Article V, 9 2. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenant governor short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.) § 7. The Treasurer may be suspended from office by the Governor, during the recess of the Legislature, and until thirty days after the commencement of the next session of the Legislature, whenever it shall appear to him that such Treasurer has, in any particular, violated his duty. The Governor shall appoint a competent person to discharge the duties of the office during such suspension of the Treasurer. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the short ballot, see p. 322.) 2. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.) § 8. All offices for the weighing, gauging, measuring, culling or inspecting any merchandise, produce, manufacture or commodity whatever, are hereby abolished; and no such office shall hereafter be created by law; but nothing in this section contained shall abrogate any office created for the purpose of protecting the public health or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, tolls or purchases, or of supplying the people with correct standards of weights and measures, or shall prevent the creation of any office for such purposes hereafter. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the short ballot, see p. 322.) 2. Terms and salaries of members of the legislature, governor and lieutenant-governor - short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.) § 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as Article V, 9 practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this State, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Preference to veterans of Spanish-American war 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, or of the war with Spain, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1899. A. No. 2177 (Int. 1532). A. J. 2355. 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war or in the late SpanishAmerican war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1901. S. No. 901 (Int. 700). (Same as A. No. 1522.) To A. S. J. 605, 806, 975, 1051, 1062. A. J. 2276. A. No. 1522 (Int. 1181). (Same as S. No. 901.) A. J. 1326. 1902. S. No. 247 (Int. 229). S. J. 89. Article V, 9 § 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made[.]; and that, subject to the prior preference accorded to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late Spanish American war, who at the time of their several enlistments were citizens or residents of this state shall be entitled to a like preference in appointment and promotion. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1902. A. No. 1269 (Int. 13). A. J. 38, 1035. 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that [honorably] honorable discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war and Spanish-American war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1907. A. No. 1633 (Int. 1321). A. J. 1080. 2. Additional percentage on ratings of certain discharged soldiers, sailors and marines § 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained [so] as far as practicable, by examinations, which, [so] as far Article V, 9 as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers, [and] sailors and marines from the army and navy of the United States [in the late civil war], who belong to the following classes, and who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section.] in the following manner and order: 1. Veterans of the late civil war, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointments or promotions may be made. 2. Honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines from the army and navy of the United States, who were or shall be enlisted from this state, and who were at the time of such enlistment actual residents of this state, or who shall have been residents of this state for a period of five years prior to their making application for examination, shall be entitled to and shall receive an additional ten points on their rating, after they shall have been placed on any eligible list for appointment or promotion. 1908. S. No. 560 (Int. 489). S. J. 247. A. No. 1010 (Int. 856). (Same as A. No. 1010.) (Same as S. No. 560.) § 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made[]; and provided that a percentage of ten per centum shall be added to the ratings received on said examination, by honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, for the army, navy and marine corps of the United States, who served during the late war with Spain or the incidental insurrection in the Philippine Islands or the Boxer insurrection in China prior to July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, who are citizens and were, at the time Article V, § 9 of enlistment, residents of the state, after they shall have been placed on any eligible list for appointment or promotion. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1908. A. No. 1799 (Int. 447). A. J. 133, 1070, 1271, 1490, 1510. 89. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing, on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made[]; and provided that honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines from the army and navy of the United States who served during the late war with Spain, the incidental insurrection in the Philip pines, or the boxer uprising in China, prior to July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and who are citizens, and shall have been residents of this state for a period of five years prior to their making applications for said examination, shall receive an additional ten points on their rating, after they shall have been placed on any eligible list for appointment or promotion. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section. 1909. S. No. 438 (Int. 403). S. J. 261. A. No. 747 (Int. 696). (Same as A. No. 747.) (Same as S. No. 438.) 3. Preference to certain discharged soldiers, sailors and marines § 9. Appointments and promotions in the eivil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, or who have been honorably discharged after a three years service as such, soldiers or sailors or as marines, or who have served as such soldiers, sailors or marines, in the late Spanish-American war, or in the wars in the |