JOINT RESOLUTIONS, 1915. [No. 1.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to article eight of the constitution of this State, by adding a new section thereto, to stand as section fifteen-a of said article, authorizing drainage districts to issue bonds for drainage purposes. 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, authorizing any drainage district established under provision of law to issue bonds for drainage purposes, is hereby proposed, agreed to and submitted to the people of the State, that is to say, that a new section be added to article eight, to stand as section fifteen-a of said article, to read as follows: SEC. 15a. Any drainage district, established under provision of law, may issue bonds for drainage purposes within such district: and be it further Resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the election to be held on the first Monday in April, nineteen hundred fifteen. 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 upon said amendment, which ballot, after showing the amendment in full, shall be in substantially the following form: "Vote on amendment to article eight of the constitution relative to permitting drainage districts to issue bonds: Amendment to article eight of the constitution to permit drainage districts to issue bonds for drainage purposes. Yes [] Amendment to article eight of the constitution to permit drainage districts to issue bonds for drainage purposes. 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. 2.] A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section thirty of article five of the constitution, relative to right of repeal of local or special acts by the Legislature. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following amendment to section thirty of article five of the constitution, relative to right of repeal of local or special acts by the Legislature, is hereby proposed and submitted to the people of the State. SEC. 30. The Legislature shall pass no local or special act in any case where a general act can be made applicable, and whether a general act can be made applicable shall be a judicial question. No local or special act, excepting acts repealing local or special acts in effect January one, nineteen hundred nine and receiving a two-thirds vote of the Legislature shall take effect until approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon in the district to be affected; and be it further Resolved, That the foregoing amendment be submitted to the people of this State at the general election to be held in November, nineteen hundred sixteen. 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 upon said amendment, which ballot, after showing the amendment in full, shall be in substantially the following form: "Vote on amendment to section thirty of article five of the constitution, relative to right of repeal of local or special acts by the legislature: Amendment to section thirty of article five of the constitution, relative to right of repeal of local or special acts by the Legislature. Yes. [ ] Amendment to section thirty of article five of the constitution, relative to right of repeal of local or special acts by the Legislature. 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 inspetors 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. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. Amendment to the constitution relative to the right of students while in attendance at any institution of learning, members of the Legislature while in attendance at any session of the Legislature, or commercial travelers, to vote. ARTICLE III. SECTION 1. In all elections, every male inhabitant of this State, being a citizen of the United States; every male inhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred thirty-five; every male 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; and every civilized male inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States and not a member of any tribe, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but no one shall be an elector or entitled to vote at any election unless he 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 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, in time of war, insurrection or rebellion, or any student while in attendance at any institution of learning, or any member of the Legislature while in attendance at any session of the Legislature, or commercial traveler, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from the township, ward or State in which he 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. 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 fifteen was on the twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred fifteen. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature and the great seal of the State, at Lansing, this eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred fifteen. [L. S.] COLEMAN C. VAUGHAN, |