Litchfield enquirer., 1875-11-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.
BT HIS ExCRLLEyCY, CHARLES R. INGERSOLL, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF coxSEcr1cU1, A RRARIa unaffnn

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF coxxKcrTcUT
 A Proelamafi0n.
 WHERE at General Assembly of the State of Con- necticut, holden at New Haven on the first wednes- day of May,A D.. 1874 the House of Representative did pass two certain resolutions, each proposing certain amendment to the Constitution of this state the first of which proposed amendments was in these words following, viz:
 SECTION !. general election for goVernor lieu tenantovern"r, secretary of state treasurer comp troer and members of the general assembly, shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of oyem- Der. 1S16 and annually thereafter fer officers a= are herein, and may be by law prescrI5ed.
 SEC. 2. The state officers above named and tAe sen- ators from these districts having numbers eleted on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, Tuesday after the first Monday of November shall re- speetveiy hold their offices for to years from and next succeeding JzLuIry. The senators from th.,se districts having Oid numbers elected the Tuesday after the first Monday Of November, 1876, shall hold
 Hs SH % aE ss isSn Ana @ s afssE the Msnf6 6e electors residing in the senat ria dssrS having odd numbers shall on the Tuesday after the hIs. Monday Of November, 1871, aud LienHiaiy thereA ter elert senators who hall hold their offices for two wears rom and after the We3ne>day following the fl. st Monday of the next succeeding January The reDre- sent2tivas elected from the several towns on She Tn day after the Irst Monday Of November ISIS ana those elected annually thereafter, shall bod their othces for one year from and after Wednesday follow ing the first Nonday of the next succeeding January SECS There shall be stated session of the Gem eFal Assembly in Hartford, on Ihe Wednesday sfeer the first Monday of JInuary, Is77 and annually there atter on the Wednesday aft 1T the first Monday Jam nary.
 SEC 1. The persons who shall be seve-aIly elected to the state offices and General Assembly the first Monday of April, 1876, shall hOsi such off "uly an til the Wednesday alter the first Monday of January, ls57. SECS. Tine General Assembly elected in ADr,,- lS6, shall have Tower 10 pEss sch laws may be ne amendment
 in these words, E,llo~ing. viz
 ''The General As embly shall have power by q vote oi Iwo.tnird oi the members of bta branches to It. hsve forfeited the same by conviction of crime" and
 WHEREAS. said proposed amendments were rpsp4et- lively, continued to the next General Assembly and we're published with the laws which had been passed It .he same session, and
 WHEREAS, twC-thrds of each House at inc next ses- sion Of the General Assembly, holden at Hartford the first "Wednesday of May, A. D., 1895, did by yeas and nays, approve eaca and boIh of said proposed amendments, and did by an act entitled-"4n A,t submitting the Constitutional Amendments t0 the Inhabiants oi the Towns for their approvAI pso- vide for the preRenment of the saTne the eies.- tors in their respective towns, on the first Monday of October, A D. 1875. for their 4pprObAtion or dis appreciation thereof, and did also therein prescrb, the manner in which 1t sho- Id b. made t. appear whether 8 majority of the electors present at the town meetings, legally held and war"ed for that purpose Tn their respective to ~ns had approved or idisapprovcd the same, and
 WHEREAS, In pursuance of said act the Secretary of Stale. Treasurer and Comptroller have transmitted 10 me their certificate in the words foliowingviz:
 ''STATE OF COS >EcTIcUT,
 OFFICE OF cRETAKY STAFF,
 Hartfor 1. O. t. 18Th. 1~75. To His Eresl.,ney. Charles R. Tn1ersOu. Gorernor: "rhe undersigned having been designated by law to canvass the votes given in by the elertors their meetings in the towns in this State on the first MOaday of October, 4. D. 1875, favor of and against the approval ansi adoption of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of this State hereby certify:
 "That they entered on the duty prescribed them on this nineteenth day Of October, duly csnvxssed the said votes which received according to law Boson.
 1.-The whole number of votes received and counted relative to proposed Constitutional Amendment Nun- Der One is FOrty-three thousand seven hundred and seventy nine (43,779l, of wEich number Forty-one thousand tH huudrrd and ffty-four (aI 25l are in favor of approving aud adopting said amendment and Twenty-Five hundred Id twenty five 2525) are gfiust the approval and adoption of said proposed amend. ment. 'sThe whole number of votes received and counted. Number T so is fortytwo thousand nine hundred and eishfy-two l2 9sD of which nImoer thirty thon- approving and adopting said ann ndment and eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-thres U13e3I are against the approval and adoption of the said proposed 'An Of which is respectfully submitted.
 -. N. H. SANGER. Sec of State, Signed, { WM. F. kAYMOSD. Treasurer.
 (ALFRED R. GooDncH, Comptroller. J And it appearing therefrom that majority of the votes returned to the secretary of the ztste to said art is in fsyor Of approving and adopting each and both Of said anne Idm+nts .Hr4 do, therefore. hereby declare and make known to pcOpie OB COnbectlcut that majority of the electors present at such meetings have approved both of said amendments and that the are valid to all intents and purpOSes parts of the eonstu tor of this state. t- In testimony whereof have hereunto caused the seal of the stat. to be afixed and set my hand .t (r Hartford. this weny-seventh day of October C~@J in the year Of our Lord one thousand eight - hundred and seventy i've, and of the irde- pendsp0 of the United States the one huDdresh.
 CHARLES E. IxGKRsoLL. By His ExceIIencys command, -s.. ase E ,- M. H. 8AEGGR,
 .sr.+ Secretary of State.