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KANSAS. 
For the Election of Officers ; 
For the Filling of Vacancies ; 
For the Number of Senators and Representatives ; 
For Apportionment ; 
Against Special Legislation ; 
For Publication of Laws ; 
For Taking the Census ; 
For Salaries of Officers ; 
For Surveyor General, State Geologist, and Superintendent of Common 
Schools ; 
For Judicial Districts and Jurisdiction of Courts ; 
For Publication of Decisions of Supreme Court ; 
For Duties of Clerk and Reporter of Supreme Court ; 
For School Fund, University, Normal Schools, etc. ; 
For State Asylums for Blind, Deaf, Dumb, Insane, Idiots, and the Poor ; 
For Houses of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders ; 
For State General Hospital ; 
For Seat of Government and State House ; 
For Militia ; 
For Finance and Taxation ; 
For Counties, County, City and Town Officers ; 
For Commissioners to arrange Rules of Practice in the Courts of Record ; 
For Bureau of Statistics and Encouragement of Agriculture ; 
To secure the separate Property and Custody of Children to Wife ; 
For Election of two United States Senators ; 
For Banks and Banking ; 
For Redemption of Certificates of Indebtedness ; and for Enforcement of 
the Sixth Section of the Bill of Rights. 
Also, the people, by a separate and direct vote, have instructed the 
Assembly to provide for the exclusion of free negroes. 
Education of the people, common school education, is the palladium of 
our liberties. Without this, free institutions cannot exist ; with it, tyranny 
and oppression must disappear. A thorough and efficient system of educa¬ 
tion is a better and cheaper corrective and preventive of poverty, degrada¬ 
tion and crime, than the poor-house, house of refuge, or penitentiary. This 
subject will not fail to receive its full share of your attention. That the 
common school may be put on a permanent basis, the proceeds of the school 
lands, or other educational income, should be carefully husbanded, till a 
fund shall accumulate amply sufficient to give to every child in the state a 
liberal common sshool education. 
Second only to the common school in importance are the University and 
Normal Schools. For these, also, the constitution suggests that you provide 
at an early day. 
