The Press., 1884-10-30
RY HIS ExCELLENGT, EHEOnKAS M. WALLER, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COrNECTICUT,
\ PROCLAMATIO

r .Lsty J4 STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS. At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, held at Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, A. D. 1883, the House of..Repre- sentatives did pass a certoin amendment to the constitution of this state, in the words following, viz:
 ''Section l. A general electioa for gov- ernor, lieutenant governor, secretary treas urer, comptroller, and members of the gen. eral assembly, shall be held on the Tues day after the first Monday of November. 1886, and biennially thereafter, for such of ficers as are herein and mdy sbe hereafter prescribed,
 Sec 2. The state officers above named and members of the genesal assembly elect ed on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, and those elected bien- nially thereafter, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, shall hold their respective offices from the Wednesday fol- lowing the first Mondaysof the next suc-' ceeding January, untik 21e Wednesday af-l ter the first Monday of the third succeed ing January, and until their successors are duly qualified.
 Sec. 3. The compensation of members of the general assembly shall not exceed three hundred dollars, for tIe 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 also receive one mileage af the same rate for attending any extra session called by the governor,
 Sec. A. The regular sessions of the gen. eral assembly shall commence on the We'd nesday following the first Monday of the January next succeeding the election of it's members. 8
 Sec.''5. The senators elected on the Tues day after the..frst Monday of November, 1885, shall hold their offices only until the Wednesday after the first Monday of Jan uary, 1887; and,
 Whereas, Said resolution proposing said amendment was by order of said house of representatives continued te the next gen. eral assembly, and was 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, 1884, two-thirds of each house thereof approved of said res- olution and amendment by yeas and nays, and said asscmbly did by an act entitled ''An Act submitting the constitutional amendment providing for biennial sessions of the general assembly to the inh abitants of the towns for approval, provide for the presentment 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 frstMon- day of October, l684, and also the manner in which 1t should be made to appear whether majority of the electors present at said town meetings approved or disap- proved of the same and
 Whereas certified copies of said propos- ed amendme51 were in pursuance of said act ttraszsfsss senretasy Of state to the town clerk in each town in the state, and were presented to the inhabitants thereof for their consideration at town meeting in each town, legally warned and held for that purpose, on said first Mon day of October, 1884, and
 Whereas, In pursuance of said Act the Secretary of State, Treasurer and Comp troller did on the 17th day of October, 1884, | transmit to me their certificate under their hands, in the words and figures following, viz |:
 1 State of Connecticut ] Office of the Secretary of State. | Hartford, Oct. II, 1884. | AO 14lS 44AOC1AOuCJ, 4AO11dS Iu. w d11CI, Governor The undersigned, having been designated by law to canvass the votss giv- en in by the electors at their meetings in the several towns in this state on the first Monday of October, A. D., 1884, in favor of and against the approval and adoption of the proposed amendment to the consti. tion of this state, hereby certify: That they entered on the duty prescrib- ed them on the 18th day of ..Ootoher, and duly canvassed the said votes which ere received according to law from all the towns in the state.
 The whole number of votes received and counted relative to said proposed amend ment is forty six thousand nine hundred, of which number thirty thousand five hun. dred and twenty are in favor of approving and adopting said amendment, ,Iand sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty are against the approval and adoption of the said proposed amendment.
 All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signedl
 RlEkEp MAkp f NoRTaR1P seSsstsry of stats FRANK D. SLOAT, Comptroller.
 And it appearing from said certificate and in the manner provided by law that g majority of the votes returned to the secre tary of state, pursuant to the act aforesaid is in favor of approving and adopting saia proposed amendment, I do therefore with in five days after the receipt of said certif icate by me, hereby declare and make known to the people Of the state of Con necticat that majority of said votes is il favor of approving and adopting the saif
 proposed amendment hereinbefore recited and that the same is valid to all intents
 and purposes as part of the constitution of this state.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunt1 caused the seal of the state to be affixed and set my hand at Hartford on this twen . ty-second day of October, in tn, year of our Lord, one thousand }1c eight hundred and eighty-four N' D. and of the independence of tn,
 )~ United States the one hundred and ninth.
 THOMAS M. WALLER.
 By His Exeelleney's command, ID, WARD NORTHROP, Secretary of State FIsH AND OYSTERS!