Legislature. Senate and assembly.  Members of assembly, the number to be not less than thirty, nor greater than eighty, are chosen annually by districts.  Senators, not to be less than one-third nor more than one-half of the number of members of assembly, are elected by districts for two years, one-half every year.  Members of both houses must have resided in the state two years, and in their respective districts one year, and be qualified voters.  They are apportioned every five years.

Bills, rejected by the governor, must be passed by a majority of two-thirds of each house, to become a law.  Bills become laws if not returned by the governor within ten days, unless the legislature shall sooner adjourn.

Executive. A governor and a lieutenant-governor are elected for two years.  Age, twenty-five years, and two years’ residence in the state.

A secretary of state, a controller, a treasurer, an attorney-general, and a surveyor-general, are elected for two years, by joint vote of the two houses.

Judiciary. A supreme court, district courts, county courts, justices of the peace, and such municipal and other inferior courts as the legislature may establish.  The supreme court consists of three judges elected by the electors of the state for six years, one every two years; the senior justice in commission to be chief-justice.  District judges are elected in their respective districts for six years.  A judge of the county court is elected in each county for four years, and performs also the duties of judge of probate.  The number of justices of the peace elected in each county, city, town, or village, is fixed by law.

The election of sheriffs, coroners, county clerks and certain other officers, is provided for by law.

Amendments must be agreed to by majorities of all the members of the two houses of two successive legislatures, and ratified by the people.  The legislature may, by two-thirds majorities, submit to the people the question of calling a convention for a general revision of the constitution.

Minnesota.

This state was admitted into the union in 1858.

Electors. White male citizens having resided in the United States one year, and in the state four months.  Also foreigners who have so resided, and declared their intention to become citizens; and persons of mixed white and Indian blood, and of Indian blood, under certain regulations.

Legislature. A senate and a house of representatives.  The first legislature consisted of thirty-seven senators and eighty representatives.

Executive. A governor and a lieutenant-governor are elected for two years.

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

Judiciary. The judicial power is vested in a supreme court, district courts, courts of probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme court, as the legislature may establish by a two-thirds vote.