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election is provided for in this schedule on the first day of October, A. D. 1889, shall be as follows:

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of School and Public Lands, judges of County Courts, shall hold their respective offices until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, A. D., 1891, at twelve o'clock M., and until their successors are elected and qualified.

The judges of the Supreme Court

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and Circuit Courts shall hold their offices until the first Tues

day after the first Monday in January, A. D., 1894, at twelve o'clock M.. and until their successors are elected and qualified; subject to the provisions of section 26 of article V of the Constitution.

The terms of office of the members of the Legislature elected at the first election held under i the provisions of this Constitution shall expire on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891).

The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Attorney-General, shall reside at the seat of government of this State during the time they continue in office, except in cases of epidemics; and they shall receive compensation for their services, which shall be fixed by law, and which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which they shall have been elected. 19. V.

No person shall be eligible to the office of Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, or Attorney-General unless he shall have been a citizen of the United States at least seven years, and shall have resided in this State at least five years next preceding his election, and shall be at least twenty-five years old when elected.

5. XXIV.

The State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Attorney-General shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by law. The State Treasurer and State Auditor shall, every year, at a time the General Assembly may fix, make a full and complete report to the Governor, showing all receipts and disbursements of revenue, of every character, all claims audited and paid by the State, by items, and all taxes and revenue collected and paid into the treasury and from what sources; and they shall make reports oftener in any matter pertaining to their office, if required by the Governor, or the General Assembly.

27. VI.

An Attorney-General shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State at the same time and places of election of mem

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bers of the General Assembly, whose term of office shall be for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. After his election he shall reside at the seat of government, anl shall be the law officer of the State, and shall perform such duties as may be required of him by law.

14. VI.

ARKANSAS.

Whenever the office of Governor shall have become vacant by death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise, provided such vacancy shall not happen within twelve months next before the expiration of the term of office for which the late Governor shall have been elected, the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, exercising the powers of Governor for the time being, shall immediately cause an election to be held to fill such vacancy, giving by proclamation sixty days' previous notice thereof, which election shall be governed by the same rules prescribed for general elections of Governor as far as applicable; the returns shall be made to the Secretary of State, and the acting Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney-General shall constitute a board of canvassers, a majority of whom shall compare said returns and declare who is elected; and, if there be a contested election, it shall be decided as may be provided by law.

21. VI.

The Secretary of State shall keep a full and accurate record of all the official acts and proceedings of the Governor, and, when required, lay the same, with all papers, minutes and vouchers relating thereto, before either

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branch of the General Assembly. He shall also discharge the duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction, until otherwise provided by law.

22. VI.

The Treasurer of State, Secretary of State, Auditor of State and Attorney-General shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by law; they shall not hold any other office of commission, civil or military, in this State or under any State or the United States, or any other power, at one and the same time; and in case of vacancy occurring in any of said offices, by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor shall fill said office by appointment for the unexpired term. 24. VII.

The qualified electors of each circuit shall elect a prosecuting attorney, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and he shall be a citizen of the United States, learned in the law, and a resident of the circuit for which he may be elected.

11. XIX.

The Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, AttorneyGeneral, judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the Circuit Court, Commissioners of State Lands and prosecuting attorneys shall each receive a salary, to be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their respective terms, nor shall any of them, except the prosecuting attorneys, after the adoption of this Constitution, receive to his own use any fees, costs, perquisites of office or other compensation; and all fees that may hereafter be payable by law for any service performed by any officer mentioned in this section, ex

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cept prosecuting attorneys, shall be paid in advance into the State treasury. Provided, That the salaries of the respective officers herein mentioned shall never exceed per annum: For Governor, the sum of $4,000.00; for Secretary of State, the sum of $2,500.00; for Treasurer, the sum of $3,000.00; for Auditor, the sum of $3,000.00; for AttorneyGeneral, the sum of $2,500.00; for Commissioners of State Lands, the sum of $2,500.00; for judges of the Supreme Court, each, the sum of $4,000.00; for judges of the Circuit Courts and chancellors, each, the sum of $3,000.00; for prosecuting attorneys, the sum of $400.00. And provided further, That the General Assembly shall provide for no increase of salaries of its members which shall take effect before the meeting of the next General Assembly.

17. V.

CALIFORNIA.

A Secretary of State, a Controller, a Treasurer, an Attorney-General and a Surveyor-General shall be elected at the same time and places, and in the same manner, as the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and their terms of office shall be the same as that of the Governor. 18. V.

The Secretary of State shall keep a correct record of the official acts of the legislative and executive departments of the government, and shall, when required, lay the same, and all matters relative thereto, before either branch of the Legislature, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned him by law.

3. IV.

COLORADO.

The officers named in section one

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of this article, shall be chosen on the day of the general election, by the qualified electors of the State. The returns of every election for said officers shall be sealed up and transmitted to the Secretary of State, directed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall immediately, upon the organization of the house, and before proceeding to other business, open and publish the same in the presence of a majority of the members of both houses of the General Assembly, who shall for that purpose assemble in the House of Representatives. The person having the highest number of votes for either of said offices shall be declared elected, but if two or more have an equal and the highest number of votes for the same office, one of them shall be chosen thereto by the two houses, on joint ballot. Contested elections for the said offices shall be determined by the two houses, on joint ballot, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

21. 4.

Neither the State Treasurer nor

State Auditor shall be eligible for re-election as his own immediate successor.

12. V.

The Treasurer shall keep a separate account of each fund in his hands; and shall, at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, report to the Governor in writing, under oath, the amount of all moneys in his hands to the credit of every such fund, and the place where the same are kept or deposited, and the number and amount of every warrant received and the number and amount of every warrant paid therefrom during the quarter. Swearing falsely to

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any such report shall be deemed perjury. The Governor shall cause every such report to be immediately published in at least one newspaper printed at the seat of government, and otherwise as the General Assembly may require. The General Assembly may provide by law further regulations for the safe-keeping and management of the public funds in the hands of the Treasurer, but, notwithstanding any such regulation, the Treasurer and his sureties shall in all cases be held responsible therefor.

19. IV.

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CONNECTICUT.

Comptroller of the Public Accounts shall be annually appointed by the General Assembly (altered by amendment of 1838). He shall adjust and settle all public accounts and demands, except grants and orders of the General Assembly. He shall prescribe the mode of keeping and rendering all public accounts. He shall ex-officio be one of the auditors of the accounts of the Treasurer. The General Assembly may assign to him other duties in relation to his office, and to that of the Treasurer, and shall prescribe the manner in which his duties shall be performed.

16. II.

DELAWARE.

The State Treasurer shall be appointed biennially by the House of Representatives, with the concurrence of the Senate. In case of a vacany in the office of State Treasurer in the recess of the General Assembly, either through omission of the General Assembly to appoint, or by the death, removal out of the State,