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106 Section 4 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions ." , is also amended by striking out the third sentence of such section and inserting in place t"` thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of signers subsequent to the first ten signers of a referendum petition asking for the repeal of an emergency law or of a law which takes effect because the referendum petition does not contain a request for suspension, and shall print at the top of each blank a fair concise summary of the proposed law as such summary w ill appear on the ballot together with the names and residences of the first ten signers. Article XLVIII is further amended by striking out subheading "III. Form of Ballot" and subheading "IV. Information for Voters' under the heading "General Provisions" and inserting in place thereof new subheadings III and Iv, which provide, respectively: III. FORM OF BALLOT. A fair, concise summary of each proposed amendment to the Con- stitmtion and each law submitted to the people, as determined by the Attorney General shall be printed on the ballot. The Secretary shall give each question a number and cause such question, except as other- wise authorized in said article of amendment, to be printed on the ballot in the following form: In the case of an amend-lent to the constitution: Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, ( here state, in distinctive type, whether approved or disapproved by the general court, and by what vote thereon) ? Yes.---No. (Set forth summary here) In the case of a law: Do you approve of a law summarized below, ( here state , in distinctive type, whether approved or disapproved by the general court, and by what vote thereon) ? Yes.---No. (Set forth summary here) IV. INFORMATION FOR VOTERS. The Secretary shall print and send to each registered voter the full text of every measure to be submitted to the people , together with a copy of the legislative committeets majority and minority reports, with the names of the majority and minority members and a fair, concise summary of the measure as such summary will appear on the ballot, and, in such manner as may be provided by law, other arguments for and against the measure,--which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941, received 201 votes in the affirmative and 2 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 12, 1943, received YES 1 214 votes in the affirmative and 5 in the negative,--be approved? NO QI7ESTION NO. 2. PROPOSED AMZENDY1NT TO TIE CONSTITUTION. Shall an amendment to the constitution to provide that the General Court may prescribe the terms and conditions under which pardons of offences which are felonies may be granted which is further described as follows:-- This article of amendment to the Constitution of Massachusetts annuls Article VIII of section 1 of chapter II of Part the Second of the Constitution, which vested the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council, with the full and unrestricted power of pardoning offences of which a person is convicted, except such as persons may be convicted of before the Senate by an impeachment of the House, and adopts a new Article VIII in place thereof. This new Article VIII vests the pardoning power in the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council, but provides further that if the offence to be pardoned is a felony the Legislature shall have power to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a pardon may be granted.