sixty-nine, and on the first Wednesday of January of each year thereafter, but at no other time, except as provided in this Constitution. The time of meeting shall be at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and the time of final adjournment shall be at twelve o'clock noon. Second. Sec. 8. The Legislature shall meet on the first Wednesday of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and on the first Wednesday of January of every second year thereafter, but at no other time, except as provided in this Constitution. The time of meeting shall be at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and the time of final adjournment shall be at twelve o'clock noon. A separate ballot upon either proposition may be given by any elector, which shall be deposited in a ballot-box provided for that purpose. On the ballot in favor of the adoption of the above proposition No. 1, shall be the words, "Annual Sessions-Yes;" and upon the ballots in favor of the above proposition No. 2, shall be the words, "Biennial Sessions Yes;" and upon the head or outside of all said ballots shall be the words, “Annual or Biennial Sessions," placed in such a manner that the same shall be visible when the ballot is folded. If upon the canvass of such ballots cast at such election, a majority thereof shall be found to contain the words, "Annual Sessions-Yes," then said proposition No. 1 shall become and stand as section eight, of Article V, of this Constitution, if the same is adopted; but if a majority of such ballots shall contain the words, "Biennial Sessions-Yes," then the above proposition No. 2 shall become and stand as section eight, of Article V, of this Constitution, if the same is adopted. At the election, at the same time when the votes of the electors shall be taken for the adoption or rejection of this Constitution, an additional section of Article V, numbered thirtyfour, in the words following: Sec. 34. "The Legislature shall not pass any act authorizing the grant of license for the sale of ardent spirits or intoxica ting liquors, but shall by law prohibit the sale of the same as a beverage;" Shall be separately submitted to the electors of this State for their adoption or rejection in form following, to wit: A separate ballot may be given by every person having the right to vote for the revised Constitution, to be deposited in a separate box. Upon the ballots given for said separate section shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words, "Prohibition-Yes," and upon the ballots given against the adoption of said section, in like manner, the words "Prohibition-No." If at said election a majority of the votes for and against said section shall contain the words, "Prohibition-Yes," then there shall be inserted in the article entitled "Legislative Department," the said additional section, to be numbered as section thirty-four in said article. 111 ERRATA. On page 663, line 28, for "devotional," read "denominational.” On page 11, line 18, for "equity," read "equality." On page 76, line 2, for “affairs,” read “officers.” On page 352, line 14, for “section 11,” read “section 1.” On page 425, line 22, for “on the being,” read “being on the.” On page 765, line 12, for "reconsider," read "recommit." On page 544, line 26, for "Counties," read "Legislative Department.” On page 552, line 18, after the word "in," read "the article entitled Legislative Department, by." |