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1. That the qualified voters of each judicial circuit in the state of Arkansas shall elect their circuit judge.

2 That the qualified voters of each judicial circuit shall elect their prosecuting attorney for the state.

3. That the qualified voters of each county shall elect a county and probate judge.

4. That no member of the general assembly shall be elected to any office within the gift of the general assembly during the term for which he shall have been elected.

5. That the general assembly of the state of Arkansas shall not be restricted as to the number of counties that shall compose a judicial circuit in this state.

Ratified November 24, 1848.

Proposed by the general assembly begun and held at the city of Little Rock, in the state of Arkansas, on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and ratified by the general assembly, begun and held at the city of Little Rock, on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, viz.:

That the words, "except Washington county, which may be reduced to six hundred square miles," included in parentheses in section 29 of article IV, be stricken out of said constitution.

Ratified December 2, 1850.