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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fortress Monroe. (search)
By the Governor of Virginia.a proclamation. The Convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia having adopted, on the 26th day of April, 1861, an ordinance "to amend the Constitution of this Commonwealth, so as to strike out the 22d and 23d sections of the 4th article of the present Constitution, and insert a section in lien thereof, and having adopted a schedule to accompany the same, and by the schedule thereto annexed, required polls to be opened for the ratification or rejection of the sn Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby proclaim that the annexed is an authentic copy of the said Ordinance and Schedule, and that all officers designated therein are required to conform to its provisions in every respect. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 24th day of April, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher.By the Governor:George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Annapolis. (search)
officers conducting the election directed by law to be held on the fourth Thursday in May next at the places appointed for holding the same, to open a poll to take the sense ofthe qualified voters of this Commonwealth upon the ratification or rejection of "An ordinance to amend the Constitution of this Commonwealth so as to strike out the 22d and 23d sections of the 4th article of the present Constitution," adopted in Convention at the city of Richmond, on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one 2. The poll book shall be headed "Amendment to the Constitution of Virginia," and shall contain two columns, one headed "For the Amendment," and the other "Against the Amendment," and the names of those who vote for the amendment shall be written under the former heading, and the names of those who vote against the amendment shall be written under the latter heading. 3.The said officers shall make return of the number of persons voting for each proposit