Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan

[No. 4.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section twentysix of article eight of the constitution of the State of Michigan, with reference to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That section twenty-six of article eight of the constitution of the State of Michigan, with reference to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, shall be amended to read as follows: SEC. 26. The Legislature may by general law provide for the laying out, construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, bridges and culverts by the State and by the counties and townships thereof and by road districts; and may authorize counties or districts to take charge and control of any highway within their limits for such purposes. The Legislature may also by general law prescribe the pow ers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to highways, bridges and culverts; may provide for county and district road commissioners to be appointed or elected, with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law; and may change and abolish the powers and duties of township commissioners and overseers of highways. The Legislature may provide by law for submitting the question of adopting the county road system to the electors of the counties, and such road system shall not go into operation in any county until approved by a majority of the electors thereof voting thereon. The tax raised for road purposes by counties shall not exceed in any one year five dollars upon each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for the preceding year.

Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the general election to be held on the first Monday of April, nineteen hundred seventeen. The Secretary of State is hereby required to certify said proposed amendment to the clerks of the several counties of the State in the manner and within the time required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare ballots for the use of the electors in voting upon said amendment which ballots shall be in substantially the following form:

Vote on amendment to section twenty-six of article eight of the constitution, with reference to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, it being proposed that said section be amended to read as follows:

SEC. 26. The Legislature may by general law provide for the laying out, construction, improvement and maintenance of highways, bridges and culverts by the State and by the counties and townships thereof and by road districts; and may authorize counties or districts to take charge and control of any highway within their limits for such purposes. The Legislature may also by general law prescribe the pow ers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to highways, bridges and culverts; may provide for county and district road com

missioners to be appointed or elected, with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by law; and may change and abolish the powers and duties of township commissioners and overseers of highways. The Legislature may provide by law for submitting the question of adopting the county road system to the electors of the counties, and such road system shall not go into operation in any county until approved by a majority of the electors thereof voting thereon. The tax raised for road purposes by counties shall not exceed in any one year five dollars upon each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for the preceding year.

Amendment to section twenty-six of article eight of the constitution, with reference to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways. Yes [ ]

Amendment to section twenty-six of article eight of the constitution, with reference to the construction, improvement and maintenance of highways. No [ ].

It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election of the various voting precincts within their respective counties within the time and in the manner provided by the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning votes cast for State officers.

[No. 5.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section twentyone of article six of the constitution of this State, relative to the salaries of State officers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to section twenty-one of article six of the constitution, relative to the salaries of State officers, is here by proposed, agreed to and submitted to the people of this State:

SEC. 21. The Governor and Attorney General shall each receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars. The Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Auditor General shall each receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars. They shall receive no fees or perquisites whatever for the performance of any duties connected with the offices. It shall not be competent for the Legislature to increase the salaries herein provided.

Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the election to be held on the first Monday in April in the year nineteen hundred seventeen. The Secretary of State is hereby required to certify the foregoing amendment to the clerks of the several counties of the State as required by law. And it shall be the duty of all officials to take such steps as may be necessary to have

said amendment submitted to the people. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare a ballot for the use of the electors in voting upon said amendment, which ballot shall be in substantially the following form:

"Vote on amendment to section twenty-one of article six of the constitution, relative to the salaries of State officers."

ARTICLE VI

article six of the constitution, No [ ].

Amendment to section twenty-one of article six of the constitution, relative to the salaries of State officers. Yes [ ]. Amendment to section twenty-one of relative to the salaries of State officers. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election within their respective counties within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered to such election inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing and returning the votes for State officers.

[No. 6.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION with reference to the re-location and permanent monumenting of the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan. Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, that

Whereas, The eighty-first general assembly of Ohio in house bill seven hundred one passed May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifteen, and the forty-eighth Legislature of Michigan by act eighty-four of Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, provided for a joint re-location and permanent monumenting of the line between Ohio and Michigan, and

Whereas, This work has been duly executed by the proper officers of both states as evidenced by their report dated July first, nineteen hundred sixteen, to the governing authorities of both states, therefore be it

Resolved, That the said boundary line as re-located and monumented under authority of the acts above cited be adopted as the true boundary, and that the work of the commissioners and their above mentioned report be adopted as final.

[No. 7.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section three of article seventeen of the constitution of this State, providing for the printing of all constitutional amendments and other special questions on a single ballot.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to the constitution of the State of Michigan, providing for the printing of all constitutional amendments and other special questions to be submitted at any election on a single ballot, is hereby proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the State, that is to say that section three of article seventeen be amended to read as follows:

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.

Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred eighteen. The Secretary of State is hereby required to certify the foregoing amendment to the clerks of the several counties of the State, as required by law. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to prepare a ballot for the use of the electors in voting on said amendment, which ballot, after showing the amendment in full, shall be in substantially the following form:

"Vote on amendment to section three of article seventeen of the constitution, relative to printing constitutional amendments and other spe cial questions on one ballot:

Amendment to section three of article seventeen of the constitution, to provide for the printing of constitutional amendments and other special questions on one ballot. Yes [ ]

Amendment to section three of article seventeen of the constitution to provide for the printing of constitutional amendments and other spe cial questions on one ballot. No [ ]

It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners of each county to deliver the ballots so prepared to the inspectors of election at the several voting precincts within their respective counties, within the time ballots to be used at said election are required to be delivered to such inspectors under the general election law. All votes cast upon said amendment shall be counted, canvassed, and returned in the same manner as is provided by law for counting, canvassing, and returning the vote for State officers.

[No. 8.]

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section one of article three of the constitution of Michigan relative to the right of women to vote.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to section one of article three of the constitution relative to the right of women to vote, is hereby proposed and submitted to the people of this State.

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 ninetyfour, 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.

Be it further Resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the general election to be held in the month of November, in the year nineteen hundred eighteen. The Secretary of

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