tenant-governor.

Secretary of state, treasurer, and commissary-general appointed by joint
ballot of both houses.

_Judiciary._ Judicial officers are appointed by the governor and
council; justices of the peace for five years, judges of the higher
courts during good behavior. Judges disqualified at seventy years of
age.

Attorney-general, solicitors, sheriffs, coroners, registers of probate,
and naval and the higher militia officers, are appointed by the governor
and council. County treasurers and registers of deeds are elected in the
counties.

_Amendments._ The sense of the people is taken every seven years; and if
a majority favor a revision, the legislature calls a convention; and any
alterations proposed by the convention must be approved by two-thirds of
the qualified electors who vote thereon.

Vermont.

This state was admitted into the Union in 1791, with a constitution
formed in 1777; the present one was adopted in 1793, and has been
several times amended.

_Electors._ Citizens having resided in the state one year, of quiet and
peaceable behavior, are entitled to all the privileges of freemen, by
taking an oath that, in giving their votes, they will so do it as they
believe will conduce to the best good of the state.

_Legislature._ Senate, thirty members, elected annually; apportioned
among the counties according to population, each county to have at least
one senator; age, thirty years; freemen of the county. Representatives
are elected in towns, each town being entitled to at least one
representative; resident of the state two years, of the town one year.

_Quorum_, a majority. For raising a tax, two-thirds of the members
elected must be present.

Bills vetoed by the governor may be again passed by simple majorities.
Bills not returned by the governor within five days become laws, unless
their return is prevented by adjournment.

_Executive._ The governor is elected annually by majority. If no person
has a majority, the legislature chooses one of the three highest.
Resident of the state four years. A lieutenant-governor.

A secretary of state, chosen by the two houses; a treasurer, elected as
governor and lieutenant-governor.

_Judiciary._ A supreme court and county courts; the judges chosen
annually by the senate and house; justices of the peace are elected in
the towns; judges of probate in districts; assistant judges of county
courts, sheriffs, high bailiffs, and state's attorneys,