Case ID: mich_206/html/0371-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HAMILTON v. SECRETARY OF STATE.
    ■Constitutional Law — Petition for Submission of Amendment— Revival — Elections.
    A petition, filed with the secretary of State to submit to the electors'at the next general election a proposed constitutional amendment, and found insufficient for that purpose, because lacking signatures, performed its office and cannot be treated as a continuing petition, to be revived from time to time by the addition of other names.
    Mandamus by James Hamilton to compel Coleman C. Vaughan, secretary of State, to submit a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
    Submitted May 29, 1919.
    (Calendar No. 28,840½.)
    Writ denied June 10, 1919.
    
      Moore & Moore, for plaintiff.
   Per Curiam.

We are of opinion that the petition filed with the secretary of State and considered in Hamilton v. Secretary of State, 204 Mich. 439, cannot be treated as a continuing petition, to be revived as such from time to time by the addition of other names. It was filed to effect a purpose. It was found and declared to be insufficient for the purpose because lacking signatures. It performed its office and as a petition, in view of the law, is dead.