The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-11-10
WHOLE NUMBER 1877
Eows of Rbo0e lslon0.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO
VIDENCE PLANTATIONS.

STATE OF KHODE lSbAND AM IhO-
VIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General assembly, oct. Session, 1853.
AN ACT recommending a Convention
of the people of the State to revise
the Constitution Of the State.
II is enacted By the General assembly as
Joii0US
Section |. The people Of this State
are hereby invited and requested, to give
in their ballots at their town, district or
ward meetings to be holden on Monday,
the 2lst day of November next, in r'la-
ton to tho Convention hereafter pro-
vided for on such ballots shall DO
printed or written the question" Shall
the delegates elected on the 2eth OF
Juue, A. ID. 1853, under, and by virtue
of an act recommending Convention,
passed at the last May Session Of tho
General" Assembly, convene for the
purpose of considering the expedicncy
of framing Constitution of government
for this State, differing from the present
Constitution in these specific and only
particulars, to wit the abolition of the
registry tax; the extension Of the time
of registration as a qualification for
voting; and the districting the cities
and large towns of the State in
the election of Representatives to the
General Assembly :" and upon such
ballots shall be printed or written, by
those voters who are in favor Of the pro-
posed Convention, the word 4" Yes"
and by those voters who are opposed
the word No; ;" and the votes
upon said question shall be in open town,
district or ward meeting, to be holden
as hereinafter provided; and the votes
in the several town, district and ward
meetings in the State, shall be received,
sorted, counted, declared, transmitted,
as the votes for general officers are now
received, sorted, counted, declared and
except that the same shall
be transmitted to the Governor and Sec
retary of State; and the Governor and
Secretary of State shall. open and exam
inc said returns made as aforesaid, and
count the votes given and returned;
and the Governor shall by public pro-
on or before the first day
December, A. d. eighteen hundred and
fifty three, make known the result by
declaring the number of votes in favor
of such Convention, and the number of
votes against the same And if it shall
appear that majority of the votes given
in and returned as aforesaid, are in favor
of said Convention, it shall be deemed
and taken to be the will of the people of
this State, that said Convention shall
meet for the purposes aforesaid and
he Governor shall by proclamation con-
,ene said delegates, and such other
delegates as may be elected as herein
lfter provided to meet in Convention on
he 10Th day of December, A. d. eight
zen hundred and fifty-three, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, at the State
House, in Providence, for the purpose
Iforesaid.
See. 2. All persons who have their
csidence in this State, and who at the
lnnual election in April last were quail
led to vote for general officers, aud all
,thers who by existing laws shall become
o qualified previous to the last meeting
f the Board of Canvassers as herein
fter provided, shall be allowed to vote
y ballot as aforesaid ,iupon the question
d relation to such Convention, and in
be election of delegates thereto as here
natter provided, and all such persons
esiding in a town, ward, or district,
ther than that in which they were
uali6ed, on producing certificate from
ne proper clerk of such qualification,
hall be entitled to vote in the town,
istrict, or ward, in which they reside
t the time of the meeting of the Board
Canvassers as hereinafter provided.
nd all persons who would have been
,us qualified at said annual election,
ad they been twenty-one years Of age,
nd shall have since that time arrived
. that age, shall also be allowed to vote
; aforesaid. The provisions Of the ex'