Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-20
THE VIRGINIA ELECTION.
Separate Votes only on the Test Oat
and DISTINGUISHING Clauses.

and DISTINGUISHING Clauses
In pursuance of the act of Congress ap-
proved April 10th. 1869, I hereby de-
signate the 9th day of July, 1869, as the
time for submitting the Constitution passed
by the Convention which met in Richmond
Virginia, on Tuesday. the 3rd day of De-
cember, 1867, to the voters of said State,
registered at the date of such submission.
viz: July 9th, for ratification or rejection,
and Isubmit to separate vote the fourth
clause Of section one, article third of said
Constitution, which is in the following
words:
Every person who has been Senator
or Representative in Congress, or elector
of President or vice-P President, or who
held any Office, civil or military, under
the United States. or under any State,
who, having previously taken an cath as
a member of Congress, or as an officer of
the United States, Or as a member of a
State Legislature, or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, shall have
engaged II instruction or rebellion
against the same, or given aid OF comfort
to the enemy thereof This clause shall
include the following officers: Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
auditor of public accounts, second audit
or, register of the land office, State Urea
surer, attorney general, sherifs, sergeant
OF city or surveyor, constables, over
seers Of the poor, commissioner of the
board of public works, judges of the Su-
preme Court, judges of the Circuit Court,
Judge of the Court of Hastings, justices
ct the county courts, mayor, recorder,
alderman, councilmen of city or town,
ooroners, executors, inspector of tobacco
and -four, and clerks of the Supreme,
District, Circuit and County Courts and
of the Court of Hastings, and attorneys
for the Commonwealth; provided that the
Legislature may, by vote of three-ifths
OF both houses, remove the disabilities in
Cured by this clause from any person
included therein, by separate vote on
each case.'
And l also submit to separate vote the
seventh section of article third of the said
constitution which is in the words fol-
lowing:
In addition to the foregoing oath of Of
lice, the Governor Lieutenant Governor,
members of the General Assembly, Sec
rotary of State, Auditor of Pubic Ac-
counts, State Treasurer, Attorney Gener-
al, and all persons elected to any conven
ton to frame constitution for this State,
or to amend or revise this constitution in
any manner, and the mayor and council
IN any city or town shall, before they en-
ter on the duties of their respective off.
ces, take and subscribe the following oath
or affirmation, provided the disabilities
therein contained may be individually
removed by three-ffth vote of the Gen
eral Assembly: d., do solcmnlv
swear or affirm, that have never yolun-
tarily borne arms against the United
States since | have been citizen thereof j:
that l have voluntarily given no aid,
countenance, counsel. or encouragement
to persons engaged in armed hostility
thereto; that have never sought or ac-
cepted or attempted to exercise the func-
tons Of any Office whatever under any au-
thority or pretended authority in hostility
to the United States that I have not yield
ed voluntary support to any pretended
government, authority, power, or consti-
tuition within the United States hostile or
inimical thereto. And I do further swear
Cor affirm, that to the best of my knowl-
edge and ability I will support and de-
fend the constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that | will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same that | take this obligation
freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion, and that 1 will well
and faithfully discharge the duties of the
Office on which I am about to enter. so
help me God
direct the vote to be taken upon each
of the above cited provisions alone, and
upon the other portions of the said con
stitution in the following manner, viz:
Each voter favoring the ratification of
the constitution, excluding the provisions
above quoted, famed by conventien of De-
eember Sd, 1869, shall express his judg-
ment by voting for the. constitution. Each
voter must be allowed to least a separate
ballot for or against either or both of the
provisions.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city Of Washington this 14th day of May,
in the years Of our Lord one thousand
eighthundred and sixty mine. and of the
Independence of the United State of
America the ninety third.
y. s. GRANT.