Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-30
convention of the State.Of Mississippi.
An Act to provide for CONVENTION Of the People of u
State of Mississippi W

An Act to provide for Convention Of the People Of H.
State of Mississippi.
WurREAs The Legislature of the Congress of IL
limited States controlled, it was, at its last session
nv a dominant majority, regardless of the Constituents
RIGHTS of the saveholdng States and refecting ~
will of a section whose population are hostile in fee
inps and opposed in principle to long established ana
cherished institution of the States of the South ~
fords alarming evidence of a settled purpose ON -
part of said majority to destroy said institution ma
subyert the sovereign power of this and other sls
holding States and whereas it is becoming and pro
er that sovereign State should promptly resort 10 H.
most efficient means for the maintenance of if So
ereiontv and the preservation of its constituonl
RIGHTS as member of the confederacy when assa;I5
by the exercise of the highest power recognised undo
onr Republican FORM of Government the exDressoI
will of the sovereign people :-Threfore,
SECTION /. Be At enacted by the Legislature Of "A.
Sotg of Mississippi, That election for Deegate y
a Convention of the People of the State of Miss
sppi shall be held in the several counties thereof 81
the Ist Monday and day following in the month 81
Sentember in the wear eighteen hundred and 6hvo
that said election shall be held at all the precincts
tablished by law and shall be managed and condnc,I
by the sherifs other proper officers of the cona
respectively, in the same manner and according to the
same rules and regulations as are prescribed by av
for the election of members OF the Legislature: Ana
it is hereby declared be the duty of the Goyerpo
issue his proclamation to the several sherifs of 49,
State least ninety days before the time appointed
for holding said election requiring them to h. and
sha
ifs shall advertise the time and place of HOLDING ssA
election for ct least twenty days by PUBLISHING t
same in the several newspapers OF their respectra
counties, and by posting notes at least four DubF
places in their counties.
| SEC. 2. Be 1t furtts~ enacted, That each c5uDtv
shall be represented iii said convention by the same
number of delegates such county has OF Represan
tatives in the House of Representatives incuding the
representation of any city town in the county.
| Sec. 3. BE ii further enacted That no person not
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the time of said election have resided for twelve months
previous thereto in the county and shall not have ar
tanned the age of twenty-five years shall be entitled t
a seat in the Convention.
/ SEC A. Be 1t further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the sheriff or proper returning officer of eac
and every county, within twenty days after said elec
ton, to make complete returns to the Secry of State
of the votes cast for delegates in his county and the
certificate of election of the returning officer of the
proper county of the Secretary of State in favor
any delegate, shall be evidence of his right to seat
in said convention, subject, if contested to decision
by said convention in such manner they may pre-
scribe.
| SEC 5. Be IL further enacted, That the delegates
elected under the provisions of this act shall assemble
at the capital of the State. the I'd Monday of No
vember, A d. eighteen hundred and ffty-one and Or
ganlze themselves into convention by the election
of President and such other officers as they nav
deem necessary, and the appointment of suitable
number of assistants and shall proceed to consider the
then existing reatisns between the Government Of
the United States and the Government and people Of
the State OF Mississippi devise and carry into effect
the means of redress for the past and obtain certain
security for the future and to adopt such measures r
vindcating the sovereignty of the State and the pre-
tecton OF Its Institutions shall appear to them t.
be demanded. Said convention shall adopt such rules
and regulations for its government and for the prone
transaction OF business they shall think proper
The officers, members and assistants of said convcn
ton shall receive the compensation as is now
allowed by law to the officers, members and assstent
OF the Legislature, and the Auditor of Public &c
counts shall issue his warrant the Treasury therefor
upon the certificate of the President of the amour
due.
! SEC. 8. BE ii further enacted, That in case of an
vacancy occurring in said convention by the dealt
resignation removal Of any member it shall be tn
duty OF the Governor to cause such vacancy TO be fl
ed by issuing his writ of election TO the sheriff of In
proper county, requiring him, ten days notice {
/ hold an election according to law, to fill the same
| SEC. z. BE 1t fu'bter enacted. That the acts {
the convention proposed to be held by this act he
fore they become binding this State shall be sub
mitted to the people at the balot-box for their an
prevail, at such time. and such Manner as the Conycn
ton may determine.
JOHN J. McRAE
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
JOHN l. GUION.
President Of the Senais.
| Approved November Both, 1850.
JOHN A. QUTTMAE.