SECTION 7. In every town meeting after elec ting the civil officers as in the preceding sections directed, a motion shall be made by the president of elections thereof, for electing to the office of directors, commissioners, representatives and legislators, these who may merit two thirds of the votes. Which motion if sanctioned by the will of the majority of the meeting, signified by uplifted hands or otherwise, proceedings shall therein be had accordingly, and such as shall then be elected shall be the worthy officers entitled to office in the place of such others as are thereby required to be erased from the list, and the number of votes given to each candidate be set against his name on several lists accordingly, and as required they shall be sealed and certified and transmitted to the county meeting, next following the town meeting which shall render them, directed to the president of elections thereof by mail or otherwise sure, to be delivered in open meeting when required by the committee thereof. And all legislators, representatives, commissioners and directors replaced by the substitution of worthy officers, shall fall within their respective civil ranks next lower, and replace such others as shall have the least number of votes therein, and which others thereby replaced, shall also fall within their respective ranks then next lower, and replace as before such others also as shall have therein the least number of votes, and the next in like manner and so on to voters.

SECTION 8. In case of removal from office of any mediator, legislator, representative, commissioner, director or actor, by his death, resignation or inability to discharge the power and duties of his office, the same shall devolve on the officer of the civil rank next lower who shall have the most votes, and the vacancy occasioned thereby in the said next lower rank, shall be supplied by an officer of the rank still next Lelow,wl o shall have therein the most votes. Thus in the same manner of all the civil ranks down to voters, and such voters, if any there be, who had the most and not less than ten votes, and had been cast out, shall reassume in such case the actor's rank, and for that purpose ties during election, ought to be removed, and the civil executive

president, of the jurisdiction in which are elected-such civil officers as are required to supply vacancies which may happen, shall determine from the documents of his clerk, their right to the said vacancy.

SECTION 9. Since in apportioning the several ranks of civil officers among the number of voters by an invariable divisor, the various dividends which their sum total requires, renders a surplus number of voters every year unrepresented; therefore for their representation shall be added together as many surplusses, one of each year following, of those arising from the dividends required to find those quotients, which gives the number of the same degree of officers, as shall be required to equal the square of the divisor five, thereby affording an extra officer of the same degree every few years, as often as several surplusses shall make five, preserving the remainder and remainders, in the clerk's office of such meetings as determines the same. Which extra. civil officers shall be elected together with those of the same rank, the same time, and in the same mane

ner.

SECTION 10. For nominating candidates for president, the members of the lower branch of every legislative body at every May, Commissioners, Legisla tures and Congress meeting shall, (unless the Columbian congress shall prescribe a different rule,) form themselves, or be formed by the superintendants thereof, in-to five equal divisions, as near as their number will admit, which divisions shall be termed nominating parties; whose majority of the greatest number of all the members of each nominating party, shall then and there nominate one candidate for their respective civil president, and in every case, when there shall be no such majority, then out of those two persons having the greatest number of votes, the majority of all the inembers of the said lower branch of the same meeting, shall determine the candidate required, and which shall be the only candidates for civil presidents, and not less than three shall be respectively nominated.

SECTION 11. Every town at every July meeting thereof, shall elect its own town presidents by the written votes of the majority of all its legal voters, if

such majority be the greatest number of all; if there be no such majority, then out of those two persons having the greatest number, or of those three persons; two of which having an equal number, and the most except one, the majority of the written votes of the actors and directors thereof, shall then elect the president required; then if there be no choice, remove the restraint by the legal casting of lots.

SECTION 12. The county president in every county, shall be elected by the written votes of the majority thereof, if such majority be the greatest number of all the voters of the same county, in the July meeting assembled, if there be no such majority, then out of those two persons having the greatest number, or of those three persons, two of which having an equal number, and the most except one, the majority of the written votes of the members of the council meeting next following, in convention of the whole, shall then elect the president required; then if there be no choice, remove the restraint by the legal casting of losts. Taking at every July meeting one round of suffrage, from all the voters present, and the superintendants thereof, make not less than three alike lists of the number of votes given to each candidate for the said county presidents, and seal, and certify, and transmit the same to the capitol of their respective county, by such distinct bearers as shall surely deliver the same in the next open council meeting, to the president of elections when required by the committee of the elections thereof, to whom to be directed, whose election of said county presidents shall then in couneil meeting be completed.

SECTION 13. The district and general presidents shall be elected by the written votes of the majority of the commissioners of the council meetings, if such majority for district presidents, be the greatest number of all the said votes of the same district, and for the general president the greatest number of all of the like votes throughout Columbia; and the said commissioners of their respective council meeting assembled, shall give in their votes to the superintendants thereof for district president, and au distinct

ballots for the general president, and the clerk shall make in the mean time, distinct lists of all the persons voted for as district president, and of all voted for as general president and the president of elections thereof, shall read both of said lists in the hearing of the meeting, preserving the same on file, and the superintendants shall cause to be executed at least three copies of each list, and after reading and examining, seal and certify the same, and transmit them by distinct bearers, those for general president to the capitol of Columbia, directed to the president of the elections of Congress, and those for district presidents to the capitol where the legislature of the same district shall next assemble, directed to the president of elections thereof, and by such bearers as shall surely deliver the same, to the said next legislatures and congress in open meeting assembled, to the president of elections thereof respectively, as and when required by the committees of elections thereof, and the president of elections of their respective meetings, shall then open all the certificates, and together with his assisting superintendants, sort and count all the votes. Then of the votes one from every commissioner of all Columbia, the person having the greatest number shall be the general president, if such number be the greatest majority of all, if no person shall have such majority, then from the persons having the greatest number not exceeding three on the list, the majority of both branches of Congress, one being a negative to the other, shall immediately elect by ballot the general president, and in case Congress does not agree, then by the legal casting of lots the first drawn of the said three persons, having the highest number of votes, shall be the general president required, and the proceedings in every legislature shall be the same, for completing the election of their respective district presidents, as in Congress for completing the election of the general president, and if vacancies shall require, both civil presidents of the same jurisdiction shall be elected the sanie year, by special and distinct ballots, in the same manner as the one is constitutionally required to be elected.

SECTION 14. All balloted names of candidates for office and number of votes given to each, shall be written plain and at full length, of those numbers set against their names for transmission in sealed certificates to be canvassed by other meetings, and the Columbian Congress, if expedient, may make such rules and regulations as to the manner of transmission as will render their arrival safe and seasonable, that mistakes as to the true number of votes given to the several candidates shall not happen.

In case of the removal of any executive civil pre-sident from office, or by his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the same shall devolve on his respective vice-president, and in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of any vice-president before the return of the regular election meeting, the written votes of the majority of the members of any legislative body, both branches in convention of the whole, shall be sufficient for electing another person as a substitute for filling such vacancy,.. and who when elected shall act accordingly until the former shall reassume the office, or to the expiration of the term, and which shall be optional with the former, except in the case of removal, or of resignation.

SECTION 15. All executive presidents shall, at the commencement of their respective legislative bodies, and from time to time, inform them of the politi cal state of the people in relation to their general union, and recommend to their consideration, such measures as they shall severally judge necessary, and expedient for the welfare and union of Columbia, and on extraordinary occasions convene both branches, (the lower branch of the court meeting excepted) and in certain cases, (as Congress shall by a uniform law provide,) the three degrees of inferior executive presi-dents, may convene the higher branch of their respec-· tive legislative bodies exclusive of the lower, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, the said civil presidents may adjourn them, & which presidents shall take care that the laws of Columbia be faithfully executed. Heading their: addresses to their respective meetings as follows, viz..