Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-08-26
DROPOsED AMENDMENTS
TO THE
CONSTITUTION
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
AS required.by an act entitled An act to pro-
Constitution of this State to the people thereof
approved May rs. 1897, notice is hereby given
that ON Tuesday, the twenty eighth day OF Sep
TENDER, 1897,
SPECIAL ELECTION
VIII be held I'M the several election districts or
precincts of this State, at such places as the
clerks of the several towushiDs cities and mnni
cipalities of the State shall provide, to enable
the electors qualified to vote for members of the
Legislature to vote for or against each of the
IoloWlng proposed amendments to the Consti-
tuition GEORGE WURTs,
Secretary of State.
Proposed amendment to the constitution. re-
lating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph OF Section VII of article
Nv, so as to read as follow:
No 2. No lottery shall be authorized by the
legislature =: or otherwise in this State; and no
within this state, nor shall pool-seIling. book
making or gambling of any kind be authorised
or alowea within this state, nor shall any gam
Dnng oeYlse, 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-
lat1ng to appointments to Office.
Add the following to section XII OF article v.
No person who shall have been nominated to
the senate by the governor for any office of trust
or pToht under the government of this state, an d
shall not have been confirmed before the recess
OF the legislature, shall be eligible for appoint
ment to such office during the continuance of
such recess.
Proposed amendment to the constitution, pro-
viding for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE IL
Amend section to read as follows:
J. Every male citizen of the United States of
the age OF twentY-one years, who shall have been
resident OF this state one year and Of the
next 6efore the election, shall be entitled to vote
ror ali 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 a resident OF this
State one year, and of the county Of which she
CLAIMS her vote i've months next before said
meeting shall be entitled to vote at any school
meeting held in any school district in this state
IN which she may reside for members of boards
OF education and all other school officers that
now are or hereafter may be elected at such
meetings; provided, that no person in the mill
Gary naval or marine service of the United States
snail be considered a resident of this state by
Delng stationed In any garrison, barrack or
military or naval place or station within this
state; and no pauper, idiot, insane person or per-
sons convicted of crime which now excludes
nlm or ner from being witness, unless par
doned or restored by law to the right of suffrage,
shall enjoy the right of an elector; and pro-
Ylded further. that in time of war no elector in
Lne actual military service of the state, or of the
United States in the army or navy thereof shall
pc deprived of his vote by reason Of his absence
from such election district; and the legislature
whch and the time and place at which such
absent elector may vote, and for the return and
canvass of their votes in the election district in
which they respectively reside