sons so elected shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year. SEC. 12. The provisions of this Constitution shall be in force. from the day on which the President of the United States shall issue his proclamation declaring the State of Colorado admitted into the Union; and the governor, secretary, treasurer, auditor and superintendent of public instruction of the Territory of Colorado shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices after the admission of the State into the Union, until the qualification of the officers elected or appointed under the State government; and said officers, for the time they may serve, shall receive the same compensation as the State officers shall by law be paid for like services. SEC. 13. In case of a contest of election between candidates, at the first general election under this constitution, for judges of the supreme, district or county courts, or district attorneys, the evidence shall be taken in the manner prescribed by territorial law; and the testimony so taken shall be certified to the secretary of state, and said officer, together with the governor and attorney general, shall review the testimony and determine who is entitled to the certificate of election. SEC. 14. The votes at the first general election under this constitution for the several officers provided for in this constitution who are to be elected at the first election, shall be canvassed in the manner prescribed by the territorial law for canvassing votes for like officers. The votes cast for the judges of the supreme and district courts and district attorneys shall be canvassed by the county canvassing board in the manner prescribed by the territorial law for canvassing the votes for members of the general assembly; and the county clerk shall transmit the abstracts of votes to the secretary of the territory, acting as secretary of state, under the same regulations as are prescribed by law for sending the abstracts of votes for territorial officers; and the aforesaid acting secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, or any two of them, in the presence of the governor, shall proceed to canvass the votes, under the regulations of sections thirty-five and thirty-six of chapter twenty-eight of the revised statutes of Colorado Territory. SEC. 15. Senators and members of the house of representatives shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the several senatorial and representative districts as established in this constitution, until such districts shall be changed by law, and thereafter by the qualified electors of the several districts as the same shall be established by law. SEC. 16. The votes cast for representatives in congress at the first election held under this constitution, shall be canvassed and the result determined in the manner provided by the laws of the Territory for the canvass of votes for delegate in congress. SEC. 17. The provision of the constitution that no bill, except the general appropriation bill, introduced in either house after the first twenty-five days of the session shall become a law, shall not apply to the first session of the general assembly; but no bill, introduced in either house at the first session of the general assembly after the first fifty days thereof, shall become a law. SEC. 18. A copy of the abstracts of the votes cast at the first general election held under this Constitution, shall by the county clerks of the several counties, be returned to the secretary of the Territory immediately after the canvass of said votes in their several counties; and the secretary, auditor, and treasurer of the Territory, or any two of them, shall, on the twenty-fifth day after the election, meet at the seat of government and proceed to canvass the votes cast for members of the general assembly, and determine the result thereof. SEC. 19. The general, assembly shall, at their first session, immediately after the organization of the two houses, and after the canvass of the votes for officers of the executive department, and before proceeding to other business, provide by act or joint resolution, for the appointment by said general assembly, of electors in the electoral college; and such joint resolution, or the bill for such enactment, may be passed without being printed or referred to any committee, or read on more than one day in either house, and shall take effect immediately after the concurrence of the two houses therein, and the approval of the governor thereto shall not be necessary. SEC. 20. The general assembly shall provide that after the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the electors of the electoral college shall be chosen by direct vote of the people. SEC. 21. The general assembly shall have power, at their first session, to provide for the payment of the expenses of this convention if any there be then remaining unpaid. SEC. 22. All recognizances, bail bonds, official bonds, and other obligations or undertakings which have been, or at any time before the admission of the State, shall be made or entered into and expressed to be payable to the people of the Territory of Colorado, shall continue in full force, notwithstanding the change in the form of government; and any breach thereof, whenever occuring, may, after the admission of the State, be prosecuted in the name of the people of the State. Done in Convention, at the City of Denver, Colorado, this fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth. In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto subscribed our names. H. P H. BROMWELL, BYRON L. CARR, HENRY R. CROSBY, WILLARD B. FELTON, ATTEST: J. C. WILSON, President. WM. R. KENNEDY, ALVIN MARSH, WILBUR F. STONE,, WILLIAM C. STOVER, JOHN S. WHEELER, W. W. COULSON, Secretary. HERBERT STANLEY, 1st Assistant Secretary. ELECTION ORDINANCE. In conformity with the requirements of an act of the congress of the United States, entitled "an act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," approved March 3d, A. D. 1875, on behalf and by the authority of the people of the Territory of Colorado, this convention assembled in pursuance of said enabling act, at the city of Denver, the capital of said Territory, on the twentieth day of December, A. D. 1875, does ordain and declare: First-That an election shall be held throughout the Territory of Colorado, on the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the ratification or rejection of the Constitution framed and adopted by this convention. Second-At said election the Constitution framed and adopted by this convention, shall be submitted to the people of the Territory for their ratification or rejection, and all persons who are then qualified electors under the laws of the Territory, shall be qualified to vote upon the ratification or rejection thereof. Third-Said election shall be held at the several places in the several wards and precincts throughout the Territory, appointed for the holding of elections under the laws of the Territory, and shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the laws of said Territory regulating elections. The judges of elections, appointed under the laws of the Territory, in each of said wards and precincts, shall act as the judges of said election, and vacancies in the board of judges of any ward or precinct shall be filled, and clerks of election shall be appointed, in the manner prescribed by said laws; provided, that no law requiring a registration of voters shall apply to said election, (and any qualified elector may at said election vote at any ward or precinct in the Territory.) Whenever any person shall present himself to vote at said election, and either of the judges shall suspect that such person is not a qualified elector of the Territory, or if his vote shall be challenged by any elector who has previously voted at the said election, then before the ballot of such person shall be received, he shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are a resident of county, in the Territory of Colorado; that you have resided in this Territory six months immediately preceding this election; that you have to the best of your knowledge and belief attained the age of twenty-one years, and have not voted at this election." Fourth-Each elector voting at said election shall deposit in the ballot-box a ticket, whereon shall be printed or written the words "For the Constitution," or the words, "Against the Constitution," or other equivalent words. Fifth-The acting governor of the Territory shall, within thirty days after the adjournment of this convention, issue his proclamation for said election, to be held in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance; and the secretary of the Territory shall, on or before the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1876, make out and transmit to the sheriff of each county a notice in writing of said election together with a copy of this ordinance. Sixth-The votes cast at said election for the adoption or rejection of the Constitution, shall be canvassed in the manner prescribed by the laws of the Territory of Colorado for canvassing the votes of general elections; and the returns of said election shall be made to the acting governor of the Territory, who with the chief justice and the United States attorney of said Territory, or any two of them, shall canvass the same, and if a majority of the legal votes cast shall be for the Constitution, the acting governor shall certify the same to the President of the United States, together with a copy of said Constitution and the ordinances adopted by this convention. ORDINANCE. In conformity with the requirements of an act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An act to enable the people of Colorado to form a Constitutution and State government, and for the admission of said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," approved March 3d, A. D. 1875, on behalf and by the authority of the people of the Territory of Colorado, this Convention assembled in pursuance of said enabling act, at the city of Denver, the |