. Voting in the field : a forgotten chapter of the Civil War . ner of holding elections, or either of them, as toleave no power in the General Assembly to prescribethem, or either of them, in the manner proposed inthe bill in question. Then follows an elaboratediscussion of the provisions of the Constitution uponthis question. The conclusion of the report was thatthe Committee were of the opinion that the provisionsof the bill in respect to the election of Governor,Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Senators and countyofficers are unconstitutional. They said: The bill in question proposes to give
. Voting in the field : a forgotten chapter of the Civil War . ner of holding elections, or either of them, as toleave no power in the General Assembly to prescribethem, or either of them, in the manner proposed inthe bill in question. Then follows an elaboratediscussion of the provisions of the Constitution uponthis question. The conclusion of the report was thatthe Committee were of the opinion that the provisionsof the bill in respect to the election of Governor,Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Senators and countyofficers are unconstitutional. They said: The bill in question proposes to give the Governorauthority to appoint and commission some person orpersons and send them out of the State to receive votesin other States, and bring or send them back to elect agovernor (possibly to elect the governor who appointed thecommissioners), and the other officers named in the the intelligence and sense of the framers of our Con-stitution enabled them to guard against such voting and 1 House Journal, pp. 63, 68. 2 Ibid., p. 86. 3 Ibid., p.
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