KANSAS CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE Schedule
SCHEDULE AND RESOLUTIONS

Sch. §1 | CHANGE FROM A TERRITORIAL TO A STATE GOVERNMENT

That no inconvenience may arise from the change from a Territorial Government to a permanent State Government, it is declared by this Constitution that all suits, rights, actions, prosecutions, recognizances, contracts, judgments and claims, both as respects individuals and bodies corporate, shall continue as if no change had taken place.

Sch. §2 | PENALTIES, FORFEITURES AND BONDS

All fines, penalties and forfeitures, owing to the Territory of Kansas, or any county, shall inure to the use of the State or county. All bonds executed to the Territory, or any officer thereof, in his official capacity, shall pass over to the Governor, or other officers of the State or county, and their successors in office, for the use of the State or county, or by him or them to be respectively assigned over to the use of those concerned, as the case may be.

Sch. §3 | OFFICERS OF TERRITORY

The Governor, Secretary and judges, and all other officers, both civil and military, under the Territorial government, shall continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective departments until the said officers are superseded under the authority of this Constitution.

Sch. §4 | LAWS

All laws and parts of laws in force in the Territory, at the time of the acceptance of this Constitution by Congress, not inconsistent with this Constitution, shall continue and remain in full force until they expire, or shall be repealed.

Sch. §5 | SEAL

The governor shall use his private seal until a State seal is provided.

Sch. §6 | OFFICES AT CAPITAL

The Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall keep their respective offices at the seat of government.

Sch. §7 | COURT RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS

All records, documents, books, papers, moneys and vouchers belonging and pertaining to the several Territorial courts, and offices and to the several districts and county offices, at the date of the admission of this State into the Union, shall be disposed of in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

Sch. §8 | SUITS AND PROCEEDINGS

All suits, pleas, plaints and other proceedings pending in any court of record, or justice's court, may be prosecuted to final judgment and execution; and all appeals, writs of error, certiorari, injunctions, or other proceedings whatever, may progress and be carried on as if this Constitution had not been adopted, and the Legislature shall direct the mode in which such suits, pleas, plaints, prosecutions and other proceedings, and all papers, records, books and documents connected therewith, may be removed to the courts established by this Constitution.

Sch. §9 | RATIFICATION OR REJECTION OF CONSTITUTION

For the purpose of taking the vote of the Electors of this Territory for the ratification or rejection of this Constitution, an election shall be held in the several voting precincts in this Territory, on the first Tuesday in October, A.D. 1859.

Sch. §10 | MODE OF VOTING ON CONSTITUTION

Each elector shall express his assent or dissent by voting a written or printed ballot labeled

"For the Constitution,"or"Against the Constitution."

Sch. §11 | FIRST ELECTION UNDER CONSTITUTION

If a majority of all the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of the Constitution, then there shall be an election held in the several voting precincts on the first Tuesday in December, A.D. 1859, for the election of members of the first Legislature, of all State, District and County officers provided for in this Constitution, and for a Representative in Congress.

Sch. §12 | PERSONS QUALIFIED TO VOTE

All persons having the qualifications of electors, according to the provisions of this Constitution, at the date of each of said elections, and who shall have been duly registered according to the provisions of the registry law of this Territory, and none others, shall be entitled to vote at each of said elections.

Sch. §13 | JUDGES OF ELECTION

The persons who may be Judges of the several voting precincts of this Territory at the date of the respective elections in this schedule provided for, shall be the Judges of the respective elections herein provided for.

Sch. §14 | OATH OF JUDGES; CLERKS

The said Judges of election, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully to discharge their duties as such. They shall appoint two Clerks of election, who shall be sworn by one of said Judges faithfully to discharge their duties as such. In the event of a vacancy in the Board of Judges the same shall be filled by the electors present.

Sch. §15 | WHEN POLLS OPEN

At each of the elections provided for in this schedule the polls shall be open between the hours of nine and ten o'clock A.M. and closed at sunset.

Sch. §16 | POLL BOOKS

The tribunals transacting county business of the several counties, shall cause to be furnished to the Boards of Judges in their respective counties two poll books for each election hereinbefore provided for, upon which the clerks shall inscribe the name of every person who may vote at the said elections.

Sch. §17 | COUNT OF VOTES

After closing the polls at each of the elections provided for in this schedule, the Judges shall proceed to count the votes cast, and designate the persons or objects for which they were cast, and shall make two correct tally lists of the same.

Sch. §18 | CUSTODY OF POLL BOOKS AND TALLY LISTS

Each of the Boards of Judges shall safely keep one poll book and tally list, and the ballots cast at each election; and shall, within ten days after such election, cause the other poll book and tally list to be transmitted, by the hands of a sworn officer, to the clerk of the Board transacting County business in their respective Counties, or to which the County may be attached for municipal purposes.

Sch. §19 | CANVASS OF VOTES; TRANSCRIPT

The tribunals transacting County business shall assemble at the County seats of their respective counties on the second Tuesday after each of the elections provided for in this schedule, and shall canvass the votes cast at the elections held in the several precincts in their respective counties, and of the Counties attached for municipal purposes. They shall hold in safe keeping the poll books and tally lists of said elections, and shall, within ten days thereafter, transmit, by the hands of a sworn officer, to the President of this Convention, at the City of Topeka, a certified transcript of the same, showing the number of votes cast for each person or object voted for at each of the several precincts in their respective counties, and in the counties attached for municipal purposes, separately.

Sch. §20 | STATE CANVASSERS

The Governor of the Territory, and the President and Secretary of this Convention shall constitute a Board of State canvassers, any two of whom shall be a quorum; and who shall, on the fourth Monday after each of the elections provided for in this schedule, assemble at said City of Topeka, and proceed to open and canvass the votes cast at the several precincts in the different counties of the Territory and declare the result; and shall immediately issue certificates of election to all persons (if any) thus elected.

Sch. §21 | DECLARATION OF RESULT OF ELECTION

Said Board of State Canvassers shall issue their proclamation not less than twenty days next preceding each of the elections provided for in this schedule. Said proclamation shall contain an announcement of the several elections, the qualifications of electors, the manner of conducting said elections and of making the returns thereof, as in this Constitution provided, and shall publish said proclamation in one newspaper in each of the counties of the Territory in which a newspaper may be then published.

Sch. §22 | COPIES OF CONSTITUTION FOR FEDERAL AUTHORITIES

The Board of State Canvassers shall provide for the transmission of authenticated copies of the Constitution to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Sch. §23 | PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR

Upon official information having been by him received of the admission of Kansas into the Union as a State, it shall be the duty of the Governor elect under the Constitution, to proclaim the same and to convene the Legislature, and to do all things else necessary to the complete and active organization of the State Government.

Sch. §24 | COUNTY LINES

The first Legislature shall have no power to make any changes in county lines.

Sch. §25 | HOMESTEAD PROVISION

At the election to be held for the ratification or rejection of this Constitution, each elector shall be permitted to vote on the Homestead provision contained in the Article on "Miscellaneous," by depositing a ballot inscribed "For the Homestead," or "Against the Homestead"; and if a majority of all the votes cast at said election shall be against said provision, then it shall be stricken from the Constitution.

Sch. §99 | RESOLUTIONS

Sundry resolutions. Resolved, That the Congress of the United States is hereby requested, upon the application of Kansas for admission into the Union, to pass an act granting to the State forty-five hundred thousand acres of land to aid in the construction of railroads and other internal improvements.

Resolved, That Congress be further requested to pass an act appropriating fifty thousand acres of land for the improvement of the Kansas River from its mouth to Fort Riley.

Resolved, That Congress be further requested to pass an act granting all swamp lands within the State for the benefit of common schools.

Resolved, That Congress be further requested to pass an act appropriating five hundred thousand dollars, or in lieu thereof five hundred thousand acres of land, for the payment of the claims awarded to citizens of Kansas by the Claim Commissioners appointed by the Governor and Legislature of Kansas under an act of the Territorial Legislature passed 7th February, 1859.

Resolved, That the Legislature shall make provision for the sale or disposal of the lands granted to the State in aid of internal improvements and for other purposes, subject to the same rights of preemption to the settlers thereon as are now allowed by law to settlers on the public lands.

Resolved, That it is the desire of the people of Kansas to be admitted into the Union with this Constitution.

Resolved, That Congress be further requested to assume the debt of this Territory.

Done in Convention at Wyandotte, this 29th day of July, A.D. 1859.

JAMES M. WINCHELL,
President of the Kansas Constitutional Convention and Member from Osage County.

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KANSAS CONSTITUTIONARTICLE ScheduleSCHEDULE AND RESOLUTIONS

Sch. §1 | CHANGE FROM A TERRITORIAL TO A STATE GOVERNMENT

Sch. §2 | PENALTIES, FORFEITURES AND BONDS

Sch. §3 | OFFICERS OF TERRITORY

Sch. §4 | LAWS

Sch. §5 | SEAL

Sch. §6 | OFFICES AT CAPITAL

Sch. §7 | COURT RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS

Sch. §8 | SUITS AND PROCEEDINGS

Sch. §9 | RATIFICATION OR REJECTION OF CONSTITUTION

Sch. §10 | MODE OF VOTING ON CONSTITUTION

Sch. §11 | FIRST ELECTION UNDER CONSTITUTION

Sch. §12 | PERSONS QUALIFIED TO VOTE

Sch. §13 | JUDGES OF ELECTION

Sch. §14 | OATH OF JUDGES; CLERKS

Sch. §15 | WHEN POLLS OPEN

Sch. §16 | POLL BOOKS

Sch. §17 | COUNT OF VOTES

Sch. §18 | CUSTODY OF POLL BOOKS AND TALLY LISTS

Sch. §19 | CANVASS OF VOTES; TRANSCRIPT

Sch. §20 | STATE CANVASSERS

Sch. §21 | DECLARATION OF RESULT OF ELECTION

Sch. §22 | COPIES OF CONSTITUTION FOR FEDERAL AUTHORITIES

Sch. §23 | PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR

Sch. §24 | COUNTY LINES

Sch. §25 | HOMESTEAD PROVISION

Sch. §99 | RESOLUTIONS

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