Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-02-27
PROCLAMATION.
BY the Governor OF Indiana.

JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, Governor Of the State of Ind
ana, 10 the several Judges, Inspectors Clerks and
other officers of the several counties of this State au
ihorzed by law hold elections for the various officers
of the State, and to all others whom il may concern
Greeting:
Know We that the Convention which assembled ON
the first Monday of October 1850 at Indianapolis for
the purpose Of revising amending altering the Gen.
stltuton of the State have pursuance the law of the
land, deposited said Constitution so made in the Office
oil the Secreayo State, due notice Of which has been
given TO me, and copy Of said Constitution is herewith
published and that by virtue of of the Legisa-
ture, approved on the lit day of February 1851 did
direct, that said instrument shall be submitted to the peo
pie of this State for their adoption or rejection al the
next annual August election and 70 say whether said in
strumen shall shall be the Constitution of the
State-among other things did provide follows, to
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% SEC. 2. There shall be vote taken on the FIRST
Monday Of August next the adoption rejection of
said Constitution and on the adoption lection oihe
separate article thereof relating the exclusion Of Ne.
groes and Muattoes from the State AMI this pur-
pose shall be the duty of the Inspectors and Judges of
elections in the several townships in this State on said
first Monday of August next 10 open a poll in which
shall he entered all the votes given for and against the
adoption of said Constitution and Of said separate Art
Gle Said election shall be 10y ballot, and shall be gov
erned in all respects by the laws in force in relation
to general elections, so far as applicable.
SEC. B. Those voting against the adoption of said
Constitution shall written or printed tickets in this
form: Against the Constitution and those voting for
its adoption shall written or printed tickets in this
voting against the separate article in relation TO the ex
clusion Of Negroes and Mulattoes and their colonial
ton, shall have written printed his ticket these
words: No exclusion and colonization of Negroes;'
and every voter who is in favor Of adopting said article
shall have written printed his ticket these words
Exclusion and colonization of Negroes and Muattoes
SEC. a. Poll books shall be kept votes counted and
certified TO the clerks OF the different counties as IN 9TH
elections and the returns of the for and against
the adoption of said Constitution, and for and against
said separate article shall be made by said Clerks TO the
Secretary OF State, within DAYS after said election:
and said SHALL within twenty DAYS thereafter be
examined and canvassed 10y the Auditor Treasurer and
Secretary OF State any of them in the presence
OF the Governor and such other persons may choose
to attend and proclamation shall be made forthwith by
the Governor OF the result OF the election II IL shall
appear that majority of all the poed at snch
election given favor of said Constitution shall
become the Constitution Of the State of Indiana from
the fl 8 iay of November 1851; but if shall appear
that majority of all the pocd for against the
adoption Of said Constitution and said separate article
were gigcn against the adoption of said Constitution
then the shall be- and remain imperative and void
IL II shall further appear that majority Of all the
polled Ter against the adoption OF said Constitution
and said separate article given favor Of te arti
Gle in relation To the exclusion of Negroes and Mula-
toes, and their colonization. then said article shall be
and form part Of said Constitutions otherwise said ar
1 ticle shall be void
Therefore in compliance with the provisions Of said
Constitution and Of the act aforesaid, do hereby direct
and enlon upon all the officers of this State authorized
by law 10 hold The next annual August eecsn and all
Others whom It may concern, to observe and obey, and
all things conform each and all the requirements
and provisions OF said law.
In testimony whereof have signed this proclamation,
and caused the seal of this State 10 be hereunto
affixed, at indianapolis, on this the 25lh day Of
r.. s.. February, 4. d., 1851, and in the thirty-hh
year OF the State, and the seventy-ilth Of the
JOS. A. WRIGHT
! By the Governor:
CHARLES H TEST, Secretary Of State