Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-21

above signed, is true. Given under my
hand, this - day Of -- 1861.
The original poll books shall be care
fully kept by the conducting officers foe
ninety days after the day Of the election,
and upon the demand of the Executive
shall be delivered to such person as he may
authorize to demand and receive them.
SIC 3. The commissioners conducting
the said election in each of said counties
shall ascertain, at the same time they as
certain the vote upon the formation OF
new State, who has been elected from
their county TO the Convention hereinbe-
fore provided for, and shall certify to the
Secretary of the Commonwealth the name
OF names of tue person or persons elected
to the said Convention.
SEC. 9. II shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor on or before the fifteenth day OF
November next, to ascertain and by proc
lamation make known the result OF tue
said vote, and IL u majority of the votes
given within the boundaries mentioned in
the first section of this Ordinance shall be
in favor of the formation of new State,
he shall so state in his said proclamation,
and shall call upon said delegates to meet
in tue city of Wheeling on the 26th day of
November next, and organize themselves
into Convention, and the said Convention
shall submit for ratification or rejection
the Constitution that may be agreed upon
by it, to the qualified voters within the
proposed State, to be voted upon by the
said voters on the fourth Thursday in De-
cember next.
SEC. 4. The county of Ohio shall elect
three delegates; the counties of Harrison,
Eauawha, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia,
Preston and Wood shall each elect two,
and the other counties named in the FIRST
section of this Ordinance shall each elect
one delegate to the said Convention. And
such other counties as are described in the
third section of this Ordinance shall, for
every seven thousand of their population,
according to the census of 1860, be enti-
| tied to one delegate, aud to an additional
delegate for any fraction over thirty-fiye
| hundred; but each of said counties shall
be entitled to one delegate.
SEC. g. 1t shall be tile duty of the Gov
ernor to lay before the General Assembly,
at its next meeting, for their consent, ac-
/ cording to the Constitution of the United
States, the result of the said vote, if it
shall be found that majority of the votes
cast be in favor of new State, and also
| in favor of the Constitution proposed to
/ said voters for their adoption.
| SEC. 8. Said new State shall take upon
itself just proportion of the public debt
of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to
the LIST day of January, 1861, to be ascer-
| tanned by charging to it all State expendi-
lures within the limits thereof, and just
proportion of the ordinary expenses of the
State government, since any part of said
debt was contracted, and deductiug there
from the monies paid into the treasury of
the Commonwealth from the counties in
cluded within the said new State within
the same period. All private rights and
| interests in lands within the proposed
State, derived from the laws of Virginia
prior to such separation, shall remain valid
and secure under tine laws of the proposed
State, aud shall be determined by the laws
now existing in the State of Virginia.
The lands within the proposed State, of
nonresident prOprietors, shall not in any
case be taxed higher than the lands of re-
sidenis therein. No grants of lands, or
land warrants issued by the proposed
State, shall interfere with any warrant is
sued from the Land Office of Virginia, pri-
or to the 18th day of April last, which
shall be located ON lands within the pro-
posed State, now liable thereto.
SEC. 10. 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 con-
sent, together with an official copy of such
Constitution, with the request that the said
new State may be admitted into the Union
of States.
SEC. IL. The Government of the State
of Virginia, as recognized by this Con-
veuLiuu at its session in June last, shall re-
tain, within the territory of the proposed
State, undiminished and unimpaired, all
the powers and authority with which it
has been vested, until the proposed State
shall be admitted into the Union by the
Congress of the United States; aud moth
! ing in this ordinance contained, or which
shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall
impair our effect the authority of the said
re-organized State government in any
county which shall not be included in the
proposed State.
Mr.. VAS wISKLE-The questions involv-
ed here arc those OF boundary and oftime.
We had conceded to the gentlemen on the
other side an opportunity of bringing this
matter before the Legislature ut its next
session, in consideration, partly, at least,
of the fact that if the nextlegislature holds
only its regular session it will not meet un-
til two years after December next. 1t,
\ however, it will be seen. leaves discretion
enough in the Legislature to act upon this
matter, and ifas we have feared tho state OF
the country should be such that this vote
cannot be taken in any or any considerable
number of the counties, why, of course,
the thing would fail for the present.
Again, sir, what we think, TO some e1-
tent, has been conceded to us is that an
other Convention shall be called for the
purpose of making Constitution for the
new State. There were serious objections
to going on with the old Constitution aud
organizing government under its provis-
ions, and in II few months have to make
another Constitution. The Constitution of
the new State will therefore be submitted
10 the people before the application comes
before the Legislature.
In reference 10 tho boundary, can only
refer gentlemen to the bill. There have
been so many different and conflicting
views in reference to that subject that IL is