Sec. Art. Time of Election Fixed. meeting shall be holden for that purpose on the fourth Monday of the same month of November. 34. IV. MICHIGAN. Sec. Art. The first election of Senators and Representatives, under this Constitution, shall be held at the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, when the whole number of Representatives, and the Senators from the districts having odd numbers, who shall compose the first class, shall be chosen; and in one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the Senators from the districts having even numbers, who shall compose half the Senators provided for by the second class; and so on at each succeeding general election, 1. VIII. The general election shall be held biennially on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November. The first general election under this Constitution shall be held on that day in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six; but the General Assembly may, by law, fix a different day-two-thirds of all the members of each house consenting thereto. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 27. (Art.) The freeholders and other inhabitants of each district, qualified as in this Constitution is provided, shall, biennially, give in their votes for a Senator at some meeting holden in the month of November. Sec. Art. Time of Election Fixed. NORTH CAROLINA. 27. II. Sec. Art. sembly may by law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each house consenting thereto. SOUTH CAROLINA. 11. II. The first election for Senators and Representatives under the provisions of this Constitution shall be held on the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth days of April of the present year, and the second election shall be held on the third Wednesday in October, eighteen hundred and seventy; and forever thereafter on the same day in every second year, in such manner and at such places as the General Assembly may hereafter provide. That section 11, article II, of the Constitution of this State, as amended, be, and the same is hereby, stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "The general election for Senators and Representatives shall be held in every second year, in such manner, at such time and at such places as the Legislature may provide." (Ratified December 21, 1882.) Time of Election Fixed. Sec. Art. and county officers, and of members of the Legislature, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, until otherwise provided by law. The terms of such officers, not elected, or appointed to fill a vacancy, shall, unless herein otherwise provided, begin on the first day of January; and of the members of the Legislature on the first day of December next succeeding their election; to fill vacancies, shall be for the unexpired term. When vacancies occur prior to any general election, they shall be filled by appointments, in such manner as may be prescribed herein, or by general law, which appointments shall expire at such time after the next general election as the person so elected to fill such vacancy shall be qualified. Sec. Art. Time of Election Fixed. and county officers, for members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Wyoming, and Representatives to the Congress of the United States, shall be held on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November of each even year. Special elections Sec. Art. may be held as now, or as may hereafter be provided by law. All State and county officers elected at a general election shall enter upon their respective duties on the first Monday in January next following the date of their election, or as soon thereafter as may be possible. Powers of Each House. POWERS OF EACH HOUSE. I Sec. 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a 2 quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules 3 of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the elections, 4 returns and qualifications of its own members; shall choose 5 its own officers; and the Senate shall choose a temporary 6 president to preside in case of the absence or impeachment of 7 the Lieutenant-Governor, or when he shall refuse to act as 8 president, or shall act as Governor. The Senate, at the beginning of 10. IV. successors are A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn, from day to day, and Sec. Art. may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties, as each house may provide. 11. IV. Each house shall have power to determine the rules of its proceedings, and to punish its members, or other persons, for contempt or disorderly behavior in its presence, to enforce obedience to its process, to protect its members against violence, or offers of bribes or corrupt solicitation, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of either house to expel a member, but not a second time for the same cause, anl shall have all the powers necessary for the Legislature of a free State. 21. IV. Every bill shall be read on three different days in each house, and no bill shall become a law unless, on its final passage, it be read at length and the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of |