Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-28
SCHEDULE.


1t shall be the duty of the officers conducting the
elections directed by law to be held the fourth
Thursday in May next at the places appointed for
the same to open poll to take the sense of the
qualified voters of this Commonwealth, upon the
ratification or rejection of IAN 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
said Constitution" adopted in Convention, at the
city of Richmond, on the 18th day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one
?. The polbook shall be headed "The Ordinance
of Secession" and shall contain two columns, one
headed "For Ratification" and the other "For Re-
lection" 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.
g. The said officers shall make return of the mum
Der 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 pollbooks to the clerks
of their respective counties and corporations and
it shall be the duty of such clerks respectively to
transmit Immediately to the Governor of the Com
monwealth, copies Of the said returns as delivered
to them.
3. The Governor shall, without delay, make pro
clamation of the result stating therein the aggre
gate vote for and against the ratification to be pub
lished in such newspapers in the State as may be
deemed requisite for general information; and if a
majority of said votes be east for the ratification of
the said Ordinance, he shall annex to his proclama-
| ton 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 special
messengers for that purpose when necessary. And
it shall be the duty of said clerks to deliver the
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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 writers to enter the names of the
voters therein, shall be betrayed as in the of
the election of members of the General Assembly.
z. The qualified voters of the Commonwealth
who may be absent from the counties or corpora
tons of their residence the day of election In the
military service of the State may vote for the ra
ficaon rejection of said Ordinance at such place
places within their encampment, or, as the COM
mander at such encampment shall designate, wheth-
er the said encampment shall be within the limits of
the State not For each place of voting he shall
appoint superintendent, three commissioners and
as many clerks shall be necessary, who having
been first only sworn by him shall perform the
duties required of and be liable to the penalties im~
posed upon such officers under the election laws OF
this State.
s. The officers conducting the said election shall
on the day after the election, as soon thereafter
as may be, deliver the poll-books to the said com.
mander, who shall forthwith forward the same to
the Governor of this Commonwealth, who shall
count the said votes ascertainng the result of the
said election in the State.
8. 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 fourth Thursday in May next, is
hereby suspended and prohibited until otherwise
ordered by this Convention.
Done in Convention in the City of Richmond on
the twenty>fourth day of April, eighteen hundred
and sixty and in the eighty-sixth year of the
Commonwealth of Virginia.
A true copy: JoHNsL. EUBANK,
Secretary of Convention.