An ORDINANCE to provide for the punishment of certain offenses, and for other purposes.

Passed August 12, 1861.

The People of Virginia, by their Delegates assembled in Convention at Wheeling, do ordain as follows:

1. Every former incumbent of an office which has been or shall be declared vacant by any declaration or ordinance of this convention, or any act of the general assembly, who shall exercise or attempt to exercise the functions of such office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

2. The office of any person who has heretofore taken and subscribed, or shall hereafter take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by the ordinance of this convention, entitled "An ordinance for the reorganization of the state government," and who, after taking and subscribing such oath or affirmation, shall by any overt act, or by writing or speaking, support and uphold or attempt to support and uphold the usurped government at Richmond or the pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, is hereby declared vacant; and the governor, if satisfactory evidence be produced thereof, upon due notice of the charge to the party to be affected thereby, shall proceed to fill such vacancy or cause the same to be filled in the mode prescribed by the fifth section of the above cited ordinance. But nothing herein contained shall prevent the indictment and punishment of such persons for the crime of perjury.

3. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage, and may be altered or repealed by the general assembly.

G. L. CRANMER, Secretary.

A. I. BOREMAN, President.

An ORDINANCE ascertaining and declaring in what cases offices are vacated under the Declaration of June 17, 1861.

Passed August 20, 1861.

The People of Virginia, by their Delegates assembled in Convention at Wheeling, do ordain as follows:

1. Every incumbent of an office held under authority of the commonwealth, or of any county, city or town thereof, who, on and before the seventeenth day of June last, was in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who by any overt act, or by writing or speaking, supported and upheld, or attempted to support and uphold the usurped government at Richmond, or the pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, and who has not, before the passage of this ordinance, taken and subscribed the oath of office prescribed by the ordinance of this convention, entitled "An ordinance for the reorganization of the state government," shall be deemed and taken to have vacated his office; and it shall be the duty of the governor, upon satisfactory evidence thereof, to proceed to fill such vacancy, or cause the same to be filled in the mode prescribed by the fifth section of the above cited ordinance.

2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

G. L. CRANMER, Secretary.

A. I. BOREMAN, President.

An ORDINANCE providing for the appointment of Collector of the Public Revenue in certain cases.

Passed August 20, 1861.

The People of Virginia, by their Delegates assembled in Convention at Wheeling, do ordain as follows:

1. If in any county there shall be no sheriff or collector of the public revenues authorized to act under existing laws and the ordinances of this convention, and the county court of such county cannot be convened, or being convened shall fail or refuse to appoint and qualify a collector of the state and county levies and other public dues within the said county, it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, with the approbation of the gov ernor, to appoint a collector of the public revenues for the said county, requiring him to take such oaths and, with proper and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor and auditor, to execute such bonds as are required from collectors appointed by the county courts under the said laws and ordinances. The said bonds shall be filed with the auditor of public accounts, who shall transmit certified copies thereof to the clerk of the county court of such county, which copies shall be received as evidence in all the courts of the commonwealth.

2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage, and may be altered or repealed by the general assembly.

G. L. CRANMER, Secretary.

A. I. BOREMAN, President.

An ORDINANCE to provide for the election of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Passed August 20, 1861.

The People of Virginia, by their Delegates assembled in Convention at Wheeling, do ordain as follows:

1. In every congressional district of the state where, from any cause, an election of a representative in the congress of the United States was not held on the fourth Thursday of May last, and in the eleventh district where a vacancy now exists, an election for such representative shall be held on the fourth Thursday in October next, which shall be conducted and the result ascertained, declared and certified in the manner directed in the second edition of the code of Virginia.

2. If in consequence of the occupation of any county by armed forces in hostility with or in rebellion against the government of the United States, such election cannot be or is not held in such county, any person entitled to vote therein may vote in any other county of his district. And if no election shall be held at the time appointed in the first section of this ordinance in any congressional district therein mentioned, the governor on receiving satisfactory evidence thereof may, by proclamation or writ, appoint another day for holding such election therein.

3. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage.

G. L. CRANMER, Secretary.

A. I. BOREMAN, President.

An ORDINANCE to increase the compensation of the Adjutant General, during the continuance of hostilities within the Commonwealth.

Passed August 20, 1861.

The People of Virginia, by their Delegates assembled in Convention at Wheeling, do ordain as follows:

1. During the continuance of hostilities within the commonwealth, the adjutant general, in addition to the salary now allowed by law, shall be entitled to receive the sum of seven hundred dollars per annum.

2. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage, and may be altered or repealed by the general assembly. A. I. BOREMAN, President.

G. L. CRANMER, Secretary.