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SEC. 8. The Governor shall classify and arrange the aforeto classifts, said returned list, and shall make therefrom separate lists of the electors belonging to each regiment, battalion, squadron and battery, from said Territory in the service of the United States, and shall, on or before the fifteenth dey of August following, transmit, by mail or otherwise, to the commanding officer of each regiment, battalion, squadron and battery, a list of electors belonging thereto, which said list shall specify the name, residence and rank of each elector, and the company to which he belongs, if to any, and also the county and township to which he belongs, and in which he is entitled to

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vote.

SEC. 9. Between the hours of nine o'clock A. M. and three o'clock P. M., on each of the election days herein before named, a ballot-box or suitable receptacle for votes shall be opened, under the immediate charge and direction of three of the highest officers in command, for the reception of votes from the electors whose names are upon said list, at each place where a regiment, battalion, squadron or battery of soldiers from said Territory, in the army of the United States, may be on that day; at which time and place said electors shall be entitled to vote for all officers for which, by reason of their residence in the several counties in said Territory, they are authorized to vote, as fully as they would be entitled to vote in the several counties or townships in which they reside, and the votes so given by such electors at such time and place, shall be considered, taken and held to have been given by them in the respective counties and townships in which they are resident.

SEC. 10. Each ballot deposited for the adoption or rejection to contain. of this Constitution in the army of the United States, shall have distinctly written or printed thereon, "Constitution, Yes," or "Constitution, No," or words of a similar import; and further, for the election of State officers, Supreme and District Judges, Members of the Legislature, Representative in Congress, and three Presidential electors. The name and office of the person voted for shall be plainly written or printed on one piece of paper. The name of each elector voting as aforesaid shall be checked upon the said list at the time of voting by one of the said officers having charge of the ballot-box. The said officers having charge of the election shall count the votes and compare them with the checked list immediately after the closing of the ballotbox.

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SEC. 11. All the ballots cast, together with the said voting where to be list checked as aforesaid, shall be immediately sealed up and sent forthwith to the Governor of said Territory, at Carson City, by mail or otherwise, by the commanding officer, who shall also make out and certify duplicate returns of votes given according to the forms hereinafter prescribed, seal up and immediately transmit the same to the said Governor at Carson City, by mail or otherwise, the day following the transmission of the ballots and the voting list herein named. The said commanding officer shall also immediately transmit to the several County Clerks in said Territory an abstract of the votes given at the general election in November for county officers, marked "Election Returns."

SEC. 12. The form of returns of votes to be made by the com- Form of manding officer to the Governor and County Clerks of said Ter- returns. ritory shall be in substance as follows, to wit:

"Returns of soldiers' votes in the (here insert the regiment, detachment, battalion, squadron or battery.)

(For first election-on the Constitution):

I, hereby certify that on the first Wednesday of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the electors belonging to the (here insert the name of the regiment, detachment, battalion, squadron or battery), cast the following number of votes for and against the Constitution for the State of Nevada, viz:

For Constitution (number of votes written in full and in figures.)

Against Constitution (number of votes written in full and in figures.)

(Second election-for State and other officers):

I, hereby certify that on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the electors belonging to the (here insert as above) cast the following number of votes for the several officers and persons hereinafter named, viz:

For Governor (names of persons voted for, number of votes for each person voted for written in full, and also in figures, against the name of each person.)

For Lieutenant-Governor (names of candidates, number of votes cast for each person voted for written out, and in figures, as above.)

Continue as above until the list is completed.

Attest:

I. A. B.

Commanding officer of the (here insert regiment, detachment, battalion, squadron, or battery, as the case may be.)

SEC. 13. The Governor of this Territory is requested to furnish Blank reeach commanding officer within and beyond the boundaries of turns to be said Territory, proper and sufficient blanks for said returns.

furnished.

future

SEC. 14. The provisions of this ordinance in regard to the Provisions soldiers' vote shall apply to future elections under this Constitu- to apply to tion, and be in full force until the Legislature shall provide by elections. law for taking the votes of citizens of said Territory in the army of the United States.

Done in Convention, at Carson City, the twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the eightyninth, and signed by the Delegates.

President of the Convention, and Delegate from Ormsby County.

WM. M. GILLESPIE, Secretary.

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