The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-06-09
WHOLE NUMBER ll5.
laws of abu0e lslan0.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO
VIDENCE PLANTATIONS.

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO
VIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
IN General .issem6Iy, May Session,
Il. ID. 1858.
AN ACT recommending a Convention
of the People of the State, to form
Constitution for the State.
1t is enacted By the General Assembiy as
Joiiotc:
Section |. The people Of this STATE
are hereby invited and requested to give
in their ballots at their town or ward
meetings, to be holden on TUESDAY, the
twenty-eighth day of June next, in re-
lation to the Convention hereinafter
provided: on such ballots shall be
printed or written, or partly printed Or
written, by those voters who are in
favor of the proposed Convention, tn
word Convention" and by those
voters who arc opposed thereto, the
words " No Convention ;" and the yot's
upon said question shall be in open town
or ward meeting, to be holden as herein
after provided; and the votes in the
several town and ward meetings in the
State, shall be received, sorted, counted,
declared and transmitted, as the votes
for General Officers are now received,
sorted, counted declared and transmitted
to the Governor and Secretary OF State,
and the Governor and Secretary Of State
shall open and examine said returns
made as aforesaid, and count the votes
given and returned; and the Governor
shall by public proclamation, on or be-
before the fifteenth day Of July, a. d.
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, make
known the result by declaring the num-
Der 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 Conven-
ton shall meet as hereinafter provided;
and the Governor shall by proclamation
convene the delegates elected as herein
after provided, to meet in Convention
for the purpose of forming Constitu-
tion of Government for the State-ani
the people are further invited and re-
quested, at the time and place aforesaid,
to elect delegates equal in number to
the Representatives and Senator's whom
the towns and city are soverally entitled
annually to elect to the General Assem-
bly,, to meet in Convention, at the State
House, in Providence, on the 9th day
of August, A. d. eighteen hundred and
ifty-three, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purpose of forming 4
Constitution of Government for this
State.
Sec. 2 All persons who have their
residence in this State, and who at the
annual election in April last were quail
fled to vote for General Officers, and oil
others who by existing laws shall become
so qualified previous to the last meeting
of the Board of Canvassers as herein
after provided, shall be allowed to vote
by ballot as aforesaid upon the question
in relation to such Convention, and in
the election of delegates thereto, and all
such persons residing in town or ward
other than that in which they were quail
flied, on producing certificate from
the proper clerk, of such qualification,
shall be entitled to vote in the town or
ward in which they reside at the time Of
the meeting of the Boards of CanvaSserS,
as hereinafter provided. And all per.
sons who would have been thus qualified
at said Annual Election had they been
twenty-one years of age, and shall have,
since that time, arrived at that age, shall
llso be allowed to vote as aforesaid.
rhe provisions of the existing laws re-
'pecting the mode of voting, shall apply
70 all votes given in under the provis-
ons of this act. The vote for delegate
If elected by ballot, andlthe vote upon
the question of convention given by each
voter, if both are given, shall be en-
,losed in one envelope. And the names
or the delegates in any one envelope
hall be on one piece of paper.
Sec. 3. The Boards of CanvaSscrs