The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-06

By His ErceHency, LEVI LINCOLN, Governor of
the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts.
WHEREAS, sundry Resolutions passed the Leg
lslaure Of this Commonwealth, on the
CL.s) fifteenth day of June, instant, in the
words following, viz
LEVI LINCOLN.
Whereas, the Specific Article of Amendment
hereafter recited, was proposed in the General
Court OF this Commonwealth elected and returned
IN the year Of our Lord eighteen hundred and TWEEN
ty-nlne, as an Amendment to the Constitution of
the SAID Commonwealth, and was agreed to BY
majority OF the Senators and two thirds of the
House Of Representatives present and voting there
on, and was thereupon entered upon the journals of
the two houses with the Yeas and Nays taken there
on; and was afterwards referred to the General
Court elected and retusned for the year eighteen
hundred and thirty, and published, as by the Con-
stltuton is required and whereas the said Spe-
cifc Article of Amendment was also agreed to by
majority OF the Senators and two thirds of the
| House OF Representatives of the last mentioned
General Court present and voting thereon and
The SAID Article of Amendment was afterwards du.
~ submitted to the people of the Commonwealth
IN order that, II the same should be approved and
ratified by majority of the qualified voters. at
meetings legally warned and held for that purpose,
/ the same might become part of the Constitution
! of this Commonwealth and whereas, it aopears by
the returns OF the votes duly made and transmitted
to the Secretary's office, from the CITY of Boston.
and the several towns and districts of this Com
monwealth, that, at meetings legally warned and
held for that purpose, in the said CITY towns and
districts, on the eleventh day of May last the said
! SPECIFIC Article of Amendment has been duly ap-
proved and ratified by majority of the qualified
voters of the said Commonwealth VOTING thereon
as required by the Constitution and the said Art-
Gle OF Amendment has accordingly become part
OF the Constitution Of this Commonwealth to 90
into operation on the first day of October next to
wit:
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.
The political year shall begin on the hrst
Wednesday of January, instead of the last Wednes-
Gay oil May, and the General Court shall assemble
every year on the said first Wednesday of January.
and shall proceed, at that Session. to make all the
elections, and do all the other acts which are by the
constitution, required to be made and done at the
| session which has heretofore commenced on the
last "Wednesday of May. And the General Court
shall be dissolved on the day next preceding the
hrst w ednesday of January, without an; procama-
tlon or other act of the Governor. But nothing
| herein contained shall prevent the General Court
from assembling at such other times as they shall
lJuoge necessary, or when called together by the
Governor. The Governor Lieutenant Governor.
and Counsellors shall also hold their respective
othces for one year next following the first
wednesday of January and until others are chosen
and qualified in their stead.
! The Meeting for the choice Of Governor.
| Lieutenant Governor, Senators and Representa-
| tlves, shall be held on the second Monday of
November in every year. but meetings may be
| adjourned, 1t necessary, for the choice of Reme-
sentatives, to the next day and again to the next
succeeding day, but no further But in case a sec
ond meeting shall be necessary for the choice of
Representatives, such meetings shall be held on
the fourth Monday of the same month of Noven-
| Der.
CAN the other provisions fthe Constitution, re-
spectlng the elections. and proceedings of the
Members of the General Court, or of any other Of.
hf.nr A.
the last Wednesday of May as the CONNIE cement
OF the political year, shall be so far altered as
to have like reference to the first Wednesday of
January.
This Article shall go into operation on the first
day OF October. next following the day when the
same shall be duly ratified and adopted as an
amendment OF the Constitution, and the Governor
Lieutenant Governor, Counsellors Senators Rep.
resentatives, and all other State Officers who are
annually chosen, and who shall be chosen for the
current year, when the same shall 20 into opera
ton, shall hold their respective Offices until the
hrst wednesday OF January then next following,
and until Others are chosen and qualified in their
stead, and no longer And the first election of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor Senators and
Representatives to be had in virtue of this Article
shall be had conformably thereunto, in the month
oil November following the day on which the same
shall be in force and go into operation pursuant to
the foregoing provision.
"All the provisions of the existing Constitution
inconsistent with the provisions herein contained
are hereby wholly annulled"
Resolved, That the above recited article of
Amendment shall be enrolled on parchment, and
deposited in the Secretarys office, as part of the
! Constitution and Fundamental Law of this Com
monweath; and shall be published in immediate
connection Herewith, as the tenth article of
Amendment thereto, in all future editions ofthe
laws of this Commonwealth, printed by public au-
thority. And in order that the said Article of
Amendment may be duly promulgated, without de-
lay to tho people of this Commonwealth BE it
further
Resolved, That His ExcelIency the Governor
be, and he hereby is authorized and requested to
issue his Proclamation, reciting the said Article Of
Amendment, and announcing that the same has
been duly adopted, and ratified by the people Of
this Commonwealth, and has become part of the
Constitution thereof, to go into operation on the
first day of October next and requiring all Magis.
trates and Officers, and all the citizens of the said
Commonwealth, to take notice thereof, and govern
themselves accordingly"
Now, therefore, |, Levi Lincoln, Governor of the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts by yirtne of the