The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-10-27


State Of Minnesota as proposed by Gen.
eral Laws 1897. chapters IT'S, 1885, 2SO
and 333. I am, very respectfully,
H. w. CHILDS. Attorney General
SYNOPSIS OF AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
MINNESOTA PROPOSED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE SAID
STATE AT THE LAST SESSION
THEREOF.
BY General Laws 1897. chapter 175. it
is proposed to amend Article seven,
Section eight, Of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Section 8. The legislature may, not
withstanding anything in this article pro-
vide by law that any woman at the age
OF twenty-one years and upward, may
pose of choosing any officers for schools,
or upon any measure relating to schools,
and may also provide that any such
woman shall be eligible to hold any Office
p seSaaIal solely to the management OF
1t Is proposed by the said chapter to
amend the same so as to read as follows:
"Sec. 8. Women may vote for. school
onncerS and members OF library boards.
and shall be eligible to hold any office
pertaining to the management Of schools
Or libraries.
ANY woman Of the age Of twenty-one
years and upward. and possessing the
qualifications requisite to a male voter
may vote at any election held for the
schools or any members Of library boards.
or libraries. and shall be eligible to hold
any office pertaining to the management
OF schools and libraries
The effect of the above amendment. II
adopted. will be to permit women to vote
for members Of library boards and to be
eligible to become members Of such
boards. in addition to the right to vote
upon school matters and to hold Offices
pertaining 70 schools, as provided by the
original section OF the Constitution. Fur
thermore, the Constitution, II the pro-
posed amendment Is adopted, will be
self-operative and not dependent upon
legislative action, as is now the case un-
der the existing Constitution.
BY General. Laws 1897, Chapter 1876, II
is proposed to amend Article IA, Section
/ OF the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Section 1. Whenever a majority Of
both houses OF the legislature shall deem
it necessary to alter or amend this con-
stitution. they may propose such altera.
tons or amendments; which proposed
amendments shall be published With the
session, and said amendments shall be
submitted to the people for their approval
or rejection;, and If it shall appear, in
majority Of voters present and voting.
shall have ratified such alterations and
amendments, the same shall be valid to
this Constitution. If two or more altera-
tions or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time, 1t shall be 80 regulated
that the voters shall vote for or against
It Is proposed by the said chapter to
amend the same so as to read as fol-
lows:
Section l. Whenever a majority of
both houses of the legislature shall deem
sons On %as
amendments shall be published with the
laws which have been passed at the same
submitted to the people for their approval
OF rejection at any general election. and
If 1t shall appear in q manner to be pro-
electors voting at said election shall have
voted for and ratified such alterations or
amendments, the same shall be valid to
all intents and purposes az part of
this Constitution. If two or more altera-
tons or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time, it shall be so regulated
that the voters shall vote for or against
each separately"
The change proposed by the above
amendment requires the submission OF
any proposed amendment to the cOnstitu-
ton at general election.
It further provides that in order to be-
come effective the proposed amendment
shall receive 1.-The vote Of majority Of
all the electors voting at said election"
instead "of majority of voters present
cd h1yt no ~ al
section Of the Constitution. The existing
Constitution may be amended as decided
in Dayton vs.. City of st. Paul. q MINI.
400, though the amendment receive less
than majority Of the votes cast at an
election for other purposes held at the
same time and place. BY the proposed
amendment the rule will. II the same Is
adopted. be SO changed as to require the
vote Of majority of all the electors vot-
ing at such election.
BY General Laws 1897. Chapter $780, II
is proposed to amend Article 4, Section
80 Of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Sec. SO. Any city or village in this
ay "a cfv with and
subject to the laws OF this state as fol-
lows: The legislature shall provide, un-
der such restrictions as 1t deems proper,
for q board Of fifteen freeholders, who
shall be and for the past Ave years shall
have been qualified voters thereof. to be
appointed BY the district judges Of the
judicial district in which the city or
village II situated which board shall
within six months after its appointment
return to the chief magistrate Of such
city or village q draft Of such charter
signed by the members Of said board, or
q majority thereof. Such charter shall
Be submitted to the aualined voters Of
such city or village at the next election
thereafter, and II four-sevenths Of the
qualified voters voting at such election
shall ratify the same It shall at the end
Of thirty days thereafter become the
charter Of such city or village as city.
and superssde any existing charter and
amendments thereof; provided. that in
cities having patrol limits now estab-
ljshed such charter shall require three
fourths majority vote OF the qualified
voters voting at such election. to change
the patrol limits now established.
Before any city shall Incorporate under
this act, the legislature shall prescribe BY
lew the general limits within which such
charter shall be framed. Duplicate Ger.
Uacates shall be made setting forth the
charter proposed and it, ratification.
which shall be signed by the chief magis.