The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-31

with submitted:
ALBERT BERG. Secretary of State.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
Attorney Generals Office,
st. Paul. July 7. 1893
Hon. Albert Berg, Secretary of State.
Sir: Pursuant to General Laws 1887,
chapter 157, 1 herewith file in
your Office SYNOPSIS of Amend
ments to the Constitution of the
State Of Minnesota as proposed by Cen
eral Laws 1897, chapters ITS, 1S5. $50
and 1888. l am, very respectfully,
H. w. CHILDS, Attorney General
SYNOPSEs 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 IT'S, 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
or tWenty-one years and upward, may
vote at any election held for the pur-
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. g. Women may vote for school
officers 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
may vote at any election held for the
purpose Of choosing any officers of
schools or any members Of library Boards
or BTaries and shall be- eIgib ie to so 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 PROVIDED by the
original section of the Constitution. Fur
thermore, the Constitution, If the pro-
posed amendment is adopted, will be
self-operative and not dependent upon
legislative action, as is now the case IN
der the existing Constitution.
II.
BY General Laws 1897, Chapter 1885, 1t
Is proposed to amend Article a. Section
! of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Section l. Whenever a majority Of
both houses of the legislature shall deem
1t necessary to alter or amend this con-
stitution, they may propose such altera-
lions or amendments; which proposed
o. NT1dr ,Iann 1A c1O1 ~,
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 a part Of
this Constitution. If two or more altera-
tons or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time. 1t 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
1t necessary to alter or amend this con-
stitution they may propose such altera-
tions or amendments, which proposed
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 lie pro-
vided by law that a majority OF all the
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 as q part Of
this Constitution. If two or more altera-
tons or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time, 1t 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.
1t further provides that in order to be-
come effective the proposed amendment
shall receive 1.-The vote of a majority Of
all the electors voting at said election"
instead "of a majority Of voters present
and voting" as provided by the original
section of the Constitution. The existing
Constitution may be amended as decided
in Dayton VS.. City Of st. Paul. % MINI.
400, though the amendment receive less
than a 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, If the same Is
adopted, be 30 changed as to require the
vote Of majority Of ali the electors vot-
ing at such election.
BY General Laws 1897, Chapter $50, it
IL proposed to amend Article 4, Section
SO of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Sec. &c. Any city or village In this
state may frame a charter for its own
subject to the laws Of this state as fol-
lows: The legislature shall provide, I'M
Ger suoh restrictions as it deems proper,
for a board of fifteen freeholders. who
ehall be ana for the past five years shall
appointed By the district judges Judges Of Z the he
judicial district In which the city or
village Is situated, which board shall
within six months after its appointment
return to the chief magistrate of such
city or. village draft of such charter
2 majority thereof. Such charter shall
be submitted to the qualified voters Of
such city or village at the next election
thereafter, and IL four-sevenths Of the
qualified voters voting at such election
Of thirty days thereafter become the
charter Of such city or village as city.
ana supersede any existing charter and
amendments thereof; provided, that in
rjties having patrol limits now eatab-
shsd such fnaTser shall require vb three
the patrol limits now established.
Before any city shall incorporate under
this act the legislature shall prescribe by
!Aw the general limits withtn which such
sasss shall sSs 6 Is aas s. RnPs sr,h shs
charter PROPOSED and fts ratification,
which shall be signed by the chief magiS