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America’s First Constitutions and Declarations of Rights
annually on the same first Monday in April, at such place in the plantations respectively, as the Assessors thereof shall direct; which Assessors
shall have like authority for notifying the electors, collecting and returning
the votes, as the Selectmen and Town-Clerks have in their several towns,
by this Constitution. And all other persons living in places unincorporated
(qualified as aforesaid) who shall be assessed to the support of government by the Assessors of an adjacent town, shall have the privilege of giving in their votes for Counsellors and Senators, in the town where they
shall be assessed, and be notified of the place of meeting by the Selectmen
of the town where they shall be assessed, for that purpose, accordingly.
iii.—and that there may be a due convention of Senators on the last
Wednesday in May annually, the Governor, with five of the Council, for
the time being, shall, as soon as may be, examine the returned copies of
such records; and fourteen days before the said day he shall issue his
summons to such persons as shall appear to be ch