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cUrring in opinion, each by the voices of two thirds of 

 their whole existing number, that a convention i» 

 necessary for altering this constitution, or correcting 

 breaches of it, they shall be authorized to issue writs 

 to every county for the election of so many delegates 

 as they are authorized to send to the general assem- 

 bly, which elections shall be held, and writs returned, 

 as the laws shall have provided in the case of elections 

 of delegates of assembly, mutatis mutandis, and the said 

 delegates shall meet at the usual place of holding as- 

 semblies, three months after date of such writs, and 

 shall be acknowledged to have equal powers with this 

 present convention. The said writs si)all be signed by 

 all the members approving the same. 



To introduce this Government, the following special 

 and temporary provision is made. 



This convention being authorized only to amend 

 those laws which constituted the form of government, 

 no general dissolution of the whole system of laws can 

 be supposed to have taken place: but all laws in force 

 at the meeting of this convention, and not inconsistent 

 with this constitution, remain in full force, subject to 

 alterations by the ordinary leaislature. 



The present general assembly shall continue till the 

 42d day after the last Monday of November in this pre- 

 sent year. On the said last Monday of November in 

 this present year, the several counties shall by their 

 electors qualified as provided by this constitution, elect 

 delegates, which for the present shall be, in number, 

 one for every militia of the said county, ac- 



cording to the latest returns in possession of the go- 

 vernor, and shall also choose senatorial electors in pro- 

 portion thereto, which senatorial electors shall meet on 

 the 14th day after the day of their election, at the court 

 house of that county of their present district which 

 would stand first in an alphabetical arrangement of 

 their counties, and shall choose senators in the propor- 

 tion fixed by this constitution. The elections and re- 

 turns shall be conducted, in all circumstances not hereby 

 particularly prescribed, by the same persons and under 



