PROCLAMATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. 7. An act to change the name of George W. Coxson to George W. Barr; approved March 31, 1875. 8. An act to change the name of Joanna F. Phillips, Mary M. Phillips and Henry D. Phillips; approved March 31, 1875. 9. An act to change the name of John Adam Kachele; approved April 1, 1875. 10. An act to incorporate the Hopewell Printing Company; approved April 6, 1875. 11. An act confirming and making valid the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Union Mercantile association of Swedesboro, Gloucester county, New Jersey; approved March 20, 1873;' approved April 8, 1875. 12. An act to incorporate the Montgomery Fire Insurance Company of Jersey City; approved March 19, 1875. 13. An act to incorporate the New Jersey Agricultural Insurance Company; approved March 9, 1875. 431 Pursuant to the requirements of "An act providing for decreeing and making known that certain laws and joint resolutions have become inoperative and void," approved March 3, A. D. 1873, I have the honor to transmit herewith a list of the titles and date of approval or passage of the private acts passed and approved during the session of 1875, upon which the assessments have not been paid as required by law. Very Respectfully, your ob't serv'nt' PROCLAMATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. 483 PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, } The Board of State Canvassers, having on this twentyeighth day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventyfive, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, their certificate and determination as required by the act entitled "An act to provide for submitting proposed Amendments to the Constitution of this State to the people thereof," approved April 8th, 1875, by which it appears that all of the proposed Amendments to the Constitution of this State, submitted to the people at the special election for that purpose only, held by virtue of said act, on the seventh day of September instant, have received in their favor a majority of all the votes cast in the state for and against said proposed amendments respectively by the electors qualified to vote thereon under the constitu tion, I, Joseph D. Bedle, Governor of the state of New Jersey, do hereby, as further provided in said act, issue this my proclamation, declaring that the same have all been adopted, approved and ratified by the people, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the legislature voting thereon, and that the same have this day become a part of the Constitution, which amendments are as follows: ARTICLE I. RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES. Insert as paragraph 19, a new paragraph, as follows: "19. No county, city, borough, town, township or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit, to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become security for, or be directly or indirectly the owner of any stock or bonds of any association or corporation." 434 PROCLAMATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. Insert as paragraph 20, a new paragraph, as follows: "20. No donation of land or appropriation of money shall be made by the state or any municipal corporation to or for the use of any society, association or corporation whatever." Change the number of present paragraph 19, to number 21. ARTICLE II. RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE. Section I. Strike out the word "white" between the word "every" and the word "male" in the first line. Add to the paragraph the following: "And provided further, that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which, such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside." Section II. Strike out all of the second section after the word "bribery." ARTICLE IV. LEGISLATIVE. Section I. Paragraph 3-Strike out the words "second Tuesday of October," and insert in lieu thereof the words "first Tuesday after the first Monday in November." Section IV. Paragraph 7-Strike out the following words: "A compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the state; which compensation shall not exceed the sum of three dollars per day for the period of forty days from the commencement of the PROCLAMATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. session, and shall not exceed the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for the remainder of the session. When convened in extra session by the governor they shall receive such sum as shall be fixed for the first forty days of the ordinary session. They shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting on the most usual route, -and insert in lieu thereof the following: "Annually the sum of five hundred dollars during the time for which they shall have been elected, and while they shall hold their office, and no other allowance or emolument, directly or indirectly, for any purpose whatever." Also, strike out the words "per diem." Section VII. Paragraph 4-Add to the paragraph the following: "No law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title only, but the act revived, or the section or sections amended, shall be inserted at length. No general law shall embrace any provision of a private, special or local character. No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of the act or which shall enact that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act." Paragraph 6-Insert the word "free" between the word "public" and the word "schools," and add to the paragraph the following: "The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in this state between the ages of five and eighteen years." Strike out paragraph 8, as follows: "8. The assent of three-fifths of the members elected to each house shall be requisite to the passage of every law for granting, continuing, altering, amending or renewing charters for banks or money corporations; and all such charters shall be limited to a term not exceeding twentyyears." Change the number of present paragraph 9 to 8. Insert as paragraph 9, a new paragraph, as follows: 435 |