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with ink or pencil by the voter, and returns thereof shall be made accordingly. If both clauses of the ticket be erased, or if neither be erased, the ticket shall not be counted.

Sec. 12. The returns of the whole vote cast for the adoption and against the adoption of this Constitution shall be made by the several clerks, as now provided by law in case of the election of State officers, to the Secretary of State, within twenty days after the election; and the returns of said votes shall, within ten days thereafter, be examined and canvassed by the State Auditor, State Treasurer and Secretary of State, or any two of them, in the presence of the Governor, and proclamation shall be made by the Governor forthwith of the result of the canvass.

Sec. 13. If, upon such canvass, it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled were in favor of the new Constitution, then this Constitution shall, on and after the thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, be the supreme law of the State of Missouri, and the present existing Constitution shall thereupon cease in all its provisions; but if it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled were against the new Constitution, then this Constitution shall be null and void, and the existing Constitution shall continue in force.

Sec. 14. The provisions of this schedule required to be executed prior to the adoption or rejection of this Constitution shall take effect and be in force immediately.

Sec. 15. The General Assembly shall pass all such laws as may be necessary to carry this Constitution into full effect.

Sec. 16. The present Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney-General and Superintendent of Public Schools shall, during the remainder of their terms of office, unless otherwise directed by law, receive the same compensation and fees as is now provided by law; and the present State Treasurer shall, during the remainder of the term of his office, continue to be governed by existing law, in the custody and disposition of the State funds, unless otherwise directed by law.

Sec. 17. Section twelve of the Bill of Rights shall not be so construed as to prevent arrests and preliminary examination in any criminal case.

Done in Convention, at the Capitol, in the City of Jefferson, on the second day of August, in the year of our Lord oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth.

WALDO P. JOHNSON, President, St. Clair county.

N. W. WATKINS, Vice-President, Scott county.
ADAMS, WASHINGTON, Cooper.
ALLEN, DE WITT C., Clay.
ALEXANDER, A. M., Monroe.
BLACK, FRANCIS M., Jackson.
BOONE, HENRY, DeKalb.

BRADFIELD, GEORGE W., Laclede.

BROADHEAD, JAMES O., St. Louis.
BROKMEYER, HENRY C., St. Louis.
CARLETON, GEORGE W., Pemiscot.
CHRISMAN, WILLIAM, Jackson.
CONWAY, EDMUND V., St. Francois.
COTTEY, LOUIS F., Knox.

CREWS, T. W. B., Franklin.

CROCKETT, SAMUEL R., Vernon.

DAVIS, LOWNDES HENRY, Cape Girardeau.

DRYDEN, LEONIDAS J., Warren.

DYSART, BENJAMIN ROBERT, Macon.

EDWARDS, JOHN F. T., Iron.

EDWARDS, JAMES C., St. Louis.

EITZEN, CHARLES D., Gasconade.

FARRIS, JAMES L., Ray.

FYAN, ROBERT W., Webster.

GANTT, THOMAS TASKER, St. Louis.

GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS, St. Louis.

HALE, JOHN B., Carroll.

HALLIBURTON, W., Sullivan.

HAMMOND, CHARLES, Chariton.

HARDIN, NEIL CAMERON, Pike.

HOLLIDAY, J. A., Caldwell.

HYER, JOHN, Dent.

JOHNSON, HORACE B., Cole.

JOHNSTON, T. J., Nodaway.

LACKLAND, HENRY CLAY, St. Charles.

Attest:

LETCHER, WM. H., Salíne.
LAY, ALFRED M., Cole.
MABREY, PINCKNEY, Ripley.
MASSEY, B. F., Newton.

MAXEY, JAMES HARVEY, Howell.
M’AFEE, CHARLES B., Greene.
M'KEE, ARCHIBALD V., Lincoln.
M'CABE, EDWARD, Marion.

M'KILLOP, MALCOLM, Atchison.
MORTELL, NICHOLAS A., St. Louis.
MUDD, HENRY THOMAS, St. Louis.
NICKERSON, EDMOND A., Johnson.
NORTON, ELIJAH HISE, Platte.
PIPKIN, PHILIP, Jefferson.
PRIEST, WILLIAM, Platte.

PULITZER, JOSEPH, St. Louis.

RAY, JOHN, Barry.

RIDER, J. H., Bollinger.

RIPPEY, J. R., Schuyler.

ROBERTS, JAMES C., Buchanan.

ROSS, J. P., Morgan.

ROSS, JOHN W., Polk.

RUCKER, JOHN FLEMING, Boone.
SHACKELFORD, THOMAS, Howard.

SHANKLIN, JOHN H., Grundy.

SHIELDS, GEORGE H., St. Louis.

SPAUNHORST, HENRY J., St. Louis.
SWITZLER, WILLIAM F., Boone.
TAYLOR, JOHN H., Jasper.

TAYLOR, AMOS RILEY, St. Louis.
TODD, ALBERT, St. Louis.

WAGNER, L. J., Scotland.

WALLACE, HENRY C., Lafayette.

G. N. NOLAN, Secretary.

J. BOYLE ADAMS, Assistant Secretary.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS..

The following amendment to the Constitution extending the jurisdiction of the St. Louis court of appeals, and establishing the Kansas City court of appeals, was submitted to the quali fied voters by concurrent resolution, approved March 29, 1883, and was adopted at the general election held on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 1884.

Section 1. The jurisdiction of the St. Louis court of appeals is hereby extended so as to be co-extensive with the counties Monroe, Shelby, Knox, Scotland, Clark, Lewis, Marion, R Pike, Lincoln, Warren, St. Charles, St. Louis, Jefferson, Ste. Genevieve, Perry, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Stoddard, Wayne, Bollinger, Madison, St. Francois, Washington, Franklin, Crawford, Iron, Reynolds, Carter, Butler, Ripley, Oregon, Shannon, Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Howell, Ozark, Douglas, Wright, Laclede, Webster, Christian, Taney, Stone, Greene, Lawrence, Barry, Newton and McDonald, as well as the city of St. Louis; and each judge thereof, when hereafter elected, shall be elected by the qualified voters of the counties and of the city under the jurisdiction of said court, and shall be a resident of the said territorial appellate district.

Sec. 2. There is hereby established at Kansas City an appellate court, to be known as the Kansas City court of appeals, the jurisdiction of which shall be co-extensive with all the counties in the state except those embraced in the jurisdiction of the St. Louis court of appeals. There shall be held in each year two terms of said Kansas City court of appeals, one on the first Monday of March and one on the first Monday of October. The Kansas City court of appeals shall consist of three judges, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the counties under the jurisdiction of said court, and shall be residents of said territorial appellate district.

Sec. 3. The General Assembly shall have power by law to create one additional court of appeals, with a new district therefor; to change the limits of the appellate districts, and the names of the courts of appeals, designating the districts by numbers or otherwise; to change the time of holding the terms of said courts; to increase or diminish the pecuniary limit of the jurisdiction of the courts of appeals; to provide for the transfer of cases from one court of appeals to another court of appeals; to

provide for the transfer of cases from a court of appeals to the Supreme court, and to provide for the hearing and determination of such cases by the courts to which they may be transferred.

Sec. 4. The first term of said Kansas City court of appeals shall be held on the first Monday of March in the year 1885, and the first judges thereof shall, upon the adoption of this amend ment, be appointed by the Governor of said State for the term of four years each, beginning on the first day of January, 1885, and at the general election in the year 1888, the first election for the judges of said court shall be held, and the provisions of the Constitution of the State concerning the organization, the judges, the powers, the jurisdiction and proceedings of the St. Louis. court of appeals, as herein amended, shall in all appropriate respects apply to the Kansas City court of appeals, and to such additional court of appeals as may be by law created.

Sec. 5. In all causes or proceedings reviewable by the Supreme court, writs of error shall run from the Supreme court directly to the circuit courts and to courts having the jurisdiction pertaining to circuit courts, and in all such causes or proceedings, appeals shall lie from such trial courts directly to the Supreme court, and the Supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of such writs of error and appeals, and shall in all such cases exclusively exercise superintending control over such trial courts.

Sec. 6. When any one of said courts of appeals shall in any cause or proceeding render a decision which any one of the judges therein sitting shall deem contrary to any previous decision of any one of said courts of appeals, or of the Supreme court, the said court of appeals must, of its own motion, pending the same term and not afterward, certify and transfer said cause or proceeding and the original transcript therein to the Supreme court, and thereupon the Supreme court must rehear and determine said cause or proceeding, as in case of jurisdiction obtained by ordinary appellate process; and the last previous rulings of the Supreme court on any question of law or equity shall, in all cases, be controlling authority in said courts of appeals.

Sec. 7. All cases which may be pending in the Supreme court at the time of the adoption of this amendment, which have not been submitted, and which by its terms would come within the

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