SEC. 2. The Legislature shall provide for such county and township officers as may be necessary.
SEC. 3. All county officers shall hold their offices for the term of two years, and until their successors shall be qualified; but no person shall hold the office of sheriff or county treasurer for more than two consecutive terms.
SEC. 4. Township officers, except justices of the peace, shall hold their offices one year from the Monday next succeeding their election, and until their successors are qualified.
SEC. 5. All county and township officers may be removed from office in such manner and for such cause as shall be prescribed by law.
Article X -- Apportionment
SECTION 1. In the future apportionment of the State, each organized county shall have at least one Representative; and each county shall be divided into as many districts as it has Representatives.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the first Legislature to make an apportionment, based upon the census ordered by the last Legislative Assembly of the Territory; and a new apportionment shall be made in the year 1866, and every five years thereafter, based upon the census of the preceding year.
SEC. 3. Until there shall be a new apportionment, the State shall be divided into election districts; and the Representatives and Senators shall be apportioned among the several districts as follows, viz.:
First District -- Doniphan County, four Representatives, two Senators.
Second District -- Atchison and Brown counties, six Representatives, two Senators.
Third District -- Nemaha, Marshall and Washington counties, two Representatives, one Senator.
Fourth District -- Clay, Riley and Pottawatomie counties, four Representatives, one Senator.
Fifth District -- Dicksinson, Davis and Wabaunsee counties, three Representatives, one Senator.
Sixth District -- Shawnee, Jackson and Jefferson counties, eight Representatives, two Senators.
Seventh District -- Leavenworth County, nine Representatives, three Senators.
Eighth District -- Douglas, Johnson, and Wyandotte counties, thirteen Representatives, four Senators.
Ninth District -- Lykins, Linn, and Bourbon counties, nine Representatives, three Senators.
Tenth District -- Allen, Anderson, and Franklin counties, six Representatives, two Senators.
Eleventh District -- Woodson and Madison counties, two Representatives, one Senator.
Twelfth District -- Coffey, Osage, and Breckinridge counties, six Representatives, two Senators.
Thirteenth District -- Morris, Chase, and Butler counties, two Representatives, one Senator.
Fourteenth District -- Arapahoe, Godfrey, Greenwood, Hunter, Wilson, Dornm, and McGee counties, one Representative.
Article XI -- Finance and Taxation
SECTION 1. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; but all property used exclusively for State, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent, and charitable purposes, and personal property to the amount of at least two hundred dollars for each family, shall be exempted from taxation.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall provide for taxing the notes and bills discounted or purchased, moneys loaned, and other property, effects or dues of every description (without deduction), of all banks now existing , or hereafter to be created, and of all bankers, so that all property employed in banking shall always bear a burden of taxation equal to that imposed upon the property of individuals.
SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide, each year, for raising revenue sufficient to defray the current expenses of the State.
SEC. 4. No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of a law, which shall distinctly state the object of the same, to which only such tax shall be applied.
SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenses, and making public improvements, the State may contract public debts; but such debts shall never, in the aggregate, exceed one million dollars, except as hereinafter provided. Every such debt shall be authorized by law for some purpose specified therein, and the vote of a majority of all the members elected to each house, to be taken by the yeas and nays, shall be necessary to the passage of such law; and every such law shall provide for levying an annual tax sufficient to pay the annual interest of such debt, and the principal thereof, when it shall become due; and shall specifically appropriate the proceeds of such taxes to the payment of such principal and interest; and such appropriation shall not be repealed, nor the taxes postponed or diminished, until the interest and principal of such debt shall have been wholly paid.
SEC. 6. No debt shall be contracted by the State, except as herein provided, unless the proposed law for creating such debt shall first be submitted to a direct vote of the electors of the State, at some general election; and if such proposed law shall be ratified by a majority of all the votes cast at such general election, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature next after such election to enact a law and create such debt, subject to all provisions and restrictions provided in the preceding section of this article.
SEC. 7. The State may borrow money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in time of war; but the money thus raised shall be applied exclusively to the object for which the loan was authorized, or to the repayment of the debt thereby created.
SEC. 8. The State shall never be a party to carrying on any works of internal improvement.
Article XII -- Corporations
SECTION 1. The Legislature shall pass no special act conferring corporate powers. Corporations may be created under general laws; but all such laws may be amended or repealed.
SEC. 2. Dues from corporations shall be secured by individual liability of the stockholders to an additional amoount equal to the stock owned by each stockholder, and such other means as shall be provided by law; but such individual liabilities shall not apply to railroad corporations, nor corporations for religious or charitable purposes.
SEC. 3. The title to all property of religious corporations shall vest in trustees, whose election shall be by the members of such corporations.
SEC. 4. No right-of-way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation until full compensation therefor be first made in money, or secured by a deposit of money, to the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation.
SEC. 5. Provision shall be made by general law for the organization of cities, towns and villages; and their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, shall be so restricted as to prevent the abuse of such power.
SEC. 6. The term corporation, as used in this article, shall include all associations and joint-stock companies having powers and privileges not possessed by individuals and partnerships, and all corporations may sue and be sued in their corporate name.
Article XIII -- Banks and Currency
SECTION 1. No bank shall be established otherwise than under a general banking law.
SEC. 2. All banking laws shall require, as collateral security for the redemption of the circulating notes of any bank organized under their provision, a deposit with the Auditor of State of the interest-paying bonds of the several States or of the United States, at the cash rates of the New York stock exchange, to an amount equal to the amount of circulating notes which such bank shall be authorized to issue, and a cash deposit in its vaults of ten per cent of such amount of circulating notes; and the Auditor shall register and countersign no more circulating bills of any bank than the cash value of such bonds when deposited.