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handle is hein.ssl/ssvt0086 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS AND LAWS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF VERMONT AT THEIR SESSION HOLDEN AT WINDSOR OCTOBER A.D. 1791 AN ACT REGULATING THE CHOICE OF A COUNCIL OF CENSORS OCTOBER 25TH, 1791 It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ver- mont, That the first Constable in each town in this State or in his ab- sence the town clerk or one or more of the Selectmen, is hereby re- quired, at least twelve days before the last Wednesday of March next, to warn a meeting of the Freemen in each respective town by notifying the same in writing in the most public place or places in each respective town, to be held at the places agreed upon to hold Freemens meetings in their respective towns, on the last Wednesday in March next, at one of the clock afternoon, to give in their votes for thirteen such persons as they would chuse for a Council of Censors in this State as provided by the Constitution; and the presiding officers are hereby empowered and required to open the meetings, receive and seal up the votes of the freemen in presence of the meeting and write the name of the town on the outside of the paper containing the votes and these words, Votes for Censors and also a certificate that they were sealed up by such pre- siding officer, and deliver such votes so sealed up to the Clerk of the County Court of the County where such votes were taken within fourteen days after taking said votes. And the said Clerks are hereby directed and empowered to receive the same and also to meet at the Court House in Rutland in the County of Rutland on the Wednesday next following the first Monday in May next at one of the Clock in the afternoon, who when met shall then and there immediately open and count said votes and certify to his Excellency the Governor under their hands the names of the thirteen persons having the highest number of votes as elected Censors within six days after the opening and count- ing said votes, who is hereby requested officially to notify the persons so elected within twenty days after. And, It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Censors shall hold their first meeting at the Court House in Rutland in the County of Rutland on the day appointed by the Constitution of this State for that purpose. And the notice of the choice received from his Excellency the Governor shall be sufficient credentials of their be- ing chosen. And it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary to cause 3

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