Section 17-17-3Returns counted; result proclaimed.
The Secretary of State shall, in the presence of the Governor and Attorney General, or one of them, open such certificates and therefrom ascertain whether a majority of all the qualified electors of the state who voted at such election voted in favor of such amendment or amendments; and the result of said election shall be made known by proclamation of the Governor.
(Code 1886, §447; Code 1896, §1664; Code 1907, §438; Code 1923, §528; Code 1940, T. 17, §212.)
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