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Article V. Miscellaneous Provisions 



Section i. All laws now in force in the commonwealth 

 of Liberia, and not repugnant to this Constitution, shall be in 

 force as the laws of the Republic of Liberia, until they shall 

 be repealed by the legislature. 



Section 2. All judges, magistrates, and other officers now 

 concerned in the administration of justice in the commonwealth 

 of Liberia, and all other existing civil and military officers 

 therein, shall continue to discharge their respective offices in 

 the name and by the authority of the repubhc, until others 

 shall be appointed and commissioned in their stead. 



Section 3. All towns and municipal corporations within 

 this republic shall retain their existing organisation and privileges, 

 and the respective officers thereof shall remain in office and 

 act under the authority of this republic. 



Section 4. The first election of President, Vice-President, 

 Senators, and representatives shall be held on the first Tuesday 

 in October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty- 

 seven in the same manner as elections of members of the Council 

 are chosen in the commonwealth of Liberia, and the votes 

 shall be certified and returned to the Colonial Secretary, and 

 the result of the election shall be posted and notified by him as 

 it is now by law provided in cases of such members of Council. 



Section 5. All other elections of President, Vice-President, 

 senators, and representatives shall be held in the respective towns 

 on the first Tuesday in May, in every two years, to be held and 

 regulated in such manner as the legislature may by law prescribe. 

 The returns of votes shall be made to the Secretary of State, who 

 shall open the same and forthwith issue notice of election to 

 the persons apparently so elected senators and representatives ; 

 and all such returns shall be by him laid before the legislature 



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