Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-12
Couycntiop Of the State of Mississippi.
An Act to provide for ConUention q he Feope o. tn
nv State Of Mississippi.

..t n oroyiae for Convention Of the People Of the
State Of Mississippi.
WHEREAS The Legislature OF the Congress OF the
tr,;tad states controlled it was, at It's last session.
dn;pant majority, regardless OF the constitutional
rights of the saveholding States ana rehectng the
will of section whose population are hostie IN feel
inps and opposed in principle to long and
cherished institution of the States oil the South at
fords alarming evidence of settled purpose on the
part of said majority to destroy SAID institution and
subvert the sovereign power OF tins ana other slave
holding States and whereas 1t Is becoming ana prop
or that sovereign State should promptly resort to the
most efficient means for the maintenance of it ssov-
ereonty and the preservation OF It's constitutional
rights as member of the confederacy when assailed,
by the exercise of the highest power recognised under
onr Republican form of Government; the expressed
will of the sovereign people :-Ihrelore,
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by the Legislature Of the
Sote of Mississippi That election for Delegates to
Convention of the People of the State OF Mlsss-
sippi shall be held in the several counties thereof
the list Monday and day following in the month of
Senteuber in the year eighteen hundred and httyone,
that said election shall be held at all the precincts
tablshed by law and shall be managed and conducted
nv the shers or other proper officers oil the counties
resnectivelv in the same and according TO the
same rules and regulations as are prescribed by law
for the election of members of the Legislature: And
hereby declared to be the duty OF the Governor to
issue his proclamation to the several sherfs OF the
State at least ninety days before the time appointed
for holding said election requiring them to hold and
conduct the according to law and the SAID sher-
shall advertise the time ana place
election for at least twenty days, by publishing the
same in the several newspapers of their respective
countless and by posting notices at at least four pubic
places in their counties.
SEC g Be IL further enacted That each county
shall be represented in said convention by the same
number of delegates such county has OF Represen-
atves in the House of Representatives, including the
representation of any city or town IN any county
/ SEC. 3. Be at further enacted, That no person not
citizen of the State of Mississippi, who shall not at
the time of said election have resided for twelve months
previous thereto in the county, and shall not have
tanned the age of twenty-five years shall be eligible to
a seat in the Convention.
SEC A. BE 1t further enacted That it shall be the
duty of the sheriff proper returning officer of each
and every county, within twenty days after said eec
tion make complete returns to the Secry of State
of the votes for delegates in his county, and the
certificate of election of the returning officer of the
proper county or of the Secretary of State in favor of
any delegate shall be evidence of his right
in said Convention subject, if contested, to decision
by said Convention in such manner they NAV
prescribe.
SEC. g. Be 1t further enacted That the delegates
elected under the provisions of this act shall assemble
at the Capital of the State, on the I'd Monday OF No
vember A. d. eighteen hundred and fifty-one and
7 ganize themselves into Convention by the election
of President and such other officers they may
deem necessary and the appointment of suitable
number of assistants and shall proceed consider the
then existing relations between the Government of
the United States and the Government and people of
the State of Mississippi, to devise and carry into effect
the of redress for the past and obtain certain
security for the future, and to adopt such for
indicating the sovereignty of the State and the pro-
lection of its institutions shall appear to them
be demanded. Said Convention shall adopt such rules
and regulations for its government and for the proper
transaction of business they shall think proper
The officers, members and assistants of said COnven-
ton shall receive the compensation as is now
allowed by law the officers, members and assistants
of the Legislature, and the Auditor of Public Ac
counts shall issue his the Treasury therefor
upon the certificate of the President of the amount
> due.
! SEC. 6. Be ii further enacted That in of any
4 vacancy occurring in said Convention by the death.
resignation removal of any member it shall be the
duty of the Governor to such vacancy to be FL
led by issuing his writ of election to the sheriff of the
proper country, requiring him, days notice.
: hold election according to law, to fill the same.
SEC. 7. And be further enacted, That the acts OF
the Convention proposed to be held by this act, be-
fore they become binding this State shall be sub
mitted the people at the ballot-box for their ap-
prevail, at such time and such manner the Conven-
! ton may determine.
JOHN J. McRAE.
/ Speaker Of the House Of Representatives,.
JOHN /. GUION,
Y President Of the Senate.
: Approved November 3Oth, 1850.
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