Amend section 1 of Article X. of the Constitution of the State of Nevada so as to read as follows: Section one. The Legislature shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, real, personal and possessory, except unpatented mines and unpatented mining claims, the proceeds of which alone shall be taxed, and also excepting such property as may be exempted by law for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious, or charitable purposes. No. XXXV.-Senate Concurrent Resolution relative to amending the Constitution of the State of Nevada. [Proposed and passed by the fifteenth session of the Nevada Legislature, and passed upon and agreed to by the sixteenth session of said Legislature.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Constitution of the State of Nevada be amended as follows: Amend section 35 of Article IV. of the Constitution of the State of Nevada so as to read as follows: Section thirty-five. Every bill which may have passed the Legislature shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor. If he approve it he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated, which house shall cause such objections to be entered upon its Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration it again pass both houses by yeas and nays, by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, it shall become a law, notwithstanding the Governor's objections. If any bill shall not be returned within five days after it shall have been presented to him (Sundays excepted), exclusive of the day on which he received it, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by its final adjournment, prevent such return, in which case it shall be a law, unless the Governor, within ten days next after the adjournment (Sundays excepted), shall file such bill, with his objections thereto, in the office of the Attorney General, as ex-officio Secretary of State, who shall lay the same before the Legislature at its next session in like manner as if it had been returned by the Governor, and if the same shall receive the vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature, upon a vote taken by yeas and nays to be entered upon the Journals of each house, it shall become a law. No. XXXVI.-Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 51, relative to amending the Constitution of the State of Nevada. [Proposed and passed by the fifteenth session of the Nevada Legislature, and passed upon and agreed to by the sixteenth session of said Legislature.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Constitution of the State of Nevada be amended as follows: Amend Article XVIII. (eighteen) of the Constitution of the State of Nevada by adding thereto a section to be numbered when added, which shall read as follows: Section The Legislature may provide by law that he who exercises the right of registering and voting shall be required to exhibit such a knowledge of the English language, written and spoken, as to enable him to read aloud the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Nevada. No. XXXVII.-Senate Concurrent Resolution relative to amending the Constitution of the State of Nevada. [Proposed and passed by the fifteenth session of the Nevada Legislature, and passed upon and agreed to by the sixteenth session of said . Legislature.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Constitution of the State of Nevada be amended as follows: Amend section 4 of Article V. of the Constitution of the State of Nevada so as to read as follows: Section four. The returns of every election for Governor and other State officers, voted for at the general election, shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the Attorney General as ex-officio Secretary of State, and on the third Monday of December, succeeding such election, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and two of the District Judges, to be selected by the Chief Justice, or a majority thereof, shall meet at the office of the Attorney General, as ex-officio Secretary of State, and open and canvass the election returns for Governor, and all other State officers, and forthwith declare the result and publish the names of the persons elected. The persons having the highest number of votes for the respective offices shall be declared elected, but in case any two or more have an equal, and the highest number of votes for the same office, the Legislature shall, by joint vote of both houses, elect one of said persons to fill said office. No. XXXVIII. Senate Concurrent Resolution relative to amending the Constitution of the State of Nevada. [Proposed and passed by the fifteenth session of the Nevada Legislature, and passed upon and agreed to by the sixteenth session of said Legislature.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Constitution of the State of Nevada be amended as follows: Amend section 12 of Article XV. of the Constitution of the State of Nevada so as to read as follows: Section twelve. The Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, State Controller and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall keep their respective offices at the seat of government. |