QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO THE QUALIFIED

VOTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,

MARCH 10, 1903.

Questions submitted to the qualified voters of New Hampshire, March 10, 1903:

1. Do you approve of requiring every person in order to be a voter or eligible to office to be able to read the constitution in the English language and to write, the requirement not to apply to any person who now has the right to vote nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards on January 1, 1904;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

2. Do you approve of the requirement that captains and subalterns in the militia of the state shall before their nomination and appointment be examined and found duly qualified by an examining board appointed by the governor;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

3. Do you approve of striking out the words "the commissary-general" from the requirement that the secretary of state and the state treasurer and the commissary-general, shall be chosen by the legislature;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

4. Do you approve of empowering the legislature to impose taxes not only upon polls and estates but also upon other classes of property, including franchises and property when passing by will or inheritance;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

5. Do you approve of allowing the legislature to give police courts jurisdiction to try and determine, subject to

the respondent's right of appeal and trial by jury, criminal cases wherein the punishment is less than imprisonment in the state prison;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

6. Do you approve of amending the Bill of Rights by striking out the word "evangelical" before the word "principles" and inserting the word "Christian" and striking out the word "Protestant" before the words "teachers of piety, religion and morality" and striking out the word "towns" in two places where the legislature is empowered to authorize "towns, parishes and religious societies" to suppport and maintain teachers of religion and morality; and striking out the words "and every denomination of Christians" and inserting the words "all religious sects and denominations" where equal protection of the law is assured;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

7. Do you approve of striking out the word "male" before the word "inhabitant" in the clause which provides that every male inhabitant twenty-one years of age (with certain exceptions) shall have a right to vote; which clause is supplemented by the existing provision that every such person shall be considered an inhabitant for the purpose of electing and being elected to office;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

8. Do you approve of granting to the general court all just powers possessed by the state to enact laws to prevent the operations within the state of all persons and associations, trusts and corporations who endeavor to raise the price of any article of commerce or to destroy free and fair competition in the trades and industries through combination, conspiracy, monopoly, or any other unfair means;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

9. Do you approve of amending the provision as to representation in the house of representatives by making 800 inhabitants necessary to the election of one representative

and 2,400 inhabitants necessary for two representatives and 1,600 necessary for each additional representative; with the proviso that a town, ward or place having less than 800 inhabitants may send a representative a proportionate part of the time; or that such towns, wards, and places when contiguous may unite to elect a representative if each town so decides by major vote;-as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?

10. Do you approve of giving the legislature authority to establish more than one place of public meeting within the limits of each town or ward in the state for the casting of votes and the election of officers under the Constitution, and for that purpose to divide any town or ward into voting precincts; as proposed in the amendment to the Constitution?