first General Assembly which convenes after the adoption of this Constitution. The approval of the governor shall not be necessary to any bill, order, resolution, or vote of the General Assembly, proposing an amendment or amendments to this Constitution. SEC. 257. Before an amendment shall be submitted to a vote, the secretary of state shall cause such proposed amendment, and the time that the same is to be voted upon, to be published at least ninety days before the vote is to be taken thereon in such manner as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 258. When a majority of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly shall concur by a yea and nay vote, to be entered upon their respective journals, in enacting a law to take the sense of the people of the State as to the necessity and expediency of calling a convention for the purpose of revising or amending this Constitution and such amendments as may have been made to the same, such law shall be spread upon their respective journals. If the next General Assembly shall in like manner concur in such law, it shall provide for having a poll opened in each voting precinct in this State by the officers provided by law for holding general elections at the next ensuing regular election to be held for State officers or members of the House of Representatives, which does not occur within ninety days from the final passage of such law, at which time and places the votes of the qualified voters shall be taken for and against calling the convention, in the same manner provided by law for taking votes in other State elections. The vote for and against said proposition shall be certified to the secretary of state by the same officers and in the same manner as in State elections. If it shall appear that a majority voting on the proposition was for calling a convention, and if the total number of votes cast for the calling of the convention is equal to one-fourth of the number of qualified voters who voted at the last preceding general election in this State, the secretary of state shall certify the same to the General Assembly at its next regular session, at which session a law shall be enacted calling a convention to readopt, revise, or amend this Constitution and such amendments as may have been made thereto. SEC. 259. The convention shall consist of as many delegates as there are members of the House of Representatives; and the delegates shall have the same qualifications and be elected from the same districts as said Representatives. SEC. 260. Delegates to such convention shall be elected at the next general State election after the passage of the act calling the convention, which does not occur within less than ninety days; and they shall meet within ninety days after their election at the Capital of the State, and continue in session until their work is completed. SEC. 261. The General Assembly, in the act calling the convention, shall provide for comparing the polls and giving certificates of election to the delegates elected, and provide for their compensation. SEC. 262. The convention, when assembled, shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members, and shall determine contested elections; but the General Assembly shall, in the act calling the convention, provide for taking testimony in such cases, and for issuing a writ of election in case of a tie. SEC. 263. Before a vote is taken upon the question of calling a convention, the secretary of state shall cause notice of the election to be published in such manner as may be provided by the act directing said vote to be taken. SCHEDULE. That no inconvenience may arise from the alterations and amendments made in this Constitution, and in order to carry the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared and ordained : 1. That all laws of this Commonwealth in force at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, not inconsistent therewith, shall remain in full force until altered or repealed by the General Assembly; and all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims, and contracts of the State, counties, individuals, or bodies corporate, not inconsistent therewith, shall continue as valid as if this Constitution had not been adopted. The provisions of all laws which are inconsistent with this Constitution shall cease upon its adoption, except that all laws which are inconsistent with such provisions as require legislation to enforce them shall remain in force until such legislation is had, but not longer than six years after the adoption of this Constitution, unless sooner amended or repealed by the General Assembly. 2. That all recognizances, obligations, and all other instruments entered into or executed before the adoption of this Constitution, to the State, or to any city, town, county, or subdivision thereof, and all fines, taxes, penalties, and forfeitures due or owing to this State, or to any city, town, county, or subdivision thereof; and all writs, prosecutions, actions and causes of action, except as otherwise herein provided, shall continue and remain unaffected by the adoption of this Constitution; and all indictments which shall have been found, or may hereafter be found, for any crime or offense committed before this Constitution takes effect, may be prosecuted as if no change had taken place, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. 3. All circuit, chancery, criminal, law and equity, law, and common pleas courts, as now constituted and organized by law, shall continue with their respective jurisdictions until the judges of the circuit courts provided for in this Constitution shall have been elected and qualified, and shall then cease and determine; and the causes, actions, and proceedings then pending in said first-named courts, which are discontinued by this Constitution, shall be transferred to, and tried by, the circuit courts in the counties, respectively, in which said causes, actions, and proceedings are pending. 4. The treasurer, attorney-general, auditor of public accounts, superintendent of public instruction, and register of the land office, elected in eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall hold their offices until the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and until the election and qualification of their successors. The governor and lieutenant-governor elected in eighteen hundred and ninety-one shall hold their offices until the sixth Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The governor and treasurer elected in eighteen hundred and ninety-one shall be ineligible to the succeeding term. The governor elected in eighteen hundred and ninety-one may appoint a secretary of state and a commissioner of agriculture, labor, and statistics, as now provided, who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified, unless sooner removed by the gov ernor. The official bond of the present treasurer shall be renewed at the expiration of two years from the time of his qualification. 5. All officers who may be in office at the adoption of this Constitu tion, or who may be elected before the election of their successors, as provided in this Constitution, shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified as provided in this Constitution. 6. The quarterly courts created by this Constitution shall be the successors of the present statutory quarterly courts in the several counties of this State; and all suits, proceedings, prosecutions, records, and judgments now pending or being in said last-named courts, shall, after the adoption of this Constitution, be transferred to the quarterly courts created by this Constitution, and shall proceed as though the same had been therein instituted. ORDINANCE. We, the representatives of the people of Kentucky, in Convention assembled, in their name and by their authority and in virtue of the power vested in us as delegates from the counties and districts respectively affixed to our names, do ordain and proclaim the foregoing to be the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from and after this date. Done at Frankfort this twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and in the ninety-ninth* year of the Commonwealth. CASSIUS M. CLAY, JR., President of the Convention, and Member from the County THOMAS G. POORE, Secretary. of Bourbon. * Error: should be "one hundredth." INDEX Abolition movement, opposition to and effect | Anti-Federalists, 99, 100. of, 152, 153; extreme disapproval of, 154, Act of Separation, first, 62, 63; second, 66. Adams, John Quincy, elected President, 134. Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, by Anti-Relief party, organized, 129; becomes Antislavery, see Abolition movement. 203. Army of Northern Virginia, surrender of, 203. Athens of the West, Lexington's nickname, Atlantic States impoverished by Revolution, 51. Agricultural and Mechanical College estab- Baker, R. T.. Republican nominee for lieu- Allen, Alfred, Conservative nominee for Banks of the United States, established at Allen, John, delegate to seventh convention, Amendments, Thirteenth ratified, 203; Four- Anderson, Richard C., member of Anti-Relief Andrews, Judge L. W., member of Opposi- Annexation of Texas, Clay's opposition to, Louisville and Kentucky, 134; Jackson Barbour, James, commissioner at Logan's Barbour, Major Philip N., killed at Monterey, Barclay, Commodore, defeated by Perry, 122, Bardstown, one of Kentucky's earliest towns, 55, 84. Barlow, Thomas Harris, constructs model Barlow's Planetarium, 137. Barnes, S. M., Republican nominee for gov. 273 Barry, Major William T., his oratorical infiu- 135. |