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one representative; and that part of the county of Lawrence situated within this state shall attach to, and form part of, the county of Wayne, until otherwise provided by law, and the sheriff of the county of Wayne shall appoint the judges of the first election, and the place of holding the same, in the part thus attached: and any person who shall have resided within the limits of this state five months previous to the adoption of this constitution, and who shall be otherwise qualified, as prescribed in the third section of the third article thereof, shall be eligible to the house of representatives, any thing in this constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 8. For the first election of senators, the state shall be divided into districts, and the apportionment shall be as follows; that is to say: the counties of Howard and Cooper shall compose one district, and elect four senators; the counties of Montgomery and Franklin shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the county of St. Charles shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the counties of Lincoln and Pike shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the county of St. Louis shall compose one district, and elect two senators; the counties of Washington and Jefferson shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the county of St. Genevieve shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the counties of Madisonand Wayne shall compose one district, and elect one senator; the counties of Cape Girardeau and New Madrid shall compose one district, and elect two senators; and, in all cases where a senatorial district consists of more than one county, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county second named in that district to certify the returns of the senatorial election within their proper county to the clerk of the county first named, within five days after he shall have received the same: and any person who shall have resided within the limits of this state five months previous to the adoption of this constitution, and who shall be otherwise qualified, as prescribed in the fifth section of the third article thereof, shall be eligible to the senate of this state, any thing in this constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 9. The president of the convention shall issue writs of election to the sheriffs of the several counties, (or, in case of vacancy, to the coroners,) requiring them to cause an election to be held, on the fourth Monday in August next, for a governor, a lieutenant governor, a representative in the Congress of the United States for the residue of the sixteenth Congress, a representative for the seventeenth Congress, senators and representatives for the general assembly, sheriffs, and coroners; and the returns of all township elections, held in pursuance thereof, shall be made to the clerk of the proper county, within five days after the day of election; and any person who shaft reside within the limits of this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, and who shall be otherwise qualified, as prescribed in the tenth section of the third article thereof, shall be deemed a qualified elector, any thing in this constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 10. The elections shall be conducted according to the existing laws of the Missouri territory. The clerks of the circuit courts of the several counties shall certify the returns of the election of governor and lieutenant governor, and transmit the same to the speaker of the house of representatives, at the temporary seat of government, in such time that they may be received on the third Monday of September next. As soon as the general assembly shall be organized, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president, pro tempore, of the senate shall, in the presence of both houses, examine the returns, and declare who are duly elected to fill those offices; and, if any two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes, and a higher number than any other person, the general assembly shall determine the election in the manner hereinbefore provided; and the returns of the election for member of Congress shall be made to the secretary of state within thirty days after the day of election.

SEC. 11. The oaths of office, herein directed to be taken, may be administered by any judge or justice of the peace, until the general assembly shall otherwise direct.

SEC. 12. Until a seal of state be provided, the governor may use his private seal.

Done by the representatives of the people of Missouri, in convention assembled, at the town of St. Louis, on the nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and of the independence of the United States of America the forty-fifth.

DAVID BARTON, President of the Convention, and Representative from the County of St. Louis.

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Declaring the assent of the people of the State of Missouri, by their representatives, in convention assembled, to certain conditions and provisions in the act of Congress of the sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to authorize the people of Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories."

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Whereas the act of Congress of the United States of America, approved March the sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to authorize the people of Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories," contains certain requisitions and provisions, and, among other things, has offered to this Convention, when formed, for and in behalf of the people inhabiting this state, for their free acceptance or rejection, the five following propositions, and which, if accepted by this convention, in behalf of the people as aforesaid, are to be obligatory on the United States, viz: First; That section numbered sixteen in every township, and when such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other "lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be "granted to the state for the use of the inhabitants of such township ❝for the use of schools. Second; That all salt springs, not exceeding "twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining to each, shall be granted to the said state for the use of said state, the same to be "selected by the legislature of said state, on or before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and the same, when so selected, to be used under such terms, con"ditions and regulations, as the legislature of said state shall direct; "provided, that no salt spring, the right whereof, now is, or hereafter shall be, confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, shall, by this section, be granted to said state; and provided, also, that the legislature shall never sell or lease the same at any one time "for a longer period than ten years, without the consent of Congress. "Third; That five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the sale of lands "lying within the said territory or state, and which shall be sold by "Congress, from and after the first day of January next, after de"ducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for "making public roads and canals, of which three-fifths shall be "applied to those objects within the state, under the direction of the

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"legislature thereof, and the other two-fifths in defraying, under the direction of Congress, the expenses to be incurred in making of "a road or roads, canal or canals, leading to the said state. Fourth; "That four entire sections of land be, and the same are hereby, granted to the said state, for the purpose of fixing their seat of "government thereon; which said sections shall, under the direction "of the legislature of said state, be located, as near as may be, in one body, at any time, in such townships and ranges as the legislature aforesaid may select, on any of the public lands of the United States; provided, that such location shall be made prior to the "public sale of the lands of the United States surrounding such lo"cation. Fifth; That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the other lands heretofore reserved for that purpose, "shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested "in the legislature of said state, to be appropriated solely for the "use of such seminary, by the Legislature."

Now, this convention, for and in behalf of the people inhabiting this state, and by the authority of the said people, do accept the five before recited propositions offered by the act of Congress under which they are assembled; and, in pursuance of the conditions, requisitions, and other provisions, in the before recited act of Congress contained, this convention, for and in behalf of the people inhabiting this state, do ordain, agree, and declare, that every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of January next, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under the authority, of the state, whether for state, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years, from and after the respective days of sale thereof; and that the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military services during the late war, shall, while they continue to be held by the patentees, or their heirs, remain exempt as aforesaid from taxation for the term of three years, from and after the date of the patents respectively: Provided, nevertheless, that, if the Congress of the United States shall consent to repeal and revoke the following clause in the fifth proposition of the sixth section of the act of Congress before recited, and in these words, viz. "That every and each tract of land, sold by the United States from and after the first day of January next, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under the authority, of the state, whether for state, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale, and further," that this convention, for and in behalf of the people of the state of Missouri, do hereby ordain, consent and agree, that the same be so revoked and repealed, without which consent of the Congress as aforesaid, the said clause to remain in full force and operation as first above provided for in this ordinance: and this convention doth hereby request the Congress of the United States so to modify their third proposition, that the whole amount of five per cent. on the sale of public lands therein offered may be applied to the construction of

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