Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-08
OBJ STANDARD.
RALEIGH: SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1861.
The Convention Act. l

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We publish below the act passed by the Legisla-
ture of this State on Wednesday last calling Con-
yention. 1t was passed on the first day of the spe
cial session. The House of Commons voted for it
unanimously, and but three votes were cast against
it in the Senate.
North Carolina is unit in defence of her rights
and liberties She hurls defiance at Abraham Lin
coin and his black Republican cohorts, and she will
make common cause with Virginia and the other
slaveholdlng States: -
A BILL
To authorize and require the Gouernor Of North
Carolina to call Contention of the people Of
this State.
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Of
the State Of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted
bv the authority of the sanle-twothirds of all the
members Of each House concurring-that upon the
passage of this act, His Excellency, the Governor,
be, and he is hereby authorized and required to is
sue his proclamation ordering an election to be held
in each aad every county in this State, on Monday
the thirteenth day of May, A. D. 1861 upon the feder
al basis for delegates to Convention of the people
of this State to at the seat of Government
in the City Of Raleigh, on Monday, the twentieth
day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and sixty-one.
Sec g. That the said Convention shall consist of
one hundred and twenty delegates and each county
in the State shall be entitled to elect the same num-
Der of delegates to said Convention it has of
members of the House of Commons under the last
apportionment.
Sec g. That the said election Of delegates shall
be held and conducted in the same manner and at
the same places as elections for members Of the Gen.
eral Assembly are now held in this State, and the
vote shall be counted and the scrolls compared and
certificates issued to the delegates elect in the
ner prescribed by law in the of election for
members of the House of Commons.
Sec. 4. That in case any vacancy shall occur by
the death, resignation removal from the State
by the refusal to of any person elected dele
gate to said Convention, the presiding officer of said
Convention shall issue his writ directed to the sheriff
of the county in which such vacancy may have occur
red, after giving such notice as may be ordered by
the Convention, to open poll and hold an election
to fill such vacancy, in the same manner, and under
the same rules and regulations as are herenbefore
prescribed for the election Of original delegates.
Sec g. That the members Of said Convention
shall be entitled to the same mileage and per diem
pay received by the members of the present General
Assembly, to be paid out of the Treasury in the
same manner as the d.members are now paid, and
said Convention shall by vote fix the pay Of all
their officers and of any delegates or representatives
whom they may appoint to any Convention or Con-
gress and shall provide for all other expenses incur
red by said Convention to be paid out of any money
in the Treasury in the manner they direct.
Sec g. That this act shall be in force from and
Immediately after its ratification.