Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-05-06

prescribed in the third section of this act, the
legal voters shall, by ballot, elect Delegates to
| Convention and each county, and Baltimore
CITY. shall be entitled to the same number OF
| Delegates to the Convention as they now have
respectively in both Houses of the General As
sembly of Maryland; and the laws relating to the
election of Delegates to the General Assembly,
shall in all respects govern and apply to the e.
lection of Delegates to the said Convention, and
the said Convention shall determine on the val
idity of the election and qualification OF its
members and any legal voter shall be eligible
Ito seat in said Convention.
Sec 5. Aad be 1t enacted, That the Delegates
elected to said Convention shall meet at the city
of Annapolis, on the first Wednesday of Janu-
airy, eighteen hundred and ffty-nine, and shall
continue in session until the business for which
they were convened shall be fully completed
and finished +; and the compensation of said Del
legates to said Convention shall be four dollars
per day during the session thereof and the mile
age now allowed by law to members of the
House of Delegates and said Convention shall
have power to appoint such clerks and other Of
fcers as may be necessary to facilitate the bu-
siness of said Convention, and the compensation
of said clerks and other officers shall be the same
as is now paid to similar clerks and officers of
the House of Delegates and the said sum of
four dollars per day, and the mileage aforesaid
to each Delegate to said Convention, and the
pay aforesaid of the said clerks and other Off
GERS of said Convention, shall be paid to
them respectively, in the same way and man
ner as the per diem and mileage Of Delegates
to, and pay of clerks and other officers Of the
House of Delegates are now paid.
Sec. 6. Aaad be 1t enacted, That if any vacan-
cy or vacancies occur by death, resignation or
If tho do1oro +;opc ha-
fore provided for, either before or after the quail
fcation of said delegates, the sheriff of the coun-
ty, or of the city of Baltimore, in whose dele
CATION the vacancy or vacancies may occur,
lshall,. upon the order of the Governor of this
Estate, if the Convention shall not yet have as
sembled, or on the warrant of the President of
said Convention, if said Convention shall have
assembled, Immediately issue public notice for
holding special election to be held at the usu-
al places for holding elections in the county, or
Baltimore city, as the case may be, in not less
than five, nor more than ten days after said no
tice, for the purpose Of supplying said vacancy
or vacancies.
Sec. Z. Ind be 1t enacted, That in case of re-
flsa or neglect of any of the judges of election,
or of any clerk of the court, or sheriff of any
county, or Of Baltimore city, to make any of
the returns, or perform any of the duties re-
of this act, such Judge, clerk sheriff refus-
ing or neglecting shall be liable to Indictment
, for such offence. and upon conviction thereof,
shall be sentenced to fine of not less than five
hundred dollars ,and toimprsonmentin the Jail of
the county or city where such offence may be
Icommitted, for term Of not less than SIX
months.
Sec. 8. Ar,d be 1t enacted, That the said Con-
vention shall first report and pass upon Con-
stitution and Form Of Government by articles
81 and sections, and after the same shall be so re-
ported and passed upon by articles and sections,
then the said Constitution and Form of Govern
$ nnent shall be passed upon by said Convention
as whole instrument, on which the vote shall
j be taken by yeas and nays, and no Constitution
{ and Form Of Government shall be considered as
adopted by said Convention, nor shall any Con-
stitution and Form of Government be submitted
to the people for their adoption OF rejection which
does not upon the vote being taken thereon
as whole instrument as aforesaid, receive
the votes of a majority of the whole number Of
Delegates to said Convention.
Sec. 9. And be Henacted, That the Constitu-
ton and Form of Government adopted by the
: said Convention as aforesaid, shall on the first
Wednesday of November, eighteen hundred and
ffty-nine, be submitted to the legal and quail
fed voters of this State for their adoption
lection, and the said voters shall their ballots
f plainly designated, express their assent or dis
E sent to the adoption of the Constitution and
Form of Government submitted to them as a.
foresaid, by the following words written or print
e ed on their ballots, namely: "For the New Con-
v stitution:" or against the New Constitution,
f which said ballots shall be received and accu-
4 rately counted by the Judges of the State Elec-
: ton held on that day in the several counties Of
e this State, and in Baltimore city, and the num-
Der of the ballots given for and against the a.
doption of the said Constitution, as the case may
t be, submitted to the people as aforesaid, shall
r be returned by the said Judges of Election tx
e the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the severa
counties of this State, and Clerk of the Superior
e Court of Baltimore city, respectively, within five
d days after said election and by said respective
e clerks returned to the Governor of the State O
e Maryland, within fifteen days after said cleo
: ton.
: Sec TO- A,ad be 1T enacted, That when thu
Il Governor shall receive the number of returns O.
the ballots cast in this State for the adoption
re and rejection of the Constitution and Form O.
is Government submitted by the Convention to thu
i people as aforesaid if upon counting and cast
IS ing up the returns as made to him as aforesaid
y it shall appear that majority of the ballots
o east are in favor of the adoption of the New
e Constitution and Form of Government he shall
: issue his proclamation to the people of the STATE
declaring the same, and he shall take such steps
: as shall be required by the said Constitution t.
e cause the same to go into effect, and to super
e sede the present Constitution of this State ano
: should any ballots be cast with any other de-
n signation than that prescribed, the same shall
r not be counted for or against the said Constitu
a ton.
n Sec. II. A,ad be 1t enacted, That it shall b,
n the duty of the Governor to cause this act to b.
s published once week for three successive
d weeks previous to the said fourth Wednesday
o Of May next, in one newspaper in each of tn
counties of this State where newspaper is pub
IS lished, and in two newspapers published in tn
= CITY of Baltimore