The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
TO THE
CONSTITUTION.

OTATE OF NEW JERSEY.
- DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
As required by an act entitled can act to
provide for submitting proposed amendments
TO the Constitution OF this State to the people
thereof" approved May Is. 1897, notice is here
by given that on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth
day OF September 1897,
SPECIAL ELECTION
will be held in the several election districts or
precincts OF this state, at such places as the
clerks OF the several townships, cities and
municipalities of the State shall provide, 70
enable the electors qualified TO vote for mem
Ders OF the Legislature to vote for or against
each OF the following proposed amendments
to the Constitution.
GEORGE WURTs,
Secretary OF State.
Proposed amendments 10 the constitution,
relating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII OF article
Nv, so as to read as follows:
e. No lottery shall be authorized by the
legislature or otherwise in this state; and no
ticket in any lottery shall be bought or sold
within this state, nor shall pool-selling, book.
making or gambling OF any kind be authorized
or allowed within this state, nor shall any
gambling device, practice or game OF chance
now prohibited by law be legalized, or the
remedy penalty or punishment now provided
therefor be in any way diminished.
Proposed amendment to the constitution, re-
lating to appointments to office.
Add the following to section XII of article v
No person who shall have been nominated
trust or profit under the government of this
state, and shall not have been confirmed before
the recess OF the legislature, shall be eligible
for appointment to such office during the con.
tinuance OF such recess.
Proposed amendment to the constitution, pro
viding for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE IL.
Amend section to read as follows:
l. Every male citizen of the United States
of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have
been resident of this state one year and OF
the county OF which he claims his vote five
months next before the election, shall be en-.
titled TO vote for all officers that now or here.
after may be elective by the people; and every
female citizen of the United States of the age
of twenty-one years, who shall have been a
resident OF this state one year, and of the
county OF which she claims her vote five
months next before said meeting, shall be en-.
titled to vote at any school meeting held in
may reside tor members of boards of education
and all other school offices that now are OF
hereafter may be elected at such meetings :
provided, that no person in the military, naval
or marine service OF the United States shall be
considered a resident in this state by being
stationed in any garrison, barrack or military
or naval place or station within this state; and
no pauper, idiot, insane person or persons
convicted of a crime which now excludes him
or her from being d witness unless pardoned
or restored by law to the right of suffrage
shall enjoy thesright of an elector and proYid-
ed further, 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 power to provide the
manner in which ana the time and place at
which such absent elector may vote, and fol
the return and canvass of their votes in the
election district in which they respectively
reside