Sec. 25. Ti e legislature at its first
season alter the admission of this state
into the Union, shall provide for the
appointment of three commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to revise, sim
plify and arrange the statute laws of
this st ite, with proposedadmendments,
to enquire into and ascertain the rules
of practice, pleadings, forms and pro
ceedings most suitable to be adopted in
the courts of record in this state, and
to report thereon to the legislature,
subject to their modification and a
doption.
ARTICLE IX.
On the Elective Franchise.
Section 1. All male persons of the
nge of twenty-one years or upwards,
| belonging to any of the four following
[classes of persons, who shall have re
|sided in this state for one year next
proceeding any election authorized by
this Constitution, or any law, shall
; constitute the qualified electors at such
election.
Ist. All white citizens of the Uni
cd States.
2d. All white not citizens
of the United States, who shall have
declared their intention to become
such, in conformity with the laws of
Congress for the naturalization of al
iens, and shall have taken before any
officer of this state authoriz' d to ad
minister oaths, and filed in the office of
the clerk of any court of record in this
state, or in counties where there may
he no coui ts of re cord, in the office of
the clerk of the county, an oath to j
support the Constitution of (he Uni- ;
ted States and of this slate.
3d. All Indians declared to he citi
zens of the United States by any law
of Congress.
