Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29

ELECTION NOTICE


/ WHEREAS, Two joint resolutions propos-
ing two separate amendments to the Consti-
tuition of this Commonwealth have been
agreed to by a majority Of the members
elected to each House of the Legislature at
two successive sessions. The first of said
amendments being as follows:
/ AMENDMENT.
There shall be an additional article to said
Constitution, to be designated as Article
Nineteenth, as follows:
ARTICLE NINETEENTH.
The manufacture, sale, or keeping for
sale, OF intoxicating liquor, to be used as q
beverage. is hereby prohibited, and any VI
olation of this prohibition shall be a misde-
meanor, punishable as shall be provided by
law. The manufacture, sale, or keeping for
sale, of intoxicating liquor for other pur-
poses than as a beverage may be allowed in
such manner only as may be prescribed by
| law. The General Assembly shall, at the
first session succeeding the adoption of this
article of the Constitution, enact laws,
with adequate penalties, for its enforcement.
The second thereof being as follows:
AMENDMENT.
| Strike out from section one of article
eight the four qualifications for voters,
which read as follows: Ii % years of age
or upward, he shall have paid within two
wears a State or county tax, which shall
have been assessed at least two months, and
paid at least one month before the election,
so that the section which reads as follows:
Every male citizen p years OF age, possess
ing the following qualifications, shall be en-
titled to vote at all elections.
First-He shall have been citizen of the
United States at least one month
Second-He shall have resided in the
State one year Cor if having previously
been qualified elector or native born eiti-
zen of the State, he shall have removed
therefrom and returned, then six months)
Immediately preceding the election.
Third-He shall have resided in the cleo
ton district where he shall cffer to vote at
least two months Immediately preceding the
election.
Fourth-If % years of age or upward, he
shall have paid, within two years, State
or county tax, which shall have been as
sessed at least two months, and paid at least
one month, before the election, shall be
amended to read as follows: Every male
citizen q years of age, possessing the fol-
lowing qualifications, shall be entitled to
vote at the polling place OF the election dis
dent, and not elsewhere:
First-He shall have been a resident Of
the United States at least thirty (30) days.
Second-He shall have resided in the
State one year Cor if having previously been
qualified elector or native born citizen Of
the State, be shall have removed therefrom
and returned, then six months) Immediately
preceding the election.
Third-He shall have resided in the elec-
tion district where he shall offer to vote at
least 80 days Immediately preceding the
election. The Legislature at the session
thereof next after the adoption of this sec
tion shall, and from time to time thereafter
may, enact laws to properly enforce this pro-
vision.
Fourth-Every male citizen of the age of
q years, who shall have been a citizen for
80 days, and an inhabitant of this State
one year next preceding an election, except
at municipal elections, and for the last 80
days resident of the election district in
which he may offer to vote, shall be entitled
to vote at such election in the election dis
trict of which he shall at the time be resi-
dent, and not elsewhere, for all officers that
now are or hereafter may be elected by the
people Provided, That in time of war no
elector 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
district, and the Legislature shall have pow
er to provide the manner in which and the Z.
time and place at which such absent cleo
tors may vote, and for the return and can
vass of their votes in the election district in
which they respectively reside
Fifth-For the purpose of voting, no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost
residence by reason of his presence or abb
sence while employed in the service of the
United States or Of the State, nor while en-
gagged in the navigation of the waters of the
State or the high seas, nor while student
of any college or seminary of learning, nor
while kept at any almshouse or public insti-
tuition, except the inmates of any home for
disabled and INDECENT soldiers and sailors,
who, for the purpose of voting, shall be
deemed to reside in the election district
where said home is located. Laws shall be
made for ascertaining, by proper proof, the
citizens who shall be entitled to the right Of
suffrage hereby established. And
Whereas, In accordance with the pro-
visions of the act of the General Assembly
of Pennsylvania, approved March g. 1889,
entitled, "An act prescribing the time and
manner of submitting to the people, for
their approval and ratification or rejection,
proposed amendments to the Constitution"
the governor of the Commonwealth has
issued a writ of election directed to the
sheriff of Allegheny county, commanding
and requiring the said sheriff to give notice
newspapers in the said county and each
city thereof, that an election will be held
according to the terms of the Constitution
and the provisions of the said act of
the General Assembly at the usual
place for holding general elections in
each of the townships, boroughs,
wards, precincts and election districts
therein oR Tuesday, the 18th day of
June, A. D. 1885, for the purpose of decid-
ing upon the approval and ratification or re-
lection of each of the amendments. In pur-
suance thereof, 1, Alexander H. MeCand-
less, Sheriff of the county of Allegheny, do
therefore make known and give this public
notice to the electors OF said county Of Allie
ghenY, that general election will be held
in said county on Tuesday. June Is next,
in the several election districts therein
within the hours at and within which the
general elections of the Commonwealth are
directed to be opened, held and closed, at
which time the qualified electors will assem-
BILE at their respective polling places here
after named, and vote by ballot upon the
adoption or rejection of said amendments.
The electors of the First ward, Pittsburg,
First district, to meet at Rees' boiler yard,
On Penn avenue, between Second and Third
streets. Second district to meet at public
Second avenue. Third dis
trict to meet at No. engine house, Fourth
avenue.
The electors of the Second ward, Pitts
burg, First district, to meet at Archibald
& Brothers livery stable. 119 Third avenue.
Second district to meet at the Poor Board
1fice, Fourth avenue. Third district to
meet at public sehoolhouse, Diamond street.
The electors of the Third ward Pittsbur0