following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana be, and the same is hereby proposed, to-wit: Amend Section 2 of the sixth article, to read:

Sec. 2. There shall be elected in each county by the voters thereof, at the time of holding general elections, a clerk of the circuit court, auditor, recorder, treasurer, sheriff, coroner and surveyor, who shall severally hold their offices for four years, and no person shall be eligible to either of said offices more than four years, or one term, in any period of eight years.

Resolved, That in submitting this amendment to the electors of the State to be voted on, it shall be designated as Amendment No. 3.

I, E. R. Hawn, Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the annexed is a true, correct and complete copy of enrolled Joint Resolution No. 7, of the Senate of Indiana, passed and adopted by the last General Assembly of said State, at the special session thereof, entitled "Senate Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 6 of the constitution, as the same now appears on file in my office under date of April 14, 1881.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the State of Indiana, at the city of Indianapolis, this 16th day of January, A.D. 1883.

(SEAL)

E. R. HAWN, Secretary of State.

Enrolled Joint Resolution No. 8.-House of Representatives.

Received April 9, 1881.
For the Governor:

State of Indiana,

Executive Department.

FRANK H. BLACKLEDGE,

Secretary.

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 2, Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.

Enrolled Joint Resolution No. 8-House of RepresentativesBe it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana be, and the same is hereby proposed, to-wit:

Amend Section 2 of Article 2 thereof, so that it will read as follows:

Sec. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen of the United State of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days, immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and who shall have resided in the State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on that subject, shall be entitled to vote in the township, ward or precinct, where he or she may reside, if he or she shall have been duly registered according to law.

Resolved, That in submitting this proposition to the electors to be voted upon, it shall be designated as Amendment No. 4. WILLIAM M. RIDPATH,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

I, E. R. Hawn, Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the annexed is a true, correct and complete copy of enrolled Joint Resolution No. 8, of the House of Representatives, passed and adopted by the last General Assembly of the State of Indiana, at the Special Session thereof entitled, "A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, as the same was filed in my office, on the 11th day of April, 1881, and now remains on file in my office.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the State of Indiana, at the City of Indianapolis, this 16th day of January, A.D., 1883. E. R. HAWN, Secretary of State.

(SEAL)

We further find that said joint resolutions were included in and published in the printed volume of the laws of the State of Indiana, passed at the last session of the General Assembly by authority and may be found therein.

We do not find that said resolutions were spread at length upon the Journals of the General Assembly, nor that they were in words referred to this General Assembly.

We do find that they are in the same condition as resolutions heretofore adopted and agreed to as amendments to the Constitution of Indiana which were agreed to by a succeeding General Assembly, and ratified by a majority of the electors of the State of Indiana, and declared by the Governor of the State to have been duly adopted as a part of the Constitution of Indiana.

We, therefore, find and report to the Senate that the provisions of Section 1, Article 16, of the Constitution of Indiana have been substantially complied with, and that said several joint resolutions above set forth are duly and legally before this General Assembly for its action thereon.

EUGENE BUNDY,
ROBERT GRAHAM.

The report of the House committee were under consideration by the committee of the whole on January 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 and February 6. The second minority report, signed by Messrs. Jewett and Patten, was adopted on February 6, by a vote of 52-35, ten members pairing. The Senate committee of the whole had the reports of the Senate Judiciary Committee un

der consideration on January 24, 25, 26 and 29. On the latter date, the majority report of the Senate committee was adopted by a vote of 25-23, two senators pairing.

362. Prohibiting the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors (February 19, 1883).

The State-wide prohibition amendment was introduced in the House on February 19 by Mr. James N. Houston, a Republican, and advanced to second reading by a vote of 56-19. On February 20, the resolution was advanced to engrossment. On February 24, the resolution passed by a vote of 57-37, and was reported to the Senate. No action was taken in the Senate until March 2, when, by a vote of 22-15, on, motion of Senator William Dudley Foulke, the resolution was ordered taken up for consideration. Nothing was done, however, until March 3 when Mr. Eugene H. Bundy moved to take up the resolution and place it on its passage. The motion was lost by a vote of 18-22, and no further action was taken.

[House Journal, Fifty-third Session, 689.]

House joint resolution No. 1.

A joint resolution agreeing to and adopting an amendment proposed to the Constitution by the last General Assembly, by inserting Article 17 forever prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale in the State of Indiana, spirituous, vinous, malt, or any other intoxicating liquors, except for scientific, medicinal, mechanical, and wines for sacramental purposes, and providing for regulating sales for said purposes.

WHEREAS, The last General Assembly, at the special session thereof, passed, adopted, and agreed to the following joint resolution, to-wit:

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana, by inserting Article 17, forever prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale in the State of Indiana, spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors, except for scientific, medicinal, mechanical, and wines for sacramental purposes, and providing for regulating sales for said purposes.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the following amendment be and is hereby proposed to the Constitution of the State of Indiana, to be submitted to the vote of the electors of said State, viz.: Amend by adding thereto Article 17, to read as follows:

Section 1. The manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale, in said State, spirituous, vinous, malt liquors, or any other intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, scientific, mechanical and wines for

sacramental purposes, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited in the State of Indiana.

Sec. 2. The General Assembly of the State of Indiana shall provide, by law, in what manner, by whom, and at what places, such liquors shall be manufactured or sold for medicinal, scientific, mechanical and sacramental purposes.

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the said amendment proposed to the Constitution of Indiana contained in said joint resolution, passed by the Special Session of the 52d General Assembly, as aforesaid, and hereinbefore recited, be, and the same hereby is, agreed to and adopted by this General Assembly, and that in said submission of this amendment to the electors of the State, to be voted upon by them, it shall be designated as Amendment No. 1.

363. Woman Suffrage (February 20, 1883).

The woman suffrage amendment was introduced in the House on February 20 by Mr. Christian Holler, a Republican. The House refused to suspend the constitutional rule in order to advance the resolution to engrossment. By a vote of 53-33, the resolution was made a special order for February 24, on which day the resolution was adopted by a vote of 53-42. The Senate never took any action on the measure.

[House Journal, Fifty-third Session, 702.]

A joint resolution agreeing to an amendment proposed to the Constitution of the State of Indiana by the Fifty-Second General Assembly of the State of Indiana, amending Section 2 of Article 2 thereof.

WHEREAS, The last General Assembly of the State of Indiana, at the special session thereof, by House joint resolution No. 8, proposed and referred to the action of the present General Assembly the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana, as hereinafter inserted, to-wit: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana; be it

Resolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana be, and the same is hereby proposed, to-wit: Amend Section 2 of Article 2 thereof so that it will read as follows, towit: Sec. 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen of the United States of the age of twentyone years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State