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In Convention, July 3, 1824.

Resolved, That Town-Meetings be holden, in the several towns in this State, on the second Monday of October next; that at such Town-Meetings, the Constitution, framed by this Convention, be submitted to the freemen for their ratification, in the manner prescribed by an act of the General Assembly of this State, entitled “an act to authorize the holding a Convention for the purpose of framing a Written Constitution of Government for this State;” and that the several Town-Clerks in this State shall issue the usual warrants or notices for holding said Town-Meetings, at least thirty days before the said second Monday of October next.

I certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the Constitution framed by the Delegates met in Convention, at Newport, on the twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, under the act, entitled “an act to authorize the holding a Convention for the purpose of forming a Written Constitution of Government for this State:” I also certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the resolution adopted by said Convention, prescribing the time when Town-Meetings shall be holden for the purpose of ratifying said Constitution.