The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-02-28

to hold the Saule dC anJ
ting in the said forty-eight counties,
the voters may hold the said polls at
any place within, or convenient to-,
their respective counties; and any
voter prevented from voting on the
said question in the county where he
resides, by just apprehension of per-
sonal danger, or any other cause,
NAV vote in any other county upon
making oath that he is entitled to
vote on the question of the ratifca.
ton OF the Amended Constitution OF
West Virginia, and that he has not
voted. and will not vote, elsewhere
Oh that question.
Sec. I. Every superintendent, com
missioner, conductor and cler k shall,
before entering on the discharge OF
his duties, take the following oath or
affirmation: II do Solemnly swear
Cor affirm that in the polls about to
be taken, l will faithfully, impartl-
ally and fairly discharge the duties
pertaining to my office. according to
law. And that | will support the
Constitution of the United States,
and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, as the supreme law of the
land, anything in the Constitution
and laws Of the State Of Virginia, or
in the Ordinances Of the Convention
which assembled at Richmond on the
18th day Of February, 1861, to the
contrary Notwithstanding
Sec. S. Immediately after the polls
at any place of voting, shall be clos
ed, the commissioners superintend-
ing such polls, and officers conduct
ing the same, shall make and sub
scribe a certificate to the following
effect: owe, A. B. and c. D., COM
missioners, and E. f., conductor, for
taking the polls at ---ln the
county of--do hereby certify
that we have fairly and ilnpartially
taken the said polls, this - day
g. according to law, and
that the result thereof, as more fully
shown by the poll books hereto at
tached, is votes for the Amen
ded Constitution of West Virginia
and votes against the same. .
In the said certificate, the number of
votes shall be written out in words
at length. And the commissioners
and conductor shall, within SIX
days after the polls are closed, cause
the poll books and certificates to be
delivered to the superintendent Of
the polls for the county, who shall,
as soon as possible thereafter, trans
NIT their certificates of the number
of votes cast within the county for
and against the Amended Constitu-
ton, to the President Of this Con-
veution at the city of Wheeling, and
deliver the poll books to the clerk of
their county court, to be held subject
to the order of the executive COM
mittee.
SEC. 8. All persons qualified to
vote under the Amended Coustitu-
ton shall be entitled to vote on the
question Of it's ratification. And the
executive committee shall provide
for taking at any time from the 18th
to the 2Gth of March next, including
both of the said days, and for certl-
flying and returning the votes of such
persons, qualified as aforesaid, as
may, at the time the polls are to be
taken on the said question, be in the
armies or service of the United
States, whether within or beyond
the boundaries of the proposed State
of West Virginia; but any votes so
taken beyond the said boundaries
shall be distinctly 80 stated in the
certificate of the returns thereof
Sec. 10. The returns made as afore-
said to the President Of this Conven-
ton, shall be opened by him and the
result ascertaned in the presence Of
the Executive Committee, And lift
shall appear that a majority of the
votes cast at the polls, to be taken as
aforesaid, within the limits of the
State of West Virginia, be in favor
of the ratification Of the said Amen
ded Constitution, then the President
of this Convention shall, under his
hand, certify to the President of the
United States that the people of West
Virginia, through this Convention,
and by vote taken at an election
held within the limits of said State,
at the time for that purpose provided
by this Convention, have made and
ratified the change in the Constition
of the said State of West Virginia,
proposed in the act Of the Congress
ofthe United States, approved Deem
Der 81, 1852, entitled Gan Act for the
admission of West Virginia into the
Union and for other purposes, . which
certificate shall be counterslgned oy
said Executive Com mittee.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty OF
James w. Paxton Peter G. Van
Wrinkle, Ebert II. Caldwell, Ephr-
aim B. Hall, and Daniel Lamb, who
are hereby appointed a committee
for the purpose, to be called the Elk
ecutive Committee ofthis Convention,
and who shall have authority to fill
vacancies in their own body, and a