The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-19
"ARTICLE XII.

electors TO be held on WEDNESDAY Sept. Is,
A. ID. 1885. viz:
"ARTICLE XII.
senator from each town or city in the state.
The lieutenant governor shall preside in the
senate and In grand COMMITTEES. the presid-
Ing officer or the senate and grand COMMITTEES
shall have right 10 vote in case Of equal
division but not otherwise.
SEQ. 2. IL, by reason OF death. resigna-
tion. absence or other cause. there DO no lieu-
tenant-goyernor present to preside in the
senate, the seuate shall elect one OF its own
members TO preside during such absence or
vacancy; and until such election is made by
the senate, the secretary OF state shall pre-
side. The senate shall have authority 20
elect its secretary and such other officers as
SEC g. The house of representatives shall
never exceed seyenty-two members, and shall
be constituted on the basis of population,
always allowing one representative for frac.
tion exceeding half the ratio; but each town
or city shall always be entitled TO at least
one member; and no town or city shall have
more than one-sixth Of the whole number Of
members 70 which the house is hereby limited.
The present ratio shall be one representa- tative
70 every four thousand three hun dred and
twenty'three inhabitants, and the General
Assembly may, after any new census taken
by the authority OF the United States or OF
this state. re-apporuon the representation
may by law, from time to time in its discre-
tion. when requested so to do by vote of the
city council or any city, apportion the repre-
sentatives TO which such city II or may here
after be entitled, among the several wares in
such city, and the representatives so appor-
TONED shall be voted for and elected only by
the electors IN the ward or wards TO which
they are apportioned: Provided, however,
that each ward In any city so apportioned
shall, II the number of representatives TO
which such city is entitled equals the num-
ber of wards, have at least one representa-.
tive: but no town shall be divided into dis
tricts for the choice Of representatives.
SEC. T. The governor, lieutenant COVER
nor, secretary OF state, attorney general, gen
eral treasurer, senators and represe natives
shall be elected biennially at the town, ward
or district meetings 10 DO held on the first
Wednesday of April in each alternate year,
and shall severally hold their offices for two
years from the last Tuesday Of May next sue
ceedlng said first Wednesday OF April, and
until others are legally chosen and duly
qualified TO I'LL their places. II elected or
qualified after the said last Tuesday of May,
they shall mold their offices for the remainder
Of the two years ensuing said last Tuesday OF
May, and until their successors are qualified
to act.
Executive Power, Section OF Article VIII.
'Of Elections, and Article XIII, 'Of Amend
ments. are hereby amended by striking out
tho word annual wherever il occurs in all of
the above-nsmed sections and I'm Article Xiii
OF the Constitution, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word biennial.
SEQ. q. The General Assembly may pro-
vide by law for the continuance In office of
any officers OF election or appointment until
other persons are qualified 10 take their
places.
"sEc. z. The first election under this
Article shall be be had on the first "Wednesday
or April next following the adoption thereof,
as provided by Article XIII of the Constitu-
SEQ. {. This amendment shall take, in the
constitution OF the state, the place of Section
OF Article V, OF the House of Representa-
tives, which section is hereby annulled; of
Article vi. 'Of the Senate, which article is
hereby annulled of Section OF Article VIII
or Elections, which Is hereby annulled; of
Section 10 OF Article ", which is hereby an
nulled and also of the word annual wher-
ever IL occurs in the several sections, and in
4 srtisls NIL referred to in Section of this
SEC q The said proposition Of amendment
shall be submitted TO the electors for their
approval or rejection at meetings of the cleo.
'ors 10 be held on tho twenty fifth day of
A. ID. 1895. The voting places in
'he various cities and towns shall be kept
'pen during the hours required by law for
ioting for state officers.
SIC. .. The secretary of state shall cause |
he said proposition of amendment TO be pub
ished IN all the papers publishing the laws of
II said meetings OF said electors; ana the said |
shall be inserted by the town and |
1ty clerks in the warrants or notices by |
hem TO be issued previous to said meetings |
u the electors for the purpose of warning the |
own, ward or district meetings. and said pro- |
positions shall be read by the town. ward and |
district clerks TO the electors in the town, |
ward and district meetings, TO be held as
fOresaid.
sEc 4 The town. ward and district meet
ngs TO be held as aforesaid shall be warned, |
nd the list CT voters shall be canvassed and |
made up and the said town. ward and dis
rict meetings shall be conducted in the same /
nanner as now provided by law for the town, |
yard and district meetings for the election of
eneral officers.
SEC. s. At the close of the polls on said
ay Of said meetings of the electors, the mod
rator and town clerk. or the warden and
Yard clerk, or the moderator and district
lerk, shall, in open town, ward or district
1eetlng, count said ballots and seal mp the
anne, and shall certify that the ballots by
hem sealed up are tho ballots given in at said
leetings OF the electors, the number OF such
allots, and that the number of ballots on said
roposition does not exceed the number OF
lectors voting at said meetings, and shall de-
ver or send such ballots. so sealed up and
ertified, 10 the secretary OF state within FIVE
SIS. 'S' 'N -''- N'' u S'p'''''o'' A. ~
SIC. 9. The governor. secretary OF state
nd attorney general shall count said ballots
n or before the tenth day of October, A ID.
so. And tho governor shall announce the
ssuit by proclamation, on or before the 6f.
'enth day OF October A. ID. 1895, and II said
ropositon of amendment shall have BEEN
pproved Ivy three -fifths OF the electors OF the
ate present and voting thereon in said
'wp' 'N,1 " ward ard and district meetings, the same
iall be declared TO be part of the coustitu |
on OF the state and shall be numbered as an |
lditional article In amendment thereto.
SIC q This act shall take effect on and
Wherefore the citizens Of the City OF Proyi
snce, entitled 10 vote, are hereby notified
ID warned to assemble in ward meetings, on |
I'D 10Th day of September, at the following
aces
IRsT WARD, First District. at Voting Booth
on Traverse street, corner of Wickonden
street; Second District at east end OF |
Board OF Trade Building. Market square.
sCOND WARD, First District. at the school
House on Meeting street, between North
Main and Benefit streets: Second District |
az the Ward Room on North Main street.
HlRD WARD, First District. at No. 54 West
River street: Second District, at the Ward
Room on Smith street: Third District, at
No. 16s Branch avenue.
)URTH WARD, First District. at Ward
Room on Fountain street; Second District
~ No. 54S Westminster street (Second
Floor.
Eth WARD, First District. Voting Booth
on Chestnut street, between Elm and
Elbow streets. Second District, at the
Ward Room on Beacon avenue.
XTH WARD, First District, at the Ward
Room on Public street: second District, at
No. ~ Ihurber's avenue.
'vLNIH WARD, First District. nt No. 23e
HARMON street; Second District, at the
Ward Room on Oakland street.
GHIH WARD, First District, at northw
corner ~ Messer and HuasOn streets: Sec.
ond District. at No. 1883 Westminster
street. |
m TH WARD. First Districf M tho north. |