The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-10-20


eral Laws 1897, chapters 175 1876. $50
and 1893. 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 It's. it
10 proposed to amend Article seven,
Section eight, of the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
Section 8. The legislature may. not
vide BY law that any woman at the age.
Of twenty-one years and upward, may
vote at any election held for the pur-
pose cot Of choosing any officers for schools.
and, may also provide that any. such
woman shall be eligible to hold any ONCE
p pesnala solely to the management OF
It is proposed by the said chapter to
amend the same 50 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
ANY woman OF the age OF twenty-one
years and upward. and possessing the
qualifications requisite to a male voter.
purpose OF choosing any ofncers of
schools or any members Of library boards.
OF upon any measure relating to schools
any ONCE 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 to schools, as provided by the
original section Of the Constitution. Fur
thermore, the Constitution. il 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 1856. it
is proposed to amend Article II, 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
It necessary to alter or amend this con
tions or amendments; whicn 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;. and if it shall appear. in
manner to be provided by law, that a
shall have ratified such alterations and
amendments, the same shall be valid to
all intents and purposes, as part of
tions or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time. 1t shall be 80 regulated
that the voters s;s. shall vote for or against
It 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-
lions or amendments, which proposed
arnendments shall be published with the
laws which have been passed at the same
submitted to the people for their approval
or rejection at any general election. and
II 1t shall appear in manner to be pro-
BY orr that acoy OF III sns
voted for and ratified such alterations or
amendments, the same shall be valid to
al! intente and purposes as part of
this Constitution. If two or more altera-
lions or amendments shall be submitted
at the same time. It shall be 30 regulated
that the voters shall vote for or against
The change proposed BY the above
amendment requires the submission Of
any proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton at a general election.
It further provides that in order to be-
come effective the proposed amendment
shall receive .'the vote of a majority of
all the electors voting at said election"
instead ''of majority Of voters present
and voting" as provided by the original
80 <l4
Constitution may be amended as decided
in Dayton VS.. City of St. Paul, q 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, IL 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 2s0. it
is proposed to amend Article f. Section
50 OF the Constitution.
The section as now existing reads as
follows:
'sec. sc. Any city or village in this
state may frame charter for its own
subject to the laws Of this state as fol-
lows: The legislature shall provide. un-
der such restrictions as it 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
village II situated. which board shall
within six months after Its appointment
return to the chief magistrate Of such
city OF village q draft Of such charter
signed by the members Of said board. or
q majority thereof. Such charter shall
be submitted to the qualified 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 % city,
and supersede any existing charter and
amendments thereof provided that in
cities having patrol limits now estab-
liehed 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
law the general limits within which such
charter shall be framed. Duplicate GER
ti6cates shall be made setting forth the
charter proposed and its ratification,
which shall be signed by the chief masis-