HERMAN V. S. GROESBECK.....Since Oct. 15, 1890.

HERMAN V. S. GROESBECK...Oct. 11, 1890, to Oct. 15, 1890 ASBURY B. CONAWAY..... ...Since June 21, 1890.

ORGANIZATION OF SUPREME COURT OF WYO

MING UNDER STATEHOOD.

WILLIS VAN DEVANTER,

HERMAN V. S. GROESBECK,

ASBURY B. CONAWAY,

Elected Judges of the Supreme Court at the first state election, held September 11, 1890.

Organization of Court, October 11, 1890.

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WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, CHIEF JUSTICE, (Drawing 4-year term.)

HERMAN V. S. GROESBECK, JUSTICES, (Drawing 6-year term.)

ASBURY B. CONAWAY,

(Drawing 8-year term.)

SECTION 4, ART. 5, CONSTITUTION OF WYOMING.

SEC. 4. The supreme court of the state shall consist of three justices, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state, at a general state election, at the times and places at which state officers are elected; and their term of office shall be eight (8) years, commencing from and after the first Monday in January next succeeding their election; and the justices elected at the first election after this constitution shall go into effect shall, at their first meeting provided by law, so classify themselves by lot that one of them shall go out of office at the end of four (4) years, and one at the end of six (6) years, and one at the end of eight (8) years, from the commencement of their term, and an entry of such classification shall be made in the record of the court and signed by them, and a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The justice having the shortest term to serve, and not holding his office by appointment or election to fill a vacancy, shall be the chief justice, and shall preside at all terms of the supreme court; and in case of his absence the justice having in like manner the next shortest term to serve shall preside in his stead. If a vacancy occur in the office of a justice of the supreme court, the governor shall appoint a person to hold the office until the election and qualification of a person to fill the unexpired term occasioned by such vacancy, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general election. The first election of the justices shall be at the first general election after this constitution shall go into effect.

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Resigned October 15, 1890, and HOMER MERRELL appointed to fill vacancy until the general election to be held November 8, 1892. At said election GIBSON CLARK was elected, and will qualify on the first Monday in January, 1893.