KANSAS. 17 given or offered any bribe to procure his election, or shall have made use of any undue influence from power, tumult, or other improper practices. Sec. 11. All civil officers of the State shall reside within the State, and all district or county officers within their respective districts and counties, and shall have their respective offices at such places therein as may be required by law. Sec. 12. Returns of elections for members of Congress, the general assembly, and all officers not hereinafter provided, shall be made to the secretary of state, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. Sec. 13. Electors shall, in all cases, be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections, and in going to and returning therefrom, except in cases of felony, treason, and breach of the peace. ARTICLE III. Distribution of powers. Section 1. The powers of the government shall be divided into three separate departments—the legislative, the executive, including the administrative, and the judicial; and no person charged with official duties under one of these departments shall exercise any of the functions of another, except as in this constitution expressly provided. ARTICLE IV. Legislative. Section. 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in the general assembly, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives. Sec. 2. The senators and representatives shall be chosen annually by the qualified electors of the respective counties or districts for which they are chosen on the first Monday of August for one year, and their term of office shall commence on the first day of January next thereafter. Sec. 3. There shall be elected at the first election, twenty senators and sixty representatives, and the number afterwards shall be regulated by law. Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of senator or representative who shall not possess the qualifications of an elector. Sec. 5. No person holding office under the authority of the United States, or any lucrative office under the authority of this State, shall be eligible to, or have a set in the general assembly ; but this provision shall not extend to township officers, justices of the peace, notaries public, postmasters, or officers of the militia. Sec. 6. Each house, except as otherwise provided in this constitution, shall choose its own officers, determine its own rules of proceeding, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not the second time for the same cause ; and shall judge of the qualification, election, and return of its 2
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