Enabling Act and State Constitution with Side Notes and Index

mitted to the people for their adoption or rejection, do hereby declare this to be the constitution formed by us, and in testimony thereof, do hereunto set our hands, this twenty-second day of August, anno domini, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

JOHN P. HOYT, President

J. J. BROWNE,

N. G. BLALOCK,
JOHN F. GOWEY,
FRANK M. DALLAM,
JAMES Z. MOORE,
E. H. SULLIVAN,
GEORGE TURNER,
AUSTIN MIERS,
M. M. GODMAN,
GWIN HICKS,
WM. F. PROSSER,
LOUIS SOHNS,

A. A. LINDSLEY,
J. J. WEISENBURGER,
P. C. SULLIVAN,
R. S. MORE,
THOMAS T. MINOR,
J. J. TRAVIS,
ARNOLD J. WEST,
CHARLES T. FAY,
CHARLES P. COEY,
ROB'T F. STURDEVANT,
JOHN A. SHOUDY,
ALLEN WEIR,
W. B. GRAY,

TRUSTEN P. DYER,

GEO. H. JONES,

B. L. SHARPSTEIN,
H. M. LILLIS,

J. F. VAN NAME,

ALBERT SCHOOLEY,
H. C. WILLISON,

T. M. REED.

S. H. MANLY,

RICHARD JEFFS,

Attest:

FRANCIS HENRY,
GEORGE COMEGYS,
OLIVER H. JOY.
DAVID E. DURIE,
D. BUCHANAN,
JOHN R. KINNEAR,
GEORGE W. TIBBETTS,
H. W. FAIRWEATHER,
THOMAS C. GRIFFITHS,
C. H. WARNER,

J. P. T. MCCROSKEY,
S. G. COSGROVE,
THOS. HAYTON,
SAM'L H. BERRY,
D. J. CROWLEY,
J. T. MCDONALD,
JOHN M. REED,
EDWARD ELDRIDGE,
GEO. H. STEVENSON,
SILVIUS A. DICKEY,
HENRY WINSOR,

THEODORE L. STILES,

JAMES A. BURK,
JOHN MCREAVY,
R. O. DUNBAR,

MORGAN MORGANS,
JAMES POWER,
B. B. GLASCOCK,

O. A. BOWEN,

HARRISON CLOTHIER,
MATT C. MCELROY,
J. T. ESHELMAN,
ROBORT JAMIESON,
HIRAM E. ALLEN,
H. F. SUKSDORF,
J. C. KELLOGG.

JNO. I. BOOGE, Chief Clerk.

Constitutional Amendments.

AMENDMENT 1.

Art. 16. Sec. 5. Investment of School Fund.-None of the permanent school fund of this state shall ever be loaned to private persons or corporations, but it may be invested in national, state, county, munícipal, or school district bonds.

Adopted November, 1894.

AMENDMENT 2.

Art. 6. Sec. 1. Qualifications of Voters.-All male persons of the age of twenty-one years or over, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: They shall be citizens of the United States; they shall have lived in the state one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward, or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote; they shall be able to read and speak the English language: Provided, That Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise: And further provided, That this amendment shall not affect the right of franchise of any person who is now a qualified elector of this state. The Legislature shall enact laws defining the manner of ascertaining the qualifications of voters as to their ability to read and speak the English language, and providing for punishment of persons voting or registering in violation of the provisions of this section.

Approved November, 1896.

AMENDMENT 3.

Art. 7, Sec. 2, was amended by adding the following proviso: "And provided further, That the Legislature shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to exempt personal property to the amount of $300 for each head of a family liable to assessment and taxation under the provisions of the laws of this state of which the individual is the actual bona fide owner."

Approved November, 1900.

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