ed by the electors, the
former for four years, the latter for two years.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court and such inferior courts as the legislature
may establish, and justices of the peace. The supreme court is composed
of a chief-justice and four associate justices; the former elected by
the electors of the state at large, the latter in their respective
districts. They are elected for ten years, one of the five every two
years. Judges of the inferior courts are elected in their respective
parishes or districts. Justices of the peace are elected for two years
by the electors in each parish, district, or ward.

An attorney-general and a requisite number of district-attorneys, are
elected for four years; the former by the electors of the whole state,
the latter in their respective districts.

A sheriff and a coroner are elected in each parish for two years.

_Electors._ White males, having been citizens two years, residents of
the state one year, and of the parish six months. An elector removing
from one parish to another, may vote in the former until he shall have
become a voter in the latter.

_Amendments_ are proposed by two-thirds of all the members of each
house, and ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the
next general election.

Texas.

Texas, formerly a part of Mexico, declared itself independent in 1835.
By a joint resolution of congress, approved December 29, 1845, this
independent republic was admitted as a state into the union.

_Electors._ White male citizens who have resided in the state one year,
and the last six months in the district, city, or town in which they
offer to vote. If an elector happens to be in any other county within
his district, he may there vote for any district officer; and he may
vote any where in the state for state officers.

_Legislature._ Representatives, not less than forty-five, nor more than
ninety, are apportioned among the counties according to the free
population, and are elected for two years. They must have been residents
of the state two years, of the county, city, or town they represent, one
year. Senators, no less than nineteen, nor more than thirty-three, are
elected in districts for four years, one-half every two years; must be
thirty years of age; inhabitants of the state three years, of the
district one year.

Bills negatived by the governor become laws when passed by two-thirds of
both houses; bills not returned within five days b