The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-03
STATE OF MAINE.
TO THE ELECTORS
OF THE
City OF fPortland.


DURsUANT to warrants from the Mayor and
| 4 Aldermen Of the City of Portland the duly
qualified electors of said City hereby notified 10
uny, the thirteenth day II September nexI.
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, to give in their
votes for Governor. Four Senators and Five Repre-
sentatives to the State Legislature COUNTY. .COmmis
s'oner County Treasurer, Clerk of Courts judge of
Proba and Register of Probate. Also to give their
votes upon the following questions, viz: Shall the
Constitution of the State OF Maine be amended as
proposed by Resolves of the Legislature, approved
February twenty-fourth, A. D, 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 const are amended by st1iking out the
word majority wherever il occurs in said sections,
and inserting instead thereof the word plurality.
RELATING To SPECIAL LEGISLATION AND coRPoR-
ATIONs.
Amend Article four, Part third, of the COnsttu-
ton, by adding thereto the following sections:
'SecIlon 13. The Legislature shall from time to
time, provide as far as practe ille, by general laws,
or all matters usually appertainDg TO special or
private legislation
Section IA. corporations shall be formed under
general laws and shall not be created by special
of tue Legislature, except for municipal purposes
and in cases where he Directs Of the corporation can
not etLerwis be attained and however formed, they
shall forever be subject to the general laws of the
state'
POWER OF GOVERNOR TO PARDON
Article five Part first, section eleven, shall be
amended by striking out of said section all after
the word "reprieves and by adding thereto the fol-
lowing: Communications and pardons. except in
cases o. Impeachment, upon such conditions, an d
with such restrictions and limitations as may be
deemed proper, subject to such regulation may be
provided by law relative to the manner of appl ing
TOR pardons. And he shall communicate to the legis
lature at each session thereof each of reprieve
remis sion Of penalty. communication or pardon grant
ed stating the name OF the convict, the crime of
v hch he was convicted, the sentence and its date
the date of the reprieve, remission Communication or
pardon, and the conditions, if any, upon which the
same was granted
APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES OF MUNICIPAL AND
POLICE CoUaTS.
The constitution shall be amended, by striking out
Section eight OF Article six, and inserting the fol-
lowing:
Section 8. Judges of municipal and police courts
shall Re appointe by the executive power, in the
same manner as other Judicial officers, and shall hold
their offices for the term OF four years; provided
however, that the present incumbenrs shall hold
their offices Tor the term for which they elected
81 TAXATION.
Section eight of Article nine shall be amended, by
inserting after the word rea,' the words and per-
follows
Sections All taxes upon real and personal
etate 'sessed by authority of the state, shall be
appor5oned and assessed equally, according to the
just value thereof
Said article shall be further amended, by adding
the following:
Section 8. The legislature shall never, in any
manner, suspend or surrender the power of tax
ation.'
AboLiSHlNG LAND AGENCf
Section ten of article nine, of the amendments, is
hereby amended, by striking out the words "land
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 Branches have the power to call consti
tntional conventions for the purpose of amending
this constitution
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
Iigh OF suffrage, for term not exceeding ten years,
all persons cted of bribery at any election of
voting at any election, under the influence of bribe.
coDIF1cATIoN OF THE AMENDED CONSTITUTION.
Article TO- 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 popular vote. the
chief justice of the supreme judicial court shall
range he constitution, as amended under appropr-
ate titles and ii rope articles, parts and sections
Om1ttmg all sections, claus and words not in force,
and making no other changes in the provisions or
language tuereof, and shall submit the same to the
arrangement, when approved by he legis atlre
shall be enrolled on parchment and deposited in the
office tbs secretary Of state; and printed copies
thereof shall be preixed TO the books containing the
laws OF the state. And the Constitution, with the
amendments made thereto, in accordance with ,he
provisions thereof shall be the supreme law OF the
state.
Section 7. Sections one, two and five, of article
ten OF the existing Constitution, shall hereafter be
omtted IN any printed COPIES thereof prexed to the
laws Of the state but this shall not impair the valid
iy OF ac,s under those secions and said section five
shall remain in full force part OF the Constit ution
according 10 the stiprlations of said secon with the
same effect as contained in said printed copies
The polls IN 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, (entrance on
Myrtle Stree from nine o'clock in the forenoon to
one O'Clock in the afternoon 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 on The last of SAID three secular days for the
purpose of receiving evidence of the qualification of
voters whose names have not be entered ON the list
Of qualified voters in and for the several Wards
and for correcting said lists.
Per Order, II. 1. ROBINSON, City Clerk
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