CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE.
ADOPTED IN THE YEAR 1890.
AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION FOUR (4)
OF ARTICLE ONE (1) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.
SECTION 1. (Adding at the end of section four (4) the following paragraph): And the legislature may provide that the agreement of five-sixths () of any jury in any civil action or proceeding, after not less than six (6) hours' deliberation, shall be a sufficient verdict therein.
[Being Chapter 1 of the General Laws of 1891.]
Voted upon at the general election held November fourth (4th), eighteen hundred and ninety (1890), and adopted by a vote of 66.929 in favor of said amendment, and a vote of 41,341 against the same.
Proclamation of the vote issued by the governor December twenty, eighteen hundred and ninety (1890).
May provide for in civil actions. a five-sixth jury