the vote the said clerk shall publish once in said newspaper the full text of any charter, charter amendment, measure, or proposal for a charter convention, or alternative article or proposition, which shall have been approved by a majority of those voting thereon, and he shall file with the secretary of state two copies thereof (with the vote for and against) officially certified by him, and the same shall go into effect from the date of such filing. He shall also certify to the secretary of state, with the vote for and against, two copies of every defeated alternative article or proposition, charter, charter amendment, measure or proposal for a charter convention. Each charter shall also provide for a reference, under proper petition therefor, of measures passed by the council to a vote of the qualified electors, and for the initiative by the qualified electors of such ordinances as they may by petition request.

The signatures to petitions in this amendment mentioned need not all be on one paper. Nothing herein or elsewhere shall prevent the council, if it sees fit, from adopting automatic vote registers for use at elections and references.

No charter, charter amendment, or measure adopted or defeated under the provisions of this amendment shall be amended, repealed or revived, except by petition and electoral vote. And no such charter, charter amendment or measure shall diminish the tax rate for state purposes fixed by act of the general assembly, or interfere in any wise with the collection of state taxes.

CITIES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

SEC. 6. Cities of the first and second class in this state are hereby empowered to propose for submission to a vote of the qualified electors, proposals for charter conventions and to hold the same, and to amend any such charter, with the same force and in the same manner and have the same power, as near as may be, as set out in sections four (4) and five (5) hereof, with full power as to real and personal property and public utilities, works or ways, as set out in section one (1) of this amendment.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONSOLIDATED.

SEC. 7. The city and county of Denver shall alone always constitute one school district, to be known as District No. 1, but its conduct, affairs and business shall be in the hands of a board of education, consisting of such numbers, elected in such manner as the general school laws of the state shall provide, and until the first election under said laws of a full board of education, which shall be had at the first election held after the adoption of this amendment, all the directors of school district No. 1 and the respective presidents of the school boards of school districts Nos. 2, 7, 17 and 21 at the time this amendment takes effect, shall act as such board of education, and all districts or special charters now existing are hereby abolished.

The said board of education shall perform all the acts and duties required to be performed for said district by the general laws of the state. Except as inconsistent with this amendment, the general school laws of the state shall, unless the context evinces a contrary intent,

be held to extend and apply to the said "District No. 1."

Upon the annexation of any contiguous municipality which shall include a school district or districts, or any part of a district, said school district or districts or part shall be merged in said "District No. 1," which shall then own all the property thereof, real and personal, located within the boundaries of such annexed municipality, and shall assume and pay all the bonds, obligations and indebtedness of each of the said included school districts, and a proper proportion of those of partially included districts.

Provided, however, That the indebtedness, both principal and interest, which any school district may be under at the time when it becomes a part, by this amendment or by annexation, of said "District No. 1," shall be paid by said school district so owing the same by a special tax, to be fixed and certified by the board of education to the council, which shall levy the same upon the property within the boundaries of such district, respectively, as the same existed at the time such district becomes a part of said "District No. 1," and in case of partially included districts, such tax shall be equitably ap portioned upon the several parts thereof.

SEC. 8. Anything in the constitution of this state in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this amendment is hereby declared to be inapplicable to the matters and things by this amendment covered and provided for.

DEFINITIONS.

Acknowledgment. An acknowledgment is an avowal, before the proper officer, of one's own act, to give it legal validity-applied to deeds, mortgages and other writings. It is certified to by the officer before whom it is taken.

Administrator. The person appointed by the county court to manage and settle the estate of a person dying without a will.

Appeal. To appeal a case is to remove it from a lower to a higher court for re-trial or review. Cases may also be taken up on writ of error.

Assault. An assault is an unlawful attempt coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another.

Assault and battery.-"Assault and battery is the unlawful beating of another."

Bail. A prisoner gives bail when he produces persons who promise in writing to pay into the public treasury a certain sum of money, if he, being liberated, does not appear in court on a day specified. If the prisoner cannot give bail he is imprisoned. The Constitution of Colorado declares all offences bailable, except capital offences in which the proof is ovident or the presumption of guilt is great.

Change of venue. --When either party to a suit before a justice makes oath that he believes that he cannot have a fair and impartial trial before such justice, it is the duty of the justice to transmit all papers and documents in the case to the nearest justice, who tries the suit. In courts of record changes of venue may be taken for reasons assigned

in the law, such as; prejudice of the judge or people of a county, interest, of the judge in the result of the suit, his relationship to either party, etc.

Civil cause. A civil cause, case or action is an action for the enforcement of or protection of private rights, or the redress or prevention of private wrongs.

Court of record. A court of record is a court in which an account of the acts and judicial proceedings of the court is written down and preserved for testi mony, and which has a clerk and a seal.

Criminal cause.-A criminal cause or action is an action prosecuted in a court of justice in the name of the people, against one or more persons accused of a crime.

Felony. Felony is the name for crimes of considerable gravity. In Colorado as defined in the Constitution, it is any criminal offence punishable by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Franchise. A franchise is a right or privilege, granted by a government (including municipalities) to one or more persons, which does not belong to citizens generally, and which cannot properly be exercised by them without such grant.

Freehold. A freehold is an estate, or interest, in real property, which may descend to heirs, or is held. for the life of the holder.

Habeas corpus.-This literally, have you the body. The phrase designates the most emphatic words of a writ, issued by a judge or court, commanding a person who has another in custody or in imprisonment, to have his body before the judge or court at a particular time and place, and to state the cause of his imprisonment. The person whether a sheriff, jailor or other person, is bound to produce the body of the prisoner at the time and place appointed; and if the