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AMENDMENT

TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE.

ADOPTED IN THE YEAR 1890.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION FOUR (4)
OF ARTICLE ONE (1) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.

SECTION 1. (Adding at the end of section four (4) the following paragraph): And the legislature may provide that the agreement of five-sixths () of any jury in any civil action or proceeding, after not less than six (6) hours' deliberation, shall be a sufficient verdict therein.

[Being Chapter 1 of the General Laws of 1891.]

Voted upon at the general election held November fourth (4th), eighteen hundred and ninety (1890), and adopted by a vote of 66.929 in favor of said amendment, and a vote of 41,341 against the same.

Proclamation of the vote issued by the governor December twenty, eighteen hundred and ninety (1890).

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May provide for in civil actions. a five-sixth jury

ERRATA.

The letters and words included in brackets [ ] in this volume of General Laws are not in the enrolled copies of the acts approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State; they are found in the original or engrossed copies that were voted upon by the legislature, but were omitted or incorrectly copied in the enrolled acts.

Errors in grammatical construction and omissions of words, in the printed copy, may be traced to the fact that the errors and omissions appear in the original and subsequent copies of the acts as engrossed and enrolled.

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN GENERAL LAWS OF 1889.

In chapter 20, page 315, section 4, thirteenth line, the word vendee should read vendor.

Chapter 12 "An act to prohibit prize fighting and sparring matches," was accidentally omitted from the general index of subjects.

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