Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-09-17
By the Governor Of the Territory
Of 1OaU Il.
p r O G L A lion.

ETURNS having been received at
~ the office Of the Secretary of the
Territory Of the votes taken for and against !
theCons,itn,ion at the general election held
on the third day of August last. in all the
organized Counties thereof, except Della
ware and Buchanan, in conformity to the |
provisions Of can act to provide for the
election of Delegates TO a Convention to
form a Constitution and Stale Govern.
meni," approved. January IL, 1916; and
the said votes SO returned having been
counted in the presence of the undersign-
ed, Governor of the said Territory, and
examined and compared as contemplated
by law:
Its herebydeclared and made known,(in
compliance with the spirit and intention of
the provisions Of said act tina. there were
given in the counties from which returns
have been received, nine thousand four
hundred and ninety -t,Oo votes for The Con-
sltuiion, and nine thousand and Mirty-Sir
votes agains, it. making a majority OF
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTy-sIX votes IN
favor of the Constitution: find aDhereas,
said majority exceeds by three hundred
and seventy niEe votes the aggregate vote
cas-, at the election held in August, lS45.
for Delegate to Congress, in The counties
not returned, thus making il manifest, IN
the absence of complete returns. that
majority of votes have been cast in favor
of the adoption of The Constitution: tits
therefore. conformably to the provisions
| of the Statute, hereby proclaimed. that
the Constitution for the State of Iowa.
| adopted in Convention on the eighteenth
| day of May. 1876, has been formally rat
fled and adopted BY the people.
find aUhereas, under the Constitution
thus adopted. it is made The duty Of the
Governor of the Territory to designate.
by proclamation, day for the holding of
the first genera! election for the selection
| of State officers, and members of the first
State Legi stature: BE it therefore known
tina, MONDAY THE 26rH DAY OF
| OCTOBER NEXT. is the day fixed up
on for the holding Of said State election,
at which time the qualified electors OF
| Iowa will elect one Governor. two Keep
resentatives in the Congress of the United
States, one Secretary of State, one State
Auditor, one State Treasurer, and such
number of members OF the Senate and
House of Representative of the State as
are designated and provided for in the
thirteenth article Of said Constitutions
Said elections, under said Constitution. are
to be conducted in all respects according
TO the existing laws of the Territory. ex
cep, only in such cases as the same may
be found to conflict with the Constitution
under which the election will be held.
In Testimony whereof, have
TsEAL1 hereunto subscribed my name,
and caused the Seal of the Ter
ritoryto be affixed.
Done at Burlington, this ninth day o
September. in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty -six, and
Of the Independence Of the United States
the seventy first JAMES CLARhE.
By the Governor,
JESSE WILLIAMS Sec'y Of Territory.
h. The several papers of the Terrific
nv are requested to publish the foregoing
proclamation for three successive weeks
\ The bills for which should be presented &c
the State Legislature.