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The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important Convention. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861. (search)
By the Governor of Virginia.a Proclamation.
The Convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia having adopted, on the 17th day of April, 1861, an ordinance "to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution;" and by the schedule thereto annexed, required polls to be opened for the ratification or rejection of the same by the people of this State, on the 4th Thursd on of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under the said Constitution," adopted in Convention, at the city of Richmond, on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
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The poll-book shall be headed "The Ordinance of Secession, " and shall contain two columns, one headed "For Ratification," and the other "For Rejection," and the names of those who vote for the ratification o