The Press., 1897-10-21
By His Excellency, LORRIN. A. COOKE,
Governor of the State of Connecticut
 A PROCLAMATION

A PROCLAMATION
 Whereas, at a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut held at Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1895, the House of Represent tatives did propose a certain amendment to the constitution of this state in the words following, vlz:-
 sEvery person shall be able to read in the English language any article of the constitution or any section of the statutes of this state before being admitted all elector,"
 And wheIe Ieas, the resolution so pro- posing said amendment was by order of said House of Representatives continued to the next General 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, 1897, two-thirds of each house thereof approved of said resolution and amendment by yeas, and nays. and said Assembly did by an act entitled an "An act submitting 8 proposed amendment to article XII. of the amendments to the constitution In re- lation to the q alifications of electors" !" 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 first Monday of October, | 1897, and also the manner in which 1t should be made to appear whether ma- | iority of the electors present at said town meetings approved or disapproved of the same.
 And whereas, certified copies of said proposed amendment were in persuance of said act transmitted by the secretary | of state to the town clerk in each town in the state, and were presented to the in habitants there of for their consideration at town meeting in each town legally warned and held for that purpose on said first Monday of October, 1897. And whereas, in pursuance of said act the secretary, treasurer and comptroller did on the 10th day of October, 1897 count the votes returned to the secI etary as aforesaid, and did on the 18th day Oi October, 1897, transmit to me their cer l tificate under their hands in the words and figures following, viz
 State of Connecticut,
 Office of Secretary of State,
 Hartford, October 15, 1897. | To His Excellency, Lorrin A. Cooke | 0OV0E0OE:
 The undersigned, having been desig hated by law to canvass the votes givel in by the electors at their meetings in tn eve ral towns in this state on the frs Monday in October, A. D. 1897, In favo of and against the approval and adoption of the proposed amendment to the cOnsti ) tuition concerning an amendment t article XI of the amendments to the con stitution in relation to the qualification ) of electors" hereby certify that they en 7 tered on the duty prescribed for them O ! this 18th day of October and duly can vassed the said votes which were receive
 according to law from all the towns in tn : state.
 } The whole number of votes received !. and counted relative to such propose constitutional amendment, Is flfty-tw l thousand one hundred and sixty-two, O which number forty-seven thousand fiv 7 hundred and seventy-seven are in favor o
 approving and adopting said propose 3 amendment, and four thousand five hur
 dred and eighty-five are against the al
 proval and adoption of the said pro : posed amendment.
 ? All of which is respectfully submitted . Charles Phelps, Secretary, Charles w. Grosvenor, Treasurer ? Benjamin P. Mead, Comptroller : And whereas, it appears from said eel : tificate that majority of said votes ar 5 in favor of approving of said propose J amendment, do therefore herein so d. - clare; and do also herein declare that , majority of the electors present at tn : town meetings aforesaid, have approve 2 of said proposed amen dment, and thu the same is valid to all intents and prc y poses as part of the constitution of tn D state. In testimony whereof I haN T caused the seal of the state to be her. unto affixed and have hereuntO s'
 my hand, at Hartford, on tn
 l.. s.. 18th day of October, in the yef eof our Lord one thousand eigl hundred and ninety-seven ar
 of the independence of the Uni
 ed States the one hundred al |, twenty-second.
 Lorrin A. Cooke, Governo By His Excellency's Command, | | Charles Phelps, Secretary.