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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF NEVADA.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEVADA.

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1. Declaration of rights. 2. Right of suffrage.

3. Distribution of powers. 4. Legislative department. 5. Executive department. 6. Judicial department.

7. Impeachment and removal.

8. Municipal and other corporations.

9. Finance and State department.

10. Taxation.

11. Education.

12. Militia.

13. Public institutions.

14. Boundary.

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12. Quartering of soldiers.
13. Apportionment.

14. Privileges of debtors.
15. No ex poste facto law.
16. Rights of residents.
17. Slavery prohibited.

18. Rights against seizures and searches.

19. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it.

20. Rights retained.

ARTICLE II.

Right of Suffrage.

1. To be eligible as a voter. 2. No person shall be deemed to have lost or gained a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States. 3. The right of suffrage shall be enjoyed by all persons entitled to the same who may be in military or naval service of of the United States.

4. Electors privileged from arrest. 5. Elections shall be by ballot. 6. Every voter shall be required to register.

7. A poll tax of not less than two nor exceeding four dollars may be required from each person resident in the State.

8. All persons qualified by law to vote for Representatives to the General Assembly shall be qualified to vote for or against this Constitution.

ARTICLE III.

Distribution of Powers.

1. Legislative, executive and judi

cial.

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ARTICLE IV. Legislative Department.

1. Power vested in Senate and Assembly.

2. The sessions of the Legislature shall be biennial.

8. Members of the Assembly shall be chosen biennially.

4. Senators shall be chosen at the same time and place as members of the Assembly.

5. Senators and members of the Assembly shall be duly qualified electors.

6. Right to judge qualifications. 7. Either house may punish for contempt.

8. No senator or member of Assembly shall hold any civil office of profit during his term. 9. No person holding any lucrative office under the government shall be eligible to any civil office of profit.

10. Any person who shall be convicted of the embezzlement of the public funds of the State shall be disqualified from holding office

11. Members of the Legislature shall be exempt from arrest. 12. The Governor has power to fill vacancies in either house.

13. A majority of the members of either house constitutes a quorum.

14. Each house shall keep a journal. 15. The doors of each house shall be open during its session. 16. Bills may originate in either house.

17. Each law shall embrace but one subject.

18. Every bill shall be read by sections on three several days in each house.

19. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except by appropriation.

20. The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of

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7. He shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.

8. The Governor shall have the power to fill vacancies.

9. The Governor may on extraordinary occasions convene the Legislature.

10. He shall communicate his message to the Legislature at every regular session.

11. The Governor shall have the power to adjourn the Legislature in case of a disagreement. 12. No person is eligible for Governor who holds any other office under the government. 13. Powers as to fines, forfeitures and reprieves.

14. He may remit fines and grant pardons.

15. There shall be a State seal. 16. Grants and commissions to be in the name of the State.

17. A Lieutenant-Governor shall be elected in the same manner as the Governor..

18. Acting Governor, when. 19. A Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Surveyor-General and an Attorney-General shall be elected in the same manner as the Governor.

20. Duties of the Secretary of State. 21. The Governor, Secretary of

State and Attorney-General shall constitute a board of prison commissioners, also board of examiners.

22. The Secretary of State, State Treasurer, etc.-Their duties.

ARTICLE VI.
Judicial Department.

1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested in a Supreme Court, District Courts and in Justices of the Peace.

2. The Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and two associate judges.

3. The justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected by qualfled voters.

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