The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-09-02
PROPOSED
AMENDMENT TO
CONSTITUTION
To be Voted on at Regular Election on 9TH
of November. Will make Possible the
Amending of the Constitution IN future

by the legislature under the provisions
Of this constitution.
| "Section 4 When the United States
| shall consent thereto, the legislature,
by majority vote of the members in
each house, may submit to the people
the question of amending any provision
of Article 21 of this constitution on
compact with the United States to the
extent allowed by the Act of Congress
permitting the same, and if a majority
of the qualified electors who vote upon
any such amendment shall vote in favor
thereof the said article shall be thereby
amended accordingly.
"Section 5. The provisions of section
one Of this article shall not be changed,
altered or abrogated in any manner ex-
cept through general convention called
to revise the constitution as herein pro.
vided."
1t is ordered, in further compliance
with the terms of said joint resolution
that the probate clerks of the several
counties shall provide separate ballots
for the use of the electors at said first
state election for the purpose of voting
upon said amendment that said separate
ballots shall be printed on paper of blue
tint, so that they may be readily distin.
guished from the white ballots provided
for the election of county and state Of
fcers; that said separate ballots shall
be delivered only to the election officers
authorized by law to receive and have
the custody of the ballot boxes for use
at said election, and shall be delivered
by them only to the individual voter
and only one ballot to each elector at
the time he offers to vote at tie said
general election, and shall have the
initials of two election officers of Uppo-
site political parties written by them
upon the back thereof that said sepa-
rate ballot shall not be marked either
ior or against the said amendment at
the time it is handed to the elector by
the election officer, and if the elector
desires to vote upon said amendment,
the ballot must be marked by the voter
unless he shall request one of the cleo
ton officers to mark the same for him,
in which case such election officer so
called upon shall mark said ballot as
such voter shall request, that any eec
tor receiving such ballot shall return the
same before leaving the polls TO one of
the election Judges, who shall imme
diately deposit the same in the ballot
box, whether such ballot be marked or
not; that no ballots on said amendment
except those so handed to said electors
and 50 initiated shall be deposited in the
ballot box or counted or canvassed; that
said separate ballots shall have printed
thereon the proposed amendment in
both the English and the Spanish Ian
guage: that there shall be placed on
said ballots two blank squares of one
half an inch, and opposite one of said
squares shall be printed in both the
English and the Spanish language the
words For constitutional amendment, "
and opposite the other blank square
shall be printed in both the English and
the Spanish language the words Against
amendment; and that
an. eicctnr desiring to vote ior said
aaerdment SHALL mari, his ballot N,i.h a
cfose Ia che blank square opposite 5hc
ss.ds Eor constjtutiouaiamsDdmcut,
" cause the same to be so marked BY
an election officer as aforesaid, and that
any elector desiring to vote against
said amendment shall mark his ballot