Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-07
CONSTITUTIONAL CONvENTION
Ninth Day.
FRIpRY. Dec. s.

The Convention was opened with prayer
by Rev. D. w. Fisher of Wheeling, of the
Presbyterian church.
The minutes were read.
Mr. CALDwELL explained thatiu making
the report of the Committee on the Execu-
tive, he had offered the substitute for the
ninth section not as minority report but
merely as proposition as an individual
member of the Committee. .-.
+ Mr.. STEVENSON, of Wood, reminded the
Convention that he had yesterday present
ed petition from the citizens of his coun-
ty, signed by three or four hundred names
asking for a system of ballot voting, and
that no mention of the tsct was made in the
minutes. He asked this correction to
be made in the journal.
The correction was made.
Mr.. WARDER offered the following which
was adopted
ResoI1sd, That this Convention will
meet in this Hall on Monday, Dec. 8, 1861,
at o'clock P NJ, and in a body visit the 9th
ward public school of this city, in response
to the invitation received and accepted on
Wednesday, and that the Secretary of the
Convention Immediately inform the officers
of said school of the proposed visit.
Mr.. RuFFNER offered the following:
RESOLVED, That if, from any cause, full
and free expression of the popular will in
the counties embraced in tables B, G and
D, or any of said districts cannot be had
on the said third Thursday of April, 1862,
provision shall be made for eliciting the
same on some other day.
Referred.
Mr.. WI1sox offered the following, which
was also referred:
RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of
Legislature of this State to make suitable
l. lay off
ties of this Commonwealth in school dis
tricts for free schools, to be supported by
such portion of the Literary Fund of the
State of Virginia as this new State may
be entitled to. All monies arising to the
State by fines, penalties, forfeitHres, &c,
and monies accruing to the State from con-
fiscation of property of rebels residing
within the boundaries of this State, and
two-thirds of the capitation tax to be le-
We'd and collected annually according to
the provisions of this constitution, shall
be applied to the establishment and sup
port of public free schools.
Mr.. DoLLeY offered the following:
RESOLVED, That the people of West Vir-
ginin, now ia Convention in the City OF
| Wheeling to revise and frame Constitu-
ton for the proposed new State, do, before
proceeding in the annexation of counties,
repeal the act of the former Convention on
boundary This done, will set the Con-
vcntion at perfect liberty to act on the
repeal of the report of the Committee on
Boundary.
Laid upon the table on motion of Mr..
Pomeroy.
The unfinished business, the considera-
ton of the report of the Committee on
Boundary, was taken up.
The question occurred on the amend
ment of Mr.. Ollie to the motion of Mr..
Harrison. The motion was to stribe out
the county of Mcdowell from the report,
and the amendment proposed to also strike
out the counties of Mercer, Monroe, Green
brier, and Pocnhontas.
Messrs. Dering, Brooks, Parker, and
Stevenson of Wood, spoke in favor of the
amendment, and Messrs. Rutfner and Brown
of Kanawha, against
After Mr. BRowN had finished, the Con-
yention took recess.