§ 24. Enactment of laws. That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of nonresidents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents. Every bill which shall have passed the council and house of representatives of the said territory shall, before it become a law, be presented to the governor of the territory; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and, if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, to be entered on the journal of each house, respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within three days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the assembly, by adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

History: 10 Stat. 285; ch. 59, § 24; May 30, 1854.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Organic act required no record of presenting bill to governor. The State of Kansas, Johnson, ex rel., v. Hitchcock, 1 Kan. 178.

2. Granting of municipal power of taxation within territorial legislative power. Burnes et al. v. The Mayor and City Council of Atchison et al., 2 Kan. 454, 484, 485.

3. Creation of municipal corporations "rightful subject of legislation." The State of Kansas v. Young and others, 3 Kan. 445, 447.

4. Corporations granted either by general or special law. Atchison v. Bartholow, 4 Kan. 124.