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repealed; and that section one, article four of said Constitution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.
§1. 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 person who is a minor, or of unsound mind, or a
pauper or who is under conviction of treason, felony, or briberyin an election, or who has not been a resident of the state for
one year and of the county in which he offers to vote, for sixty
thirty days next preceding such offer, shall be permitted to vote
while such disability continues; but no person 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."
CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
On page one, section one, line twenty-six, following the
word "no", by striking out the word "person" and inserting in
lieu thereof the word "citizen".
On page two, section one, line three, following the word
"which", by striking out the word "he" and inserting in lieu
thereof the words "the citizen".
And,
On page two, section one, line five, following the word
"no", by striking out the word "person" and inserting in lieu
thereof the word "citizen".