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VOTE ON ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE MAY 7, 1792.

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ARTICLES

IN ADDITION TO AND

AMENDMENT

OF THE

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

AGREED TO BY THE

CONVENTION

OF SAID STATE

AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE THEREOF FOR
THEIR APPROBATION

AUGUST 27, 1792.

IN CONVENTION HELD AT CONCORD, THE LAST Wednesday OF May, 1792, BY adjournment.

Whereas upon examining the returns from the several towns and unincorporated places, it appears that under the heads senate, governor and council, many articles are approved by two thirds of the voters; and many are not approved, by reason whereof said amendments are rendered inconsistant, and contradictory: And the convention not having the power to reject what has been approved by the people as aforesaid,

THEREFORE, resolved, That articles be again sent out to be laid before the several towns and unincorporated places, on the twenty seventh day of August next, that the whole may be approved or rejected; and that return thereof be made to the convention on the fifth day of September next. And that the articles which have been already approved by more than two thirds of the voters, and not inconsistant or contradictory, be printed, that it may be known what articles have been ratified by the people.

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And whereas, if the articles now sent out are not approved by two thirds of the qualified voters, the last clause in the exclusion bill, which is in the following words, No member of the council shall have a seat in the senate or house of representatives," will be repugnant to other parts of the constitution article be sent out for expunging said clause.

ARTICLE.

Therefore resolved, That an

"No member of the council shall have a seat in the senate or house of representatives," shall be expunged.

SENATE.

The senate shall consist of twelve members, who shall hold their office for one year from the first Wednesday of June next ensuing their election.

And that the State may be equally represented in the senate, the legislature shall, from time to time, divide the state into twelve districts, as nearly equal as may be without dividing towns and unincorporated places; and in making this division, they shall govern

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