The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTION.
CrATE OF NEW JERSEY.

CTATE OF NEW JERSEY.
y DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
AS required by an act entitled "An act to
provide for submitting proposed amendments
thereof approved May 25 1897, notice is here
by gwen that on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth
day OF September, 1897, q
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, 10
enable the electors qualified to vote for men,
bers of the Legislature t. vote for or against
each OF the following proposed amendments
to the Constitution
GEORGE wURrs.
Secretary of State.
Proposed amendments TO the constitution,
relating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII of article
Nv. 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-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 legaized, or the
remedy. penalty or punishment now provided
there for 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 nomin ated
to the senate by the governor for any office of
trust or profit under the government of this
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 H.
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 a resIdens 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
any school district of this state in which she
may reside tor members of boards OF education
and all other school offices that now are or
hereafter may be elected at such meetings ;
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 crime which now excludes him
or restored by law to the right of suffrage,
shall enjoy the;right of an elector; and provid
/ ed further, that in time OF war no eectOr 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
| 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.