Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-01
SCHEDULED.


It shall be the duty of the officers conducting the
elections directed by law to be held on the fourth
Thursday in May next, at the places appointed for
holding the same, to open poll to take the sense OF
the qualified voters of this Commonwealth upon the
ratification 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" adopted in Convention at the
city of Richmond on the seventeenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
2. The poll-book shall be headed The Ordinance
of Secession" and shall contain two columns
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 of those who
vote for its rejection shall be written under the lat
ter heading.
8. The said officers shall make return of the num-
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
turns together with the poll-books to the Clerks of
their respective counties and corporations; and it
shall be the duty of such Clerks respectively to trans
nit Immediately to the Governor of the Common
wealth copies of the said returns SO delivered to
them
4 The Governor shall, without delay make pro-
camaton of the result stating therein the aggregate
vote for anG 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 ratification of the said
Ordinance, he shall annex to his proclamation copy
thereof together with this Schedule.
5. The Secretary of this Commonwealth shall
cause to be sent to the Clerks of each county and
corporation as many copies Of this Schedule and Or
dinance aforesaid as there places of voting there
IN, and three copies to each of the military COM
manders, hereinafter referred to- using special mes
sengers for that purpose when necessary. And it
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to the Sherifs 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 writers to enter the names of the
voters therein shall be betrayed as in the case of
the election of members to the General Assembly
z. The qualified voters of the Commonwealth who
may be absent from the counties or corporations of
their residence the day Of election in the militia
~ service of the State may for the ratification
rejection of the said Ordinance at such place or
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 this State or not For each place of voting he
shall appoint superintendent three commissioners
and as many clerks as shall be necessary who after
having been first duly sworn by him. shall perform
the duties required 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
the day after the election or as soon thereafter
as may be- deliver the poll books to their said COM
mander, who shall forthwith forward the same to
the Governor of this Commonwealth, who shall
count the said votes in asceraning the result of the
said election in the State.
g. 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 otherwise ordained
by this Convention.
Done in Convention in the city of Richmond on
the Gath day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, and in the eighty .sixth year of the Common
wealth of Virginia.
A True Copy, JOHN L. EUBANK
Secretary of Convention