State Counties to provide for aged and infirm. Boundary. Addition may be made. Seat of Government. Oath of office. the State, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 2. A State Prison shall be established and maintained in such a manner as may be prescribedby law, and provision 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 of age and infirmity, or misfortunes, may have claim upon the sympathy and aid of society. ARTICLE XIV. 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 northwesterly direction along 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 thirtyeighth degree of west longitude to the place of beginning. And whensoever Congress shall 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. 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 office. SEC. 3. No person shall be eligible to any office who is not a who not qualified elector under this Constitution. No person who, while eligible to 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 eleemosy- Perpetunary purposes. ities. SEC. 5. The general election shall be held on the Tuesday General next after the first Monday of November. election. SEC. 6. The aggregate number of members of both branches Number of of the Legislature shall never exceed seventy-five. members restricted. SEC. 7. All county officers shall hold their offices at the county Offices, seat of their respective counties. where held. of laws, etc. SEC. 8. The Legislature shall provide for the speedy publica- Publication tion of all statute laws of a general nature, and such decisions 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. creased or SEC. 9. The Legislature may, at any time, provide by law for Salaries increasing or diminishing the salaries or compensation of any of may be inthe officers whose salary or compensation is fixed in this Consti- diminished. tution; provided, no such change of salary or compensation shall apply to any officer during the term for which he may have been elected. how chosen. SEC. 10. All officers whose election or appointment is not officers, otherwise provided for, shall be chosen or appointed as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 11. The tenure of any office not herein provided for, may Tenure of be declared by law, or when not so declared, such office shall be office may be declared. State offices, held during the pleasure of the authority making the appoint- SEC. 12. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, where held. State Controller, and Clerk of the Supreme Court, shall keep their respective offices at the seat of government. Enumera SEC. 13. The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State shall be taken under the direction of the Legislature, if deemed to be taken. necessary, in A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, A. D. eighteen tion of inhabitants Plurality of .votes to constitute choice. hundred and sixty-seven, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, SEC. 14. A plurality of votes given at an election by the peo- ARTICLE XVI. Amendment, how made. Revision of Constitution. Convention AMENDMENTS. SEC. 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 by 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 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 Majority of than that of both branches of the Legislature. In determining what is a majority of the electors voting at such election, reference electors. 3 shall be had to the highest number of votes cast at such election for the candidates for any office or on any question. ARTICLE XVII. SCHEDULE. SECTION 1. That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a Rights, etc., change from a Territorial to a permanent State Government, to continue. it 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. remain in 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- force. stitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitations, or be altered or repealed by the Legislature. to inure to SEC. 3. All fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the Fines, etc., Territory of Nevada, or to the people of the United States in the State. the Territory of Nevada, shall enure to the State of Nevada. main valid. be sued on. ritory to SEC. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be Recognitaken before the change from a Territorial to a State Govern-zances to rement, shall remain valid, and shall pass to, and may be prosecuted 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 Bonds may therein respectively expressed, and may be sued on and recovery had accordingly; and all property, real, personal, or mixed, and Property, all judgments, bonds, specialities, choses in action, claims and records, debts of whatsoever description, and all records and public etc., of Terarchives of the Territory of Nevada, shall issue to and vest in vest in State. the State of Nevada, and may be sued for and recovered in the same manner and to the same extent by the State of Nevada, as the same could have been by the Territory of Nevada. All Criminal criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have arisen, prosecuor which may arise before the change from 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 of the Territory of Offenses Nevada before the change from a Territorial to a State Govern- committed ment, and which shall not be prosecuted before such change, of Territory. 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 of the Territory of Nevada at the etc., to be time of the change from a Territorial to a State Government, may be continued and transfered to, and determined by any tions. against laws Actions, continued. Salaries of officers. Court of the State which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof. All actions at law and suits in equity, and all other legal proceedings, which may be pending in any of the Courts of the Territory of Nevada at the time of the change from a Territorial to a State Government, shall be continued and transferred to and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution in any Court of the State which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof; and all books, papers and records relating to the same shall be transferred in like manner to such Court. SEC. 5. For the first term of office succeeding the formation of a State Government the salary of the Governor shall be four thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the Secretary of State shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; the salary of the State Controller shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; the salary of the State Treasurer shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; the salary of the Surveyor-General shall be one thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the Attorney-General shall be two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of each Judge of the Supreme Court shall be seven thousand dollars per annum; the salaries of the foregoing officers shall be paid quarterly out of Pay of Sen- the State Treasury. The pay of State Senators and members of Assembly shall be eight dollars per day for each day of actual service, and forty cents per mile for mileage going to and returning from the place of meeting. No officer mentioned Officers not in this section shall receive any fee or perquisites to his own use for the performance of any duty connected with his office, or for the performance of any additional duty imposed upon him by law. ators and Assembly men. to receive perquisites. Apportionment of and Assem blymen. SEC. 6. Until otherwise provided by law, the apportionment Senators of Senators and Assemblymen in the different counties shall be as follows, to wit: Storey County, four Senators and twelve Assemblymen; Douglass County, one Senator and two Assemblymen; Esmeralda County, two Senators and four Assemblymen; Humboldt County, two Senators and three Assemblymen; Lander County, two Senators and four Assemblymen; Lyon County, one Senator and three Assemblymen; Lyon and Churchill Counties, one Senator, jointly; Churchill County, one Assemblyman; Nye County, one Senator and one Assemblyman; Ormsby County, two Senators and three Assemblymen; Washoe and Roop Counties, two Senators and three Assembly Territorial indebtedness assumed. Term of State officers, men. SEC. 7. All debts and liabilities of the Territory of Nevada, lawfully incurred, and which remain unpaid at the time of the admission of this State into the Union, shall be assumed by and become the debt of the State of Nevada; provided, that the assumption of such indebtedness shall not prevent the State from contracting the additional indebtedness, as provided in section three of Article nine of this Constitution. SEC. 8. The term of State officers (except judicial) elected at the first election under this Constitution, shall continue until the Tuesday after the first Monday of January, A. D. eighteen |