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Journal Of The Constitutional Convention Of The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts 1853
Author: Various

JOURNAL. of STATE HOUSE, CITY OF BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1853. Pursuant to the Act of the Legislature of this State, entitled quotAn Act relating to the calling a Convention of Delegates of the People, for the purpose of revising the Constitution,quot passed May 7, 1852, which is in the words and figures following, to wit Be it Enacted by the ... more »Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, asfollows SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the several cities, towns, districts, and places within this Commonwealth, qualified to vote for senators or representatives in the general court, shall, on the second Monday of November next, at the meeting to be then held in the several cities and towns in the Commonwealth, for the choice of governor, lieutenant-governor, senators and representatives in the general court, an article for this purpose being inserted in the warrants calling said meetings, give in their votes by ballot on this question quotIs it expedient that delegates should be chosen to meet in convention for the purpose of revising or altering the constitution of government of this Commonwealth quot And the vote upon said question shall be in open meeting, and the votes in the several cities and towns in the Commonwealth shall be received, sorted, counted, declared, and trans mitted to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, in the same manner as the votes for governor, lieutenant-governor, and senators are now received, sorted, counted, declared and transmitted by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth and all returns not thus made shall be rejected in the counting. And the Governor and Council shall open and examine the returns, made as aforesaid, and count the votes given on the said question and the governor shall, by public procla mation, to be made on or before the first Wednesday in January next, make known the result, by declaring the number appearing in favor of. May 4th, choosing delegates for the purpose aforesaid, and the number of votes appearing against the same and if it shall appear that a majority of the votes given in and returned as aforesaid are in favor of choosing delegates as aforesaid, the same shall be deemed and taken to be the will of the people of the Commonwealth, that a Convention should meet accordingly and in case of such majority, the governor shall call upon the people to elect delegates to meet in Convention, in the manner hereinafter provided. SECT. 2. If it shall be declared by the said proclamation, that the majority of votes, as aforesaid, is in favor of choosing delegates, a above-mentioned, the inhabitants of the several cities and towns within the Commonwealth, now entitled any one year to send one or more representatives to the general court, shall, on the first Monday of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three...

ISBN-13: 9781406782776
ISBN-10: 1406782777
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 564
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Publisher: Church Press
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