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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-20 00:00:00
  5. 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.

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Session 5951: 1889-09-20 00:00:00

The committee further considered the article on Executive Department. The articles on Militia; Railroads and Telegraph Lines; and the Judicial Department were also taken up.

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Substitute for File No. 50 [Committee of the Whole]

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Section 1. The judicial department of the state as to matters of law and equity except in this constitution otherwise provided shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, justices of the peace, courts of arbitration and such other courts as may be created by law for cities and incorporated towns.

Sec. 2. The supreme court except as otherwise provided in this constitution shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive with the state, and shall have a general superintending control over all inferior courts, under such regulations and limitations as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 3. The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto and mandamus as to all State officers, and in habeas corpus. The supreme court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus, review, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari, and other writs necessary and proper to the complete exercise of its appellate and revisory jurisdiction. Each of the judges shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the State upon petition by or on behalf of a person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable before himself or before the supreme court, or before any district court of the state or any judge thereof.

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