Charlevoix county herald., 1918-10-18
Amendments to
StateConstitution
Two Proposed Amendments Will
Be Submitted at November
Election.


AT the election to be held in this State
on Tuesday, November fifth, nineteen
hundred eighteen, there will be SUBJ
mitted to the electors two proposed
amendments to the Constitution of the
State, as follows:
A proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution providing that Section 3 of
Article XVII be amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 3. All proposed amendments
to the constitution submitted to the
electors shall be published in full, with
any existing provisions of the Consti-
tuition which would be altered or abro-
gated thereby, and copy thereof shall
be posted at each registration and elec-
tion place. Proposed amendments
shall also be printed together with any
other special questions to be submitted
at such election in full on a single bal
lot separate from the ballot containing
the names OF candidates or nominees
for public offices.
The effect of this proposed amend
ment if adopted will be to require that
all proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution which are submitted at any
general election shall be printed on
one ballot instead of on separate ballots
as now required.
A proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution providing that Section I of
Article III be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 1. In all elections every in
habitant Of this State being citizen of
the United States; every inhabtant re-
siding in this State on the oath day of
June, 1885; every inhabitant residing
in this State on the 1st day of January
1850; every male inhabitant of foreign
birth who, having resided in the State
2 years and 6 months prior to the 9Th
day of November 1894, and having de-
clared his intention to become a citizen
of the United States 2 years and 6
months prior to the Sth day of Novem-
ber, 1894, and having declared his in
tention to become a citizen of the
United States years and months
prior to said last named day; the wife
of any inhabitant of foreign birth who,
having resided in the State years and
six months prior to the 9Th day of No
vember, 1894, and having declared his
intention to become a citizen of the
United States years and months
prior to said last named day, and every
civilized inhabitant of Indian descent, a
native of the United States and not a
member of any tribe, shall be an elec-
tor and entitled to vote; but no one
shall be an elector and entitled to vote
at any election, unless he Tor shel shall
be above the age of II years and has
resided in this State 6 months, and in
the township or ward in which he or
she offers to vote 20 days next pre-
ceding such election: Provided, That
no qualified elector in the actual mill
tary service of the United States or of
this State or in the army or navy there
of, or any student while in attendance
at any institution of learning, or any
regularly enrolled member of any
citizens military or naval training
camp, held under the authority of the
Government of the United States or of
the State of Michigan, or any member
of the Legislature while in attendance
at any session of the Legislature, or
commercial traveller, or any qualified
elector employed upon or in the opera
ton of railroad trains in this State or
any sailor engaged and employed on
the Great Lakes or in coast wise trade
shall be deprived of vote by reason
of the absence from the township,
ward or State in which elector resides,
and the Legislature shall provide by
law the manner in which and the time
and place at which such absent elec-
tors may vote and for the canvass and
return of their votes: Provided fur
ther, That the Legislature shall have
power to pass laws covering qualified
electors who may be necessarily absent
from other causes than above specified;
and Provided further, That there shall
be no denial of the elective franchise at
any election on account of sex.
The effect Of this proposed amend
ment is to grant to women the right to