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Council part of the New Hampshire Constitution consists of seven
articles.  Article 60  Text of Article 60:  Councilors; Mode of
Election, Etc.  There shall be biennially elected, by ballot,
five councilors, for advising the governor in the executive part
of government. The freeholders and other inhabitants in each
county, qualified to vote for senators, shall some time in the
month of November, give in their votes for one councilor; which
votes shall be received, sorted, counted, certified, and
returned to the secretary's office, in the same manner as the
votes for senators, to be by the secretary laid before the
senate and house of representatives on the first Wednesday
following the first Tuesday of January.  Amended 1792 twice
changing the council from members of the house and senate
elected by the house and senate to individual