Executive. The governor is elected for four years, and is ineligible the next four.  Age, twenty-eight years; citizenship, and residence in the state four years.  A lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state and a treasurer are elected 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 become laws.  Two-thirds of each house constitutes a quorum.

Judiciary. A supreme court, district courts, and such inferior courts as the legislature may establish.  The supreme court consists of a chief-justice and two associates, and has appellate jurisdiction chiefly.  It holds sessions once a year in not more than three places in the state.  District courts are held by the judge of each judicial district at one place in each county at least twice a year.  The judges of both the supreme and district courts are elected by the people for six years.