The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-06
THE CONVENTION BILL.

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AN ACT to provide for calling o Conven-
ton to amend the Constitution.
SECTION ]. Be it enacted by the
Legislature Of the State of Mississippi,
That q Convention to revise and
amend the present Constitution, is
hereby called to meet in the hall of
the House of Representatives in the
city of Jackson at II NJ, on Tuesday,
the 10Th day of August, 1890. Said
Convention shall consist of one hun
bred and thirty -four delegates, to be
chosen as follows, viz: Each county
and each Pictorial district shall have
the same number of delegates as they
are now entitled to members of the
House of Representatives under the
provision of the present appOrtiOn-
ment law. The remaining fourteen
delegates shall be voted for by the
State at large, not more than one of
said delegates shall be from any one
county. Any qualified electOr shall
be eligible as a delegate. The Con-
vention shall be the judge of the quail
ification and election of its members.
SEC. 2. An election shall be held
for delegates on Tuesday, the 29th
day of July, 1890. And the Cover
nor is hereby required to issue his pro-
clamation immediately after the pas
sage of this act, directing an election
to be held in each county in the State
on the above date, for delegates to
said Convention. Said election shall
be held and conducted at the same
places, and in the same manner as
elections for members of the Legisla
ture are now held, and all persons who
are qualified electors under the
present Constitution and laws of this
| State shall be entitled to vote at said
election and the votes cast at said cleo
ton shall be counted and returned in
the same manner and within the same
time, and Ivy the same officers as now
provided by law in cases of general
elections, and certificates shall issu e
to delegates elected from the counties
and Pictorial districts in the same
manner as now required by law for
members of the Legislature. Returns
shall be made to the Secretary of
State of the vote for delegates at
large, in the same manner as now re-
quired by law in the election of State
officers, and the delegates so elected
shall receive their certificates from
the Secretary of State. If any bal
lot shall contain more names for any
district or county than is authorized
to be chosen by this act, none of the
names for such district or county
shall be counted, but this shall not
invalidate the remainder of the
ticket.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
delegates elected as aforesaid, to as
semble at the time and place desig-
mated in the first section of this act,
with general powers of adjournment
as to time and place. 1t shall be the
duty of the Secretary of State to call
said convention to order, and to sub
nit all the returns of delegates, in
his possession, and read the aforesaid
proclamation of the Governor. After
said members shall have taken an
oath to support the Constitution and
the laws of the United States and to
faithfully discharge their duties as
delegates, they shall organize by
electing one of their number presi-
dent and selecting such other officers
and employees as may be needed in
the transaction of business. A ma
.jority of the delegates authorized by
this act shall constitute a quorum and
a majority of the votes cast shall be
necessary to an election.
Sec. 4. In case of vacancy from any
county or foatorial district, the same
shall be filed as now provided by law
for filling vacancies in the Legisla-
ture. If vacancy or vcancies shall
occur among the delegates at large,
the same shall be filed by the re-
naming delegates at large.
SEC. 5. The compensation of dele
gates to said convention, shall be four
dollars per day for each day said Con-
ventiOn shall be in session, and the
same mileage now allowed by law to
members of the Legislature, and the
Convention shall regulate the COM
pensatiOn of its officers and en-
plOyees.
SEC. 6. The sum of thirty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated to
defray the expenses of said cOnven-
ton, and the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts is hereby authorized and re-
quired to issue his warrant on the
Treasurer, upon the certificate of the
president of said Convention, eoun-
tersigned by the clerk or secretary,
for any expenditure under the PROV
isions of this act.
Sec. Z. In case of an epidemic,
either existing or threatened, the Gov
ernOr may, by proclamation. change
the time and place of meeting of said
Convention, but the time of meeting
shall not be postponed longer than
such epidemic exists or is threaten
ing.