SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5—“Amending section one of the article four of the constitution of West Virginia, granting to women the right of suffrage.” Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two-thirds of all the members elected to each House agreeing thereto:

That the following be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to the constitution of this state, to-wit:

That section one of article four of said constitution as it now is, be altered and amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. The citizens of the state, both male and female, shall be entitled to vote at all elections held within the counties in which they respectively reside; but no person who is a minor, or of unsound mind, or a pauper, or who is under conviction of treason, felony, or bribery in an election, or who has not been a resident of the state for one year, and of the county in which he or she offers to vote, for sixty days next preceding such offer, shall be permitted to vote while such disability continues; but no person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state by reason of being stationed therein.