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takes effect, may be prosecuted as if no change had taken place, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. Third: 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.

Fourth: 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 qualifications 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 Governor. The official bond of the present Treasurer shall be renewed at the expiration of two years from the time of his qualification.

Fifth: All officers who may be in office at the adoption of this Constitution, 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.

Sixth: 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. Lone 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.,

Fresident of the Convention, and Member from the County of Bourbon.

THOMAS G. POORE, Secretary.

JAMES B. MARTIN, Assistant Secretary.

JAMES EDWARD STONE, Reading Clerk.

From the county of Adair-JAMES F. MONTGOMERY.

From the county of Allen-WILLIAM J. M'ELROY.

From the county of Anderson--THOMAS HOLMAN HANKS.

From the counties of Ballard and Carlisle-WM. J. EDRINGTON. From the county of Barren-S. H. BOLES.

From the counties of Bath and Rowan-L. P. V. WILLIAMS.

*Error should be "one hundredth."

From the county of Bracken--W. W. FIELD.

From the counties of Breathitt, Morgan, and Magoffin-J. E. QUICKSALL.

From the county of Boone L. W. LASSING.

From the county of Boyle--R. P. JACOBS.

From the counties of Boyd and Lawrence-LABAN T. MOORE.
From the counties of Bullitt and Spencer-FRANK F. STRAUS.
From the counties of Butler and Edmonson-J. M. FORGY.
From the county of Breckenridge-WILLIAM MILLER.
From the county of Caldwel!- CORNELIUS TACITUS ALLEN.
From the county of Calloway-W. W. AYRES.

GEO. WASHINGTON.

From the county of Campbell-{ GEORGE F. TRUESDELL.

From the county of Carroll-HEZEKIAH COX.

From the counties of Carter and Elliott-R. T. PARSONS.
From the county of Christian--JOHN D. CLARDY.

From the countis of Clay, Jackson and Owsley-S. P. HOGG.
From the county of Clark-W. M. BECKNER.

From the counties of Crittenden and Livingston-T. J. NUNN.
From the cornties of Clinton and Cumberland-J. A. BRENTS.
From the counties of Casey and Russell-JOHN L. PHELPS.
THOMAS S. PETTIT.
From the county of Daviess
B. T. BIRKHEAD.

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'From the counties of Estill and Lee-J. F. WEST.

From the county of Fayette- P. P. JOHNSTON.

From the city of Lexington-C. J. BRONSTON.

From the county of Fleming-WILLIAM JACKSON HENDRICK.
From the counties of Floyd, Knott and Letcher-F. A. HOPKINS.
From the county of Franklin-THOMAS H. HINES.

From the counties of Fulton and Hickman-J. M. BRUMMAL.
From the county of Gallatin-JAMES S. BROWN.

From the county of Garrard-WM. BERKELE.

From the county of Grant-R. H. O'HARA.

From the county of Grayson-CHAS. DURBIN, JR.

From the counties of Green and Taylor-J. M. WOOD.
From the county of Greenup--BENJ. F. BENNETT.

From the county of Graves-T. J. ELMORE.

From the county of Hardin-HARVEY HAROLD SMITH.

From the county of Harrison--W. H. MARTIN.

From the county of Hart-SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER.

From the counties of Harlan, Bell, Perry and Leslie-J. G. FORESTER.

From the county of Henderson-H. H. FARMER.

From the county of Hopkins--H. R. BOURLAND.
From the county of Henry-JOHN D. CARROLL.
From the county of Hancock-G. D. CHAMBERS.
From the county of Jefferson-SAM. E. ENGLISH.
From the county of Jessamine-JOHN W. HOLLOWAY.
From the countyof Kerton-D. A. GLENN.

From the city of Covington- First District-WM. GOEBEL.

Second District-WILLIAM HARDIN MACKOY. From the counties of Knox and Whitley-NATHAN BUCHANAN. From the county of Larue-IVERSON W. TWYMAN.

From the counties of Laurel and Rockcastle-WILLIAM RANDALL

RAMSEY.

From the county of Lewis-SAM'L J. PUGH.

From the county of Lincoln-W. H. MILLER.

From the county of Logan--J. GUTHRIE COKE.

From the city of Louisville-First District-ZACK PHELPS.

Second District-MEVERELL KNOX ALLEN.
Third District-MORRIS A. SACHS.
Fourth District-BENNETT H. YOUNG.
Fifth District-EDWARD JOHN M'DERMOTT.
Sixth District-EDWARD EMMETT KIRWAN.
Seventh District-JOHN THOMPSON FUNK.

From the county of Marion-J. PROCTOR KNOTT.

From the county of Madison- CURTIS F. BURNAM.

From the counties of Marshall and Lyon-SAMUEL GRAHAM. From the county of Mason-EMERY WHITAKER.

From the counties of Martin, Johnson and Pike-A. J. AUXIER. From the county of McCracken-W. G. BULLITT.

From the county of McLean-JEP. C. JONSON.

From the counties of Montgomery, Powell, Wolfe and Menifee

G. B. SWANGO.

From the county of Mercer-JAMES H. MOORE.

From the county of Meade-JAMES F. WOOLFOLK.

From the county of Muhlenberg-ADDISON D. JAMES.

From the counties of Metcalfe and Monroe-W. SCOTT SMITH. From the county of Nelson--J. W. MUIR.

From the counties of Nicholas and Robertson-HANSON KEN-
NEDY.

From the counties of Oldham and Trimble--S. E. DEHAVEN.
From the county of Owen-JOSEPH BLACKWELL.

From the county of Ohio

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JOHN J. M'HENRY,

successor to HENKY D. M'HENRY. From the county of Pendleton-LESLIE THOMAS APPLEGATE.

From the county of Pulaski- JOHN S. MAY.
From the county of Scott-JAS. F. ASKEW.
From the county of Shelby-J. C. BECKHAM.
From the county of Simpson-GEO. C. HARRIS.
From the county of Todd-HAZEL G. PETRIE.
From the county of Trigg-W. W. LEWIS.
From the county of Unior-IGNATIUS A. SPALDING.
ROBERT RODES.
From the county of Warren-

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DANIEL C. AMOS.

From the county of Wayne J. S. HINES.

From the county of Washington-W. C. M'CHORD.

From the county of Webster-W. F. DORIS.

From the county of Woodford-JAMES BLACKBURN.

FRANKFORT, KY., October 6, 1891.

Having been appointed by the Convention to superintend the correct printing of the Constitution, etc., I hereby certify that I have carefully compared the above printed copy with the enrolled copy in the office of the Secretary of State, and find it correct.

C. T. ALLEN,

Delegate from Caldwell County.

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