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An Act to authorize the Governor to call a Convention upon certain contingencies therein specified. 1855-1856 107 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0424 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLIC LAWS-CONVENTION. 107 To be called by Governor, &c. TITLE IX. CONVENTION. 1. Preamble. 4. Appropriation. 2. Time of Meeting. 5. Powers. 3. Number of Delegates. (No. 45.) An. act to awthorize the Governor to call a Convention upon certain con- tingencies therein specified. APPROVED March 4th, 1856. 1 WHEREAS: in pursuance ofan act ofthe Legislature, approved February the 8th, 1850, in response to a proclamation of the Go- vernor of the State, a Convention assembled in the Capitol at Mil- ledgeville, on the 16th of December, 1850; And whereas, the said Convention, in view of threatened aggressions upon the Constitu- tional rights of the slave-holding States, adopted, among others, the following resolution: That the State of Georgia, in thejudg-Preamble: ment of this Convention will, and ought to resist, (even as a last resort,) to the disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any act ot Congress upon the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, in- compatible with the safety, domestic tranquillity, the rights and honor of the slaveholding States, or any act suppressing the slave trade between the slaveholding States, or any refusal to admit as a slave State any territory hereafter applying, because of the ex- istence of slavery therein, or any act prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the Territories of Utah and New Mexico, or any act re- pealing or materially modifying the laws in force for the recov- ery of fugitive slaves; And whereas, there is reason to apprehend the happening of some of these contingencies, and the State of Georgia is unalterably determined to adhere to the position solemn- ly announced in the said resolution. Therefore 2. Section I. Be it enacted, 4c., That within sixty days after the Governor to . order elec- happening of any of the contingencies specified in the foregoing re- tumfor Con- cited resolution, it is hereby made the duty of the Governor to issue within sixty his proc!amation, ordering an election to be held in each and every To'conven county for delegates to a Convention of the people of this State, tion convene at the Seat of Government, within twenty days after saidDuly, election, to consider and determine upon the time and mode of re- sistance contemplated by the aforesaid recited resolution. 3. Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That each county in this State shall elect as many delegates to said Convention as will be equal to the number of its Senator and Representative or Repre- sentatives in the General Assembly, and the elections for such dele-umber of gates shall be conducted in the same manner as elections for mem- bers of the Legislature are now held, and that all returns of elec- conductof tious shall be forwarded to the Governor, who shall furnish each eectuons. delegate elected, with a certificate of his election.

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