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Maine State Archives
Document Type
Text
Identifier
29-333131
Exact Creation Date
1920
Language
English
Other Location
Maine
Keywords
Election Returns; Election Results; Vote Counts; Maine; General Election
Recommended Citation
Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions, "1920 General Election: Constitutional Amendment & Referendum" (1920). 1920-1929. 2.
https://digitalmaine.com/tabulations_for_elections_1920s/2
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Election Tabulations for the General Election: Constitutional Amendment & Referendum , held in 1920. Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1: "Division of Towns into Polling Places. Chapter 22 of the Resolves of 1919, approved Marchi 8, 1919 submits to the electors of the State of Maine the following constitutional amendment: That Section 16 of ARticle IX of the Constitution of the State of Maine be amended by striking out all of said section and substituting in place thereof the following : 'Sec. 16. The legislature may by law authorize the dividing of towns into voting districts for all state and national elections, and prescribe the manner in which the votes shall be received, counted and the result of the election declared.' "Shall the Constitution be Amended as proposed by a resolution of the Legislature Granting to the Legislature Power to Authorize Towns to have more than one voting place for all Stae and National Elections?"; Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2: "Bounus for Soldiers and Sailors. Chapter 173 of the Resolves of 1919, approved November 7, 1919, submits to the electors of the State of Maine the following constitutional amendments: First that Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Maine be amendedby adding thereto the following section: 'Sec. 19. The legislature may authorize the issuing of bonds not to exceed the amount of three million dllars, payable within ten years, which bonds or their proceeds shall be devoted exclusively to paying a bonus to Maine soldiers and sailors in the war with Germany.' Second, that Section 14 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Maine, as amended by Articles thirty-five, forty-one, forty-two and forty-three be further amended by adding after the world "was" in the seventhline thereof the words 'to provide for the payment of the bonus to Maine soldiers and sailorsin the was with Germany;' so that said section 14 as amended , will read as follows: 'Sec. 14. The credit of the state shall not be directly or indirectly loaned in any case. The legislature shall not create any debt or debts, liability or liabilities, on behalf of the state, which shall singly , or in the aggregare, with previous dets and liabilities hereafter incurred at any one time, exceed eight hundred thousand dollars, except for the purposes of building state highways , intrastate, interstate and international bridges; to suppress insurrection, to repel invation, or for the purposes of war; to provide the payment of a bonus to Maine soliers and sailors in the war with Germany; or for the purposes of building and maintaining public wharves and for the establishment of adequate port facilities in the stae of Maine; but this amendment shall not be construed to refer to any money that has been , or may be deposited with this state my the government of the United State, or to any fund which the state shall hold in trust for any Indian tribe.' "Shall the Constitution be Amended as proposed by a resolution of the legislature providing for the issuing of state bonds for the purposes of paying a bonus to Maine Soldiers and Sailors in the War with Germany?"; Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 3: Income Tax. Chapter 179 of the Resolves of 1919, approved November 8, 1919, submits to the electors of the State of Maine the following constitutional amendment: That section 8 of Article IX of the Constitution, as amended by Artivcle thirty-six of the Constitution, be amended by adding to said section, as amended, the following words: 'and shall also ahve the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived,' so that said section as hereby firther amended shall read as follows: 'Sec. 8. All taxes upon real and personal estate, assessed by authority of this state, shall be approtioned and assessed equally, according to the just value thereof; but the legislature shall have power to levy a tax upon intangible personal property at such rate as it deems wise and equitable without regard to the rate applied to other classes of property, and shall also have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived.' "Shall the Constitution be amended as proposed by a resolution of the Legislature providing that the Legislature shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever sources derived?"; Referendum: Shall chapter 120 of the Public Laws of 1919 entitled "An Act Granting to Women the Right to Vote for Presidentials Electors," Become a Law?