VI. Resolved, That the secretary of this convention be directed to procure to be printed one hundred and twenty thousand copies of the Constitution as altered and amended by this convention, and the same number of copies of the questions to be proposed to the qualified voters, and the same number of these resolutions, and to cause the same to be distributed, as soon as may be, to the town clerks of the respective towns, wards, and places in the State, for the use of the qualified voters, in numbers proportionate as near as may be to the number of the legal voters in the said respective towns, wards, and places; and it is made the duty of said clerks seasonably to distribute the same among said voters. VII. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be also required to furnish an equal number of printed ballots containing said questions to be thus voted upon, and that they be distributed to the town clerks as provided in the preceding resolution, a reasonable time previous to said March meetings, to be by them seasonably distributed at said meetings. VIII. Resolved, That the Governor and Council, prior to the third Tuesday of April, A. D. 1889, shall open and count said votes, and make a record thereof; and the Governor shall forthwith issue his proclamation announcing the result of the vote on each of said questions submitted to the people. IX. Resolved, That such of the proposed amendments as shall be approved by the requisite number of votes, shall take effect and be in force at the times hereinafter mentioned, to wit: The amendments to articles three, thirty-two, thirty-three, fortytwo, forty-three, sixty, and sixty-six, part second of the Constitution, on the first day of November, A. D. 1890, and all other amendments on the first Wednesday of June, A. D. 1889. X. Resolved, that if the amendments to articles three, thirty-two, thirty-three, forty-two, forty-three, sixty, and sixty-six, part second of the Constitution, shall be approved by the requisite number of votes, the General Court elected at the biennial election in November, 1890, shall first assemble under the amended Constitution on the first Wednesday of January, A. D. 1891; and the Senators and Representatives elected for the term commencing on the first Wednesday of June, A. D. 1889, shall hold their respective offices until the first Wednesday of January, 1891, and no longer; and the Governor and councilors elected for the term commencing in June, A. D. 1889, shall hold their respective offices until the first Wednesday of January, A. D. 1891, and until others are qualified in their stead, and no longer. XI. Resolved, That these resolutions, signed by the president of this convention and attested by the secretary, be published once in all the newspapers of the State authorized to publish the public laws; and that these resolutions, together with the journal and files of this convention, be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. CHARLES H. BELL, Attest: JAMES R. JACKSON, Secretary. President. |