The Press., 1916-11-23
BY HIS ExCELLENCY, MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, Governor of the State of Connecticut.
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A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS, at a General Assembly of inc State of Connecticut held at Hartford, on the Wednesday after the first Monday ofJanuary. 1918. the House of Represent atives did propose an amendment to the Constitution of this State, which IS m the words following:- 'eThat portion of section three of article twenty-seven of the amendments to the constitution which relates to mileage of members of the general assembly Is here hv amended to read as follows: and in addition to such compensation, the gen. eraI assembly may provide by law for the transportation of each member by public conveyance by the most convenient route between his home station and the place of meeting during the session or sessions of the general assembly to which he was elected.' And
 WHEREAS. the resolution so propos- ing said amendment was by order of the House of Representatives continued to the next General Assembly, and was pub lished in the manner prescribed by the eleventh article of the Constitution: and WHEREAS, at said next General As sembly held at Hartford on the Wednes- day after the first Monday of January, 1915, two-thirds of each House thereon approved of said resolution and amend ment by yeas and nays, and said General Assembly did, by an act entitled: An act submitting a Proposed Amend ment to the Constitution concerning Mileage of Members of the General Assembly" Y" provide for the preseutment of the same to the inhabitants, qualified to vote at electors meetings, of the several towns holding meeting on the first Monday of October, 1915, and of the towns holdlng elections subsequent thereto, for their consideration on town meetings directed to be held for the purpose, and also the manner in which it should be made to appear, whether a majority of the cleo tors, present at said town meetings ap- proved, or disapproved, of the same: and WHEREAS, certified copies of said proposed amendment were in pursuance of said act, transmitted by the Secretary of the State to the town clerk ln each town in the State, and were presented to the inhabitants thereof for their consider ation, at a town meeting in each town, legally warned and held for that purpose, on said first Monday in October, 1915, and at town elections held subsequent thereto; and
 WHEREAS, in pursuance of sad act, the Secretary, Treasurer, and Comp troller did on the fourteenth day of No yember, 1916, count the votes returned to the Secretary as aforesaid, and did on the fourteenth day of November, l9lo, transmit to me their certificate under their hands in the words and figures fol- lowing, viz
 State of Connecticut,
 Office of the Secretary,
 Hartford, Nov. IA, 1916. To his Excellency, Marcus Fl. Holcomo,
 Governor:
 We. the undersigned, having been des- ignated by law to canvas the votes gwen in by the electors at their meetings m the towns holding town meetings on the first Monday of October, A. D. 1915, and in other towns at their next regular town elections. in favor of, and against the proposed amendment to the constitution s'Concerning Mileage of Members of the General Assembly," hereby certify that we entered on the duties prescribed us on the fourteenth day of November, 1916, and duly cauvassed the said votes, which were received according to law from all the towns in this State.
 The whole number of votes received and counted relative to said proposed Constitutional Amendment, 'Coneern- ing Mileage of Members of the General Assembly" is thirty-seven thousand, seven nuuuESu huu SCNChAN oA h'~" number twenty two thousand. four hum dred and fifty-nine are In favor of ap- proving and adopting said proposed amendment, and fifteen thousand, three hundred and eleven are against the ap- proval and adoption of said proposed amendment.
 All of which is respectfully submitted.
 CHAS. D. BURNES,
 Secretary,
 FREDERICK s. CHAMBERLAIN,
 Treasurer,
 MORRIS c. WEBSTER,
 Comptroller. AND WHEREAS, it appears from said certificate that majority of said votes are in favor of approving of said proposed amendment. I do therefore herein SO declare: and I do also herein declare that a majority of the electors present at the town meetings aforesaid have approved of said proposed amend ment and that the same is valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of this State.
 TSEAL1-IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF I have caused the seal of the State to be hereuuto sffixed and have hereunto set my hand, at Hartford. on this four teenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand. nine hundred and sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first.
 Governor. By his Excellency's Command:
 CHAS. D. BURNES,
 Secretary