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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. (search)
The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. The injunction of decrees having been removed from the proceedings of the Virginia Convention, the Whig gives a statement of the vote on the Secession Ordinance, on the 17th of April. It appears that a substitute offered by Mr. Scott, of Fauquier, was voted down — years 74, nays 67. The question was then taken on the adoption of the Ordinance submitted by Mr. Preston, and resulted as follows: Those who voted in the affirmative are-- William M. Ambler, Marmaduke Johnson, William B. Asion, Peter C. Johnston, James Barbour, Robert C. Ke. L. Augua R. Hiskey, John J. Kindred, George B. ow, Jr, James Lawson, James B. ea Walter D. Leake, Peter B. Borst, Wm. H. Macfarland, W Bouldin, Charles K. Mallory, William W. Boyd, James B. Mallory, Thomas Branch, John L. Marve, Sr. John C. Bruce, Fleming B. Miller, Frederick M. C. bell, Horatio G. Muffet, John A. Campbell, Robert L. Montegue, Allen
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The vote on the Ordinance of Secession. (search)
al of the Commonwealth, this 14th day of June, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. by the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Fol'mate of Conjectural Majorities for and against section in Counties from which no return have been made: for Secession. Against Secession. Accomac486 Brooke700 Buchanan150 Doddridge600 Fancock800 Jackson316 Marion315 Marshall1,800 2,000 Morgan200 Patrick900 Pleasants200 Preston2,170 Randolph168 Ritchie400 Roane200 Taylor700 Tyler400 Warwick100 Wise450 wood1,500 York300 2,8541 Actusl majority for ratification from returne165,577 estimated majorities against ratification from counties not heard officially8,827 total majority 4,756 an Ordinance to Repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and Powers granted under said Constitution. the people of Virgi
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
al of the Commonwealth at Richmond, this 14th day of June, 1861, and in the eighty-fifth of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. by the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. list of Counties from which no returns of the vote on the Taxation Amendment has been received at the Executive Department. Accomac, Alleghany, Brooke, Buchanan, Doddridgn, Elizabeth City, Hancock Hanover, Jackson, Marton, Marshall, McDowell, Monongalis, Mugan, Patrick, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Roane, Taylor, Tyler, Warwick, Weizel, Wise, wood, and York. an Ordinance to amend the Constitution of this Commonwealth, so as to strike out the twenty second and twenty third sections of the fourth article of the present Constitution, and insert the following in lieu thereof: Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the Commonwealth, and all property shall be taxed in proportion to its value, which shall be ascertained in such manner as May be proscribed by