- Event type: CREATE
Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.
Committee of Revision and Adjustment
Also referred to as Committee No. 19
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Session 7984: 1889-09-28 00:00:00
The committee was referred every finalized article which they compiled and into the complete Constitution of the state of Wyoming which was referred back to the convention for final debate.
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ARTICLE No. XVIII (Miscellaneous)
ARTICLE No. XIII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LIVE STOCK
Section 1. The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to provide for the protection of live stock against the introduction or spread of pleuro-pneumonia, glanders, splenetic or Texas fever, and other infectious or contagious diseases. The legislature shall also establish a system of quarantine, or inspection, and such other regulations as may be necessary for the protection of stock owners, and most conducive to the stock interests within the state.
CONCERNING LABOR.
Section 1. Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day’s work in all mines, and on all state and municipal works.
LABOR ON PUBLIC WORKS.
Section. 1. No person not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed upon or in connection with any state, county or municipal works or employment.
Sec. 2. The legislature shall, by appropriate legislation, see that the provisions of the foregoing section are enforced.
BOARD OF ARBITRATION.
Section 1. The legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and determine all differences, and controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the legislature may provide.
POLICE POWERS.
Section I No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body, or unarmed body of men, shall ever be brought into this state, for the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or executive, when the legislature cannot be convened.
LABOR CONTRACTS.
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation, to require its servants or employes as a condition of their employment, or otherwise, any contract or agreement, whereby such person company or corporation shall be released or discharged from liability or responsibility, on account of personal injuries received by such servants or employes, while in the service of such person, company or corporation, by reason of the negligence of such person, company or corporation, or the agents or employes thereof, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void.
ARBITRATION.
Section 1. The legislature may provide by law for the voluntary submission of differences to arbitrators for determination, and said Arbitrators shall have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law, but they shall have no power to render judgment to be obligatory on parties, unless they voluntarily submit their matters of difference and agree to abide by the judgment of such arbitrators.
HOMESTEADS.
Section 1. A homestead as provided by law shall be exempt from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes, or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon.
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