The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-09-22
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
To THE
CONSTITUTION.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
lI.in A 1 In. I'm.

! STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
~ DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
As required by an act entitled An act to
provide for submitting proposed amendments
to the CONSTITUTIONS of this State to the people
| thereof approved May %, 1897 notice is here
| by given that on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth
day of September, 1897, n
SPECIAL ELECTION
will he held in the several election districts or
precincts OF this State, at such places rs the
clerks Of the several townships, cities and mu-
inequalities of the State shall provide, 10 ena-
BILE the electors qualified to vote for members
ei me 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, re-
lating TO lotteries and gambling.
Amend paragraph of section VII of article
~, so as to read as follows:
2 No lottery shall be authori2, hy the leg
lslature or otherwise in this :: and no
ticket in any lottery shall be boa Int or sold
within this state, nor shall pool-,tlling book
making OF, gambling ofany kin,l / authorized
or allowed within this state, mr. shall any
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.
Md the following 70 section XII of article V:
the senate by the governor for any office of
trust or profit under the government of this
state and shall not have been confirmed be-
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-
Nldlng Tor woman suffrage.
ARTICLE H.
Amend section to read as follows:
/ Every male citizen of the United States
or the age of twenty-one years who shall have
been resident of this state one wear and of
the county of which he claims his vote five
months next before the election shall he en-
titled 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
been 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 AZ 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
ings; 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
state; and no. pauper, idiot, insane person or
persons convicted Of crime which now ex-
cludes him or her from being Witness un-
less 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 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 absence from such election dis
trIct and the legislature shall have power to
provide the manner in which and the time and
and for the return and canvass of their votes
in the election district in which they respect-
lively reside.
September /, 1897