the several county clerks and eeunty auditors of the several counties of the Territory north of the 7th standard parallel are hereby required to issue notices of such election at least 15 days prier thereto, stating the object of the election and the number of delegates to be chosen, and shall deliver the same to the sheriff, who is required to post the same asthe law new requires, and the several boards of county commissioners and other officers of the several counties are required to each and all perform all things that are now required of them by law in case of general elections, and the canvass and return of the votes shall be as now required by law in the case of county officers, and the county auditor shall issue certificates of election to all persons who shall bedeclared elected, Provided, that the persons to the number apportioned in each county receiving the highest number of votes at such election shall be elected as such delegates. It shall be the further duty of such county clerks within (10) ten days after such election to certify to the secretary of the Territory the names of all persons chosen às delegates from their respective counties, and to send the same to the secretary by mail.
§ 2. Duty or secretary.] The secretary of the territory shall receive all certificates so transmitted to him by the said county clerks and shall preserve the same, and itis hereby made his duty to enter the names of all persons so certified to him as chosen delegates in a book which he shall provide for that purpose.
§ 3. Meet in grafton.] The delegates so elected at such election shall meet in the City of Grafton, in the County of Walsh, in said Territory of Dakota on the second Tuesday in May, 1889, at noon for the purpose of framing a constitution and performing all ether things essential to the preparation of the Territory for making application to the general government for the admission of such part of Dakota into the unien ef states and in such reom in said city as the secretary of the territory or the convention have provided, and at the hour heretofore named the secretary of the Territory or some member elect of said convention shall call the conventien to order and shall cail the roll of the members from the book heretofore provided, if such book can be obtained, and if not from the official returns of said election, and the certificates of election of each member in such manner as the convention shall prescribe, and the several delegates as their names are called shall take their seats in said convention. When the calling of the roll ef members shall be completed the several dele- gates shall be required to take and subscribe an oath to suppert the constitution of the United States, and te faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as delegates to said convention. Said oath may be administered by said secretary or by any judicial officer of the Territory. The conventien shall then proceed to organize by the election of a President, who shall be chosen from among the delegates, and of the ether officers herein provided for. Said convention shall adopt such rules and regulations for their government as are provided in case of legislative bodies. It may adjourn from time to
