Kentucky Gazette

That our readers may have some idea of the leading features of the Constitution of the new State, we give the following outlines, copied from the Indiana Register.

The seat of government is fixed at Corydon for nine years.

The Constitution not subject to amendment until after 12 years, in any one of its provisions, and never in the one excluding involuntary slavery.

The executive part of the government is to be composed of a governor, with a salary of one thousand dollars, per annum, to be elected by the people for three years and may be re-elected once—a lieutenant who is elected in like manner, for a like term, and is to receive two dollars per day during the session of the legislature.

The legislative part a house of representatives and senate—the latter elected every three years, the former, annually. Any person is eligible for the senate being 25 years old—for the lower house 21 years, holding when elected, no office of profit. They are to meet annually on the first Monday in December, except the first session which will be in November.

The judiciary. A supreme and circuit courts—the former, to be composed of three judges, to be appointed by the governor and senate for seven years, to have appellate jurisdiction, & to sit at the seat of government, with a salary not exceeding $800 per annum—the latter, to be held in each county by one presiding judge, who is to be appointed by a joint ballot of the legislature for seven years, and two associates who are to be elected by the people for seven years.

Sheriff, clerks and justices are to be elected by the people—the sheriff for three years.

Militia officers to be elected by those subject to militia duty—all above colonel by commissioned officers.

There is to be a state bank established at the seat of government, with one branch for every three counties—the branch banks must have $30,000 each in specie before they can go into operation.