The Monitor-register., 1897-08-06
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
CONSTITUTION.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
~ DEp ON -u.,.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
~ DEPARTMENT OF STATE
AS required by an act entitled AN act #
provide for submitting proposed amend
ments to the Constitution OF this State I,
the people thereof" approved Nav % 1897
notice is hereby given that on Tuesday Tn,
twenty-eighth day OF September, ls97a
SPECIAL ELECTION
will be held in the several election district.
| or precincts of this State, at such places rs
and municipalities of the State shall pro
| vide, to enable 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,
relating to lotteries ana gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII of arti-
Gle ~, so us to read aS follows:
2. No lottery shall be thorized by the
legislature or otherwise in this state and
no tfcke' in any lottery shall be bought or
sold within this state, nor shall pool-seIIinp
DOCK making or gambling OF any Kind be
authorized or allowed within this state NOR
Shall any gam bling device, practice or oa me
OF chance now prohibited by law be legal
lzeu, or ne remedy, penalty or punishment
now proYlded therefor be in any way dimin-
ished
Proposed amendment TO tho Constitution.
relating to appointments to Office.
Add the following to section MI of arti-
Gle v:
No person who shall have been nominated
to the senate BY the governor for any of CO
OF Trust or proft under the government of
this state. and shall not have been con
nfmed before the recess OF the legislature
shall be eligible for appointment To snrb
office during the continuance OF such re-
cess. N
Proposed amendment to the Constitution
providing for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE ii
Amend 81 elton to read as follows:
l: Every male ctiiz"n of the United States
OF lhe age OF twenty -one years who shall
nave peen Il resident of his state one wear
and of the county of which ne claims his
vote nVe months next betOre the election
snail be entitled to vote for all officers that
now are or hereafter may be elective hv INC
people; and every female citizen of the
united States of the age of Iwentv.one
Years, who shall have been resident ot
This state one year, and of the county of
which she claims her vote five months next
before said meeting. shall be entitled 10
vote at any school meeting held in anV school
district OF this state in which she NAV re
side for members of boalds of educ9tion
and all other school officers that now are or
h' reatter may be elected at such m etinVs.
provided. that no person in the mtIifaT,r'
naval or marine service of The United StaiSs
snail De considered II resident in This state
by DelnS stationed in any garrison barracr
OF military or naval place or station within
Inls state; and no pauper. idiot insane ner-
son or persons convicted of crime witch
~" O<>SiuU''S nun vi HtT from De1nG l.
ness, unless ptrdoned or restored by law TO
tne right OF suffrage, sh Ill enjoy The right
OF an elector; and provided turt her that in
Time OF war elector in the actual military
service OF the stat, or of the United Sf.ttes
In Inc Amy or navy thereof, shall be de-
pr1ved OF his vote by reason of his absence
from such election district: and the legtsm-
ture shall have power to provide the man
ner in which and the time and place M
which such absent elector may vote and for
the return and canvass OF their votes in the
election district in which they Respectively
reside.