Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-02
Proposed Act. l

Proposed Act
 An Act to provide for the calling of Con-
 stitutional Convention.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 Section l. The question is hereby sub- mitted to the electors of this State, wheth- CT Convention shall or shall not be call ed, for the purpose of framing, in the manner and under the limitations and re- strictiOns of this Act, form of a Consti- tuition for the State of Connecticut, to be proposed to the electors of this State for their adoption or rejection. Electors meetings shall be held in the several towns of this State, and in the several voting districts of those towns which are divided into voting districts, on the first day of September, 1873, for the purpose of deciding said question, and for the fur ther purpose of electing delegates, who shall represent said towns respectively in said Convention, if sad question shall be decided in the affirmative, but not other wise.
 Section g. The selectmen of the sever al towns shall provide, at each of the places where said meetings are to be re- spectively held, two ballot-boxes. One of said ballot boxes in each place shall have the words Shall the Contention be calleds conspicuously labelled or marked there on. Such electors, entitled to vote at said place, as are in favor of calling Con vention for the purpose of framing, in the manner, and under the limitations and re- strictions of this Act, form of Consti- tuition to be proposed to the electors of this State for their adoption or rejection, shall deposit in said box their ballots with the word Yes written or printed thereon. Such of said electors as are not in favor of calling such Convention, for the pur- pose aforesaid, shall deposit in said box their ballots, with the word No written or printed thereon. If majority of the whole number of such ballots, so cast in this State, shall be in favor of the calling of such Convention as aforesaid, then said Convention shall be deemed duly called-otherwise not. The other ballot box, in each of said places, shall have the words Delegate boe conspicuously label led or marked theraon. Each of said electors, in any town which is entitled to two Representatives in tha present House of Representatives, shall deposit in said last named box in his town or district, his ballot for two electors of said town, and no more, as delegates of said town; and each of said electors in any town which is entitled to only one Representative in the in the present House of Representatives, shall deposit in said last named box. in his town or district. his ballot for one elector of said town, and no Tore, as del egate of said town. The election of said delegates shall be determined by plurali- ty vote, in the same 1..anner in which elections of Representatives are now de termined. If it shall be ascertained, in the manner hereinafter provided, that said Communion is duly called, then the dele gates so elected shall represent, in said Convention. the towns by which they shall have been elected; but if it shall be ascertained, in the manner hereinafter provided, that said Convention is not du- ly called, then the election of said dele gates shall be and remain utterly null and void.
 Section 3. Within ten days after the holding of said meetings, in the several towns, shall make return to the Secretary of this State, of the number of votes so cast, in, said towns, respectively, m favor of and against the calling of said Conven-