The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-11-03

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
pertaining solely to the management OF
schools .-- .|-'
1t is proposed by the said chapter to
amend the same so as to read as follows:
Sec. s. Women may vote for school
and shall be eligible to hold any office
pertaining to the management or SCHOOLS
or libraries.
ANY woman of the age of ftwenty-one
qualifications requisite to male voter,
may vote at any election held for the
purpose of choosing any -. officers Of
or upon any measure relating to schooIs
or libraries. and shall be eligible to hold
any office pertaining TO the management
of schools and libraries
The effect of the above amendment, If
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 to schools, as provlded by the
original section of the Constitution. Fur
thermore, the Constitution, If the pro-
posed amendment is adopted will be
self-operative and net dependent upon
legislative action, as is now the case un-
der the existing Constitution.
By General Laws 1897, Chapter 1s5, 1t
is proposed to amend Article IA, Section
1 of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows
''Section l. Whenever majority of
both houses of the legislature shall deem
it necessary to alter or amend this con-
stitution, they may propose such altera-
lions or amendments: which propose
amendments shall be published with the
laws which have been passed at the same
session, and said amendments shall be
submitted to the people for their approval
or rejection; and if it shall appear. in a
manner to be provided by law, that a
majority of voters present and voting;
shall have ratified such alterations and
amendments, the same shall be valid to
all intents and purposes as 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
1t is proposed by the said chapter to
amend the same so as to read as fol-
lows:
"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-
lions or amendments, which proposed
amendments shall be published with the
laws which have been passed at the same
session, and said amendments shall be
submitted to the people for their approval
or rejection at any general election. and
If it shall appear in a manner to be pro-
vided by law, that a majority of all the
electors voting a said election shall have
amendments, the same shall be valid to
al. intents and purposes as a part of
~'s Constitution. If two or more altera-
- amendments shall be submitted
''''e. it shall be so regulated
" vote for or against
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