he last five days of a session, may be signed by the governor and filed
by him in the office of the secretary of state within five days after
the adjournment; and the same become laws.

_Executive._ The governor is elected for two years; must be thirty years
of age; have been a citizen of the United States five years, and a
resident of the state two years. A lieutenant-governor.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court, circuit courts, a probate court, and
justices of the peace. For six years, and until the legislature shall
otherwise provide, the circuit judges are to be judges of the supreme
court. After six years, a supreme court may be organized, consisting of
a chief-justice and three associate justices, chosen by the electors for
eight years, and so classed that only one of them shall go out of office
at a time. A circuit judge is elected in each of the eight judicial
circuits for six years. The number of circuits may be increased. The
probate judge of each county is elected for four years.

Justices of the peace, not exceeding four, are elected in each township,
for four years.

_Electors._ White male citizens who have resided in the state three
months, and in the township or ward ten days; also foreigners after a
residence of two and a half years in the state, and a declaration of
their intention to become citizens; and civilized males of Indian
descent.

A secretary of state, a superintendent of public instruction, a
treasurer, a commissioner of the land-office, an auditor-general, and
attorney-general, are elected for two years.

In each county are elected a sheriff, a county clerk, a county
treasurer, a register of deeds, and a prosecuting attorney, all for two
years. The sheriff can hold only four years in six. The board of
supervisors may unite the offices of clerk and register in one office.

_Amendments_ are proposed by two-thirds of all the members of each
branch, and ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the
next general election. Every sixteenth year the question of a general
revision of the constitution by a convention shall be submitted to the
electors of the state.

Wisconsin.

This state was admitted into the union by an act of congress, May 29,
1848.

_Electors._ White male citizens, or foreigners who have declared their
intention to become citizens, having resided in the state one year; also
civilized persons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe.

_Legislature._