SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That no person shall

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be eligible to a seat in said convention who is not Qualified deletwenty-seven (27) years of age and a legal voter of the county or district he seeks to represent.

Vacancies

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That in case of death, refusal or inability to serve, resignation or removal from the State of any delegate, the vacancy walled. occasioned thereby shall be filled in the same manner as prescribed by law for filling vacancies in the representation in the General Assembly, the call to be made within fifteen (15) days after the vacancy.

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SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Election, or other proper officers under the law, of each county of the State, immediately after said election to make a complete return to the Secretary of State of the votes Election recast for delegates in his county; provided, that certificates of election shall issue to delegates as now provided by law in the case of representatives of the General Assembly, and said certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the right of any delegate to a seat in said convention, subject if contested to be decided in the manner the convention may prescribe.

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SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That said convention shall convene in the City of Nashville on "Mon- Convention day, October 30, 1917," and when so assembled said where held. delegates shall organize themselves into a Constitutional Convention by the election of a president and such other officers as they may deem necessary. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That said convention shall have authority to determine its own rules of proceedings, and to punish its members for disorderly conduct, to elect such officers as it may deem necessary for the proper and convenient transaction of business of the convention, and to prescribe their duties; to make provisions for the publication of its proceedings, or any part thereof, during its session; to provide for the publication of the debates and proceedings of the convention in durable form, and for the securing of a copyright thereof for the State; and to fix and prescribe the time and form and manner of submitting any proposed revision, alterations

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or amendments of the Constitution to the electors of the State; also the notice to be given of such submission; provided, that all amendments adopted or recommended by the convention shall be submitted separately for the approval or rejection of the legal voters at the election to be held for that purpose.

SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the election at which said submission shall be made shall be held and conducted the same as elections for judicial officers as far as practicable, and the vote cast for and against such proposed revision, alterations or amendments, and those cast for and against each of the same separately submitted, shall be entered on the tally sheet, counted, certified, transmitted and canvassed, and the result thereof declared in the manner prescribed by law for the counting, certifying, transmitting and canvassing of votes cast for the election of judicial officers as far as applicable.

And all the provisions of the laws relative to elections shall apply to said election, as far as applicable; provided the Constitutional Convention shall prescribe and provide for the nature and character and preparation of the ballots to be cast, the manner of making and voting the same in different precincts.

SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That candidates for members of the Constitutional Convention shall be nominated by nominating petitions or in any other manner or way the voters or governing bodies of parties may decide or provide.

SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That in any county, any qualified elector of said county over twentyseven (27) years of age may be nominated as a candidate for member of the Constitutional Convention for said county upon a petition in writing addressed to the County Commissioners of Election, signed by not less than two (2) per cent of the qualified electors of said county, or by such as will be legally qualified electors at the election to be held on Sept. 27, 1917, the said percentage of two (2) per cent shall be based on the number of those who voted at the last preceding gubernatorial election. In no case

shall the number of signatures to a petition be less than two (200) hundred.

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SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That such petitions shall contain a provision to the effect that each signer Petition— thereto thereby pledges himself to support and vote for the candidate or candidates whose nomination is therein requested. Each elector signing a petition. shall add to his signature his place of residence in his own handwriting (unless he cannot write, and his signature is made by mark), which shall include street and number when there is a street and number. No elector may sign his name to more than one nominating petition for each office to be filled; and where an elector has signed his name to more than one petition for each office to be filled, his name shall not be counted on any of the petitions.

Nothing herein shall be construed, however, to prevent more than one nominee being nominated by any one petition up to the number of members of the convention to which said county is entitled.

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SEC. 14. Be it further enacted, That each petition. need not necessarily consist of but one paper, but five of the signers to each separate paper shall swear Petition, affibefore a notary public, or other officer entitled to administer oaths, that the petition is bona fide in every respect to the best of his knowledge and belief and the certificate of such oath shall be annexed. If in any case the said paper shall contain less than five signers, then as many shall swear to the validity of the paper as there are signers thereto.

SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That besides containing the names of the candidates, all petitions shall specify as to each candidate:

1. That he is a candidate for the office of member of the Constitutional Convention for the county in which the signatures are obtained.

2. His place of residence with street and number thereof, if any.

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SEC. 16. Be it further enacted, That nominating Petition, where petitions shall be filed with the Board of Commis filed. sioners of Election of each county not less than