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No. 9
An Ordinance to
Provide for submitting the Constitution to the People for Ratification.
Be it Ordained by the people of Florida, in Convention
assembled, That the Constitution framed by this Convention, and signed on the
25th day of February, A. D. 1868, be and the same is hereby submitted for
ratification to the persons registered and to be registered under the provisions
of the several acts of Congress, entitled “An Act to provide for the more
efficient government of the rebel States, passed March 2d, 1867; An Act
supplementary to An Act entitled An Act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States, passed March 2d, 1867, and to facilitate
restoration; An Act supplementary to An Act entitled An Act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel States, passed on the 2d day of March,
1867; and the act supplementary thereto, passed on the 23d day of March,” at an
election to be conducted according to the provisions of the said acts of
Congress.
Be it further ordained, That an election shall
be held in various counties of this State, on the first Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday of May, A. D. 1868, for the purpose of voting on the ratification of
the Constitution framed by this Convention, and for the election of a Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, one member of Congress, State Senators and Representatives,
and county officers; and that the judges or inspectors of election appointed, or
to be appointed, by the Commanding General of the Third Military District, to
conduct and supervise the election for ratification, as provided in the several
aforesaid acts of Congress, shall also conduct and supervise the election for
said officers.
Be it further ordained, That at each place
of voting, beside the ballot box provided by the said judges of election to
receive the ballots for and against ratification, the said judges shall provide
a separate ballot box for the reception of ballots for Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, Member of Congress, State Senators and Representatives, and
County officers, and that a separate poll list shall be prepared by said judges
of election of all persons qualified to vote for said officers; and all persons
qualified to vote under the provisions of the Constitution shall be allowed to
vote for said officers.
Be it further ordained, That the
vote for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Member of Congress, State Senators and
Representatives, and County officers, shall be securely enveloped and sealed by
the judges of election, and transmitted by prompt and sage conveyance to the
city of Tallahassee, and delivered to a Board of Canvassers of three persons
herby appointed and authorized, to wit: Hon. Horatio Jenkins, Jr., President of
Constitutional Convention; Auburn Erwin, of Columbia County, and O. Morgan, of
Leon County, within thirty days after said election; and the said Board of
Canvassers shall meet at Tallahassee within ten days after said election and
canvass the votes for said officers; and the said Board of Canvassers shall
issue the certificates of election under their hands and seals; and the said
Board of Canvassers shall make public proclamation of said returns in at least
three of the newspapers published in this State, showing what persons shall have
been elected to said offices severally; and thereupon the Governor of the State,
and the Lieutenant-Governor thereof elected, shall assemble at the Capitol and
be sworn into office by the Judge of the District Court of the United States, or
in his absence by any person authorized by the laws of the United States to
administer oaths.
Be it further ordained, That a public
notice containing this ordinance, signed by the President and Secretary of this
Convention, shall be issued on the day after the final adjournment of this
Convention, and shall be published in at least three of the newspapers in this
State.
Be it further ordained, That the persons who shall
act as judges or inspectors of election, together with one clerk in each county,
to be by them appointed, shall each receive five dollars per day for their
services in conducting, supervising, and making out the returns of the election
for said officers, and the legislature at its first session shall provide by law
for the payment of the expenses to be incurred thereby, and for any and all
expenses incurred under any by virtue of the provisions of this ordinance.
Passed in open Convention, February 24th, A. D. 1868.
HORATIO JENKINS, JR., President.
SHERMAN CONANT, Secretary.
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