The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-31

until his successor is elected Hnd
 Referred to Committee on Legisla- tive Department.
 Ordinance No. 12s. by MT. Merrill:
 To declare the status of married wo- men.
 Be it ordained by the people of Ala bama in Convention assembled: Tho legislature shall never create by law any distinction between the rights of men and women. to acquire. own, enjoy and dispose of property of ali kind or the power to contract in reference thereto. Married women are hereby fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture. But this shall not prevent the legislature from regu- lating contracts between husband and wife: nor shall the legislature be pre- vented from regulating the mortgag- ing or sale of homesteads.
 Referred to Judiciary Committee.
 Ordinance No. 129. by MT. Miller (Wilcox):
 To amend Section of Article " of the Constitution.
 Election of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. to amend Section 8 of Article W of the Consti- tuition.
 pc lI OTudlleu uy tHc pcopic ol ato- bama in Convention assembled, that Section 8 of Article W of the Consti- tuition be amended so as to read as follows:
 The Senate. at the beginning of each regular session and at such other times as may be necessary shall elect one ot its members President thereof; and the House of Representatives at the be- ginning of each regular session, "snd at such other times as may be neces- sary." shall elect one of .ts members as Speaker; and the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall hold their of- fices respectively until their success sors are elected and qualified. Each House shall chose its own officers and shall judge of the election returns and qualifications of its members.
 Note.-The words in quotations con- stitute the new matter of the amend ment and is put in to meet objections raised to present revenue bill because of the election of. Speaker near close oi the session.
 Referred to the Committee on Legis. iative Department.
 MT. Moody yielded his turn to MT Ashcraft.
 Ordinance No. 130. by MT. Ashcraft:
 V dllCl duu dHiCIlu ATtlCIc ALI Ol the present Constitution relating tc education.
 Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in convention as. sembled. That Article XIII of the pres. ent Constitution of Alabama, relating to education, be amended so as to read as follows:
 1. The General Assembly shall estab. fish. organize and maintain a libera system of public schools throughout the State for the equal benefit of the children thereof between the ages oi seven and twenty-one years: and such public schools shall be maintained fol a period of not less than four scholas. tic months in each year.
 2. Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and il shall by the duty of the County Super. intendent of Education in each county by and with the advice and consent oi the Court of County Commissioners, ol body of like Jurisdiction, to organize the white people of the county into white school districts, and the colore6 people of the county into colored schoo districts, according to their respective needs and advantages and without ref erence to each other as to territorial boundaries.
 3. A trustee, or trustees. or Board oi Education, as may be provided by law tricts from the white residents of such district and, for the colored school dis. tricts from the colored residents Of such district; provided. no incorporated town or city maintaining a system oi public schools as provided by law shall be separated into districts with. out the consent of the Mayor and Boarc of Aldermen of such town or city
 4. For the purpose of building, en- Iarging, improving or furnishing schoo houses in any district. or for the pur- pose of slpplefnenting the genera school funds received from Federal State. county, municipal and other sources, the Court of County Commis' sioners, or body of like Jurisdiction shall levy a special assessment of moi more than one-half of one per centun upon the property of white persons sit uated in the district, if 1t be for the benefit of a white school district, ol upon the property of colored persons situated in the district, if 1t be for the benefit of a colored school district; provided, no such levy shall be made unless the same be sanctioned by q majority of the votes cast at an cleo. tion held for that purpose. At sucf election in white school district, only qualified white voters shall be permit ted to vote, and, in a colored school dis. trict only qualified colored electors shall be permitted to vote. It shall bt the duty of the Probate Judge to ordel such election upon the petition of no less than one fifth of the voters who will be entitled to vote at such election The order for such election shall state the purposes for which 1t is proposed to make the assessment. the rate of the proposed assessment and the number of years during which such assessment is proposed to be made. Notice of suct election shall be given and the election held in such manner as may be provid- ed by law.
 g. Every corporation owning proper. ty in this State shall, after the first day of October, and before the thirty first day of December of each year file with the Probate Judge in each county where 1t owns property. a com. plete list of it's stockholders, showing the amount of stock held by each oi them, and which of them are white and which are colored. When any property belonging to a corporation is situated in a white school district where a spe- cial assessment is to be made as herein provided, such assessment shall be levied upon such proportion of the value of such property as the amount of cap. ital stock owned by white persons bears to the whole amount of capital stock When such property is situated in a colored school district where such as. sessment is to be made, it shall be levied upon such proportion of the value thereof as the capital stock own ed by colored persons bears to the whole capital stock. If such corpora 4;on fails to file sIlch list of ifs stock.