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H. J. R. 9

(By Delegate Huffman)

(Introduced February 16, 1993; referred to the

Committee on Constitutional Revision.)


Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending section one, article four thereof, relating to elections and officers; and repealing section eight, article twelve of said Constitution relating to prohibiting mixed schools; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

 Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each House agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the State at the next general election to be held in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, which proposed amendment is that section eight, article twelve be repealed; and that section one, article four of said Constitution be amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE IV. ELECTION AND OFFICERS.
ยง1. Election and officers.
The male citizens of the state shall be entitled to vote at all elections held within the counties in which they respectively reside; but no citizen who is a minor, or of unsound mind, or apauper or who is under conviction of treason, felony, or bribery in an election, or who has not been a resident of the state for one year and of the county in which the citizen offers to vote, for sixty thirty days next preceding such offer, shall be permitted to vote while such disability continues; but no citizen in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state by reason of being stationed therein.



 Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment Number 1" and designated as the "Constitutional Amendment to Repeal Archaic Language," and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To amend the State Constitution to repeal and delete the section prohibiting mixed schools, removing language referring to paupers and male voters and reducing the residency requirements for voting to thirty days."