Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-09-24
BY the Governor Of the TERRITORY
of 10 10 a.
r Q CT TON.

II ETURNS having been received a,
- the office Of the Secretary of the
Territory of the votes taken for and agains,
theCons,i,ution 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 "An act TO provide for the
election of Delegates to Convention TO
form Constitution and State Govern.
men,,' approved, January II. 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:
II is herebydeclared and made known,( lin
compliance with the spiri. and intention of
the provisions of said act,) that there were
given in the counties from which returns
have been received, nine thousand four
hundred andninety-t,cO votes for the Con-
stitulion, and nine thousand and thirty-sir
votes agains, it, making a majority Of
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTy-sIx votes in
favor of the Constitution: find sUhereas,
said maj GRITTY exceeds by three hundred
and seventy nine votes the aggregate vote
cast at the election held in August, ls45,
for Delegate to Congress. in the counties
not returned, thus making it manifest, in
the absence of complete returns, that
majority of votes have been cast in favor
of the adoption Of the Constitution: Its
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, 1916, has been formally rat
fled and adopted by the people.
find achereas, 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 general election for the selection
Of State officers, and members of the first
State Legislature: Be it therefore known
that MONDAY THE 26TH 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 Rep.
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
SEAL hereunto subscribed my name,
and caused the Seal Of the Ter
ritory,o be affixed.
Done at Burlington, this ninth day Of
September, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and for,y-.ix, and
Of the Independence of the United States
the seventy first JAMES CLARKE.
By the Governor,
JESSE WILLIAMS, Sec'y of Territory.
"The several papers Of the Terrific.
ny are requested to publish the foregoing
proclamation for three successive weeks,
the bills for which should be presented to
the State Legislature.