Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1879-11-08
PROCLAMATION
OF ELECTION.

SHERIFFsS OFFICE OF ASSUMPTION,
Napoleonville, Oct. l8, 1879.
To the Qualified Electors Of the parish of
Assumption:
WHEREAS, It is provided by the
Constitutional Convention lately
held in the city of New Orleans to
frame new Constitution for the
State of Louisiana and whereas,
said Constitutional Convention has
ordered an election to be holden
throughout the State upon the first
Tuesday of December, 1879, for the
purpose of taking the sense OF the
good people of this State in regard
to the adoption or rejection of said
Constitution, at which election each
voter shall express his opinion by
depositing in the ballot-box a ticket
whereon shall be printed or written:
For the Constitution" or {. Against
the Constitution or some other
words as win distinctly convey the
intention of the voter.
And whereas, 1t is further provi-
led that at the above stated time
and place there shall be elected a
Governor, a Lieutenant Governor,
"a Secretary of State, an Attorney
General, State Auditor of Public
Accounts and a Superintendent of
Public Education for the term OF
four years.
And whereas, 1t is further provi-
ded that at the same time and place
thereGshall be elected Senators and
Representatives of the General
Assembly of this State for the term
Fof four years, to represent the
different Senatorial districts and
representative districts and parishes
as appointed in said Constitution.
And whereas, 1t is further provi-
| lded that at the same time and place
there shall be elected, for the term
of four years, one District Judge
and one District Attorney TO. each
of the judicial districts of this State.
And whereas, It is further provi-
ded that at the same time and place
there shall be elected in each parish
by the qualified electors thereof, one
EClerk of the District Court, one
Sheriff and one Coroner for the term
of four years, and as many Justices
of the Peace and Constables us now
provided by law, for the term of
four years.
All the names of the persons voted
for at said election for the Offices
hereinbofore enumerated shall be
written or printed on the same
ticket and deposited. in the same
ballot box as the vote for or against
the Constitution.
And whereas, it is further provi-
ded that at the same election held
tfor the ratification or rejection of
said Constitution, it shall be lawful
for, each voter to have written or
printed on his ballot: s'For ordin-
ance relative to State debt, y or the
words against ordinance relative
| to State debit and in the event
tthat a majority of the ballots so
cast have indorsed on them '.For
ordinance relative to State debt, y
then the ordinance and article OF
said ordinance shall form a part. ot
the Constitution submitted if the
fsame be ratified. and if the majority
| of the votes so cast shall have ia-
dorsed on them the words: Against
Ordinance relative to State debt"
then said provisions and articles
shall form no part OF the Constitu-
ton
Now, therefore, /, ARTHUR JOHN
EcHEvERRIA, Sheriff of the parish
of Assumption, in pursuance of the
proclamation of His Exceliency
Louis Alfred Witt, Lientenant
Governor of the State of Louisiana
and acting Governor in tile absence
of the Governor and in compliance
with law, do hereby issue this my
proclamation to the voters of the
parish of \ assumption, directing an
Ielection to be held in this parish at
such places as may be hereafter
designated by the proper authorities,
on. TUESDAY, the second day OF
1DECEMBER, A. d. 1879, being the
first Tuesday of said month, from
lo'clock a. NJ to 6 o,clock in the
lafternoon, tor the purpose of taking
1.-THE sense Of the good people of his
parish in regard to The adoption or
trejection of the Constitution snb-
United for ratification; for the fati
fcation orpejection Of the ordinane e
adopted by the Constitutional Con-
lvention in relation to the debt of
I the State, and for the election of all
state officers as above enumeia atrd:
1.-TWO Senators from the Ninth Sena-
torial district, composed of the par
ishes of Assumption, Lafourche and
TerreboDne, one District Judge and
one District Attorney from the
twentieth Judicial District, com
posed of the parishes of Assumption
and ilafeurc.le; two members Of
the Legislature, one Clerk Of the
! District Court, one Sheriff, one