opening, closing and conducting elections and making returns of the same except as hereinbefore specified, and excepting also that polls may be opened and elections held at any point or points in any of the counties where precincts may be established as provided by law ten days previous to the day of election, not less than ten miles from the place of voting in any established precinct.

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the judges and clerks of election in addition to the returns required by law from each precinct, to forward to the secretary of the territory by mail immediately after the close of the election a certified copy of the poll book containing the name of each person who has voted in the precinct, and the number of votes polled for each person for any office, and the votes polled for and against the adoption of this constitution.

SEC. 21. The returns of said election for and against this constitution and for all state officers and members of the house of representatives of the United States shall be made and certificates issued in the manner now prescribed by law for returning votes given for delegate to congress, and the returns for all district officers, judicial, legislative or otherwise shall be made to the register of deeds of the senior county in each district in the manner prescribed by law, except as otherwise provided. The returns for all officers elected at large shall be canvassed by the governor of the territory, assisted by Joseph R. Brown and Thomas J. Galbraith, at the time designated by law for canvassing the vote for delegate to congress.

SEC. 22. If, upon canvassing the votes for and against the adoption of this constitution, it shall appear that there has been polled a greater number of votes against than for it, then no certificates of election shall be issued for any state or district officer provided for in this constitution; and no state organization shall have validity within the limits of the territory until otherwise provided for, and until a constitution for a state government shall have been adopted by the people.

Done in Convention at St. Paul, the twenty ninth day of August, In the the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and fifty seven, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty Second, In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

[Republican]

Done in Convention, this Twenty Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty Seven, and of the Independence of the United States, the Eighty Second year. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names at the Capitol, in the City of Saint Paul, this Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven. [Democratic]

NOTE. For the names of the signers, see Appendix 2.

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and

APPENDIX I

TABLE SHOWING THE DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN AND THE DEMOCRATIC ORIGINALS
OF THE MINNESOTA CONSTITUTION

Art. Sec. After the word
Preamble liberty

together

(The punctuation here, insofar as it relates to the boundaries is made to conform to that in the enabling act, from which the boundaries were copied. Both the Democratic and the Republican originals are somewhat inconsistent and uneven in punctuation.)

(The punctuation in this section has also been made to conform as far as possible to that in the almost identical provision in the enabling act, sec. 2. But the latter has the words or bounded after the word formed and also the word the before navigable waters.)