Commonwealth - of Massachusetts.
<br /> BY HIS EXCELLENCY
<br /> JOHN I[IROOKS-9
<br /> GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
<br /> A PROCLAMATION.,
<br /> WHEREAS by an Act of the Legislature of this Commonwealth, passed
<br /> on the sixteenth day of June last,entitled 40n Act relating to the calling of a Convention o,f Delegates of the People,
<br /> for the purpose of .Devising the Constitution," it is provided, that the Inhabitants of the several Towns, Districts,
<br /> and places within the Commonwealth, qualified to vote for Senators or Representatives in the General Court, should
<br /> assemble in regular Town Meetings, to be notified in the usual manner, on the third Monday of August then
<br /> next, and should, in open Town Meeting, give in their votes, by ballot, on this question: «Is it expedient, that
<br /> Delegates should be chosen to meet in Convention,for the purpose of Revising or filtering the Constitution of Gov-
<br /> ernment of this Commonwealth 2" And whereas provision is made in said Act, for the due return of votes so given,
<br /> both for and against the measure, into the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the second
<br /> Monday of September current, and for examining and counting the votes given as aforesaid, on the said question,
<br /> by the Governor and Comic;l :—And whereas it is further provided by said Act, that the Governor, by public
<br /> Proclamation, to be made on or before the third Monday of said month of September, make known the result, by
<br /> declaring the number of votes appearing in favor of choosing Delegates for the purpose aforesaid, and the number
<br /> of votes appearing against the same; and if a majority of votes, given in, and returned as aforesaid, were in favor of
<br /> choosing Delegates as aforesaid, that he should also call upon the people of the Commonwealth, whose will it thus
<br /> appears to be that a Convention should meet according to said Act, to elect Delegates to meet in Convention, in the
<br /> manner therein provided:
<br /> NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN BROOKS, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do
<br /> hereby declare and make known, that upon examination, in manner aforesaid, of all the votes, for and against the
<br /> said measure, duly and legally returned into the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as is by said Act re-
<br /> quired, it appears that the number of votes in favor of choosing Delegates for the purpose aforesaid, is Eleven
<br /> Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Six; and that Six Thousand Five Hundred and Xinety 'Three is the number
<br /> appearing against the same.—And as there is a majority of the votes, so given in and returned, in favor of choosing
<br /> Delegates as aforesaid,
<br /> I DO HEREBY, in virtue of the authority given by, and pursuant to the requisitions contained in.
<br /> said Act, call upon the Inhabitants of the several Towns and Districts within the Commonwealth, qualified to vote
<br /> for Representatives in the General Court, to assemble on the THIRD MONDAY of October next, in Town
<br /> Meeting, to be duly warned by warrant from the Selectmen, and elect one or more Delegates (not exceeding
<br /> the number of Representatives to the General Court to which each Town is entitled,) to meet Delegates from other
<br /> Towns, in Convention at the State House, in Boston, on the THIRD WEDNESDAY of November next, to take
<br /> into consideration the propriety and expediency of making any (and if any what) alterations or amendments in the
<br /> present Constitution of Government of the Commonwealth; and then and there to devise and do all such matters and
<br /> things, as in and by said Act, relating to the calling of a Convention for the purpose of revising or altering the Con-
<br /> stitution, are required or authorized to be done.
<br /> Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this Twelfth Day of September, A. D. 1820, and in
<br /> the Forty Fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
<br /> J. �y
<br /> Rl s BROOKS.
<br /> By His Excellency the Governor.
<br /> ALDEN BRADFORD, Secretary o f the Commonwealth,,
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