ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Mr. FURNAS offered a concurrent resolution for a proposed amendment to the Constitution, providing that, in all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upward who shall have resided in the State six months and in the Township sixty days, the Ward or Precinct thirty days immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upward who shall have resided in the United States one year and in the State six months, and Township sixty days immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, comformable to the law on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the Township, Ward or Precinct where he shall reside continually, and was duly registered according to law.
Resolved, that this amendment, when voted upon, shall be designated No. 1.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on Female Suffrage.
