at
the ballot-box as to the expediency of extending the right
of suffrage to women.

SAMUEL H. BLACKMAN, _Chairman of Committee on State Affairs._
JAMES BURNES, _Chairman of Committee on Elections._

Report accepted, and joint resolution placed on the general
order.

On March 18 the following joint resolution passed the House
by a vote of 67 to 27, and passed the Senate by a vote of 26
to 4,[310] proposing an amendment to section I of article
VII. of the constitution, in relation to the qualification
of electors:

_Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Michigan_, That at the election when the amended
constitution shall be submitted to the electors of this
State for adoption or rejection, there shall be submitted to
such electors the following propositions, to be substituted
in case of adoption, for so much of section I, of article
VII., as precedes the proviso therein, in the present
constitution of this State as it now stands, and substituted
for section I, article VII., in said amended constitution,
if the latter is adopted, to wit:

SECTION 1. In all elections, every person of the age of
twenty-one years who shall have resided in this State three
months, and in the township or ward in which he or she
offers to vote ten days next preceding an election,
belonging to either of the following classes, shall be an
elector and entitled to vote:

_First_--Every citizen of the United States; _Second_--Every
inhabitant of this State, who shall have resided in the
United States two years and six months, and declared his or
her intention to become a citizen of the United States
pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an
election; _Third_--Every inhabitant residing in this State
on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

Said proposition shall be separately submitted to the
electors of this State for their adoption or rejection, in
form following, to wit: A separate ballot may be given by
every person having the right to vote, to be deposited in a
s