The Press., 1886-10-28

Whereas, at a General Assembly of. the State of Connecticut held at Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, A. D., 1885 ithe House of Representatives did propose @ certain amendment to the constitu- tion of this state, in the words following, viz:
 ssEherifs shall be elected in the several coun- ties on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, and quadrennially thereafter for the terra of four years, cummencingDn the first day of June Following the election" .zA 1And whereas, the resolution so proposing Said amendment was byorder of said House of Representatives. continued to the next General Assembly, snd was published in the manner prescribed by tke eleventh article of the con- stitution.
 And whereas, at said next Assembly, holden at Hartford, on the Wednesday after the first Monday in January, 1886, tvo-thirds of each house thereof approved of said resolution and amendment, by yeas and nays, and said As semblyidid by an act entitled s'An Act Sub- naittinR to the Inhabitants of the Several Towns in tke State, for Approval Or Disap- proval, the proposed Amendment to the Con- Btitution Relating to the Term of Office of EheriHs," i" provide for the presentment of the same to the inhabitants of the several towns for their consideration in town meetings di- rected to be warned and held for that purpose on the first Monday of October, 1886, and al- SO the manner in which it should be made to appear whether majority of. the electors pres ent ct said town meetings approved or dlsap- proved of the same,
 And whereas, certified copies of said pro- posed amendfaent were inA pursuance of said act transmitted by the Secertary 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 Etown, legally warned and held for that pur- Ipods- on said first Monday in October 18e6s And whereas, in pursuance of said act, the Treasurer, Secretary and Comptroller, did on the fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1886, count the votes returned to the. Secretary as aforesaid, and did on the fifteenth day of Oc- tober, AID. 1886, transmit to me their certif- cate under their hands in the words and fig ures following, viz:
 State of Connecticut, Oaice of Secretary of state @8hs &fsas Hartford October 16, i8S6s ti@ kt1 To His Excellency, Henry B. Harrison, Governor: The undersigned having been designated by law to canvass the votes given in by the electors at their meetings in the several towns in this state the first Monday of October A.D 1S0e in favor Of and aganet the and adoption of the proposed That they entered on the duty prescribed them on the 14th day of October, and duly canvassed the said votes which were rsseived accorang to law from al The whole number of votes received and counted s Twenty-dve Thousand Five HundTed and Fiftyltwo, or which number Twenty Thousand Three Hundred ana SlxCy-One are ln favor or approving ana aQOpLn said amendment and Five Thousand One Hundred and NtnetyOne against the approval and adoption of the said proposed amendment.
 All of which s respectfully submitted this fifteenth day of October, A.D., 1896.
 (eignedl & ay gS[s agE CHA8. "A. RUSSELL, Sec,y of State. VALENTINE B. CHAMBERLAIN. Treasurer.
 LUZERNEI. MUNsON, Comptroller.
 And whereas, it appears from said certif- cate that majority of said votes are in favor of approving df said proposed amendment, l do therefore herein SO declare and I do also herein declare that majority of the electors present at the town meetings afoTegaEd have approved of said amendment, and that the same is valid to all intents and purposes as 8 part of the Constitution of this state.
 1@ In testimony whereof have caused
 (u the seal of the state to be hereunto
 1* F. JgaAixed and have hereunto set my
 " hand, at Hartford, on this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty six, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and eleventh.
 HENRY B. HARRISON, Governor. By his Excellency's command, s CHARLES A. RUSSELL, Secretafysof State