Stevens, Pardon W., elected Lieutenant Governor, Storey, John Conley, his wife and children to take the name of Storey, Page. 68 16 Suits at law in Court of Common Pleas, act providing for certain amendments of, 3 Touro Jewish Synagogue Fund, report on, Westerly Rifle Company, charter of, amended, Wickford Fire Engine Corporation, charter of, amended, Woonsocket, petitions for adding a portion of Smithfield to, continued, 83 29 29 15 40 ACTS AND RESOLVES PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1868. [The Chapters are numbered continuously from the Revised Statutes and the Supplements.1 CHAPTER 768. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE I, CHAPTER 4, OF THE Passed May REVISED STATUTES, "OF CERTAIN CIVIL OFFICERS ELECTED 27, 1868. BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY." It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Congress, SECTION 1. Senators in congress from this state shall Senators in be chosen at the session of the legislature next preced- whenelected. ing the expiration of the time for which any senator was elected to represent said state in congress, and on the second Tuesday after the organization of the general assembly of said year. election. SEC. 2. On said second Tuesday after the said or- Mode of ganization, each house shall openly, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name one person for senator in congress from this state; and the name of the person so voted for who shall have a majority of the whole number of votes cast in each house, shall be entered in the journal of each house, by the clerk or secretary thereof; but if either house shall fail to give such majority to any person on said day, that fact shall be entered in the journal; at twelve o'clock meridian of the day following that in which proceedings are re quired to take place as aforesaid, the members of the two houses shall convene in joint assembly, and the journal of each house shall be read; and if the same person shall have received a majority of the votes in each house, such person shall be declared to be duly elected senator to represent said state in the congress of the United States; but if the same person shall not have received a majority of the votes in each house, or if either house shall have failed to take proceedings as required by this act, the joint assembly, a majority of all the members elected to both houses being present, shall proceed to choose by viva voce vote of each member present, a person for the purpose aforesaid; and the person having a majority of the votes of the said joint assembly shall be declared duly elected; and in case no person shall receive such majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at twelve o'clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the legislature, and take at least one vote until a senator shall be elected. SEC. 3. Whenever, on the meeting of the legislature of this state, a vacancy shall exist in the representation of this state in the senate of the United States, said legislature shall proceed on the second Tuesday after the commencement and organization of its session, to elect a person to fill such vacancy, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the election of a senator for a full term; and if a vacancy shall happen during the session of the legislature, then on the second Tuesday after the legislature shall have been organized and have notice of such vacancy. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the governor of this state to certify the election of senators from this state under the seal of the state, to the president of the senate of the United States, which certificate shall be countersigned by the secretary of the state. SEC. 5. So much of the chapter to which this is an amendment as is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed. |