The Monitor-register., 1897-08-20
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
GTATE OF NEW JERSEY.
~ DEPARTMENT OF STATE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
~ DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
As required by an act entitled Gan act tn
provide Tor submitting proposed amend :
ments to the Constitution of this State to
the people thereof" approved NAV p. 1897
notice is hereby given that on Tuesday tbs
twenty-eighth day of September, 1897,
SPECIAL ELECTION
will be held in the several election dtstrtcts
or precincts of this State, at such places as
the clerks of the several townships cities
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 pronosed
GEORGE WURTs
Secretary OF State.
Proposed amendment to the Constitution
relating to lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII of arti-
Gle ~, 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-seIIing,
authorized or allowed wiChin this state. nor
shall any gam bling device, practice or game
of chance now prohibited by law be legal
lied, or the rem edy, penalty or punishment
now provided therefor be in any way dimin-
ished.
Proposed amendment to the Constitution.
relating to appointments to office.
Add the following to section X Ii of artf-
cleV:
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, and shall not have been CON
flrmed before the recess of the legislature,
shall be eligible for appointment to such
office during the continuance of such re-
cess.
Proposed amendment to the Constitution
providing for woman suffrage.
ARTICLE IL.
Amend section 1 to read as follows;
l. Every male citizen of the United States
of the age of twentyone years, who shall
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 OF 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 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 re-
side for members of boards of education
and all other school officers that now are or
hereafter may be elected at such IN etings;
provided, that no person In the military
naval or marine service OF the United States
shall be considered u 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 crime which
now excludes him or her from being 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 eector in the actual military
service of the state, or of the United States
In the army or navy thereof. shall be de-
prived OF his vote by reason OF his absence
from such election district; and the legisla-
tnre shall have power to provide the man.
ner in which and the time and place at
which su CHI absent elector may vote, and for
~ of.,rn and CANVASS OF their votes In The
election district in which they respectively
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