Provided An election shall be held in the several Counties in this state on the first Monday in June next at the usual places of holding elections in the respective Counties; and the legal voters shall then and there elect by their votes whether they will or will not adopt a general system of internal improvement as is contemplated by this act; and if a majority of votes be given in the affirmative, then this law shall be in full force and virtue, otherwise to be null and void. And it shall be the duty of the several Clerks ^Judges^ of elections and Clerks of ^County^ Commissioners Courts respectively, to make due returns of the votes given, agreeably to the “act regulating elections,” approved, January 10^th 1829; and when the said returns shall have been received in the office of the secretary of state, it shall be the duty ^of the Governor^ forthwith to issue his proclamation, making known the result of the same, and to cause the same to be published in one or more of the public newspapers printed in this state, for four weeks successivily.