Proclamation, Arkansas Constitution

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The final section of the Arkansas Constitution is entitled Proclamation and documents the tallied votes for and against the ratification of the Arkansas constitution.

Proclamation

Text of Proclamation: By The STATE BOARD OF ELECTION SUPERVISORS Office of State Board of Election Supervisors, Little Rock, Ark., October 30, 1874. In pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen of the schedule to the Constitution recently framed for the State of Arkansas, the undersigned do hereby proclaim and make known that at a general election held on the thirteenth day of October, A. D. 1874, the following votes were cast "For" and "Against" said Constitution in the several counties of said State, as appears by the official returns made to said board by the county boards of election supervisors, to-wit: Here follows a tabulation of the vote by counties. Total Vote "For Constitution": 78,697 Total Vote "Against Constitution": 24,807 Majority "For Constitution": 53,890 Given under our hands this thirtieth day of October, 1874. U. M. ROSE, DUDLEY E. JONES, GORDON N. PEAY, State Board of Election Supervisors.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Arkansas Constitution

Additional reading

• Cash, Marie. "Arkansas Achieves Statehood.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2 (December 1943): 292.
• Goss, Kay C. (1993) The Arkansas State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Civil War Helena, "The Constitution of 1868"
• Ledbetter, Jr., Cal, "The Constitution of 1868: Conqueror's Constitution or Constitutional Continuity?" in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly