ber, 1877, and biennially thereafter elect senators who shall hold their offices for two years from and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January. The representatives elected from the several towns on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1876, and those elected annually thereafter shall hold their offices for one year from and after Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January. Sec. 3. There shall be a stated session of the general assembly in Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January 1877 and annually thereafter on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January. Sec. 4. The persons who shall be severally elected to the state offices and general assembly on the first Monday of April, 1876, shall hold such offices only until the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1877. Sec. 5. The general assembly elected in April, 1876, shall have power to pass such laws as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this amendment. [Amendment to State Constitution.j ARTICLE XVII. Restoration of Rights. The general assembly shall have power by a vote of two-thirds of the members of both branches to restore the privileges of an elector to those who may have forfeited the same by a conviction of crime. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XVIII. Representatives of New Town. In case a new town shall hereafter be incorporated, such new town shall not be entitled to a representative in the general assembly unless it has at least twenty-five hundred inhabitants, and unless the town from which the major portion of its territory is taken, has also at least twenty-five hundred inhabitants, but until such towns shall each have at least twenty-five hundred inhabitants such new town shall for the purpose of representation in the general assembly be attached to and be deemed to be a part of the town from which the major portion of its territory is taken, and it shall be an election district of such town for the purpose of representation in the house of representatives. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XIX. Application. The provisions of section two, article four, of the Constitution, and of the amendments thereto, shall apply mutatis mutandis to all elections held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1876, and annually thereafter. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXIII. Removal of Color Qualification. That article eight of the Amendments to the Constitution be amended by erasing the word "white" from the first line. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXVII. State Officers and Members of the Section 1. A general election for governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, and members of the general assembly shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, and biennially thereafter, for such officers as are herein and may be hereafter prescribed. Sec. 2. The state officers above named and members of the general assembly elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, and those elected biennially thereafter on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, shall hold their respective offices from the Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January until the Wednesday after the first Monday of the third succeeding January, and until their successors are duly qualified. Sec. 3. The compensation of members of the General Assembly shall not exceed three hundred dollars for the term for which they are elected, and one mileage each way for the regular session at the rate of twenty-five cents per mile; they shall also receive one mileage at the same rate for attending any extra session called by the governor. Sec. 4. The regular sessions of the general assembly shall commence on the Wednesday following the first Monday of the January next succeeding the election of its members. Sec. 5. The senators elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1885, shall hold their offices only until the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1887. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXVIII. Sheriffs. Sheriffs shall be elected in the several counties, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, and quadrennially thereafter, for the term of four years, commencing on the first day of June following their election. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXIX. Qualification of Electors. Every person shall be able to read in the English language any article of the constitution or any section of the statutes of this state before being admitted an elector. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXX. State Officers. In the election for governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, and attorney-general, the person found by the general assembly, in the manner provided in the fourth article of the constitution of this state, to have received the greatest number of votes for each of said offices respectively, shall be declared by said assembly to be elected. But if two or more persons shall be found to have an equal and the greatest number of votes for any of said offices, then the general assembly, on the second day of its session, by joint ballot of both houses, shall proceed without debate to choose said officer from a list of the names of the persons found to have an equal and greatest number of votes for said office. [Amendment to State Constitution.] ARTICLE XXXI, Senators. Section 1. From and after the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1905, the senate shall be composed of not less than twenty-four and not more than thirty-six members, who shall be elected at the electors' meetings held biennially on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Sec. 2. The general assembly which shall be held on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1903, shall divide the state into senatorial districts, as hereinafter provided; the number of such districts shall not be less than twenty-four nor more than thirty-six, and each district shall elect only one senator. The districts shall always be composed of contiguous territory, and in forming them regard shall be had to population in the several districts, that the same may be as nearly equal as possible under the limitations of this amendment. Neither the whole or a part of one county shall be joined |