NUMBER. 22. A joint resolution in reference to the remonetization of silver.. 23. A joint resolution to Congress asking for the establishment of & post route from Lake Park to Crookston, in the State of Minnesota..... 24. Concurrent resolution. TAGE. 282 283 283 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, ADOPTED IN THE YEAR 1876. AMENDMENT TO SECTION ELEVEN (11) OF ARTI- Governor may object to som and approve other items of a bill. SEC. 11. If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items, while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect. If the Legislature be in session, he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such statement, and the items objected to shall be separately re-considered. If, on re-consideration, one or more of such items of withheld be approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each approval. house, the same shall be a part of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. All the provisions of this section, in relation to bills not approved by the Governor, shall apply in cases in which he shall withhold his approval from any item or items contained in a bill appropriating money. [Adopted November 7, 1876. For amendment, 47,302; against amendment, 4,426.] Applies to cases AMENDMENT TO SECTION THREE (3), ARTICLE SIX (6), OF THE CONSTITUTION. of judges of the supreme court. Who shall sit SEC. 3. Whenever all or a majority of the judges of the Disqualificati'n Supreme Court shall, from any cause, be disqualified from sitting in any case in said court, the Governor, or, if he shall be interested in the result of such case, then the Lieutenant Governor shall assign judges of the District Court of the State, who shall sit in such case in place of such disqualified judges, with all the powers and duties of judges of the Supreme Court.' in such case. 99 [Adopted November 7, 1876. For amendment, 41,069; against amendment, 6,063.] GENERAL LAWS PASSED AND APPROVED AT THE NINETEENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, COMMENCING JANUARY SECOND, ONE THOU SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN, AND TERMI- AN ACT PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES FOUR (4) Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. The following amendments to the constitu- tion are hereby proposed for publication and approval or rejection by the people, in accordance with section one (1), article fourteen (14), of the constitution, that is to say, first, that section one (1) of article four (4) of the constitu- tion be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The Legislature of the State shall consist of Legislature a Senate and House of Representatives, who shall meet bi- shall consist of. as shall be prescribed by law; but no session shall exceed the SEC. 2. That the following amendment to section twenty- Senat❜rs chosen by single districts. cle four (4) of the constitution be amended, so as to read as follows: Sec. 24. The senators shall be chosen by single districts of convenient contiguous territory, at the same time that members of the House of Representatives are required to be chosen, and in the same manner; and no representative district shall be divided in the formation of a senate district. The serrate district shall be numbered in a regular series. The terms of office of senators and representatives shall be the same as now prescribed by law, until the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878), at which time there shall be an entire new election of all the senators and representatives. Representatives chosen at such election, or at any election thereafter, shall hold their of representa- office for the term of two years, except it be to fill a vacancy, and the senators chosen at such election by districts designated as odd numbers, shall go out of office at the expiration of the second year, and senators chosen by districts desigTerm of office nated by even numbers, shall go out of office at the expiration of the fourth year; and thereafter senators shall be chosen for four years, except there shall be an entire new election of all the senators at the election of representatives next succeeding each new apportionment provided for in this article. Term of office tives. of senators. turns of elec tion. SEC. 3. That the following amendment to section two (2) of article five (5) of the constitution be proposed, that is to say, that said section two (2) of article five (5) of the constitution be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 2. The returns of every election for the officers Canvass of re- named in the foregoing section, shall be made to the Secretary of State, who shall call to his assistance two or more of the judges of the supreme court, and two disinterested judges of the district courts of the State, who shall constitute a board of canvassers, who shall open and canvass said returns, and declare the result within three (3) days after such canvass. ted to vote of the people. SEC. 4. These proposed amendments shall be submitted to To be submit the people for their approval or rejection, at the general election for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven (1877), and each of the legal voters of the State, in their respective districts, may at such election vote by ballot for or against such amendments, and the returns thereof shall [be] made and certified, and such votes canvassed and the result thereof declared in the manner provided by law for returning, certifying and canvassing votes at general elections for State officers, and declaring the result thereof; and if it shall appear therefrom that a majority of voters present and voting at such elections upon such amendment or amendments, shall have voted in favor of the same, or either of them, then within three (3) days after that result shall have been ascertained and declared, the Governor shall make pro |