office unless he shall have been restored to civil rights.

SEC. 3.

Drunkenness shall be cause of im- Drunkenness.

peachment and removal from office.

ARTICLE [XVII.]—AMENDMENTS.

SECTION 1. Either branch of the legislature How made. may propose amendments to this constitution, and if the same be agreed to by three-fifths of the members elected to each house, such proposed amendments shall be entered on the journals, with the yeas and nays, and published at least once each week in at least one newspaper in each county, where a newspaper is published, for three months immediately preceding the next. election of senators and representatives, at which election the same shall be submitted to the electors for approval or rejection, and if a majority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendments, the same shall become a part of this constitution. When more than one amendment is submitted at the same election, they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately.

revise consti

SEC. 2. When three-fifths of the members elect- convention to ed to each branch of the legislature deem it neces-tution. -ary to call a convention to revise, amend, or change this constitution, they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the next election of members of the legislature for or against a convention; and if a majority voting at said election vote for a convention, the legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling the same. The convention

shall consist of as many members as the house of representatives, who shall be chosen in the same manner, and shall meet within three months after their election, for the purpose aforesaid. No amendment or change of this constitution, agreed upon by such convention, shall take effect until the same has been submitted to the electors of the state, and adopted by a majority of those voting for and against the same. (See chap. 3, Comp. Stat., 53.)

ARTICLE [XIII.] SCHEDULE.

SECTION 1. That no inconvenience may arise from the revisions and changes made in the constitution of this state, and to earry the same into effect, it is hereby ordained and declared that all laws in force at the time of the adoption of this constitution not inconsistent therewith, and all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims, and contracts of this state, individuals, or bodies corporate, shall continue to be as valid as if this constitution had not been adopted. (4 Neb., 539; 6 Neb., 302.)

SEC. 2. All fines, taxes, penalties, and forfeitures owing to the state of Nebraska, or to the people thereof, under the present constitution and laws, shall inure to the use of the people of the state of Nebraska under this constitution.

SEC. 3. Recognizances, bonds, obligations, and all other instruments entered into or executed upon the adoption of this constitution, to the people of the state of Nebraska, to the state of Nebraska, to any state or county officer, or public body, shall

remain binding and valid, and rights and liabilities upon the same shall continue; and all crimes and misdemeanors shall be tried and punished as though no change had been made in the constitution of this

state.

courts.

SEC. 4. All existing courts which are not in this Jurisdiction of constitution specifically enumerated, and concern

ing which no other provision is herein made, shall continue in existence, and exercise their present jurisdiction until otherwise provided by law.

Persons to con

SEC. 5. All persons now filling any office or ap-inue in office. pointment, shall continue in the exercise of the duties thereof, according to their respective commissions, elections, or appointments, unless by this constitution it is otherwise directed. (7 Neb., 48.)

neys.

SEC. 6. The district attorneys now in office shall District attor continue during their unexpired terms to hold and exercise the duties of their respective offices in the judicial districts herein created, in which they severally reside. In each of the remaining districts one such officer shall be elected at the first general election and hold his office until the expiration of the terms of those now in office.

when submitted.

SEC. 7. This constitution shall be submitted to Constitution, the people of the state of Nebraska for adoption or rejection at an election to be held on the second Tuesday of October, A.D. 1875, and there shall be separately submitted at the same time, for adoption or rejection, the independent article relating to "Seat of government," and the independent article "Allowing electors to express their preference for United States senator."

Election for.

Duties of secretary of state.

Forms of ballot.

Returns of elections.

SEC. 8. At said election the qualified electors shall vote at the usual places of voting, and the said election shall be conducted and the returns thereof made according to the laws now in force regulating general elections, except as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 9. The secretary of state shall at least twenty days before said election cause to be delivered to the county clerk of each county, blank pollbooks, tally lists, and forms of return, and twice as many of properly prepared printed ballots for the said election as there are voters in such county, the expense whereof shall be audited and paid as other public printing ordered by the secretary as is by law required to be audited and paid; and the several county clerks shall, at least five days before said election, cause to be distributed to the judges of election, in each election precinct in their respective counties, said blank poll-books, tally lists, forms of return, and tickets.

SEC. 10. At the said election the ballots shall be of the following form:

For the new constitution.
Against the new constitution.

For the article relating to "Seat of government."
Against the article relating to "Seat of govern-

ment."

For the article "Allowing electors to express their preference for United States senators."

SEC. 11. The returns of the whole vote cast, and of the votes for the adoption or rejection of this constitution, and for or against the articles re

spectively submitted shall be made by the several county clerks to the secretary of state, within fourteen days after the election, and the returns of the said vote shall within three days thereafter be examined and canvassed by the president of this convention, the secretary of state, and the governor, or any two of them, and proclamation shall be made forthwith by the governor, or the president of this convention, of the result of the canvass.

vass.

SEC. 12. If it shall appear that a majority of Result of canthe votes polled are "for the new constitution," then so much of this new constitution as was not separately submitted to be voted on by article shall be the supreme law of the state of Nebraska, on and after the first day of November, A.D. 1875. But if it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled were "against the new constitution," the whole thereof, including the articles separately submitted, -hall be null and void. If the votes "for the new constitution" shall adopt the same, and it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled are for the article relating to the "seat of government," said article shall be a part of the constitution of this state. If the votes "for the new constitution" shall adopt the same and it shall appear that the majority of the votes polled are for the article "allowing electors to express their preference for United States senator," said article shall be a part of the constitution of this state.

tion, when

SEC. 13. The general election of this state shall General elecbe held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday held. of November of each year, except the first general