Chap. 413.—An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the
State the question of calling a constitutional convention, to be held for the
purpose of revising and amending the present Constitution. [H B 36]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That at an
election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
ber, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, there shall be submitted
to the electors qualified to vote for members of the general assembly
the question, “Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution
and amend the same?”

2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be furnished by
the respective electoral boards. The ballots containing the names
of the candidates for the various offices to be voted for on the said
date shall also have printed thereon the words “For constitutional
convention,” and “Against constitution convention” which shall be
in such type as is provided in the general law, and shall be at least
one inch below any heading or other printing on said ballot. If at
any election precinct where an election is held there are candidates
to be voted for but no nominations are made, the electoral board
shall furnish ballots with the words “For constitutional convention”
and “Against constitutional convention” printed thereon, which shall
be in such type as is provided in the general law, and shall be at
least one inch below any heading or other printing on said ballot.

3. <A ballot deposited with the words “Against constitutional con-
vention” erased or stricken, out shall be a vote for a convention, and
a ballot deposited with the words, “For constitutional convention”
erased or stricken out shall be a vote against a convention.

4. The manner of receiving and canvassing said ballots and
making returns and abstracts thereof shall conform in all respects
to the requirements of the general election laws of the State when
nominations are made, except the certificate of judges and clerks,
which shall be as follows, or to like effect: “We hereby certify that
at the election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
ber, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, there were ~-.-.---------~-_-
votes cast for constitutional convention and ~---.-----~--- votes cast
against constitutional convention.

Clerks. Judges.”

And the proper official canvassers of general election returns shall
canvass these returns in a like manner as other election returns, and
the result shall be certified to the secretary of the Commonwealth
as the result in other elections is certified.

5. The board of State canvassers shall meet in the office of the
secretary of the Commonwealth on the fourth Monday in November,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and shall examine the certified
abstracts of such returns, and shall make a certified statement
of the whole number of votes cast for constitutional convention
and the whole number of votes cast against constitutional con-
vention, and they shall examine all the certified abstracts of
returns of votes cast at said election, and shall determine and certify
the number of electors voting at said election for any purpose, and
whether a majority of the same were in favor of a constitutional con-
vention; and shall subscribe their names thereto, and shall deliver
the same over to the secretary of the Commonwealth, who shall re-
cord, in a suitable book to be kept in his office, such certified state-
ment and determination, and a certified copy of the same, to be made
by the secretary of the Commonwealth, shall be communicated by
the governor to the general assembly at its first session ensuing
thereafter.