There are elected in each county, a clerk of the circuit court, an auditor, a recorder, a treasurer, a sheriff, a coroner, and a surveyor; the first three for four years; the others for two years.  The sheriff and treasurer are eligible only four years in eight; the first three eight years in twelve.

Amendments must be agreed to by two successive legislatures, a majority of all the members of each house concurring, and ratified by the electors of the state.

Illinois.

Illinois was admitted into the union in 1818.  The present constitution is dated August 31, 1847.

Legislature—­styled general assembly.  Representatives are elected for two years; must be twenty-five years of age; inhabitants of the state three years, and of the county or district, one year; and have paid a state or county tax.  The number is never to exceed one hundred.  The districts are not limited to a single representative.  The senate consists of twenty-five members, elected in single districts, for four years, one-half every two years; must be thirty years of age; citizens of the United States; inhabitants of the state five years, of the county or district, one year; and have paid a county or state tax.  Apportionments of senators and representatives are made after each census, taken in 1855, and every ten years thereafter.

Quorum, two-thirds.  Bills passed against the veto by a majority of all the members elected to each house.  If not returned within ten days, they are laws, unless their return is prevented by adjournment; in which case they must be returned on the first day of the next legislative session, or they will be laws.

Executive. The governor is elected for four years, and is eligible four years in eight.  Age, thirty-five years; citizenship, fourteen years; state residence, ten years.  A lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state and an auditor of public accounts are elected for four years, and a treasurer for two years.

Judiciary. A supreme court of three judges, one to be chosen in each of the three grand divisions, for nine years, one every three years; the one oldest in commission to be chief-justice.  The legislature may provide for their election by the whole state.  Circuit judges are elected for six years, one in each of the nine judicial districts, the number of which may be increased, if necessary.  A circuit court is to be held two or more terms annually in each county.  A judge of the county court is elected in each county for four years, and has also probate jurisdiction.

Justices of the peace are elected in each county by districts for four years.  Inferior local courts may be established in the cities by the legislature.

A state’s attorney is elected in each judicial circuit, for four years; or in each county, if the legislature shall so direct.  In each county a clerk of the circuit court is elected for four years and a sheriff for two years, who is eligible only once in four years; a supreme court clerk by the electors of each grand division.