The Portland daily press., 1875-09-01
CITY ADV ERTISEM ENTS
STATE SsF snAFNE.
TO THE ELECTORS
or 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 are hereby notified to
meet in their respeciive Ward Rooms, on Mon
uay, the thirtee nth day Of september next.
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, to give in then
votes for Governor. Four Senators and Five Repre-
sentatives to the State Legislature County Commits
steiner, County Treasurer, Clerk of Courts Judge of
Probate and Register of Probate Also to give Their
votes ppon 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 constitution amended by striking out the
wcrd "majority' wherever 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 Constitu-
ton, by adding thereto the following sections:
'SecIon 49, The Legislature shall from time to
time provide as far practc tile, by general laws
Tor all matters usually appertainipg TO special OF
private legislation
Section IA. corporations shall be formed under
general laws, and shall not be created by special acts
of the Legislature except for municipal PURPOSES
and in cases where the objects OF the corporation
not otLerwiss 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, sban 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 app ing
tor pardons. And he shall communicate to the legis-
ature at each session thereof each of reprieve,
remi. sion of penalty Communication or pardon grant
ed. stating the name of the convict, the crime of
which he convicted, the sentence and tits date
the date of the reprieve, remission, commutaton or
pardon, and 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 ofmunicpal and police courts
shall re apponte by the executive power, in the
same mauDer as other judicial officers, and shall hold
their offices for the term of four years; provided.
however, that the piesent incumbsnts shall hold
their offices for the term for which they were elected
TAXATION.
Section eight of Article nine shall be amended, by
inserting after the word rea the words 'and per-
sonal, so that the section as amended shall read as
follows:
Section g. All taxes upon real and personal
estate assessed by authority of the state shall be
apportioned and assessed equally, according to the
just value thereof
Said article shall be further amended, by adding
the following:
Section g. 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 "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
tutional conventions for the purpose of amending
this constitution
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
The legislature may enact laws excluding from the
right of suffrage, for term not exceeding ten years
all persons iced of bribery at any election OF
voting at any election under the influence of bribe
CoDIFICATION OF THE AMENDED CONSTITUTION.
Article 10. Section six of Article Ten shall be
amended, by striking the same, and inserting in
stead thereof the following:
Section g.. After the amendments proposed here
with shall have been submitted to popular VOTE the
chief justice of the supreme judicial court shall ar
range he constitution, as amended under appropri-
ate titles and i'll proper articles, paris 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 legislature
shall be enrolled On parchment and deposited in the
Office the secretary of state; and printed copies
thereof shall be prexed 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 Z. Sections one, two and tive, OF article
ten of the existing Constitution, shall hereafter be
omitted in printed copies thereof prexed to the
laws of the state but this shall not impair the valid
ty of under those secions and said section five
shall remain in full forceas part OF the Constitution,
according the stiprlations of said secon 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. (entrance on
Myrtle Street, from nine O'Clock in the forenoon to
one O'Clock in the afternoon on each of the three
secular days next preceding such day of election and
noon 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, H. 1. ROBINSON, City Clerk
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