No. 23-Senate Joint Resolution No. 15. [Approved March 27, 1919] construction of federal nental WHEREAS, Incalculable benefit is to be derived from a Praying for transcontinental system of government highways; and WHEREAS, The legislature of the State of Nevada is firmly transconti convinced that the present is the most opportune time to highways commence immediately the construction of main federal transcontinental highways to be constructed and maintained by the government of the United States; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, the Assembly concurring, That the Congress of the United States be memorialized to take immediate steps to provide the necessary legislation; be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to our senators and representative in Congress. CERTIFICATE STATE OF NEVADA, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. SS. I, George Brodigan, the duly elected, qualified and acting Secretary of State of Nevada, do hereby certify that the foregoing laws and resolutions, published in this volume, beginning on page 1 and ending on page 489, are true, full and correct copies of the original enrolled acts and resolutions passed during the Twenty-ninth Session of the Nevada State Legislature (1919), as the same appear on file and of record in this office. SEAL IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of State, at my office in Carson City, Nevada, this 14th day of April, A. D. 1919. George Brodigan Secretary of State. Constitution of the United States of America We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America: ARTICLE I vested in SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be Powers vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist congress of a senate and house of representatives. tives, how SEC. 2.-1. The house of representatives shall be composed Representaof members chosen every second year by the people of the chosen several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have Who eligible attained the age of twenty-five years and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and, excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire Original shall be entitled to choose three; Massachusetts, eight; Rhode ment of repIsland and Providence Plantations, one; Connecticut, five; resentatives New York, six; New Jersey, four; Pennsylvania, eight; Delaware, one; Maryland, six; Virginia, ten; North Carolina, five; South Carolina, five; and Georgia, three. apportion |