The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-09-01
[ Proposed Amendments to the Con
stitutiOm of the state of New
Jersey.l
ARTICLE /.
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.

ARTICLE |.
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.
Insert as paragraph 10, new paragraph, as
follows
"19. No county, city, borough, town, town
ship or village shall hereafter give any money
or property or loan its money OF credit, to or
lii aid of any individual, association or cor
roration, or become security for, or be directly
or indirectly the owner of any stock or bonds
of any association or corporation"
Insert as paragraph 20, new paragraph, as
follows
$50. No donation of land or appropriation
of money shall be made by the state or any
municipal corporation to or for the use OF any
society, association or corporation whatever"
Change the number of present paragrap ID
to number 81.
ARTICLE II.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Section l.
Strike out the word white" between the
word "every and the word fmale" in the
first line.
Add to the paragraph the following
"And provided further, that in time of war
no eleetor in the actual military service of the
state, or of the United States, in the army or
navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by
reason of his absence from such election dis
trict and the legislature shall have power to
provide the manner in which, and the time
and place at which, such absent electors may
vote, and for the return and canvass of their
votes in the election districts in which they
respectively reside"
Strike out all of the second section after the
word " bribery"
ARTICLE Nv.
LEGISLATIVE.
Section /.
Paragraph 3-Strike out the words "second
Tuesday of October" and insert in lieu there
of the words " first Tuesday after the first
Monday In November
Section ~.
Paragraph 7--Strike out the following
words
" A compensation for their services, to be
asscertained by law, and pail out 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 COM
mencement of the session, and shall not exceed
the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day
for the remainder of the season. When con-
vened in extra session by the governor they
shall receive such sum as shall be fixed for the
first forty days of the ordinary session. They
shall also receive the sum Of one dollar for
every ten miles they shall travel in going to
and returning from their place of meeting on
the most usual route,
and insert in lieu thereof the following
g Annually the sum of five hundred dollars
during the time for which they shall have
been elected, and while they shall hold their
office, and no other allowance or emolument,
directly or indirectly, for any purpose what
ever.''
Also strike out the words 'sper diem"
Section VII.
Paragraph Add to the paragraph the fol-
lowing
q No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to it's title only, but the act revived,
or the section or sections amended, shall be
inserted at length. No general law shall en-
brace any provision of a private, special OF
local character. No act shall be passed which
shall provide that any existing law. OF any
part thereof shall be made or deemed part
of the act or which shall enact that any exist
ing law, or any part thereof, shall be applica-
ble;~cxcept by inserting it in such act"
Paragraph 6-Insert the word 6 free be,
tween the word public" and the word