The log cabin Democrat., 1912-07-25
(Seal)
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON- STITUTION OF THE STATE OF
 ARKANSAS

Notice is hereby given that the following oint resolution proposing amendment te xhe State Constitution was passed by the Gens ral Assembly at its regular session of 1911. nd that the will be submitted to tho lectors of the State at the next general elee- ion, to be held Monday, September 9. 1912s adoption rejection.
 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. II.
 That the following article shall be proposA ed as an amendment to the Constitution of thu , State of Arkansas, which. when agreed to by majority of all the members elected 70 ach House and adopted by majority of the : electors of the State voting at the next gem s ral election for senators and representatives. shall become a part of the Constitution of Ar 2 kansas
 Every male citizen of the United States. or every male person who has declared his in- < tenton of becoming citizen of the sames T of the age of twenty-one years or upward. ! who has resided in the State twelve months in the county six months and in the precinct, 7 town or ward one month next preceding any election at which he may propose to votes and who is able to read and interpret, or in- \ terpret when read to him, if he is prevented from reading the same by reason of any phys- {, ical disability, any section of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, except such persons as may for the commission of some felony, b. k deprived of the right to vote by law passed by the General Assembly, and who shall exhibit poll tax receipt or other evidence that he has ! paid his poll tax at the time of the collecting taxes next preceding such election, shall be a- lowed to vote at any election held in the State of Arkansas but no person who was on Jan- uary l, l866 at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the Constitution or n statutes of any State in the United States, \ wherein he then resided, and male person of foreign birth who naturalized prior . to the adoption of this amendment, and no q lineal descendant of such person, who shall possess the other qualifications described ID N this article shall be denied the right to vote because of his inability to read and inter- pret selections of the Constitution of this State; provided that male persons who make satisfactory proof that they have attained the - age of twenty-one years since the time for as> sessing the taxes for the year next preceding the year in which the election at which ho may propose to vote is held, and possesses thef other qualifications required by this article shall be permitted to vote: and provided. furs. ther that the said tax receipt shall ne SO marked by dated stamp other written <n-r dorsement by the judges of election to whol>s it may first be presented, to prevent the holder thereof from voting than onca at any election. The judges of election shall enforce the provisions of this article and shall be the judges of the qualifications of electors"
 The above resolution filed in the office of the Secretary of State on March Is, 1911.
 Each elector may vote for or against thsl5 above amendment.
 Witness my official signature this 18th dayF of February, 1912.
 EARLE W. HODGES, Secretary of Stata. (Seal) 28-wzet