the manner now prescribed by law, in reference to the elec-
tion of members of the House of Delegates, and duplicates
thereof, directly to the Governor; and the several clerks afore-
said shall return to the Governor, within ten days after said
election, the number of ballots cast for or against the Consti-
tution, and the number of blank ballots; and the Governor,
upon receiving the returns from the judges of election, or the
clerks as aforesaid, and ascertaining the aggregate vote
throughout the State, shall, by his proclamation, make known
the same; and if a majority of the votes cast shall be for the
adoption of this Constitution, it shall go into effect on Satur-
day, the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven.

Done in Convention, the seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-
second.

RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL,

President of the Convention.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Secretary.