tion, the yeas and nays being entered on the journal to be kept. The convention shall have the power to appoint such officers, employés and assistants as it may deem necessary, and fix their compensation and to provide for the printing of its documents, journal and proceedings. The convention shal determine the rules of its own proceedings, choose its own officers, and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members. In case of a vacancy, by death, resignation or other cause, of any district delegate elected to the convention, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates representing the district in which such vacancy occurs. If such vacancy occurs in the office of a delegate-at-large, such vacancy shali be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates-at-large. Any proposed constitution or constitutional amendment which shall have been adopted by such convention, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the State at the time and in the manner provided by such convention, at an election which shall be held not less than six weeks after the adjournment of such convention. Upon the approval of such constitution or constitutional amendments, in the manner provided in the last preceding section, such constitution or constitutional amendment, shall go into effect on the first day of January next after such approval.

Const. 1846, art. XIII, § 2.

§ 3. Amendments of convention and legislature submitted Coincidently.

Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to the same subject as an amendment proposed by the Legislature, coincidently submitted to the people for approval at the general election held in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, or at any subsequent election, shall, if approved, be deemed to supersede the amendment so proposed by the Legislature.

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PART 3.

UNITED STATES STATUTES

PROVISIONS CONCERNING

ELECTIONS, ELECTIVE OFFICERS, CITIZENSHIP, ETC.

ELECTION OF SENATORS.*

Time of election.

At the regular election held in any state next preceding the expiration of the term for which any senator was elected to represent such state in congress, at which election a representative to congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States senator from said state shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the fourth day of March next thereafter.

38 Stat. at L. 384, § 1.

See amendment to U. S. Constitution, ante, p. 294; providing for direct election of U. S. senators.