Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-19

AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Mississippi.
srcrroN / BE it enacted By the Legislature OF Ehe
Stoe of Mississippi two-thirds of each branch con-
currng) That the sixteenth section Oh the ioui
tice Of the Constitution of the State OF Mississippi
be stricken out and abrogated, and In heu oeIeo' ~
following article shall be inserted:
g Section I6 In proceedings in said Circuit Court
there shall be no distinction between legal and eqta
BILE remedies and uniform course OF procedure Sa'
in all cases, be established /"
SEC. g Be 1T further enacted, That 1t shall DC tne
duty of the Secretary of State, at least six months
preceding the general election, to give notice by al
yertsement, in three more newspapers printed III
this State of this act and the amendment proposed
thereby to the existing Constitution of the state
and at said election the qualified voters of the State
voting for members of the Legislature shall also vote
for or against said amendment in manner following
The managers, of them, at each and every
election precinct, shall ask each voter whether he is
for or against said proposed amendment, and shall ex
plain the same to him, and shall the votes SO
rven to be recorded in separate book to be kept for
that purpose, under the heads of Chancery Amend
ments, and Chancery no Amendments and the Sher-
f of each county is hereby required to furnish the
managers of each precinct in the county with copy
of this act 90 :
e,ru .. Dc It fsr to, r,,Iotol, That tho Sheriffs of
the different couEtes shall make returns of the votes
taken for or against said amendment and aso of the
whole number of votes given for members of the
Legislature, in their respective counties to the Secre-
tary of State in the manner, and under the same
rules and regulations prescribed by law in rea-
ton to members of Congress and 1t shall be the duty
of the Secretary of State to lay all the returns SO
made before the next succeeding Legislature and II
it shall appear that majority of the qualified electors
voting for members of the Legislature shall have vo-
ted for said amendment the alteration contained in the
first section of the act shall be inserted by said Legis
lature in lieu of the section abrogated, part of the
Constitution of this State.
Sec. 4. BE 1t further enacted That the Auditor OF
Sba1li tho
in favor of any printer or publisher of newspaper en-
ployed in pursuance of the second section of this act
on the certificate of the Secretary of State that the
account of such printer or publisher is correct.
Sec 5. And be 1t further enacted, That this act shall
be in force from and after its passage.
| Approved, March 9Th, 1851.
A RESOLUTION to amend the Constitution of thu
State of Mississippi.
Be 1T resolved by the Legislature Of the State OF M1sslS
suppl, That the following article be added to the Con
sttuton amendment thereto:
ELECTROMAGNETIC VIII.
SECTION 5. The Legislature, alta regular session
thereof, in the year thousand eight hundred an
ffty-two, shall pass law fixing the time of holding
the election for Governor Secretary of State Audto
of Public Accounts State Treasurer Attorney Gener
al, Members of the Legislature and Representative
in Congress- which law sla provide that said election
shall not be held at the time when the other public OF
ficers elected.
SEC. 2. That the Secretary of State shall give pub
lie notice of the foregoing amendment, at least 81
months previous to the next general election,
ding to the provisions of the Constitution.
SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the several
ficers holding the next general election, to ask tn
qualified voters, they present their tickets, whethe
they for against the amendment and the sever
al clerks shall make record thereof the
be, and the shall be returned by the Secretary
State, in time and manner prescribed by law.
Approved March 9, 1850.
Jackson, Miss, April %, 1S51-l4-27t