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Rh Board of Equalization in proportion to the assessed valuation, and when said tax is collected in each of the said counties, the same shall be paid by said counties into the Territorial Treasury.

§ 8. .] The laws now in force governing elections and the canvass and return of the votes cast therein and the qualifications of voters shall govern in any election that may be held under this act, or under any ordinance of said convention. But said convention shall designate the Board of State Canvassers, and ordain the method by which the result of the state election shall be promulgated. The said convention shall also provide the manner of presenting the said constitution to the Congress of the United States, and do or ordain all things necessary to be done for the purpose of carrying into effect the government of the state, as soon as it shall be admitted into the Union of States.

§ 9. .] That the members of said convention shall not receive pay for a session of more than thirty days, but said convention may sit for a longer period, and may adjourn from time to time.

§ 10. .] That for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the convention there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Territorial Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of said convention, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

§ 11. .] The board of county commissioners of counties to which the unorganized counties of Pierce and Buford are respectively attached for judicial purposes shall at the time named in Section 1, of this act, establish one or more election precincts in said unorgani.ed counties and define the boundaries thereof, establishing polling places, appoint judges of election therefor, and do such other acts as may be necessary to secure a fair election in said counties under the provisions of this act. The judges so appointed shall perform all the duties and shall have all the power and authority of judges of election in said unorganized counties. "They shall make returns of the votes cast, to the County Clerks of said counties to which they are severally attached as aforesaid. The board of canvassers of said counties shall canvass the votes cast in the said unorganiged counties and certify the same to the Secretary of the Territory in the manner and within the time required in Section 1, of this act. The expenses of said election shall be audited and paid by said counties to which said unorganized counties are attached and the amounts so paid and the items thereof, shall be by the County Clerk of said counties certified to the Territorial Auditor, who shall draw his warrant on the Territorial Treasurer for the amount so paid if found correct.

§ 12. .] The convention shall be composed of one hundred and fourteen delegates, who shall be apportioned among the several counties as follows: One from