Section 1. A general election for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, comptroller, and members of the general assembly shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1876 and annually thereafter for such offices as are herein and may be by law prescribed.
Section 2. The state officers above named, and the senators from those districts having even numbers, elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1876, and those elected biennially thereafter on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November shall respectively hold their offices for two years from and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January. The senators from those districts having odd numbers, elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1876 shall hold their offices for one year from and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of January 1877; the electors residing in the senatorial districts having odd numbers shall, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1877 and biennially thereafter, elect senators who shall hold their offices for two years from and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January. The representatives elected from the several towns on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1876 and those elected annually thereafter, shall hold their offices for one year from and after Wednesday following the first Monday of the next succeeding January.
Section 3. There shall be a stated session of the general assembly in Hartford, on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January 1877 and annually thereafter on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January.
Section 4. The persons who shall be severally elected to the state offices and general assembly on the first Monday of April 1876 shall hold such offices only until the Wednesday after the first Monday of January 1877.
Section 5. The general assembly elected in April 1876 shall have power to pass such laws as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the amendment.