The Litchfield County post., 1828-06-26

vided tn the first section Of an act passed at the present session of said Assembly, entitled [" An act providing for the ap- pOintment of the Electors of President and S-President of tho United States" "
 SEC. 2 The person designated to pre- side in the several meetings to be held pur- suant to said last mentioned act, shall pre- side in the several meetings warned and to be held in pursuance of the provisions of ] this act.
 SEC. 8 It shall be the duty of the Town Clerks in the respective towns, immediate ly after the votes for Electors of Presi- dent and Vice-President of the United States shall have been received, to pre- sent to said meeting said proposed amend l mentS to said Constitution according to the requirments of said Huh article there- of, and after due consideration thereof, the electors present at s; i'd meeting shall be called upon by the presiding ] officer of said meeting, to bring in to him, their respective votes or su6ra- ges, which shall be by ballot, those in fa- vor of appoving and adopting said amend ments, shall give in ballot with the word Yes written thereon, and those who disap- prove of said amendments shall give in a ballot with the word N0 written thereon; ]; which said ballots shall be examined, sort ed and counted, by the presiding officer, assisted by the town Clerk and Select-men, and the numbers of each declared in O. pen meeting, by said presiding officer.
 SEC. The presiding officers in said several town meetings, shall, under their hands respectively, make duplicate certii- cates of the number of Votes SO given in and ascertained as aforesaid, in favor of ap- proving and adopting said amendments. and also of those disapproving of their a. doption, in words at full length, one of which shall be deposited in the office of the Town Clerk of the town in which said meeting shall be held, and the other with in ten days after the day of holding said meeting, shall be delivered, sealed up, to the Secretary of this State, within fifteen days next, after the day of holding said meeting; which certificate shall be in the form following, to wit:
 "At meeting of the Electors of the town of legally warned and held, on the first Monday of November, 1928, for the purpose of receiving the votes of the Electors of said town, upon the subject of the proposed amendment of the Constitu- ton of this State, there were given in fa- vor of adopting said proposed amendments
 votes: and against the adoption of the same votes. Certified by
 A. B. Presiding Officer.
 SEC. 5. The subscription on each of said certificates, to be returned to the, Sec retary of this State, shall be as follows. to wit:
 "To the Secretary of this State. Votes " of the Electors of the town of
 "upon the proposed amendment of the Constitution, taken and sealed up by
 A. B. Presiding Officer"
 And the Secretary of this State shall, on or before the first Monday in October, 1928, transmit blank forms, for the return of votes to be given pursuant to this act, to the Town Clerks of the various towns in this State, for the use of said towns.
 SEe. 6. The votes so returned to the Secretary shall be counted by the Secreta- ry. Treasurer, and Comptroller, on or be- fore the lst Monday in December, 1928, who, on or before the 18th day of Decem- Der, 1928, ,shall transmit certificate under their hands, of the number of votes so re- turned, in favor of approving or adopting said amendment, and also of the number of votes so returned, disapproving of the a. doption of the same, to the person admin istering the government of this State, ,who, within twenty days after the receipt of such certificate, shall issue his proclama- ton, reciting such certificate and if it shall appear therefrom that majority of said votes is in favor of adopting and ap- proving said amendments, he shall so de- clare in such Proclamation, and that a ma jority ofthe electors present atsuch meet ings aforesaid, has approved said amend ments, and that the same are valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Con- stitution of this State. And lift shall ap- pear from said certificate, that a majority of said votes are not in favor of approving and adopting said amendments, but is Op- posed to the same, he shall so declare, in said Proclamation, and that majority of the electors present at such meetings, have not approved said amendments and said Proclamation shall be published in all the