The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-18
PRO- 0oED A MtNDMEA1
TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

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
hereby given that on Tuesday, the twenty
eighth day Of September, 1887, a
SPECIAL ELECTION
will be held in the several election districts or
clerks of the several townships, cities and
municipalities Of the state shall provide, to
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
ticie w.. so as to read as follows
2. 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-seilrng, book
making or gambling Of any kind be authorized
gambiing 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 this
STATE. ana Sld11 hui ildkta COilAli iiiCo pC-
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-
viding for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE II.
Amend section / to read as follows
Il Every male 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 he claims his vote
Ave months next before the election, shall be
antit}ed 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 d 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
in 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
sings; 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-
son or persons convicted of a crime which
now excludes him or her from being q 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
States in the army or navy thereof. shall be
from such election district; and the Legisla-
ture shall have power to provide the manner
in which and the time and apIace at which
such absent elector may vote, and for the re-
stlirn and canvass of their votes In the cleo
stion district IN which they respectively reside,