11. Do you approve of authorizing the general court to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to one hundred dollars, as proposed in the amended Constitution?

12. Do you approve of the proposed amendment prohibiting the removal from office for political reasons?

13. Do you approve of the proposed amendment prohibiting money raised by taxation from being applied to the support of the schools or institutions of any religious sect or denomination, as proposed in the amended Constitution? (J. 1876, pp. 274–275.)

VOTE ON THIRTEEN AMENDMENTS OF 1876, TO THE CONSTITUTION

OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF MARCH, 1877.

Constitution unchanged 1877-1889. The following table shows the dates of the approval of the several acts of the Legislature between 1876 and 1889, providing for taking the sense of the qualified voters on the expediency of calling a convention to revise the constitution, and the aggregate, the affirmative, and the negative votes on the question as returned by the town clerks :

egates to this convention assembled in the hall of the house of representatives in Concord, on Wednesday, January 2, 1889, at 11 o'clock a. m.

At the afternoon session Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, was elected president; and on the following day James R. Jackson, of Littleton, was elected secretary, and William Tutherly, of Claremont, assistant secretary of the

convention.

The rules of the convention of 1876 were adopted as the rules of this convention till otherwise ordered.

On January 3, Mr. Hadley of Concord, from the Committee on Rules and Method of Procedure, submitted the following report which was adopted by the convention:

1. The president shall take the chair at precisely the hour to which the convention shall have adjourned, shall immediately call the members to order, and at the commencement of each day's session

shall cause the journal of the preceding day to be read. He shall preserve decorum and order, and may speak on points of order in preference to other members, and may substitute any member to perform the duties of the chair, such substitution not to extend beyond an adjournment.

2. All committees shall be appointed by the president, unless otherwise directed by the convention; and the first named member of any committee appointed by the president shall be chairman.

3. No person but the members and officers of the convention shall be admitted within the chamber unless by invitation of the president or some member of the convention.

4. No member shall speak more than twice to the same question without leave of the convention.

5. When any question is under debate, no motion shall be received but, Ist, to adjourn; 2d, to lay on the table; 3d, to postpone to a day certain; 4th, to commit; 5th, to amend - which several motions shall take precedence in the order in which they are arranged. Motions to adjourn and lay on the table shall be decided without debate. (J. 1889, pp. 18-20.)

6. Any member may call for a division of the question, when the sense will admit of it; but a motion to strike out and insert shall not be divided.

7.

A motion for commitment until it is decided, shall precede all amendments to the main question; and all motions and reports may be committed at the pleasure of the convention.

8. No vote shall be reconsidered unless the motion for reconsideration be made by a member who voted with the majority.

9. Every question shall be decided by yeas and nays, whenever a demand for the same shall be made and sustained by at least ten members.

IO. The Convention may resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole Convention at any time on the motion of a member; and, in forming a Committee of the Whole, the president shall leave the chair and appoint a chairman to preside in committee; and the rules of proceeding in convention, shall be observed in Committee of the Whole, except the rule limiting the times of speaking, and rule 9.