The Press., 1912-11-20
BY HIS EXCELLENCY SIMEON E. BALDWIN Governor of the State of Connecticut a PROCLAMATION,

WHEREAS, at a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, held at Hartford on the Wednes- day after the first Monday of January, 1909 the House of Representatives did propose certain amendments to the Constitution of this State, the first of which is in the words following.
 "In case of the death, resignation, refusal to serve, inability to perform the powers and duties of his office or removal from office of the gov. ernor, or of his impeachment or absence from the state, the lieutenantgovernor shall exercise the powers and authority appertaining to the office of governor, until another be chosen at be duly qualified; until the disability be re- moved, or until the governor, ,impeached, or ab- sent, shall be acquitted or retHrn," and the sec ond of which amendment is in the words follow ing: ..:.. not later than the first Wednesday after the first Monday in June following its organization"
 AND WHEREAS, the resolutions so proposing said amendments were by order of said House eral Assembly, and were published in the man ner prescribed by the eleventh article of the Constitution:
 AND WHEREAS at said next General Assem- ply holden at Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1911, two-thirds of each House thereof approved of said resolutions General Gen Assembly did, by an act act entitled T SAn M Act submitting Proposed Amendents to the Con stitutiOn concerning the Powers and Duties of the LieutenantGovernor and the Date of Ad- journment of the General Assembly," and amendment thereto, provide for the present. ment of the same to the inhabitants of the sev- eral towns holding towng meetings the first Monday of October, 19I1 and towns holding elections subsequent thereto, for their consider that purpose, and also the manner in which it should be made to appear whether a majority of the electors present at said town meetings ap- proved or diSapproyed, of the same:
 AND WHEREAS. certified copies of said pro- posed amendments were in pursuance of said act transmitted by the secretary of the state to 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 Monday in October, 1911, and at elections held subsequent thereto:
 AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of said act the secretary, deputy treasurer, as acting treasurer in the absence of the treasurer from the state, and comptroller did, on the twelfth day of No vember, 19l2 count the votes returned to the secretary as aforesaid, and did on the twelfth day of November. 1912, transmit to me their cer- tificate under their hands in the words and fig ures following, viz:
 "State of Connecticut,
 Office of the Secretary
 Hartford, November 12, 1912. "To His Excellency, Simeon E. Baldwin, Cover
 nor:
 The undersigned having been designated by law to canvass the votes given in by the cleo tors at their meetings in all the towns holding town meeClnSS' on tne nIsC Monday or Octoper' A. D. 1911, and in other towns, excepting Stam- ford, which failed to take vote on said amend ments, at their next regular elections, in favor of and against the proposed amendments of the constitution Concerning the Powers and Duties of the Lieutenant-Governor' and Concerning the Date of Adjournment of the General Assem- bly, hereby certify that they entered on the duty prescribed them on the twelfth day of No vember, and duly canvaSsed the said votes, which were received according to law from all the towns in this State except from the town of Stanford from which no returns were received. ''The whole number of votes received and counted relative to said proposed Constitutional amendment Concerning the Powers and Duties of the Lieutenant-GoVernor' is thirty four thou sand five hundred and. eight, of which number NyTnf 1 h11Vl hfrfNT eight are in favor of approving and adopting said proposed amendment, and four thousand seven hundred and seventy are against the ap- proval and adoption eff the said proposed amend ment. The whole number of votes received and counted relative to said proposed Constitutional amendment Concerning the Date of Adjourn ment of the General Assembly is thirty-five thousand two hundred and fourteen, of which number thirty thousand three hundred and forty mine are in favor of approving and adopt ing said proposed amendment, and four thous- and eight hundred and sixty-five are against the approval and adoption of said proposed amend ment.
 All of which is respectfully submitted.
 MATHEW H. ROGERS, Secretary.
 'B. FRANK MARSH, Deputy Treasurer
 (Acttng Treasurer i'll the absence of the
 Treasurer from the State).
 "THOS. D. BRADSTREET Comptroller" AND WHEREAS, it appears from said .certif l cate that majority of said votes in favor of approving of said proposed amendments, do therefore herein so declare and do also here in declare that majority of the electors present at the town meetings aforesaid have approved of said proposed amendments and that the same are valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution of this State. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF 1 have caused the seal of the State to be hereunto ati Xed and
 have hereuntO set my hand, at Hart @ ford, on this 14th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand (SEALS nine hundred and twelve, and of the
 independence of the United States l 0~ the one hundred and thirty-seventh. |
 SIMEON E. BALDWIN, Governor. By His Excellencys Command: MATTHEW H. ROGERS, Secretary.