No person who, office. while a citizen of this State, has, since the adoption of this Constitution, fought a duel with a deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries of this State, or who has acted as second, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided or assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed to hold any office of honor, profit, or trust, or enjoy the right of suffrage under this Constitution. The Legislature shall provide by law for giving force and effect to this section. SEC. 4. No perpetuities shall be allowed except for eleemo- Perpesynary purposes. tuities. SEC. 5. The general election shall be held on the Tuesday General next after the first Monday of November. election. members restricted. SEC. 6. The aggregate number of members of both branches Number of of the Legislature shall never exceed seventy-five. SEC. 7. All county officers shall hold their offices at the offices, county seat of their respective counties. where held. laws, etc. SEC. 8. The Legislature shall provide for the speedy publi- Publicacation of all statute laws of a general nature, and such decis- tion of ions of the Supreme Court as it may deem expedient; and all laws and judicial decisions shall be free for publication by any person; provided, that no judgment of the Supreme Court shall take effect and be operative until the opinion of the Court in such case shall be filed with the Clerk of said Court. increased ished. SEC. 9. The Legislature may, at any time, provide by law Salaries for increasing or diminishing the salaries or compensation of may be any of the officers whose salary or compensation is fixed in or dimin this Constitution; provided, no such change of salary or compensation shall apply to any officer during the term for which he may have been elected. SEC. 10. All officers, whose election or appointment is not officers, otherwise provided for, shall be chosen or appointed as may be how prescribed by law. SEC. 11. The tenure of any office, not herein provided for, chosen. Tenure of may be declared by law; or, when not so declared, such office office may shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the be declared. State offices, where held. Enumera appointment; but the Legislature shall not create any office, the tenure of which shall be longer than four years, except as herein otherwise provided in this Constitution. SEC. 12. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Controller, and Clerk of the Supreme Court, shall keep their respective offices at the seat of government. SEC. 13. The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State tion of in- shall be taken under the direction of the Legislature, if deemed habitants to be taken. Plurality necessary, in A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five; A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and every ten years thereafter; and these enumerations, together with the census that may be taken under the direction of the Congress of the United States in A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy, and every subsequent ten years, shall serve as the basis of representation in both Houses of the Legislature. SEC. 14. A plurality of votes given at an election by the of votes to people shall constitute a choice, where not otherwise provided by this Constitution. constitute choice. ARTICLE XVI. Amendments, how made. Revision tution. AMENDMENTS. SECTION 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or Assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their respective journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature then next to be chosen, and shall be published for three months next preceding the time of making such choice. And if, in the Legislature next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of the Constitution. SEC. 2. If, at any time, the Legislature, by a vote of two of Consti- thirds of the members elected to each House, shall determine that it is necessary to cause a revision of this entire Constitution, they shall recommend to the electors, at the next election for members of the Legislature, to vote for or against a Convention; and if it shall appear that a majority of the electors voting at such election shall have voted in favor of calling a Convention, the Legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling a Convention, to be holden within six months after the passage of such law; and such Convention shall consist of a number of members not less than that of both Convention. branches of the Legislature. In determining what is a majority Majority of the electors voting at such election, reference shall be had of electors to the highest number of votes cast at such election for the candidates for any office or on any question. ARTICLE XVII. SCHEDULE. continue. SECTION 1. That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a Rights, change from a Territorial to a permanent State government, it etc., to is declared that all rights, actions, prosecutions, judgments, claims, and contracts, as well of individuals as of bodies corporate, including counties, towns, and cities, shall continue as if no change had taken place; and all process which may issue under the authority of the Territory of Nevada previous to its admission into the Union as one of the United States, shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State of Nevada. in force. SEC. 2. All laws of the Territory of Nevada, in force at the Laws to time of the admission of this State, not repugnant to this Con- remain stitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitations, or be altered or repealed by the Legislature. State. nizances may be etc., of SEC. 3. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, accruing to the Fines, etc. Territory of Nevada, or to the people of the United States in to inure to the Territory of Nevada, shall inure to the State of Nevada. SEC. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be Recog taken before the change from a Territorial to a State govern- to remain ment, shall remain valid, and shall pass to and may be prose- valid. cuted in the name of the State; and all bonds executed to the Governor of the Territory, or to any other officer or Court in his or their official capacity, or to the people of the United States in the Territory of Nevada, shall pass to the Governor or other officer or Court, and his or their successors in office, for the uses therein respectively expressed, and may be sued Bonds on, and recovery had accordingly; and all property, real, per- mud on. sonal, or mixed, and all judgments, bonds, specialties, choses in action, claims, and debts, of whatsoever description, and all Property, records and public archives of the Territory of Nevada, shall records, issue to and vest in the State of Nevada, and may be sued for Territory and recovered in the same manner, and to the same extent, by state. the State of Nevada, as the same could have been by the Territory of Nevada All criminal prosecutions and penal actions Criminal which may have arisen, or which may arise before the change prosecufrom a Territorial to a State government, and which shall then be pending, shall be prosecuted to judgment and execution in the name of the State. All offenses committed against the laws Offenses of the Territory of Nevada before the change from a Territo- commitrial to a State government, and which shall not be prosecuted against before such change, may be prosecuted in the name and by the authority of the State of Nevada, with like effect as though such change had not taken place, and all penalties incurred shall remain the same as if this Constitution had not been adopted. All actions at law, and suits in equity, and other legal proceedings which may be pending in any of the Courts to vest in tions. laws of Territory. |