Sheriffs, clerks of counties, coroners, and district attorneys, are elected for three years in the several counties.  Sheriffs are ineligible for the next three years.

Amendments must receive the sanction of two successive legislatures, and of a majority of the electors voting thereon at an election.

New Jersey.

New Jersey, as a colony, adopted a constitution in 1776, under which the state was governed until the present constitution, framed in 1844, was adopted.

Electors. White male citizens, who have resided in the state a year, and in the county five months.

Legislature. A senate and general assembly.  The senate consists of one senator from each county, elected for three years; one-third of the senators elected every year.  Age, thirty years; residence in the state four years, and in the county one year.  Members of the general assembly, not to exceed sixty, are apportioned among the counties according to population.  Residence in the state two years, in the county one year.  A majority is a quorum.

The final passage of bills requires a majority of the members elected.  The same majorities may pass bills disapproved by the governor.  Bills become laws if not returned by the governor within five days, unless their return is prevented by adjournment.

Executive. The governor is elected for three years, and is ineligible for the next three years.  He must be thirty years of age; have been twenty years a citizen, seven years a resident of the state.  The pardoning power is exercised by the governor in conjunction with the chancellor and the judges of the court of errors and appeals.  No lieutenant-governor.

The state treasurer, and the keeper and inspectors of the state prison are appointed annually by joint assembly of the two houses.  The secretary of state, attorney-general, and prosecutors of the pleas, are appointed by the governor and senate, for five years.

Judiciary. A court of errors and appeals; a court of chancery; a prerogative court; a supreme court; circuit courts; and inferior courts.  The court of errors and appeals consists of the chancellor, the justice of the supreme court, and six judges, or a majority of them.  The court of chancery consists of the chancellor, who is also the ordinary, or surrogate-general, and judge of the prerogative court, to which appeals are made from the orphans’ court.  The supreme court consists of a chief justice and four associates.  The circuit courts are held in every county by one or more justices of the supreme court, or a judge appointed for that purpose.  Chancellor and justices of the supreme court hold for seven years; judges of the court of errors and appeals for six years; and all are appointed by the governor and senate.  The inferior court of common pleas shall not have more than five judges, one to be appointed every year by the senate and assembly.