Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-10

NOTICE TO VOTERS!
STATE OF MAINE.

10 ne EttctoFS OF ire Guy Or fhgnSfd.
DURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and Al.
i dermen OF the city OF Augusta, the duly quail
ned electors of said city, hereby notified to meet
in their respective Ward Rooms, on Monday, the
thirteenth day OF September next, at ten O'Clock in
The forenoon, to give in their votes for Governor,
TWO Senators, two Representatives to the state Leg
lsiaturc, County Commissioners and County Treas
urer: also To give in their votes upon the following
questions, namely shall the Constitution of the
state OF Maine be amended as proposed by Resolves
of the Legislature approved February twenty fourth,
A. d. $780, to wit:
ELECTION OF SENATOR'S 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 sec.
ond, OF the constitution, are amended by striking
out the word majority" wherever it occurs in said
sections, and inserting instead thereof the word
plurality"
RELATING TO srECIAL LEGISLATION AND CoRroR.
ATIoNs.
Amend Article four, Part third, of the Consttu
ton, by adding thereto the following sections:
section -. The Legislature shah from time to
time, provide as lar as practicable, by General laws
Tor all matters usually alpertaining to special or
private legslation.'
section IA. Corporations shall be formed under
general laws, and shall not be created by special
acts OF the Legislature, except for municipal pur-
poses and in cases where the objects OF the corpor-
alton cannOt otherwise be attained; and however
formed they shall forever be subject 10 the general
laws OF the state
POWER OF GOVERNOR TO PARDON.
Article five, Part first, section eleven, shall be
word "reprieves," and by adding thereto the fol-
lowing: Communications and pardons, except in
cases OF Impeachment, upon such conditions and
with such restrictions and limitations as may be
deemed proper, subject to such regulation as may
be provided by law relative to the manner of apply
ing for pardops. And he shall communicate to the
legislature at each ses sion thereof each of re-
prieye, remission of penalty, communication or par
don granted, stating the name of the convict the
crime of which he was convicted, the sentence d
its date the date OF the repreve, remission, COM
mutation pardon. and the conditions, il any, up
on which the same was gracted.'
APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES OF MI NICIpAL AND Po-
LICE COUNTS.
The constitution shall be amended, by striking
out Section eight of Article six, and inserting the
following:
section 8. Judges of municipal and police courts
shall be appointed by the executive power in the
same manner other judicial officers, and shall
hold their offices for the Of four years provid
ed, however, that the present incumbents shall hold
their offices for the term for which they were elect
ed.'
TAXATION.
Section eight of Article nine shall be amended by
inserting ter the word real" the words land per-
sonal,' 80 that the section as amended shall read
as follows
section s. All taxes upon real and personal es-
tate, assessed by authority of the state shall be
apportioned and assessed equally, according to the
just rue thereof
Said article shall be lutther amended by adding
section .. The Legislature shall never, in any
manner suspend or surrender the power of taxa
tlon.'
ABOIISHING 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 at,.
ding thereto section nine, a follows:
the Legislature shall, by twO-thirds concur
rent vote OF both branches, have the power to call
constitutional 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 convicted OF bribery at any eec-
tlon or OF voting at any election, under the nfu-
ence OF brbe.
CoDIFiCAIIoN OF THE AMENDED CONSTITUTIONS
Article 10. Section six of article ten shall be
amended by striking out The same, and inserting
instead thereof the following:
section q. After the amendments proposed
herewith shall have been submitted to popular
vote, the chief of tn supreme judicial court
shall arrange the constitution, amended, under
appropriate ies, and IN proper artlc les parts and
sections omtting all sections clauses and words
NOT i'll force, and making no other changes in the
provisions or language theieof, and shall submit
the same to the legislature at its next session.
And the DRAFT and arrangement, when approved by
The legislature, snail he enrolled on parchment and
deposited in the Office of the secretary of State and
printed copies thereof shall be prexe to the books
containing the laws OF the State. And the Consti.
tuti0n, " ith The amendments made thereto, in
cordance with the l,rovisons thereof shall be the
supreme law OF the stale.
section I. Sections one, two, and five, of art Gle
en- OF the existing constitution shah hereafter be
omitted in any printed copies thereof pTeiXed to
.he laws of the state; but this shall not impair the
validity OF acts under those sectons and said Sec
ton 1--WE shall remain In full force. part OF the
consti uton according to the stpuatons of said
section, ith the same effect il contained in said
printed coples.'
The polls ON said day of election to remain open
until four O'Clock IN the afternoon, when they shall
be closed
The Board of Aldermen of said city will be in
open session in their room, in Granite Hall build,