KANSAS. 25 Sec. 4. The legislature may also 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 repayment of the debts thereby created. Sec. 5. No scrip, certificate, or other evidence of State debt whatever, shall be issued, except for such debts as are authorized by the third and fourth sections of this article. ARTICLE X. Militia. Section 1. The militia shall consist of all able-bodied white male persons between the ages of eighteen and forty years, except such as maybe exempt by the laws of the United States, or of this State ; and shall be organized, officered, armed, equipped, and trained in such manner as may be provided by law. Sec. 2. The governor shall appoint the adjutant, quartermaster, and commissary generals. Sec. 3. All militia officers shall be commissioned by the governor, and shall hold their offices not longer than three years. Sec. 4. The general assembly shall determine the method of dividing the militia into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies, and fix the rank of all officers. Sec. 5. The militia may be divided into classes, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 6. No person conscientiously opposed to bearing arms shall be compelled to do militia duty, but such person shall pay an equivalent for such exemption, the amount to be prescribed by law. Sec. 7. The first general assembly shall offer inducements for the formation, uniforming, and drilling independent volunteer companies in the different cities and counties in this State. ARTICLE XI. Finance and Taxation. Section 1. The general assembly shall provide, by law, for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and taxes shall be levied upon all such property, real and personal, as the general assembly may, from time to time, prescribe ; but all property appropriated and used exclusively for municipal, literary, educational, scientific, or charitable purposes, and personal property, to an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars for each head of a family, and all property appropriated and used exclusively for religious purposes to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, may, by general laws, be exempt from taxation. Sec. 2. The general assembly shall provide, by law, for an annual tax, sufficient to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the State for each year. Sec. 3. Every law imposing a tax, shall state distinctly the object of the same to which it shall be applied.
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