ember is elected in each
district. A census is taken, and a new apportionment made every ten
years. A majority is a quorum to do business. The final passage of bills
requires a majority of all the members. Bills may be passed against the
veto by two-thirds majorities. They become laws if not returned within
ten days, unless their return is prevented by adjournment.

_Executive._ A governor is elected for two years; a citizen, thirty
years of age; a resident of the state five years. A lieutenant-governor.

_Judiciary._ A court of appeals, a supreme court, county courts, and
courts held by justices of the peace. There are eight judicial
districts, in each of which four justices of the supreme court are
elected for eight years, two of them every two years. The court of
appeals is composed of eight judges, four of whom are elected by the
electors of the state for eight years, one every two years, and the
other four are of the class of justices of the supreme court whose term
has most nearly expired. In each county are held circuit courts and
special terms of the supreme court, by one or more justices of the
supreme court. General terms of the supreme court are held in the
several districts by three or more of the justices. A county court is
held by a county judge elected for four years, who is also _surrogate_,
called in other states, _judge of probate_. In counties having more than
40,000 inhabitants, a separate officer may be chosen as surrogate.
Justices of the peace are elected in the several towns for four years.

Judges of the court of appeals and justices of the supreme court may be
removed by the legislature; county judges by the senate on
recommendation of the governor.

A secretary of state, a controller, a treasurer, an attorney-general,
and a state engineer and surveyor, are chosen for two years; three canal
commissioners and three inspectors of state prisons, for three years,
one of each every year.

Sheriffs, clerks of counties, coroners, and district attorneys, are
elected for three years in the several counties. Sheriffs are ineligible
for the next three years.

_Amendments_ must receive the sanction of two successive legislatures,
and of a majority of the electors voting thereon at an election.

New Jersey.

New Jersey, as a colony, adopted a constitution in 1776, under which the
state was governed until the present constitution, framed in 1844, was
adopted.

_Electors._ White male citizens