The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-14

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cept by the Judgment Of a court as shall be
prescribed by general and uniform law"
Turning next to the Governor, he shall
not be elected q third time to said office"
whereas the Constitution Of 1881 made him
Ineligible a second time. The old Constitu-
ton had no provision for q Li~eutenant-Gov-
ernor or for the exercise of the veto power,
whereas the new one 10 elaborate upon these
points and upon others relating to the Gov
errors power of appointing and removing
various officers, which make q marked dis
tinction between the new Constitution and
the old. There arc also many amendments
relating TO other State officers.
Article w. of the new Constitution re-
latcs, like Article VII. Of the old, to the
judiciary. For tho former "Court Of Er.
rors and Appeals" we now find theS Supreme
Court, while the old "Court Of General Ses-
sions of the Peace and Jail Delivery" loses
all but the first four words Of its name.
The changes in judicial procedure effected
since 1881 need not be noted here In detail.
The provisions relating to elections show
great changes since 1881. From the old
phrase "every free white male Citizen"
among the qualifications Of electors. the
word I" white" IL stricken out, Of course.
On the other hand, a person who acquires
citizenship or becomes Of g after Jan.
1, 1900, cannot vote unless he Is able
to write his name and also to read
the State Constitution in English. The
provisions for registration, for the con-
duct Of elections. and for preventing bribery
and improper influence at elections, are
most elaborate, and form . striking con-
trast with the old Article w., of 1881,
which contained none of them in any form.
Wholly new, since 1881, are the articles
relating to the Board of Pardons and it's
duties to the Board of Agriculture to the
Board of Health to education to corpora
lions while, in place Of the old require
ment that an oath shall be administered to
public officers, q specific form Of oath is
prescribed. The article on revenue and
taxation may also fairly be called new,
no corresponding article appearing in the
Constitution of 1881. 1t Is declared that
mo money shall be borrowed or debt
created, by or on behalf of the State, but
pursuant to an act of the General Assembly,
passed with the concurrence of three.fourths
of all the members elected to each House,
except to supply casual deficiencies Of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress insur-
rections, defend the State In war, or pay
existing debts" A like three-fourths vote
is required for a appropriation of funds or
of bonds or of a guarantee to " any county,
municipality, or corporation :" and no coun-
ty, city, town, or other municipality can
"lend it's credit, or appropriate money to,
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shareholder or joint owner in or with, any
private corporation or any person or COM
pany whatever"
Hereafter corporations must be created,
amended, or renewed only under general
law, and not by special act, except mu.
nicipal corporations, banks, or corpora
lions for charitable, penal, reformatory,
or educational purposes, sustained in whole
or in part by the State. A two-thirds
vote is required for any incorporation
law. An exception, however, is made of
religious bodies. Any foreign corporation,
in order to do business in Delaware, must
have an authorized agent there, on whom
legal process may be served:
"sxcrrox 8. No corporation shall issue stock. ex.
| cept for money paid. labor done. or personal property
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such corporation; and neither labor nor property
shall be received in payment Of stock at q greater
| price than the actual value 1t the time the said labor
was done or property delivered. or title acquired
There is a local option article, allowing
the question of license or prohibition OF
intoxicating liquors to be submitted to
Sussex county, Kent county, the city OF
Wilmington, or the remainder of New Cas-
tie county. There are articles, also, includ.
ing miscellaneous subjects n the manner
of amending this Constitution, while an
accompanying schedule provides a modus
1irendi in various cases until it takes effect,
Such are leading differences between
1881 and 1897. OF course, included in
them are some already made familiar
though now for the first time relieved from
the danger of ordinary repeal by being
transposed to the fundamental law of the
State. But the contrast between the two
epochs Is marked.