Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-15

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Under which certificate there shall be
added the following affidavit:
County, to-wit:
Justice of the Peace, Tor
any officer now authorized by law to ad-
minister oaths,) in and for said County, do
certify that the above named commission
ers and conducting officer sever"!ly made
oath before mo that the certificate by them
above signed is true. Given under my
hand this day OF 1891
The original poll-boOks shall be care
fully kept by the conducting officers for
ninety DAYS after the day of the election,
and upon the demand of the Executive
shall be delivered to such person as be
may authorize to demand and receive
them.
1t shall be the duty of the Executive to
Law before the General Assembly, ut its
next meeting, the result of said vote, and
if it shall be found that a minority of the
votes cast shall be in favor of n new State
and also in favor of the Constitution framed
and proposed to said voters for their ador-
ton, it shall be the duty of the General
Assembly to give its consent to the tnrma-
ton of new State out of the territory.
aforesaid, with the following conditions:
= l. That the people of the proposed new
State shall take upon them just proper
ton of the public debt of the Common
wealth of Virginia prior to the LIST day OF
January, 1861, and receive an equitable
distribution of the assets. =
\ 2. That all private rights and interests
in lands within the proposed new State,
derived from the laws of Virginia prior to
such separation, shall remain valid and Sc
cure under the laws of the proposed new
State, aud shall be determined by the laws
now existing in the State of Virginia.
3 That the lands ..withiu the proposed
State OF nonresident proprictorS, shall not
in any case be taxed higher than the lands
of residents therein.
/. That no grants of lands nor land war
rants issued by the proposed new State
shall interfere with any warrant heretofore
issued from the land Office Of Virginia,
which shall be located on lands within the
saip proposed new State, now liable there
to.
5. That in case any complaint ordispute
at any time arise between the Common
wealth of Virginia and the proposed new
State, after it Shall become an independent
State. concerning the meaning or execution
D
lie determined by six commissioners. OF
whom two shall be chosen by each OF tue
parties, aud the remainder by the commits
sioncrs so first appointed.
And when the General Assembly shall
give its consent to the formation of such
new State, it shall forward to the Congress
OF the United States such consent, together
with an official copy Of such Constitution.
with the request that such new State may
be admitted into the Union of States.
Mr.. BoREMAY, of Tyler, offered the fol-
lowing as substitute for the substitute ::
SUBSTITUTE OF MR.. FOREMAN, OF TYLER.
WHEREAS, 1t has been represented to
this Convention that n large number of the
citizens of this Commonwealth, residing in
the Western and Northern par! of the State,
desire q division of the State, and that the
Western and Northern part be formed into
separate State: and the unsettled condi-
ton of the country renders it impossible at
this time to ascertain the wish of the peO-
pie within any boundaries likely to be
erected into Il new State, and we deem it
inexpedient, unfair and Republican to
undertake TO change the State relations of
any portion of our people without first
having given them a fair opportunity TO be
heard upon the subject; and
WHEREAS, We cannot now tell with any
degree of certainty when the people will
be relieved from the troublous state into
which they have been thrown, and left free
to act upon this grave and important sub
iect, and this Convention was hurriedly,
and FROM the most urgent necessities call
ed together by the people to stay the mighty
tide of rebellion which was then sweeping
to r all N nj
TO save our beloved country from the vor-
tex of impending ruin, aud whereas this
body is a Convention of the Sthte of Vir-
gina, and not Convention of Delegates
sent by the people from that part of the
State intended to be formed into IL new
State therefore, I've it
ResolUed, lst. That it is premature. and
would be taking understandable advantage
Of our position, and great injustice to those
of our fellow citizens, within the boUndh-
ries of the proposed new State, who are
not and cannot at this time be represented
in this body, for this Convention to under
take the formation of n Constitution for
such new State.
ID. That We are not only willing but
anxious that vote Of the people should
| be taken within the territory proposed 10
| be formed into n new State, upon tue
question of division of the State, so soon
| as the affairs of the country are in such
| condition that the people can meet at the
polls and give free and fair expression
! of their Sentiments upon the subject, there
fore we recommend the General Assembly,
provided the people within the proposed
boundaries shall be freed from their pres
ent embarrassments and the state of affairs
in the country will then admit of a full
and free expression of the popular Senti'
ment, to provide for taking vote within
the proposed boundaries on the question
of n division of the State, On the first
A Thursday of January next,
Sd. That it is the sentiment of this Con-
vention that the best interests of both sec
lions of the State demand a division, and
we further call upon and recommend the