The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-09-16

one Insertion each week for the of three months
in each of said newspapers, the proposed @
Legislature and filed in your Office by the Secretary Of
.he Senate JOEL PARKER, Governor.
Proposed amendments to the Cohsts-
tuition of the State of NesO Jersey.]
ARTICLE l.
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
Insert as paragraph 49, new paragraph as follows:
10 No county city, borough. town. township or VII,
its money credit to or in aid Of any individual asso
citation corporation, become security for or Dc III
recty indirectly the owner Of any stock or oonas o
any association or corporation.
insert as paragraph 90 paragraph, as follows:
"No donation of land or appropriation OF money shal
be made y the state or any municipal corporation to OF
for the Of any society association or corporation
Change the number of present paragraph 10 to num-
Der II.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Section l.
Strike out tho word "whiten between the word
" every u and the word finale in the first line
Add to the paragraph the following;
aAnd provided further that in time of war no eector
in the actual military service OF the state or OF ihe
United States in the army navy thereof shall be de-
prved of his vote by Of his absence from sueh
election district and the legislature shall have power
provide the in which, apd the time ana place
which, such absent electors may vote and Tor the re-
turn and canvass their in the election districts
in which they respectively reside
Section H.
Strike out all of the second section after the word
bribery"
LEGISLATIVE
Section /.
Paragraph Strike out the words second Tuesday OIL
October and insert in lieu thereof the words FIRST
Tuesday after the first Monday in November"
Section w
Paragraph Strike out the following words;
"a compensation for their services, to be ascertained
by law and paid of the treasury of the state which
compensation shall not exceed the sum of three dollars
per day for the period of forty days from the commence
dollar and ty cents per day for the remainder of the
session. When convened in extra session by the Cover
they shall receive such shall be liked for the
first forty days Of the ordinary session They shall also
receive the sum of one dlar for every ten miles they
shall travel in going and returning from their place
of meeting on the most usual route,
and insert in lieu thereof the following:
Annually the OF five hundred dollars during the
the tire for which they shall have been elected ana
while they shall hold their Office and other allowance
emolnent, directly or indirectly, for any purpose
whatever
Also strike ont the words per diem"
Section VII
Paragraph Add to the paragraph the following:
No law shall be revived or amended by reference 10
its title only bur the act revived or the section or sec
tons amended, shall be inserted at length No general
law shall embrace any provision of private special or
local character No act shall be passed which shall pro
vide that any existing law or any part thereof shall be
that any existing law or any part thereof shall be APP
peale except hy inserting It in such act.n
Paragraph G-lnsert the word free" between the the
word public" and the word Schools" and add to the
paragraph the following:
The legislature shall provide for the maintenance
and support of thorough and efficient system of free
public schools for the instruction Of all the children in
this between the of five and eighteen years.
Strike out paragraph as follows:
IS The assent Of threffths ofthe members elected to
each house shall be requisite to the PASSAGE OF every law
ing charters for banks money corporations and all
such charters shall be limited to term not exceeding
twenty years"
Insert as paragraph 8, paragraph, as follows;
80. No private special, or local bill shall be passed,
unless public notice of the intention to apply therefor,
and of the general object thereof shall have been pre-
yously given The legislature at the next session after
the adoption thereof and from time to time thereafter
shall prescribe the time and mode Of gi*ng such notice.
the evidence thereof and how such evidence shall be pre-
served"
Insert as paragraph 4 new paragraph as follows:
al The legislature shall not pass private, local or
special laws in any Of the following enumerated cases.
that Is to say
laying out, opening altering and working roads or
highways.
"yaeatng any road town plot, street, alley public
Regulating the internal affairs Of towns and coun-
ties; appointing local Offices commissions to regulate
municipal affairs.
Selecting, drawing, summonng empaneling grand
petit jurors
Creating increasing decreasing the per centage
allowance of public officers during the term for which
said officers were elected or appointed
"Chunging the law of descent.
"Granng to any corporation, association or indvidu-
al any exclusive privilege immunity franchise what
ever
"Granng to any corporation association or individual
the right to lay down railroad tracks.
Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal
cases.
Providing for the management and support of free
public schools.
the enumerated in this paragraph and for all other
which, in its Judgment may be provided for by
general laws The legislature shah pass special
comforting corporate powers but they shall pass general
laws unler which corporations may be organized and
corporate of every nature obtained subject
thee to repeal alteration at the will of the legisa
ture.n
Insert as paragraph ~ new paragraph, as follows
i2 Property shall be assessed for taxes under gene
raj laws and by uniform rules, according to its true
valuen
Section FIJI
Insert as paragraph Q a paragraph as follows:
~ Every officer of the legislature shall before he en-
tiers upon his duties take and subscribe the following
10 solemnly nronsa and ,,raap