The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1819-11-16
MISCELLANY.
FURTHER DOCUMENTS
ReLating 70 SepaI ntaor


The following extract from the Act, relating &c
the Separation is published for the information of
the selectmen and clerks Of the several towns aal
the assessor, and Gle Ks of the Plrnlations ia
Maine.
= Aud tie said Convention. shall. as soon as
may be after having formed such Consutuiionr
frame of COVE nmeat, for slch State, cause the
same to be published, aud sent 90 hesesersl towns.
districts and plantations, within the said District u
Maine; and there shall bee meeting OF The inhab.-
tants in each of said towns, districts and Iianta-
tions, to be called and ned by the seIectmen
and assessors respectively, in due course OF Lave,
snd tae day named by said Convention at
which meeting. every male inhabtant, having tbe
personal quail caiions, herein declared raguisste ~
the election Of Delegates said Convention, shall
have right vote and tile people "a assembled.
shall give in their votes ~ writing, expressing
trir APPRECIATION, or dsapprobstioD OF tho Constr
tution prepared. and roposcd by said CoEven<
ton. And the seiecimen Of The several Towns,
and the assessorsof the several districts and PLAN
tations respectively shalt preside at such meetings.
and shall receive the votes vt all the inhabitants
duly qualified as aforesa,', and shall SOFT aud
count them 10 the open uee,iBg Of the town, dis
trict OF plantation, and the same, shall be- then
and there recorded in the books OF The town. district
or plantation, and fair copy OF such record, shall
be attested by the sclectmen assessors and the
lively and shall be by The laid seIectmen asses
sors transmitted and delivered 10 the said Con,en-
tion or 10 the President thereof, for the time icing
or 10 any Comnhttee appointed 10 receive the
same. on or before the first day OF January next"
ia Contention al Portland, Oct. 29ih, 1919.
Res0tred. i hat The Constitution adopted by sLir
Convcntion, be published end sent to The several
tow ns. district and plantation within the District
Of Maine and that the inhabitants ihereof, quail
lied by law, be required 10 assemble ia their re-.
pective towns, districts aud plantations on he first
Monday OF December next, 70 give in their votes
in writing, exprrssing their appreciation or dlsal-
probation of said Constitution.
Read and accepted,
VILLA M KING, President.
.4Hest, r. c. vOsE, Secretary.
FORM OF RETURN.
At legal meeting Of the inhabitants Of the town
il. in the csunty of -. qualified to vote
tor Senators, holden the first Monday of Drcem-
Der, being the sixth day Of SAID month, A. ID. 1919,
lr The purpose OF giving ia their votes in writing
expressing their appreciation disapprobasion Of
the Constitution prepared by the Convention Of
Delegates assembled at Portland, on the second
Monday of October last, pursuant 10 An ct, en-
TITLED, An Act relating TO the Separa ion Of The
District or Maine from Massachusetts proper, and
forming the same into separate and independent
State.n
The whole number Of votes given in. in said
town. were sorted and counted, il open meeting Of
the ,ow6, by the Selectmen BIO presided al said
meeting, and were - Of which - were in fa-
YOUR OF the Constitution as prepared by the Con-
vention as aforesaid, and - were opposed 10 said
Constitution.
The foregoing ia true copy Of the record, az
entered iu open meeting in the books OF the town.
-Attet,