The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-04
kOPUoED AMENDMENTS
TO THE


STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
provids for submitting proposed amendments to
the Constitution of this State to the people
thereof approved May %. 1881! notice is
hereby given, that on Tuesday, the twenty
eighth day of September, 1897, q
c 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
enable the electors qualified to vote for@mem-
bers of the Legislature to vote for or against
each of the following proposed amendments to
GEORGE wURTs,
Secretary of State.
Proposed amendment to the Constitution, re-
lating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph 2 of section VII. of ar
tic1e W, so as TO read as
2. No lottery Shall be authorized by the
Legislature or otherwise in this State; and no
within this State, nor shall pool-selling. book
making or gambling of any Kind be authorized
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 ar
No person who shall have been nominated to
the Senate by the Governor for any office OF
trust or profit under the government Of ms ms
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-
yiding for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE II.
Amend section l to read as folIows:-
/. Every male citizen of the United States
have been a resident OF this State one year
and of the county Of which he claims his vote
FIVE months next before the election, shall be
entitled to vote for all officers that now are
or hereafter may be elective by the people;
of the age of twenty-one years, Who shall have
been a resident of this State one year, and
OF the e3snty .. w rafe she ciaanls ner xe1e
be entitled to vote, at any school meeting held
in any school district of this State in which
she may reside Tor 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
military or naval place or station within
this State; and no pauper, idiot, insane per-
now excludes him or her from being a wit
ness, unless pardoned or restored by law TO
the right Of suffrage, shall enjoy the right of
an ~elector; and provided further, that in
time of war no elector in the actual milf
tary service of the state, or of the United
deprived of his vote by reason of his absence
from such election district; and the Legisla-
uie SHeli y power U pTOf1dS tHe lila lIfeE
in which and the time and place at which
such absent elector may vote. and for the re-
turn and canvass OF their votes in the cleo
ton district in which they respectively reside.
HUDSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT.
Dwight p. Cruikshank, plaintiff, against G.
I. r. Geisaerver and "A. E.. Noe, partners.
trading as Hegeinaier & Company, defend
ants.
In Attachment-On Contract
Notice is hereby given that a writ of at
taehment at the suit of Dwight p. Cruikshank
against the rights and credits, monies and eff
fects, goods and ehattels, lands and tenements,
Of @. /. r.. Geisderver and a. 3. Noe, part
ners, trading as Eegelnaier & Company, alb
sent debtors, for the sum of five thousand
tS5, 000) dollars. was issued out of the Hudson
County Circuit Court on the goth day OF May.
A. d. 1897. Returned into Court duly exc
cuted by the Sheriff of Hudson County on the
goth day of May. A.. D. 1897.
JOHN G. FISHER.
Clerk.
NJ. BOYD, JR.,S
Attorney Of Plaintiff.