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question of holding such convention.

SEC. 4. That the commanding general of each district shall appoint as
many boards of registration as may be necessary, consisting of three
loyal officers or persons, to make and complete the registration,
superintend the election, and make return to him of the votes, lists
of voters, and of the persons elected as delegates by a plurality of
the votes cast at said election; and upon receiving said returns he
shall open the same, ascertain the persons elected as delegates
according to the returns of the officers who conducted said election,
and make proclamation thereof; and if a majority of the votes given on
that question shall be for a convention, the commanding general, within
sixty day from the date of election, shall notify the delegates to
assemble in convention, at a time and place to be mentioned in the
notification, and said convention, when organized, shall proceed to
frame a constitution and civil government according to the provisions
of this act and the act to which it is supplementary; and when the
same shall have been so framed, said constitution shall be submitted
by the commissioner for ratification to the persons registered under
the provisions of this act at an election to be conducted by the
officers or persons appointed or to be appointed by the commanding
general, as hereinbefore provided, and to be held after the expiration
of thirty days from the date of notice thereof, to be given by said
convention; and the returns thereof shall be made to the commanding
general of the district.

SEC. 5. That if, according to said returns, the constitution shall be
ratified by a majority of the votes of the registered electors
qualified as herein specified, cast at said election, (at least one
half of all the registered voters voting upon the question of such
ratification,) the president of the convention shall transmit a copy
of the same, duly certified, to the President of the United States,
who shall forthwith transmit the same to Congress, if then in session,
and if not in session, then immediately upon its next assembling; and
if it shall, moreover, appear to Congress that the election was one at
which all the registered and qualified electors in the state had an
opportunity to vote freely and without restraint, fear, or the
influence of fraud, and if the Congress shall be satisfied that such
constitution meets the approval of a majority of all the qualified
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