Collins, Cutler^ DeBolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Durand, Durham, Eden, EllisrEly, Felton, Finley, Forney, Franklin, Fuller, Gause, Glover, Goode, Gunter, A. H. Hamilton, R. Hamilton, Hardenbergh, C. H. Harrison, Hartridge, Hartzell, Hatcher, Haymond, Henkle, Hereford, G. W. Hewitt, Hill, Holman, House, Huiiton, Hurd, Jenks, F. Jones, T. L. Jones, La7?iar, F. Landers, Le Moyne, B. B. Lewis, Lord, Lynde, McFarland, McMahon, Metcalfe, Millikeh, Money, Morrison, Mutchler, Neal, O'Brien, Odell, E. Y. Parsons, Payne, J. F. Philips, Piper, Poppleton, A. Potter, Powell, Randall, D. Rea, J. Reilly, A. V. Rice, Riddle, J. Robbins, M. Ross, Savage, M. Sayler, Scales, Sheakley, Singleton, Slemons, W. E. Smith,Southard, Springer, Stenger, Tarbox, Teese, Terry, P. F. Thomas, C. P. Thompson, Turney, R. B. Vance, Walling, Ward, £. Wells, Whitthome, Wigginton, Wike, J. Williams, J. D. Williams, J. N. Williams, Willis, F. Wood, Yeates, C. Young—123.

Nays—Messrs. C. H. Adams, G. A. Bagley, J. H. Baker, W. H. Baker, Ballou, Banks, Blaine, Blair, Bradley, W. R. Brown, H. C. Burchard, Caswell, Crapo, Crounse, Culberson, Danford, Davy, Denison, Dobbins, Dunneil. Eames, Frye, Garfield, Haralson, B. W. Harris, Hathorn, Hays, Hendee, Henderson, Hunter, Hurlbut, Joyce, Kasson, Kehr, Kelley, Ketchum, Kimball, King, W. Lawrence, Leavenworth, Levy, Lynch, E. W. M. Mackey, Magoon, McDougall, McCrary, J. W. McDill, Miller, Mills, Monroe, Morgan, Nash, Norton, O'Neill, Packer, Page, W. A. Phillips, Pierce, Plaisted, T. C. Piatt, Pratt, M. S. Robinson, Rusk, Sampson, Schleicher, Seelye, Sinnickson, R. Smalls, Spencer, Throckmorton, M. I. Townsend, W. Townsend, Tufts, Waldron, A. S. Wallace, G. W. Wells, J. D. White, Whiting, G. Willard, A. Williams, C. G. Williams, W. B. Williams, Woodworth—82.

The bill was not acted upon in the Senate.

Troops in the States.

In House. 1876, July 19—Pending the joint resolution (H. R. 96) to provide for the protection of the Texas frontier, and the question being on concurring in the following proviso inserted in Committee of the Whole:

Provided, That no part of the troops provided for by this resolution shall be taken from any State or service where'troops may now or hereafter be stationed, if, in the judgment of the President, the public service requires the continuation of troops in such localities.

The yeas were 80, nays 98 (not voting 108), as follow:

Yeas—Messrs. Ainsworth, Anderson, J. H. Baker, W. H. Baker, Ballou, Banks, S. N. Bell, Blair, Bradley, W. R. Brown, H. C. Burchard, Burleigh, Cannon, Conger, Darrall, Davy, Dobbins, Dunneil, Durand, Eames, Evans, Foster, Garfield, E. Hale, Hancock, Hardenbergh, Hendee, Hoge, Holman, Hoskins, Hunter, Kasson, Kelley, Kimball, W. Lawrence, Leavenworth, Le Moyne, Magoon, MacDougall, J. W. McDill, Miller, Monroe, Morgan, Nash, Norton, Oliver, O'Neill, Packer, Page, Payne, W. A. Phillips, Plaisted, T. C. Piatt, A. Potter, Pratt, Rainey, J. Reilly, J. B. Reilly, Rusk, Sampson. Savage, Sinnickson, R Smalls, A. H. Smith, Stevenson, Tarbox, Thornburgh, M. I. Townsend, W. Townsend, Tufts, Van Vorhes, Wait, C. C. B. Walker, A. S. Wallace, Willard, A. S. Williams, C. G. Williams, J D. Williams, W. B. Williams, Willis—So.

Nays—Messrs. Ashe, Atkins, Bagby, J. H. Bagley, jr., Banning, Blackbtirn, Bland, Boone, Bradford, Bright, J. Y. Brown, Buckner, S.

D. Burchard, Cabell, J. H. Caldwell, W. P. Caldwell, Candler, Cate, Caulfield, J. B. Clarke, Clymer, Cochrajte, Collins, Cook, Cox, Culberson^ Cutler, Joseph J. Davis, DeBolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Edenj Felton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Gibson, Glover, Goode, Gunter, A. H Hamilton, J. T. Harris, Hartridge, Hartzell, Hatcher, Henkle, Hereford, A. S. Hewitt', Hill, House, T. L. Jones, Kehr, Lamar, F. Landers, Lane, Levy, B. B. Lewis, Luttrell, L. A. Mackey, Maish, Mc Far land, Metcalfe, Milliken, Mills, Mutchler, New, J. Phelps, Piper, Randall, Reagan, A. V. Rice, Riddle, W. M. Robbins, M. Ross, Scales, Schleicher, Singleton, W. E. Smith, Southard, Spencer, Springer, Stone, Terry, C. P. Thompson, P. F. Thomas, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turney, J. L. Vance. R. B. Vance^ Waddell, Warren,

E. Wells, Whitehouse, Wigginton, J. Williams, J. JV. Williams) C. Young—98.

The text of the "Wheeler Adjustment" of Affairs in Louisiana.*

New Orleans, March, 1875. Whereas, It is desirable to adjust the difficulties growing out of the general election in this State, in 1872, the action of the Returning Board in declaring and promulgating the results of the general election, in the month of November last, and the organization of the. House of Represen

* Referred to on page 40.

tatives, on the 4th day of January last, such ad. justment being deemed necessary to the re-establishment of peace and order in this State.

Now, therefore, the undersigned members of the Conservative party, claiming to have been elected members of the House of Representatives, and that their certificates of election have been illegally withheld by the Returning Board, hereby severally agree to submit their claims to seats in the House of Representatives to the award and arbitrament of George F. Hoar, William A. Wheeler, William P. Frye, Charles Foster, William Walter Phelps, Clarksori N. Potter, and Samuel S Marshall, who are hereby authorized to examine and determine the same upon the equities of the several cases; and when such awards shall be made, we hereby severally agree to abide by the same:

And such of us as may become members of1 the House of Representatives, under this arrangement, hereby severally agree to sustain by our influence and votes the joint resolution hereinaftet set forth.

[Here follow the signatures of the Democrats who claimed that their certificates of election as members of the House of Representatives had been illegally withheld by the Returning Board.]

And the undersigned claiming to have been elected Senators from the Eighth and TwentySecond Senatorial Districts, hereby agree to submit their claims to the foregoing award and aroitrament, and in all respects to abide the results of the same.

[Here follow the signatures of the Democrats, who made a like claim as to seats in the Senate.]

And the undersigned, holding certificates of election from the Returning Board, hereby severally agree that upon the coming in of the award of the foregoing arbitrators they will, when the same shall have been ratified by the report of the Committee on Elections and Qualifications of the body in session at the State House claiming to be the House of Representatives, attend the sitting of the said House for. the purpose of adopting said report, and if said report shall be adopted, and the members embraced in the foregoing report shall be seated, then the undersigned severally agree that immediately upon the adoption of said report they will Vote for the following joint resolution:

[Here follow the signatures of the Democratic lembers of the House of Representatives in relation to whose seats there Was no controversy.]

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That said Assembly, without approving the same, will not disturb the present State Government claiming to have been elected in 1872, known as the Kellogg Government, or seek to impeach the Governor for any past official acts, and that henceforth it will accord to said Governor all necessary and legitimate support in maintaining the laws and advancing the peace and prosperity of the people of this State; and that the House of Representatives, as to its members, as constituted under the award of George F. Hoar, W. A. Wheeler, W. P. Frye, Charles Foster, Samuel S. Marshall, Clarkson N. Potter and William Walter Phelps, shall remain without change except by resignation or death of members until a new general election, and that the Senate, as now organized, shall also remain unchanged except so far as that body shall make changes on contests.

TEXT OF THE AWARD.

New York, March 13* 1875. The undersigned having been requested to examine the claims of the persons hereinafter named to seats in the Senate arid House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, and having

examined the returns and the evidence relating to such claims, are of opinion, and do hereby find, award and determine, that F. S. Goode is entitled to a seat in the Senate from the Twentysecond Senatorial District; and that J. B. Elam is not entitled to a seat in the Senate from the Eighth Senatorial District; and that the following named persons are entitled to seats in the House of Representatives from the following named parishes respectively: From the Parish of Assumption, R. R. Beasely, E. F. X. Dugas; from the Parish of Bienville, James Brice; from the Parish of De Soto, J. S. Scales, Charles Schuler; from the Parish of Jackson, E. Kidd; from the Parish of Rapides, James Jeffries, R. C. Luckett, G. W. Stafford; from the Parish of Terrebone, Edward MeCollum, W. H. Keyesj from the Parish of Winn, George A. Kelley* And that the following named persons are not entitled to seats which they claim from the following named parishes respectively, but that the persons now holding seats from said parishes are entitled to retain the seats now held by them; from the Parish of Avoyelles, J. O. Quinn; from the Parish of Iberie, W. F. Schwing; from the Parish of Caddo, A. D. Land, T. R. Vaughan, J* J. Horan. We are of opinion that no person is entitled to a seat from the Parish of Grant.

In regard to most of the cases, the undersigned are unanimous; as to the others the decision is that of a majority.

George F. Hoar,
W. A. Wheeler,
W. P. Frye,
Charles Foster,
Clarkson N. Potter,
William Walter Phelps,
Samuel S. Marshall.

Illinois.

In McPherson's Hand-Book of Politics for 1874, pp. 200-202, the Railroad Act of May 2, 1873, *s given in full. It remains unchanged, except that section 8 thereof has been stricken out, and this substituted for it, by act of March 26, 1874, in force July I, 1874: Section 8.

Schedules.^—-The Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners are hereby directed to make, for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said railroads; and said schedule shall, in all suits brought against any such railroad corporations, wherein is in any way involved the charges of any such railroad corporation for the transportation of any passenger or freight or cars, or unjust discrimination in relation thereto, be deemed aiid taken in all courts of this State as prima facie evidence that the rates therein fixed are reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freig-hts and cars upon the railroads for which said schedules may have been respectively prepared.

Said commissioners shall from time to time, and as often as circumstances may require, change and revise said schedules.

When any schedule shall have been made or revised, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to cause publication thereof to be made for three successive weeks, in some public newspaper published in the city of Springfield, in this State.

All such schedules, heretofore or hereafter made, purporting to be printed and published as aforesaid, shall be received and held in all such suits as prima facie. The schedules of said commissioners, without further proof than the production of the schedule desired to be used as evidence, with a certificate of the railroad and warehouse commissioners that the same is a true copy of a schedule prepared by them for the railroad company or corporation therein named, and that the same has been published as required by law, stating the name of the paper in which the same was published, together with the date of such publication.

Wisconsin.

On pages 202-205, of McPherson's HandBook of Politics for 1874, will be found in full a copy of the Railroad Law of 1874, popularly known as the " Potter Law."

At the late session of the Legislature a new act was passed, popularly known as the "Vance Law," which repealed ten of the nineteen sections of the " Potter Act," and substituted others in their stead. A comparison of the two acts will show the points of difference. The new act passed the Senate—yeas 20, nays 7; the House —yeas 56, nays 30; and was approved by Governor Luddington, February 24, 1876.

Below is a digest of the various Railroad Laws (of 1874, 1875 and 1876), now in force in that State, as prepared and printed by the Railroad Commissioner:

Section I. Within ten days after the passage and publication of this act, the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint a railroad commissioner, who shall hold his office for the term of two years from the fifteenth day of February, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Every two years thereafter, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a railroad commissioner, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. And the nomination of railroad commissioner shall hereafter be sent to the senate by the governor during the month of January, immediately preceding the beginning of such commissioner's term of office. The governor shall have power to remove such commissioner, and appoint another to fill the vacancy, at any time in his discretion. No person owning any bonds, stock or property in any railroad company, or who is in the employment of, or in any way or manner pecuniarily interested in any railroad corporation, shall be so appointed.

Sec. 2. The railroad commissioner shall inquire into any neglect or violation of the laws of this State by any railroad corporation doing business therein, or by the officers, agents, or employees thereof, and shall also, from time to time, carefully examine and inspect the condition of each railroad in the State, and of its equipment,

and the manner of its conduct and management with relation to the public safety and convenience. He shall also examine and ascertain the pecuniary condition and the manner of financial management of each and every railroad corporation doing business in this State.

Sec. 3. To enable said commissioner to make the report and return required by section twelve (12), of the act of which this is amendatory, the president or managing officer of each railroad corporation in the State, shall annually make to the railroad commissioner, in the month of Ocober, such returns and in the form he may prescribe, as will afford the information required for his said official report. Such returns shall be verified by the oath of the officer making them, and any railroad corporation whose return shall not be made, as herein prescribed, within the month of October, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every day after the thirty-first day of October that such return shall be wilfully delayed or refused.

Sec. 4. Said railroad commissioner shall, during the month of January in each year, ascertain ana make return to the State Treasurer, as hereinafter provided. 1st. The actual cost of each railroad in this State up to and including the 31st day of the next preceding December, and if such railroad shall be partly in and partly out of this State, then the actual cost of so much thereof as is in this State. 2d. The total gross receipts resulting from the operation of every such railroad during the next preceding year ending on the 31st day of December, or that part of the same which is in this State. 3d. The total net earnings resulting from the operation of any such railroad during the next preceding year, ending on the 31st day of December, or that part of the same which is in this State. 4th. The total interest-bearing indebtedness of the company owning or operating such railroad, and the amount of interest paid by such company during the next preceding year ending on the 31st day of December, and if any part of such indebtedness has been incurred in consequence of the construction, maintenance, repair, removal, or operation of any part of such railroad which is not in this State, or for equipment for such part, such railroad commissioner shall ascertain and determine in such manner as he shall think just and equitable how much of its indebtedness is justly chargeable to that part of said railroad that is in this State, and how. much interest shall have been paid by such company during such year ending on the 31st day of the next preceding December, or [on] that part of such indebtedness which is justly chargeable to that part of said railroad that is in this State. The commissioner shall prescribe the form and manner in which all reports required from railroad companies under the provisions of this act shall be made, aud suitable blanks for that purpose, as by said commissioner directed, shall be provided by the Secretary of State. The record of said commissioner shall at all times be open to inspection by the Governor, Secretary of State, AttorneyGeneral, and Legislature.

Sec. 5. Said railroad commissioner shall have power to administer oaths or affirmations, to send for persons or papers under such regulations as he may prescribe, and shall at any and all times have access to any and all books and papers in any railroad office, kept for and used in any railroad office, by any railroad company in this State.

Sec. 6. Said railroad commissioner, in making any examination as contemplated in this act, for the purpose of obtaining information pursuant to this act, shall have power to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses by such rules as he may prescribe. In case any person shall willfully fail or refuse to obey such subpoena, it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court of any county, upon the application of the said commissioner, to issue an attachment for such witness and compel such witness to attend before the commissioner and give his testimony upon such matters as shall be lawfully required by such commissioner, and said court shall have power to punish for contempt as in other cases of refusal to obey the process and order of such Court.

Sec. 7. Any person who shall willfully neglect or refuse to obey the process of subpoena issued by said commissioner, and appear and testify as therein required, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to arraignment and trial in any Court of competent jurisdiction, and on conviction thereof shall be punished for such offense by fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment of not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the Court before which such conviction shall be had.

Sec. 8. No railroad corporation shall charge, demand, or receive from any person, company, or corporation for the transportation of persons or property, a greater sum than it shall at the same time charge, demand, or receive from any other person or corporation for a like service from the same place; and no railroad corporation shall charge or receive a larger sum per car-load, from one person, than any other, shipping from the same place; but this last provision shall not apply to shipments from connecting points.

Sec. 9. No railroad corporation shall charge, demand, or receive from any person, company, or corporation, an unreasonable price for the transportation of persons or property, or for the handling or storing of any freight, or for the use of its cars, or for any privilege or service afforded by it in the transaction of its business as a railroad corporation.

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of any railroad corporation, when within their power so to do, and upon reasonable notice, to furnish suitable cars to any and all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all usual kinds of freight, and to receive and transport such freight with all reasonable dispatch, and to provide and keep suitable facilities for the receiving and handling the same at any depot on the line of its road.

Sec. 11. Any railroad corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this act as to extortion or unjust discrimination, or the provisions hereof establishing rates, shall forfeit for each and every offense to the company, person, or corporation aggrieved thereby, three times the actual damage sustained, together with the costs of suit, to be recovered in a civil action therefor, and all prosecutions shall be made at the expense of the State; and it shall be the duty of said railroad

commissioner, on receiving complaint in writing from any citizen of this State, stating that any railroad corporation has violated any of the provisions of this act, and specifying the acts complained of, to investigate such alleged violation, and if on such examination he shall find such complaint well founded, he may, in his discretion, report the facts to the attorney-general, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the attorneygeneral to prosecute said complaint at the expense of the State for the benefit of the party aggrieved.

Sec. 12. No railroad corporation shall consolidate the stock, property, or franchise of such corporation with, or lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control any other railroad corporation owing or having under its control a parallel or competing line; nor shall any officer of such railroad corporation act as the officer of any other railroad corporation, owning or having the control of parallel or competing lines, and the question whether such railroads are parallel or competing lines shall, when demanded by the complainant, be decided by a jury as in other civil issues; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any contracts now existing, where one corporation has become responsible for the liabilities of another, either by advances heretofore made or by the guarantee of bonds previous to the passage of this act; nor shall it apply to any railroad corporation which, prior to the passage of this act, shall have been authorized to purchase or hold stock in any other railroad corporation.

Sec. 13. No president, director, officer, agent or employee of any railroad or transportation company, shall be interested directly or indirectly in the furnishing of material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freights or passengers, over the lines owned, leased, controlled, or operated by such company.

Sec. 14. In the construction of this act, the phrase railroad shall be construed to include all railroads and railways operated by steam, and whether operated by the corporation owning them, or by other corporations, or otherwise. The phrase railroad corporation shall be construed to mean the corporation which constructs, maintains, or operates a railroad operated by steam power.

Sec. 15. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company shall file with the railroad commissioner, before the day when this act shall take effect, the regular published schedule of their tariff rates for the transportation of persons and property, which was in force on their railroads on the 15th day of June, A. D. 1872, duly verified by the oath of the general freight agent of said company thereto attached, and that company and the Western Union Railroad Company, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, shall not demand, collect, or receive a greater compensation for the transportation of persons and property than is fixed in such schedule for corresponding distances. This provision shall also apply to such lines of railroads as have been built and put into operation by either of said companies and operated under lease or otherwise, since the date above mentioned; provided^ that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, and the Western Union Railroad Company, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, shall sell at all ticket stations, on their respective lines, within this State, tickets for five hundred miles, which shall be transferable; also round-trip tickets, good for first-class passengers to and from any station within this State, on their respective lines of road, at a Uniform rate of three cents per mile; and provided further, that no railroad corporation-shall be compelled to accept less than five cents for the transportation of any passenger between any points.

Sec. I 6. All the powers, duties and privileges conferred on the board of railroad commissioners by the acts to which this act is amendatory, and not herein repealed, are hereby conferred on the railroad commissioner to be appointed under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 17. The commissioner shall have the right of passing, in the performance of his duties concerning railroads, on all railways and railway trains in this State, free of charge.

Sec. 18. Nothing contained in this act shall be taken as in any manner abridging or controlling the rates for freight charged by any railroad company iri this State for carrying freight which comes from beyond the boundaries of the State, and to be carried across or through the State, but said railroad company shall possess the same power and right to charge such rates for carrying such freight as they possessed before the passage of this act.

Sec. 19. All those railroad companies whose lines of road are now incomplete or are in process of construction, and to aid in the building of which the general government has donated grants of land, and which are riot exempted from taxa^ tion on said lands for the next five years, are hereby exempted from the payment of the license fees required by law for said five years.

Sec. 20. Before entering upon the duties of his office, said commissioner shall make and subscribe and file with the secretary of state an afiv davit in the following form: "I do solemnly swear (of affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Wisconsin, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of railway commissioner according to the best of my ability; that I am not a stockholder, officer, or employee of any railroad or freight company, or in any way interested therein;" and shall enter Into bonds, with security to be approved by the governor, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty as such commissioner.

Sec. 2i. The commissioner appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive for his services the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, at the end of each month, and three dollars per day for traveling expenses, for each and every day actually traveled in the performance of the duties hereby required. He shall be furnished with all office-furniture and stationery, and necessary books and maps, at the expense of the State; and the said commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a clerk at an annual salary of twelve hundred dol

lars, payable at the end of each month. The office of said commissioner shall be kept at Madison, and all sums of money authorized to be paid by this act, out of the state treasury, shall be paid only on the order of the governor; provided, that the total sums of money to be expended by said commissioner for office-rent, furniture, and stationery, shall in no case exceed the total sum of eight hundred dollars per annum.

Sec. 22. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, thirteen, and fourteen, of chapter 273, of the laws of 1874, of which this is amendatory; chapter 341, of the laws of 1874, entitled, "An act in relation to railroads;" chapter 334, of the laws of 1875, entitled, "An act to amend chapter 273, of the laws of 1874, entitled, fan act relating to railroad, express, and telegraph companies in the State of Wisconsin,'"' and the first section of chapter 113, of the laws of 1875, are hereby repealed; provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner affect any litigation now pending in any of the courts of this State, or any court or courts of the United States.

Female Attorneys.

In House. 1876, June 20—A bill (H. R. 2622) providing that every person shall be entitled to be admitted in every court of the United States to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor in chancery, who may be properly qualified according to law, without regard to sex, was reported back from the Judiciary Committee, with an adverse report. And the bill was accordingly laid on the table.

Woman Suffrage.

1876, February 23—In the Massachusetts Senate, the Committee on Woman Suffrage reported this bill: An Act to secure to Women the right to Vote on

Municipal Affairs in Cities and Towns, and to

hold Municipal Offices.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, arid by the authority of the same, as follows:

Sec. I. Every woman who is a citizen of this Commonwealth, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, and has the educational qualifications required by the twentieth article of the amendments to the constitution (excepting paupers and persons Under guardianship), who shall have resided within this Commonwealth one year, and within the city or town in which she seeks a right to vote, six months preceding any meeting of citizens, either in wards or in general meeting for municipal purposes, and who shall have paid by herself, or her parents, or guardian, a state or county, city or town tax, which within two years next preceding such meeting has been assessed upon her in any city or town, shall have a right to vote at such town and city meetings for town and city officers, and upon all questions concerning municipal affairs, and to hold any city or town office to which she may be elected or appointed.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.