Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-30
.sis BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
 CHARLES B. ANDREWS, Governor of the State of Connecticut.
A PROCLAMATION |!

= Sate of Connecticut holden at Hartford, on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, A. D. l878,a majority of the House of Rep resentatives did pass two certain resolutions therein and thereby proposing certain amend ments to the constitution of this State the first of which is in the words following, viz:-
 "Members of the General Assembly shall be elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of Neyember. 1880, and biennially thereafter, and they shall hold their offices for two years, from and after tie Wednesday following the first Monday of the January next succeeding tiIeir election 'E , r.,
 ''sTheir compensation shall not exceed three hundred dollars for the term for which they are elected and one mileage each way for the regular session at the rate of twenty five cents per mile; they shall receive one mileage at the same rate for attending any extra session call ed by the Governor. -...
 ''The regular sessions of the General Aassem- bly shall commence on the Wednesday follow ing the first Monday of the January next suc- ceediug the election of it's members.
 ''The representatives elected from the sever- al towns on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1878, shall hold their offices for two years from and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of January, 1879. ''The senators elected ol the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1877, shall hold their offices until the Wednesday following the first Monday of January, 1881.
 "If the General Assembly of 1879 holds an adjourned session during the year 1850, it's members shall receive for all services perform ed during said year, sum not exceeding five dollars per day for not exceeding twenty days ''If this amendment is adopted, thresha be no election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1879."
 And the second of which, is in the words fol- lowing, viz :- ''The judges of the supreme court of errors and of the superior court hereafter appointed shall hold their offices during good behavior 1; but may be removed by Impeachment, and the Governor shall also remove them. on the ad- dress of two. thirds of each house of the General Assembly,: -.... .l 'No judge of the supreme court of errors, or of the superior court shall be capable of holding office after he shall arrive at the age of seventy five years"
 Aud WhereGs, sad resolutions proposing said amendments were by order of said House of Representatives severally continue to the next General Assembly, and were published in the manner prescribed by the Eleventh Article of the Constitution And Whereas at said next Assembly holden at Hartford on the "Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1879, two-thirds of each house thereof approv- ed of each of said resolutions and amendments by yeas and nays and said assembly. did by an act entitled .An Act submitting the Consti- tutional amendments to the inhabitants of the towns for their approval" provide for the presentmcnt of the same to the inhabitants of the several towns for their consideration in town-meetings directed to be warned and held for that purpose on the first Monday of Octo- Der, A. D. 1879 and also the manner in which it should be made to appear whether ma jority of the electors present at said town meetings had approved or disapprSved of the same; And Whereas certified copies of said several proposed amendments were in pursu ance.of said act transmitted by the secretary of state to the town clerk in each town in the statessand were presented to the inhabitants thcssof fsr@their consideration at q town meet ing in each town legally warned and held for that purpose on said first Monday of October, 1878: And Whereas, in pursuance of said Act, the Secretary of State, Treasurer and Comptroller, did on the fourteenth day of Oc- t0ber, 1879, transmit to me their certificate under their hands in their words and figures following, viz:-
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
 Hartford, October IA, 1879.
 10 Hts Ercelleag5 IDI sIE tItf
 CHARLES B. ANDREWS, GOVERNOR:
 The undersigned having been designated by law to canvass the votes given in by the cleo tors at their meetings in the several towns in this state, on the first Monday of October, A. D. 1879, in favor of and against the approval and adoption of the proposed Amendments to the Consultation of this state, thereby certify. Thaktheyepfered on the uuty prescribed them on this fonr nrteenth day of October and daly canvassed the said votes which were received according to law from all the towns in the state, except the town of Union. The whole number of votes received and counted relative to proposed constitutional amendment numbe, one, is sixty seven thousand four hundred ant forty-nine, of which number twenty -onc thou sand four hundred and thirty are in favor ot approving and adopting said amenda,ent, i ane forty-six thousand and nineteen are against tht approval and adoption of the said proposed amendment.
 The whole number of votes received an( counted relative to proposed constitution amendment number two, is sixty seven thou sand two hundred and twenty three, of whicl numbeFseighteen stheusand andAtwo are intfs vor ofaPproVng Band @lopting said amend ment. apA fony-nne tliolsand3 two hundred and twehty -d6E arf agaiast the approvalatiC l ssGlsh Sh isepp3eafur pFsefo Hdnnea submitted
 Signed, DAVID TORRANCE, Sec. of State
 TALLMAEGE BAKER. Treasurer
 CHAUNCEY HOWARD, Controller
 And it appearing from said certificate and i'll the mapner provided by law that a majority of the kptes Returned to the secretaryof state pursuaM to the'aet aforesaid, is not in favoi of approving and adopting either of said pro posed amendments =
 do Meref re, within five days after the receipt of said certificate by me, hereby de clare and make known to the people of tht state of Connecticak that a. majority Aof saie votes is ndt in fayorof approving and sadopt ing either Of the said proposed amendments hereinbefore rected but is opposed to eact and both of said proposed amendments
 -o In testimony whereof, have hereun 1, to caused the seal of the state to bt
 affixed and set my hand at Hartford
 = qn- this seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousands eight hun dred and seventy-nine, and of the Independence .of the United States the one hundred and fourth.