Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-02-24

HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
FEBRUARY TO-

Senate, stating tO4l tncy btA
nil 10 amend the several acts concerning
the Tuckahoe CamtCom9auy and a's"'
that they had passed ioat ane"ale' as ''' e
bin 60 incorporate the Petersburg hai'
Road Compauy"-and alsc win amend /
noD,s. the "Act to amend en oct ep-'-'eo-
An sctt9 organize q C0srenh9e. .,
The amendments TO the Petersburg h'l.
Yo3d Bin were not mateual--lud they
were agreed TO by the House. nd
The amendments 20 the Convention o'ii
are very numerous-,heir pruciPai pro-
visions viii be found iu th8 following eA-
tracts. VIZ.
u BE 90 cnaaed Ig DE Gnsra. Isl
smJ'y. Tia; it shah be the duty OF ines
SnerIifs and olhe, officers conducting eiec-'
tons of members 20 the Genera. Assembly
{nfae several COUNTIES, cities and boroughs'
oft Communicable, al. the next Aprl
elections. To submit the amended CONSTR
tuition 90 the yoteuq1ahhedi hereby 10 vote,
for members of tm General Assembly, Tor.
ther ratification g rejection. ln tne same
manner In an respects os o. The same had
been published ioT three mo4lhs before the.
i-oouercenent Of the said -elecu1us. ace.
eor9iug Co the seventeenth section 90 the
said Act OF Assembly; and the poll Of lc
votes gwen for ra,,tyng and rejecting SAID
amended Constitution, shall be coutaued
.opeD IN the month OF April next, for three
successive days; and the pol. KEEP, at .ne
Courthouse Of each county, city bor0Hg0
but not any poll kept at any place ofho'd
ing a separate election, shall on the th,Tc
day az sunset, be adjourned 20 the FIRST da'
oftbe next term of the Court 10 be holden
for each county, city OF borough respec-
tvely. and shall be continued open i5r
three successive days, and NJ sunset of the
third day shall be finally closed; and whef
closed, the same shall be examined, core
rected, certified and disposed of Inthe man
ner hereinafter prescribed, and under ,he
like penalty as ls prescribed by the twenty
second section oftde same act Wncu
the said polls shall all be received, they
shai be acted upon by the Executive, n
the same manner M all respects, asls pre-
scribed by the twenty section Of the
same act"
"A BE II further enacted, Tha; upon
examnau010' .ne polls, ll one manner nr.-
scr.bad by the twenty FIRST section of The.
slid act; IF It sbaIiappear to tHa Executive.
that majority Of the votes gwen is for rs-'
Grv1Ethe amended Constitution chat .act
togeherwi.u tbs number oira,as gwen ior, .
and against the ratification, shall 'mmedl.
a.eiy De made known TO She people hy pro-.
clsmati0a t1 be published three times no..
such newspapers printed .a this Common
wealth, as Will in Che opinion o. tie EXe-.
cutive, difuse the information most geuer-
ally among tea people Buih upon eX
aminator of the polls as aforesaid, O. shall
appear 90 tbe Executive, thatam majority o..
the votes given IS for rejecting the amend
et Constitution, DOB that case DO shall be the
d1ty 3fthe Executive, ia like manner 10 AN .
nounce the flctt the people together with
the number Of votes gwen agamsl and for
the ratification, Dr5ridet t9wecer, that ii
uooo examination of the SAID polls, doubt
shall arise nm the minds of the Executive, (
whether a majority Of the votes given, bvi
the qualified voters has b5en gwen tor' OF
az inst the ratification of the amended con /
sutudon, the grounds-of such doubt shall /
be entered upon the Journal Of the Execu- I
tive aud be signed by those entertaining 1
the same; and the Executive shall forth I
with convene the General Assembly, asl
they may for any other cause, Of 90 their o.
puioa the public good shall require g ,obe
done
IS. Bsa further enacted. That if the
amended constitution shall be so ratified s, /
proclaimed, the officers and commissioners /
authorized 90 hold and conduct elections
for members Of the General Assembly n 1
the present year, shall. on the first DAYS OF /
their respective county and cOrpOrau0uI
courts lon The month of October next, hold |
ar' conduct elections for the choice oil
Senator and Delegates according 20 the
ors ofthe amended constitution; and /
81 ec.,.s so o. be held, shall be conf |
con c1ad. conducted, closed 0nG
@ -c1rimg Co the existing laws /
7-,uJ.1g or the election Of Senators and
Delegates. 90 the General Assembly, excl
csDtng SO far as the same shall be changed
or altered by the amended constitution ar-
thss aof And ali contests erlaHE o1t ul.
any elections SD made, shah De GOV eroeo
in an things in the manner prescri3e1 cy
law for the government Of contest in elec
lions made under ,he authority Of wris ot
election by the respective Houses of As
sembly. excepting that twenty days aiel
fhe last day 0feacb election, shall be al
lowed tor taking DISPOSITIONS 10 every cone