Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-19
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, ats General Assembly of the State of
Connecticut, held at Hartford the Wednesday
after the first Monday of January, A D. 1885, the
House of Representatives did propose a certain
amendment to the Constitution of this State in the
words following, viz:
'Sherffs shall be elected in the several counties
1885, and quadrennialIy thereafter for the term of
four years, commencing on the first day of June
And whereas the resolution SO proposing said
amendment was by order of said House of Repre-
sentatives continued to the next General Assembly,
and was published in the manner prescribed by the
eleventh article of the Constitution,
Hartford, on the Wednesday after the firstMonday
of January, 1885, twothirds of each House thereof
approved of said resolution and amendment by
yeas and nays and said Assembly did by act emit
sled IAN Act Submitting to the Inhabitants Of the
approval the proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition Relating TO the Term of Of1iee of Sherifs,
provide for the presentment Of the same to the in
habtants of the several towns for their considera.
ton in town meetings directed to be warned and
held for that purpose on the first Monday of Octo
ber 1885, and also the manner in which it 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 proposed
amendment were in pursuance of said act trans
mit.ed by the Secretary of State to the town clerk
in each town in the STATE, and were resented to
town meeting in each town. legally warned and
held for that purpose on said first Monday in octo-
Der. 1885.
Apd whereas, in pursuance of said act, the
Treasurer, Secretary and Comptroller did on the
votes returned to the ecFetary as afor esaid and
did on the fifteenth day of October A. D. 1855,
transmit to me their certificate under their hands
in the words and figures following, viz.
Estate oFCoNNEorIcuT, J
OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE,
HARTFORD October 15 1886.
ITO His Exceileney 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 on
the first Monday of Octobsr, A. d. 1886 in favor Of
uv,A oft he
posed amendment the Constitution of this State,
THAT they entered on the duty prescribed them
from ali the Towns in the State
ed relative to said proposed Gdnstftafionai Amend
ment is Twenty-Five Thousand Five Hundred and
Fifty Two, of which number twenty Thousand
proving end adopting said amendment and Five
Thousand One Hundred and Ninety One are against
the approval aid adoption of the said proposed
aAil Of which is respectfully submitted this f1f-
teenth day Of October, A.Di 1885.
cHRRLEs A. RUSSELL Secretary of State
VALENTINE B. CHAMBERLAIN Treasurer.
LpZERNEI MTNSON, Comptroller ;,
majority Of said votes are in favor Of approving
Of said proposed amendment, do therefore herein
SO declare; and do also herein declare that MAJ
aforesaid have approved of said amendment and
that the is valid to all intents and purposes as
part of the constitution of this State.
In testimony whereof have caused tho
seal Of the State to be hereunto affixed
I L. s.. and have hereunto set my hand: at Hart
ford, on this eighteenth day of October in
-- the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty sis. and e ne dndependenee OF
By His Exceliency's command,
CHARLES A. RUSSELL, Secretary Of State.