Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-11-03
MAY AMEND CONSTITUTION
MISSOURI VOTERS ARE TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY.
Eleven Constitutional Amendments 60
Be A dopted or Rejected at Elec-
ton November 8, 1910.


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At the general election on Tuesday,
November s, eleven proposed amend
ments to the constitution of Missouri
are TO be presented to the voters Of
the state for adoption or rejection.
Briefly summarized, the meaning Of
the several amendments may be stat
ed as follows:
Amendment No. / is an amendment
to section AZ of article w. 1t pro-
vides for pensions for disabled men,
bers of the police departments Of
towns in the state having 100000 in
habitants or more. Said retired and
pensiOned policemen are to constitute
a reserve corps, subject to call in case
Of emergency. Funds for such pen
sions are to be provided from the
municipal revenues Of the cities az
fected, and not Of the state at large.
Amendment No. also amends sec
ton AZ of article w., and authorizes
boards of education in cities of 1907
900 or more inhabitants to create,
maintain and manage a fund out of
the school moneys under their con-
troll, with which to pension public
school teachers who have become ply
sically or mentally incapacitated for
further service. The fund thus au-
thorized is not to be taken out of the
general school revenue of the state,
but from the school funds OF the cities
affected.
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X. by adding a new section, numbered
q. 1t authorizes the levying Of a
5-cent tax on each hundred dollars Of
assessed valuation to provide a per-
manent fund for public roads and
highways.
Amendment No. amends section
% Of article TX, and authorizes a
change in the wording of the charter
of the city of st. Louis, by which it
is made possible to amend the St.
Louis city charter by accepting or re-
Jecting amendments, as they may be
proposed, separately and without pref
udice to other sections and amend
ments.
Amendment No. provides for the
erection and equipping of a new state
capitol IN Jefferson City, and specifies
how the required funds therefor are
to be raised and repaid.
Amendment No. amends section
IL of article x, which deals with the
legal limit of indebtedness in coun-
ties and other municipal corporations,
and includes poorhouses with court
houses and jails in the wording Of the
section.
Amendment No. Z, amending section
16 of article ~, deals with the COM
pensation of members of the General
Assembly, and provides that such
members shall receive ten dollars per
day during a session of 80 days.. and
one dollar per day for each day Of the
session over 80 days. Certain excep-
tons and allowances are specified.
Amendment No. amends section
Of article VIII. 1t provides for tn
use of voting machines at elections
Amendment No. amends section
II Of article X, making changes in
the rate of taxation for local pur-
poses.
Amendment No. 10, which was pro-
posed by iniative petition, provides
for the prohibition Of the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors, ex-
cept for medical, mechanical and
scientific purposes, and specifically
excepting the manufacture and sale
of wine for sacTamental or religious
purposes.
Amendment No. IL, also proposed
by initiative petition, provides for the
support and maintenance of the Uni
versity of the State of Missouri, in
GLIDING the college of agriculture and
the school of mines, by levying three
cents on each one hundred dollars
assessed valuation, the proceeds of
which are to go into the state treas
ury and to be paid out as may be pro-
vided by law; provided that if the
state tax on property is discontinued
such revenue for maintenance shall
be secured by apportionment to the
/ counties of the state and to the city