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Removal of District Attorney.

REMOVAL OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

I Sec. 6. Any district attorney who shall fail faithfully to 2 prosecute a person charged with the violation in his county of 3 any provision of this article which may come to his knowl4 edge, shall be removed from office by the Governor, after due 5 notice and an opportunity of being heard in his defense. The 6 expenses which shall be incurred by any county, in investigat7 ing and prosecuting any charge of bribery or attempting to 8 bribe any person holding office under the laws of this State, 9 within such county, or of receiving bribes by any such person 10 in said county, shall be a charge against the State, and their II payment by the State shall be provided for by law.

Amendments.

AMENDMENTS.

ARTICLE XIV.

I Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Con2 stitution may be proposed in the Senate and Assembly; and if 3 the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members 4 elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment 5 or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the 6 yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature 7 to be chosen at the next general election of senators, and shall 8 be published for three months previous to the time of making 9 such choice; and if in the Legislature so next chosen, as afore10 said, such proposed amendment or or amendments shall be II agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each 12 house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit 13 such proposed amendment or amendments to the people for 14 approval in such manner and at such times as the Legislature 15 shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such 16 amendment or amendments by a majority of the electors vot17 ing thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a 18 part of the Constitution from and after the first day of January 19 next after such approval.

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The General Assembly may, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem it necessary, propose amendments to this Constitution, which having been read on three several days, in each house, shall be duly published in such manner as the General Assembly may direct, at least three months before the next general election for representatives, for the consideration of the people; and it shall be the duty of the several returning officers at the next general election which shall be held for Representatives, to open a poll for the vote of the qualified electors on the proposed amendments, and to make a return of said vote to the Secretary of State; and if it shall thereupon appear majority of all electors of

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qualified State, who voted at said election, voted in favor of the proposed amendments, said amendments shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, and the result of such election shall be made known by proclamation of the Governor.

22. XIX.

ARKANSAS.

Either branch of the General Assembly at a regular session thereof may propose amendments to this Constitution, and, if the same be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house, such proposed amendments shall be entered on the journals with the yeas and nays, and published in at least one newspaper in each county, where a newspaper is published, for six months immediately preceding the next general election for Senators and Representatives, at which

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time the same shall be submitted to the electors of the State for approval or rejection; and if a majority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendments the same shall become a part of this Constitution; but no more than three amendments shall be proposed or submitted at the same time. They shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. CALIFORNIA.

1. XVIII. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or Assembly, and if two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses shall vote in favor thereof, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered in their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people in such manner, and at such time, and after such publication as may be deemed expedient. Should more amendments than one be submitted at the same election, they shall be so prepared and distinguished, by numbers or otherwise, that each can be voted on separately. If the people shall approve and such ratify amendment amendments, or any of them, by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of this Constitution.

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2. XIX. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either house of the General Assembly, and if the

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same shall be voted for by twothirds of all the members elected to each house, such proposed amendments, together with the yeas and noes of each house thereon, shall be entered in full on their respective journals; and the Secretary of State shall cause the said amendment or amendments to be published in full in at least one newspaper in each county (if such there be) for three months previous to the next general election for members of the General Assembly; and at said election the said amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State for their approval or rejection, and such as are approved by a majority of those voting thereon, shall become part of this Constitution; but the General Assembly shall have no power to propose amendments to more than one article of this Constitution at the same session.

CONNECTICUT.

XI. Whenever a majority of the House of Representatives shall deem it necessary to alter or amend this Constitution, they may propose such alteration and amendments; which proposed amendments shall be continued to the next General Assembly, and be published with the laws which may have been passed at the same session; and if two-thirds of each house, at the next session of said Assembly, shall approve the amendments proposed, by yeas and nays, said amendment shall, by the secretary, be transmitted to the town clerk in each town in the State, whose duty it shall be to present the same to the inhabitants thereof, for their consideration, at a town meeting, legally warned and held for that

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The General Assembly, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem it necessary, may, with the approbation of the Governor, propose amendments to this Constitution, and at least three and not more than six months before the next general election of Representatives, duly publish them in print for the consideration of the people; and if three-fourths of each branch of the Legislature shall, after such an election and before another, ratify the said amendments, they shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts of this Constitution.

(No convention shall be called but by the authority of the people; and the mode of making their sense known shall be that at any general election held for Representatives in the General Assembly, and which shall have been prescribed by the General Assembly at its regular session next preceding the said election as the proper occasion for ascertaining such sense, the citizens of this State entitled to vote for Representatives at such election may vote by ballot for or against a convention as they shall severally choose to do, and in so voting the ballot shall be separate from those cast for any person voted for at such election and shall be kept distinct and apart from any other ballot so cast; and if at any such election

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the number of votes for a convention shall be equal to a ma jority of all the citizens in the State having right to vote for Representatives, ascertained by reference to the highest number of votes cast in the State at any one of the three general elections next preceding the day of voting for a convention, except when they may be less than the whole number of votes voted both for and against a convention, in which case the said majority shall be ascertained by reference to the number of votes given on the day of voting for or against a convention, the General Assembly shall, at its next session, call a convention, to consist of at least as many members as there are in both houses of the Legislature, to be chosen in the same manner, at the same places, and at the same time that Representatives are by the citizens entitled to vote for Representatives, on due notice given for one month, and to meet within three months after they shall be elected. The Legislature shall provide by law for receiving, tallying and counting said votes for and against a convention and for returning to the General Assembly at its next session the state of the said vote, and also for ascertaining and returning to the said General Assembly the number of ballots cast at said election on or by which Representatives voted for so as to enable it to determine whether a majority of those who voted for Representatives voted for a convention; and shall also by law enact all provisions necessary for giving full effect to this article.)

1. XVII.

FLORIDA.

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Either branch of the Legislature,

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at a regular session thereof, may propose amendments to this Constitution; and if the same be agreed to by three-fifths of all the members elected to each house, such proposed amendments shall be entered upon their respective journals with the yeas and nays, and published in one newspaper in each county where a newspaper is published, for three months immediately preceding the next general election of Representatives, at which election the same shall be submitted to the electors of the State, for approval or rejection. If a majority of the electors voting upon the amendments at such election shall adopt the amendments, the same shall become a part of the Constitution. The proposed amendments shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately.

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GEORGIA.

Par. I. Any amendment, ог amendments, to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives, and if the same shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment, or amendments, shall be entered on their Journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon. And the General Assembly shall cause such amendment, or amendments, to be published in one or more newspapers in each congressional district, for two months previous to the time of holding the next general election, and shall also provide for a submission of such proposed amendment, or amendments, to the people at said next general elec

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