The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-28
STATE OF MAINE.
To THE ELECTORS
OF THE
City OF Portland.

PURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and
Aldermen Of the City of Portland, the duly
meet n tSer OF SAID Giy are mereoy 10
uay, the thirteenth day o. September next.
az Ten O'Clock i'm the forenoon, TO give in their
votes Tor Governor. Four Senators and Five Repre-
sentatives to the State Legislature County Commits
sloner, County Treasurer Clerk OF Courts Judge of
Probate and Register of Probate Also to give their
Votes upon the following Questions, VIZ: Snail the
Constitution of the State of Maine be amended as
proposed by Resolves of the Legislature, approved
FEBRUARY twenty-fourth, A. ID, 1875, to wit:
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY PLURALITY VOTE.
Senators shall be elected by plurality of the votes
given IN by qualified electors
Sections four and five of Article four, Part second
OF the amended by striking out the
word majority wherever occurs in said sections
ana inserting instead thereof the word plurality.
RELATING TO SPECIAL LEGISLATION AND coRPoR-
ATIONS.
ton, by adding thereto the following sections:
. section IL. The Legislature shall from time TO
time provide far practic tile, by general laws
lor an matters usually appertainDg 10 special CT
Section IA. corporations shall be formed under
general laws and shall be created by special acts
OF Tue Legislature, except for municipal purposes,
and in cases where The Directs Of the corporation
not etLerwis be attained; and however formed, they
shall forever be subject to the general laws of the
state.'
POWER OF GOVERNOR TO PARDON
Artcie 1ve, Part first, section eleven, shall be
am oy striking out of said seeion all after
=
lowing: Communications and pardnns. except in
cases impeachment, upon such conditions. and
win such restrictions and limitations may be
deemei proper, subject to such regulation may be
provided by law relative to the Of appl ing
ioT paruohs And h. shall communicate to the legis-
ature at each session thereof each of reprieve
remi>so of penalty, Communication pardon grant,
ed stating the name of The convict, the crime of
hch he was convicted, the sentence aud tits date
the date OF the reprieve, remission, Communication
pardon, ana the conditions, if any, upon which the
Same was granted
APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES OF MUNICIPAL AND
POLICE COURTS.
The constitution shall be amended, by striking out
Section eight OF Article six, and inserting the fol-
lowing:
Section s. Judges of municipal and police courts
shall re apponte by the executive power, in the
same manner as other judicial officers and shall hold
however, that the present incumbenrs shall hold
their offices tor the term for which they elected
TAXATION.
Section eight of Article nine shall be amended by
inserting after the word rea'," the words 'and per-
sona so that the section as amended shall read as
follows:
Section s. All taxes upon. real and personal
apportioned and assessed equally, according to the
just value thereof.
Said article shall be further amended, by adding
the following:
Section 9. The legislature shall never, in any
manner, suspend surrender the power of tax
ation
ABoLIsHING LAND AGENCY.
Section ten of article nine, of the amendments, is
hereby amended, by striking out the words "and
agent and"
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
Article four, Part third, shall be amended by ad-
ding thereto section nine, as follows:
The Legislature SHALL by two-thirds concurrent
vote of both aaches have the power to call consi
tutional conventions for the purpose of amending
this constitution
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
The legislature may enact laws excluding from the
RICH of Suffrage, for term not exceeding ten years,
all persons 0icted OF bribery at any election OF
voting at any election under the influence of BRIDE
CoDIFIcATIoN OF THE AMENDED CONSTITUTION.
Article 10. Section six of Article Ten shall be
amended, by striking out the same, and inserting in
stead thereof the following:
Section 6. After the amendments proposed here
with shall have been submitted TO popular vote the
chiefjustice of the supreme judicial court shall
range he constitution, amended, under appropri-
ate titles and in proper articles parts and sections
emitting all sections clauses and words not in force
and making no other changes in the provisions or
language thereof, and shall submit the same to the
legislature at its next session. And the draft and
arrangement, when approved by the legs stature.
hall be enrolled On parchment and deposited in the
office the secretary of state; AMI printed copies
thereof shall be prexed to the books containing the
laws of the state: And the Constitution, with the
amend ments made thereto, in accordance with The
provisions thereof shall be the supreme law OF the
state.
Section Z. Sections one, two and five of article
ten of the ting Constitution shall hereafter he
omitted in printed COPIES thereof prexed to the
laws of the state but this shall not impair the valid
ty OF acs under those sections; and said section five
shall remain in full forceas part OF the Cnnstit ution
according the stiprlations of said lection, with the
same effect as if contained in said printed copies
The POLLS on such day of election to remain open
until four O'Clock in the afternoon when they shall
be closed
The Aldermen Of said City will be in open session
| in the Ward Room in City Building. (entrauce
Myrtle SreeD from nine o'cl eek in the forenoon
one O'Clock in the afternoon on each of the three
secular days next preceding such day of election and
and from three o'clock to five O'Clock the after
noon The last of SAID three secular days for the
purpose of receiving evidence of the qualification of
voters whose have not be entered the list
OF qualified voters in and for the several Wards,
and for correcting said lists.
Per Order, H. 1. ROBINSON, City Clerk.