Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-30
[SCHEDULE.1

ISCHEDULE
It shsllbe the duty of the officers conducting
the elections directed by law to be held on the
fourth Thursday in May next, at the places ap
pointed for holding the same to open poll to
take the sense of the qualified voters of this Com
monwealth, upon the ratification or rejection
Of AN ordinance to repeal the ratification of the
Constitution of the United States of America, by
the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights
and powers granted under the said Constitution y
adopted 10 Convention, at the city of Richmond,
on the Seventeenth day of April,t one Thousand
eight hundred ana sixty-one.
2. The pol-book shall be- headed "The Ordi
nance of Secession and shall contain two col
urnns, one headed "For Ratification" and the 9TH
err For Rejection" and the names Of those who
vote for the ratification OF the said Ordinance
shall be written under the former heading, and
the names Of those who vote for its rejection shall
be written under the latter heading.
8. The said officers shall make return OF the
number of persons voting for each proposition at
the time and in the manner provided by law in
the case of other elections, and shall forthwith
deliver the returns together with the poll books,
to the Clerks of their respective counties and cor
porations; and it shall be the duty of such Clerks
respectively to transmit Immediately to the Gov
ernor of the Common wealth copies Of the said
returns so delivered to them. at.
A. The Governor shall, without delay, make
proclamation of the result, stating therein the
aggregate vote for end against the ratification, to
be published in such newspapers in the State as
may be deemed requisite for general information /;
and if majority OF said votes be cast for the rat
i6cation of the said Ordinance, he shall annex to
his proclamation copy thereof, together with
this Schedule.
5. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
cause to be sent to the Clerks of each county and
corporation as many copies Of this Schedule and
Ordinance aforesaid as there are places of voting
therein, and three copies to each of the military
commanders, hereinafter referred to, using spe-
cial messengers for that purpose when necessary.
And it shall be the duty of said clerks to deliver
the same to the Sheritfs for distribution, whose
duty it shall be forthwith to post the said copies
at some public place in each election district.
6. The expenses incurred In providing poll
books, and in procuring writer's to enter the
names of the voters therein, shall be betrayed as
in the of the election OF members to the Gen
eral Assembly. $
z. The qualified voters of the Commonwealth,
who may be absent from the counties or oorpo-
rations of their residence on the day of election
in the military service Of the State, may vote for
the ratification or rejection of the said Ordinance
at such PLACE or places within their encampment,
or, as the commander ct SUCH encampment shall
designate, whether the said encanpment shall
be within the limits of this State or not, For
each place of voting he shall appoint q superin-
tendent, three commissioners, and as many clerks
as shall be necessary ,who, after having been first
duly sworn by him, shall perform the duties re-
quired OF, and be liable to the penalties imposed
upon, such officers under the election laws OF this
State.
8. The officers conducting the said election
shall, on the day after the election, or as soon
thereafter as may be, deliver the pol-books to
their said commander, who shall forthwith for
ward the same to the Governor of this Common
wealth, who shall count the said votes in ascer-
tanning the result of the said election in the State
9. That the election for members of Congress
for this State to the House of Representatives of
the Congress OF the United States, required by
law to be held on the 4th Thursday in May next,
is hereby suspended and prohibited until other
wise ordained by this Convention.
Done in Convention in the city of Richmond
on the Oath doy of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, and in the eighty-sixth year of the
Commonwealth of Virginia: M
A True Copy, JOHN L. EUBANK.
Secretary of Convention.