CONSTITUTION OF NEW-IIAMPSHIRE.    623

99. It shall be the duty of the selectmen and assessors of the several
towns and places in this State, in -warning the first annual meetings for
the choice of senators, after the expiration of seven years from the
adoption of this constitution as amended, to insert expressly in the war-
rant this purpose among the others for the meeting; to wit, to take the
sense of the qualified voters on the subject of a revision of the constitu-
tion; and the meeting being warned accordingly, and not otherwise, the
moderator shall take the sense of the qualified voters present as to the
necessity of a revision; and a return of the number of votes for and against
such necessity shall be made by the clerk, sealed up and directed to the
General Court at their then next session; and if it shall appear to the
General Court by such return, that the sense of the people of the State
has been taken, and that in the opinion of the majority of the qualified
voters in the State, present and voting at said meetings, there is a
necessity for a revision of the constitution, it shall* be the duty of the
General Court to call a convention for that purpose; otherwise the
General Court shall direct the sense of the people to be taken, and then
proceed in the manner before mentioned; the delegates to be.chosen in
the same manner and proportioned as the representatives to the General
Court; provided that no alterations shall be made in this constitution
before the same shall he laid before the towns and unincorporated places,
and approved by two thirds of the qualified voters present and voting
on the subject.

100. And the same method of taking the sense of the people as to a
revision of the constitution, and calling a convention for that purpose,
shall be observed afterward, at the expiration of every seven years.

101. This form of government shall he enrolled on parchment, and
deposited in the Secretary’s office, anti he a part of the laws of the land;
and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the books containing the
laws of this State, in all future editions thereof.

IN CONVENTION, HELD AT CONCOKD THE FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER,
ANNO DOMINI 1792.

The returns from the several towns and unincorporated places being
examined, and it appearing that the foregoing Bill of Rights mid Form
of Government, as amended by the convention, were approved by more
than two thirds of the qualified voters present in town meetings, and
voting upon the question, the same are agreed on and established by the
delegates of the people in convention and declared to he the civil Con-
stitution of the State of New-IIampshire.

SAMUEL LIVERMORE,

President of the Convention.

Attest:    John Caefe, Secretary.

AMENDMENTS.

PROCLAMATION.

Executive Department, )
Concord Sept. 16th, 1852.    )

Be it known, that I, Noah Martin, Governor of the State of New-
IIampshire, in obedience to the request of the Constitutional Con-
vention, do hereby proclaim to the people of this State, that the consti-
tution of the same is amended by striking from it in part 2d, section
14th, the words, “ shall have an estate within the district where he may be
chosen to represent of the value of one hundred pounds, one half of which to