AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. Amendment to the constitution relative to granting to women the right to vote at any and all elections in this State, proposed by the legislature of 1917, and ratified by the people at the November election of 1918. ARTICLE III. SECTION 1. In all elections every inhabitant of this State being a citizen of the United States; every inhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred thirty-five; every inhabitant residing in this State on the first day of January, eighteen hundred fifty; every male inhabitant of foreign birth who, having resided in the State two years and six months prior to the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred ninety-four, and having declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States two years and six months prior to said last named day; the wife of any inhabitant of foreign birth who, having resided in the State two years and six months prior to the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred ninety-four, and having declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States two years and six months prior to said last named day, and every civilized inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but no one shall be an elector and entitled to vote at any election, unless he or she shall be above the age of twenty-one years and has resided in this State six months, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote twenty days next preceding such election: Provided, That no qualified elector in the actual military service of the United States or of this State or in the army or navy thereof, 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 the State of Michigan, or any member of the legislature, while in attendance at any session of the legislature, or commercial traveler, or any qualified elector employed upon or in the operation of railroad trains in this State, or any sailor engaged and employed on the great lakes or in coastwise trade, shall be deprived of a vote by reason of absence from the township, ward or State in which he or she resides; and the legislature shall provide by law the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote and for the canvass and return of their votes: Provided further, 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. Amendment to the constitution relative to printing all proposed amendments to the constitution on one ballot proposed by the legislature of 1917, and ratified by the people at the November election of 1918. ARTICLE XVII. SEC. 3. All proposed amendments to the constitution submitted to the electors shall be published in full, with any existing provisions of the constitution which would be altered or abrogated thereby, and a copy thereof shall be posted at each registration and election place. Proposed amendments shall also be printed together with any other special questions to be submitted at such election in full on a single ballot separate from the ballot containing the names of candidates or nominees for public office. Amendment to the constitution authorizing the State to borrow money to be used for highway purposes and issue bonds therefor, proposed by the legislature of 1919 and ratified by the people at the April election of 1919. ARTICLE X. SEC. 10. The State may contract debts to meet deficits in revenue, but such debts shall not in the aggregate at any time, exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars. The State may also contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, defend the State or aid the United States in time of war. The money so raised shall be applied to the purposes for which it is raised or to the payment of the debts contracted. The State may borrow not to exceed fifty million dollars for the improvement of highways and pledge its credit, and issue bonds therefor on such terms as shall be provided by law. CERTIFICATE. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANSING. I, Coleman C. Vaughan, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the Legislature of one thousand nine hundred nineteen was on the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred nineteen. [L. S.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature and the great seal of the State, at Lansing, this fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred nineteen. COLEMAN C. VAUGHAN, Secretary of State. |