§ 10. The elections shall be conducted according to the existing laws of the Missouri territory. The clerks of the circuit courts of the several counties shall certify the returns of the election of governor and lieutenant governor, and transmit the same to the speaker of the house of representatives at the temporary seat of government, in such time that they may be received on the third Monday of September next. As soon as the general assembly shall be organized, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate shall, in the presence of both houses, examine the returns, and declare who are duly elected to fill those offices, and if any two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes, and a higher number than any other person, the general assembly shall determine the election in the manner herein before provided: and the returns of the election for members of congress shall be made to the secretary o state within thirty days after the day of election. § 11. The oaths of office herein directed to be taken, may be administered by any judge or justice of the peace, until the general assembly shall otherwise direct. 12. Until a seal of state be provided, the governor may use his private seal. Done by the representatives of the people of Missouri, in convention assembled, at the town of Saint Louis, on the nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and of the independence of the United States of America the forty-fifth. DAVID BARTON, President of the convention, and representative from the county of St. Louis. From the county of Cape Girardeau, Stephen Byrd, Alexander Buckner, James Evans, Joseph M'Ferron. Richard M. Thomas, ATTEST, Thomas F. Riddick. From the county of Washington. John Hutchings. From the county of Wayne, WM. G. PETTUS, Secretary of the Convention. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, Proposed by the last General Assembly at their special session in June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and ratified by this General Assembly at their first session, begun and held at St. Charles, on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. SEC 1. Chancery courts. 2. Judiciary powers. 3. Compensation of judges. 4. U. S officers. 5. Salary of governor. 6. Salaries of judges. 7. Judges. G 1. The office of chancellor is hereby abolished, and the supreme court and circuit courts shall exercise chancery jurisdiction, in suck manner and under such restriction as shall be prescribed by law.— Passed in senate-yeas fifteen, nays one; ratified by the house of representatives-yeas forty-six, nays five. § 2. The judicial power, as to matters of law and equity, shall be vested in a supreme court, in circuit courts, and in such inferior tribunals as the general assembly may, from time to time, ordain and establish; provided, the general assembly may establish a court or courts of chancery, and from time to time prescribe the jurisdiction, powers and duties thereof. Passed in senate-yeas fifteen, nys one; ratified by the house of representative-yeas forty-nine, nays two. § 3. The judges of the supreme court, and the judges of the circuit courts and chancellor, shall at stated times receive a compensation for their services, to be fixed by law. Passed in senate-yeas twelve nays four; ratified by the house of representatives-yeas forty-five, nays seven. § 4. No person holding an office of profit under the United States, and commissioned by the president, shall, during his continuance in such office, be eligible, appointed to, hold, or exercise, any office of profit under this state. Passed in senate-yeas sixteen; ratified by the house of representatives -yeas forty-nine, nays two. § 5. So much of the thirteenth section of the fourth article of the constitution of this state, as provides that the compensation of the governor shall never be less than two thousand dollars annually, shall be repealed. Passed in senate-yeas sixteen; ratified by the house of representatives-yeas fifty one. § 6. So much of the thirteenth section of the fifth article of the constitution of this state, as provides that the compensation of the judges of the supreme and circuit courts and chancellor shall never be less than two thousand dollars annually, shall be repealed. Passed in senate-yeas sixteen; ratified by the house of representatives-yeas fifty-one. § 7. The offices of the judges of the supreme court and of the judges of the circuit courts, shall expire at the end of the first session of the next general assembly of this state, or as soon as their succes sors are respectively elected and qualified. Passed in senate-yeas fourteen, nays two; ratified by the house of representatives-yeas for ty, nays eleven. E. Bates, Elijah Bettis, George Burckhartt, Nich's S. Burckhartt, G. A. Bird, Isaac Clark, Simon Cockrell, Philip Cole, Daniel Dunklin, John Inglish, Jos. Evans, Asa Finly, Benj. F. Hickox, John Miller, Isidore Moore, James W. Moss, Edmund Rutter, George H. Scripps, Robert Simpson, Philip Sitton, Robert M. Stevenson, AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. Proposed by the General Assembly, at their last session, begun and held at the City of Jefferson, on the third Monday of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and ratified at this session of the General Assembly, begun and held at the City of Jefferson, on the third Monday of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. 1. Offices of circuit court judges declared vacant on 1st of January, 1836. 2. Part of the 15th section of the 5th article of the constitution abolished. 3. Offices of the clerks of courts declared vacant on the first day of January, 1836. Circuit and county court clerks to be elected by the people. 4. Boundary line of the state altered, 5. Further alteration of boundaries. § 1. That the offices of the several judges of the circuit courts, within this state, shall be vacated on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Passed in senate, yeas fifteen, nays seven; ratified by the house of representatives, yeas forty-eight, nays twenty-three.. 2. That so much of the fifteenth section of the fifth article of the constitution of this state, as provides, that the courts respectively shall appoint their clerks, and that they shall hold their offices during good behaviour, shall be, and the same is hereby abolished. Fassed in senate, yeas fifteen, nays seven; ratified by the house of representatives, y eas fiity, nays twenty-one. § 3. That the offiiees of the clerks of the several courts within this state, shall be vacated on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the clerks of the circuit and county courts of the respective counties, shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective counties, and shall hold their offices for the term of six years, |