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. A senate and an assembly.  Members of the assembly are elected annually; the number not to be less than fifty-four, nor greater than one hundred.  The number of senators may not be less than one-fourth, nor greater than one-third of the number of members of assembly.  Senators are chosen for two years, half every year.  Members of both houses are elected in single districts, apportioned every five years; and must have resided in the state a year, and be qualified electors of the districts.

Bills are passed over the veto by majorities of two-thirds.  Quorum, a majority.

Executive. The governor is elected for two years.  Any citizen of the United States and qualified elector of the state, is eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state, a treasurer, and an attorney-general, are elected for two years.

Sheriffs, coroners, registers of deeds, and district-attorneys, are elected in counties, for two years.  Sheriffs are ineligible for the next two years.

Judiciary. A supreme court, circuit courts, courts of probate, and justices of the peace.  Inferior courts, with limited civil jurisdiction, may be established by law in the several counties.  By the constitution, the judges of the circuit courts were to be judges of the supreme court for five years, and until the legislature should otherwise provide.  A separate supreme court may be organized, to consist of a chief-justice and two associate justices elected by the electors of the state for six years; one only to be elected at a time.  The circuit judges also, one in each judicial circuit, are elected for six years.  The supreme court shall hold at least one term annually at the seat of government, and at such other places as the legislature may provide.  A circuit court is to be held at least twice a year in each county.

A judge of probate is chosen in each county for two years; but the office may be abolished, and probate powers conferred on inferior county courts.  Justices of the peace are elected in the several towns, cities, and villages, for two years.