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preamble or body of the act), the General As- 

 ni-iiitily shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all 

 the members elected to each House, other wise 

 (lirc.-t. No bill, except the general appropri- 

 ation for the expenses of the government 

 only, introduced in either House after the first 

 twenty-tive days of the session, shall become 

 a law. 



Section 25 of Article V. declares that "the 

 General Assembly shall not pass local or special 

 laws in any of the following enumerated cases, 

 that is to say : for granting divorces ; laying 

 out, opening, altering, or working roads or 

 highways ; vacating roads, town plots, streets, 

 alleys, and public grounds ; locating or chang- 

 ing county-seats ; regulating county or town- 

 ship affairs; regulating the practice in courts 

 of justice; regulating the jurisdiction and duties 

 of justices of the peace, police magistrates, 

 and constables ; changing the rules of evidence 

 in any trial or inquiry ; providing for changes 

 of venue in civil or criminal cases ; declaring 

 any person of age; for limitation of civil 

 actions or giving effect to informal or invalid 

 deeds; summoning or impaneling grand or 

 petit juries - providing for the management of 

 common schools ; regulating the rate of inter- 

 est on money ; the opening or conducting of 

 any election, or designating the place of vot- 

 ing; the sale or mortgage of real estate be- 

 longing to minors or others under disability ; 

 the protection of game or fish ; chartering or 

 licensing ferries or toll-bridges ; remitting 

 fines, penalties, or forfeitures ; creating, in- 

 creasing, or decreasing fees, percentage, or al- 

 lowances of public officers ; changing the law 

 of descent ; granting to any corporation, asso- 

 ciation, or individual, the right to lay down 

 railroad-tracks; granting to any corporation, 

 association, or individual, any special or ex- 

 clusive privilege, immunity, or franchise what- 

 ever. In all other cases, where a general law 

 can be made applicable, no special law shall 

 be enacted." 



Judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court, 

 district and county courts, and justices of the 

 peace. The Supreme Court has appellate juris- 

 diction and is empowered to issue writs of 

 habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, cer- 

 tiorari, injunction, and other original and re- 

 medial writs, with authority to hear and deter- 

 mine the same. The Supreme Court shall con- 

 sist of three judges, elected by the people for 

 nine years, and is required to hold at least two 

 sessions each year at the seat of government. 

 The district courts, of which there are at pres- 

 ent four, shall have original jurisdiction of all 

 causes, both at law and in equity, and such 

 appellate jurisdiction as may be conferred by 

 law. In them is vested original jurisdiction to 

 determine all controversies upon relation of 

 any person, on behalf of the people, concern- 

 ing the rights, duties, and liabilities of rail- 

 road, telegraph, or toll-road companies or cor- 

 porations. In each district a judge is elected 

 by the people for six years. At least one term 



of the district conrt shall be held annually in 

 each county, except in such counties as may 

 be attached, for judicial purposes, to another 

 county wherein such courts are held. County 

 judges are elected by the people every three 

 years. 



A general election is held annually on the 

 first Tuesday of October. Every male person 

 over the age of twenty-one years, possessing 

 the following qualifications, shall be entitled to 

 vote at all elections : 



1. He shall be a citizen of the United States, or. 

 not being a citizen of the United States, be snail 

 have declared his intention, according to law, to be- 

 come such citizen, not less than four months before 

 he offers to vote. 



2. lie shall have resided in the State six months 

 immediately preceding the election at which he 

 offers to vote, and in the county, city, town, ward, 

 or precinct, such time as may be prescribed by law : 

 Provided, That no person shall be denied the right 

 to vote at any school-district election, nor to hold 

 any school-district office, on account of sex. 



Sections 2 and 3 of Article VII. provide as 

 follows: 



SEC. 2. The General Assembly shall, at the first 

 session thereof, and may at any Subsequent session, 

 enact laws to extend the right of suffrage to women 

 of lawful age, and otherwise qualified according to 

 the provisions of this article. No such enactment 

 shall be of effect until submitted to the vote of the 

 qualified electors at a general election, nor unless 

 the same be approved by a majority of those voting 

 thereon. 



SEC. 8. The General Assembly may prescribe, by 

 law. an educational qualification for electors, but no 

 such law shall take effect prior to the year of our 

 Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and 

 no qualified elector shall be thereby disqualified. 



The following Territorial institutions are 

 made State institutions : The university, at 

 Boulder; the Agricultural College, at Fort 

 Collins ; the School of Mines, at Golden ; and 

 the Institute for the Education of Mutes, at 

 Colorado Springs. 



The general supervision of public schools is 

 vested in a Board of Education, consisting of 

 the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who 

 is president, the Secretary of State, and the 

 Attorney-General. The General Assembly is 

 required to provide for the establishment and 

 maintenance of a thorough and uniform sys- 

 tem of free public schools throughout the State, 

 wherein all residents of the State between the 

 ages of six and twenty-one years may be edu- 

 cated gratuitously. One or more public schools 

 shall be maintained in each school -district 

 within the State, at least three months in each 

 year; any school-district failing to have such 

 school shall not be entitled to receive any por- 

 tion of the school-fund for that year. 



The public-school fund of the State shall for- 

 ever remain inviolate and intact ; the interest 

 thereon, only, shall be expended in the main- 

 tenance of the schools of the State, and shall 

 be distributed among the several counties and 

 school-districts of the State, in such manner as 

 may be prescribed by law. 



