convention, the commanding general, within sixty days from the date

of election, shall notify the delegates to assemble in convention, at

a time and place to be mentioned in the notification, and said

convention, when organized, shall proceed to frame a constitution and

civil government according to the provisions of this act, and the act

to which it is supplementary; and when the same shall have been so

framed, said constitution shall be submitted by the convention for

ratification to the persons registered under the provisions of this