The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-09-08
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
- DEPARTMENT OF STATE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
~ DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
As required by an act entitled An act to
provide for submitting proposed amendments
to the Constitution Of this State to the people
thereof, approved May %, 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, Mt such places as the
clerks of the several townships cities and mtl-
inequalities of the State shall provide to ena-
bic the electors qualified to vote for members
of the Legislature to vote for or against each
Of the following proposed amendments to the
Constitution.
GEORGE WURTs,
Secretary of State.
Proposed amendment to the constitution, re-
ating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII of article
~, so as to read as follows:
= No lottery shall be authorized by the leg
lslatnre or otherwise III this state; and no
ticket in any lottery shall be bought or sold
within this state, nor shall pool-selling, book
making or gambling ofany 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 I:
4Nb pcFspI WHO SNAIL nave deem nominated 10
the senate by the governor for any office of
trust or profit under the government of this
state, and shall not have been confirmed be-
fore the recess OF the Legislature, shall be
eligible for appointment to such office during
the continuance OF such recess.
Proposed amendment to the constitution, pro-
Nldlng for woman suffrage
ARTICLE H.
Amend section l to read as follows:
! Every male citizen of the United States
OF the age OF twenty-one years, who shall have
been resident of this state one wear and of
the county OF, which he claims his vote five
titled to vote for all officers that now are or
hereafter 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 resident of this state one year and of
the county of which she claims her vote five
months next before said meeting, shall
be entitled to vote at any school meeting held
~ any school district of this state in which
she may reside for members of boards of edu-
cation and all other school officers that now
are or hereafter may be elected at such meet
ings; 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
mlltary or naval place or station within this
state; and no pauper, idiot insane person or
persons convicted of Il crime which now ex-
cludes HIM or her from being Witness nm
less pardoned or restored by law to the right
OF suffrage, shall enjoy the right of an eector /:
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 ms absence from such election dis
triet; and the legislature shall have power to
provide the manner III which and the time and
place at which such absent elector may vote,
ana Tor the return and canvass of their votes
IN the election district III which they respect
lively reside.
September |, 1897.