Изображения страниц
PDF
EPUB
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

To provide for calling a convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution of the State of Nebraska.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

called to revise

SECTION 1. A convention to revise, alter, or amend Convention the constitution of the State of Nebraska is hereby called constitution. to meet at the capital, on the second Tuesday in the month of May, A. D., 1875. Said convention shall consist of sixty-nine members, and the members thereof apportioned and elected from the several counties, as follows: Richardson county, four members.

Antelope, Boone, and Greeley counties, one member.
Burt county, one member.

Buffalo, Sherman, and Valley counties, one member.
Butler county, one member.

Apportion mea

Apportionment

Cass county, three members.

Cedar, Stanton, and Wayne counties, one member.

Cheyenne, Keith, and Lincoln counties, and territory north of Dawson county and west of Valley county, one member.

Clay county, one member.
Colfax county, one member.
Cuming county, one member.
Dakota county, one member.
Dixon county, one member.
Dodge county, two members.
Douglas county, seven members.
Fillmore county, one member.
Gage county, two members.
Hall county, one member.
Hamilton county, one member.

Jefferson county, one member.

Johnson county, one member.

Lancaster county, four members.

Madison county, one member.

Howard and Merrick counties, one member.

Nemaha county, two members.

Otoe county, four members.
Pawnee county, one member.
Platte county, one member.
Polk county, one member.
Saline county, two members.
Sarpy county, one member.
Saunders county, three members.

Seward county, two members.

York county, one member.

Washington county, two members.

Thayer and Nuckolls counties, one member.

Webster, Adams, and Kearney counties, two members.

Franklin, Phelps, and Gosper counties, one member.

Harlan and Furnas counties, one member.

Knox, Pierce, and Holt counties, one member.

Red Willow, Hitchcock, Dundy, Chase, Frontier, Dawson, and unorganized territory lying between Frontier and Chase counties, one member.

Pawnee and Johnson counties, one member.
Richardson and Nemaha counties, one member.

SEC. 2. The members of said convention shall be chosen by the electors of the state, qualified to vote at any general election, at an election to be held on the first Tuesday in the month of April, 1875. Such election shall be conducted in conformity to laws then in force respecting elections, and notices of the election of members to said convention shall be given by the officers whose duty it is to give notices of election for members of the legislature.

SEC. 3. The votes cast at such election shall be canvassed, and returns made in the same manner as shall then be provided by law for canvass and return of votes in elections for members of the legislature, and certificates of election shall be given to the persons entitled thereto, in the same manner as members of the legislature are entitled to receive the same; and in case of contested elections to the convention, the contesting candidates shall pursue the same course, and be governed by the same rules, as provided by law then in force concerning contested elections for members of the legislature.

Apportionment

Election, when

held.

Votes, how canvassed.

Meeting of con

SEC. 4. The members chosen to said convention shall meet in the hall of the house of representatives, on the vention. day before mentioned, at the hour of three o'clock, P. M., and before entering upon their duties shall each take an oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States, and faithfully discharge their duty as members of said convention. The said convention shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own

Officers.

Duties of public officers.

Amendments, etc., how pub. lished.

members, and the said members shall be entitled to the same privileges to which members of the legislatnre are entitled.

SEC. 5. The members of said convention shall elect one of their own members president. They shall also elect a secretary, an assistant secretary, and such other officers and employees as the business of the convention may require. The members of said convention, and the officers and employees thereof, shall be entitled to receive the same compensation and mileage as provided by law for the payment of officers and members of the legislature. The amount due each person shall be certified by the president and countersigned by the secretary of the convention, to the auditor of state, who shall issue warrants upon the treasurer, and the same shall be paid as other warrants are paid.

SEC. 6. The secretary of state shall attend said convention at the opening thereof, and it shall be his duty, and the duty of all other public officers, to furnish said convention with such statements, books, papers, and public documents in their possession, or pertaining to their office, as the convention may order or require. The secretary of state shall furnish the convention with such stationery as they may require. The printing ordered by said convention shall be executed by the contractors for public printing in the same manner as printing ordered by the legislature. The journal of said convention, and the debates of its members, shall be printed and distributed as journals of the senate and house of representatives are now distributed.

SEC. 7. The amendments, alterations, or revision of the constitution agreed to, shall be signed by the members of said convention, and, together with the journal and and debates, be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The amendments, alterations, or revision of the constitu

tion shall be published in such manner, and in such quantity, as shall be ordered by the convention.

tion, how the people.

SEC. 8. The amendments, alterations, or revision of New constitu. the constitution shall be submitted to the people, for their submitted to adoption or rejection, at an election to be called by said convention, and every person entitled to vote by the laws in force at the time such election is held, may vote thereon, and said amendments, alterations, or revision of the constitution shall not take effect unless adopted by a majority of the electors voting at such election. The convention shall prescribe the form or manner of voting at such election, and the votes cast at such election shall be canvassed, and returns thereof made in such manner as the convention may prescribe. The convention shall also prescribe the way and manner in which the said amendments, alterations, or revision of the constitution shall take effect, if adopted by the people.

publish this act.

SEC. 9. The secretary of state shall designate some pa- Newspapers to per in each county of the state wherein a newspaper is published, and each and all papers published in foreign languages, to print this act for information of the people, and such newspapers shall give this act one insertion before the first day of April, A. D., 1875; and shall, upon forwarding to the state auditor a copy containing such publication, be entitled to receive pay for the same, at the same rates allowed contractors for public printing of the laws of the state, which amount shall be paid by warrants of the auditor, drawn on the general fund of the treasury.

SEC. 10. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so Appropriation. much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated

out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appro

priated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

« ПредыдущаяПродолжить »