Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-09-27

such submission by the applicant for said
to fix the rate of taxation on property
each year for city and county purposes.
NEW CHARTERS. AMENDMENTS OR
MEASURES.
Sec. s. The citizens of the city and
county of Denver shall nave the exclu-
adopt a new charter or to adopt any
measure as herein provided:
tors in number not less than five per
cent. of the next preceding .gubernatorial
the council for any measure. or charter
amendment, or for a charter convention.
| The council shall submit the same to
vote of the qualified electors at the next
general election not held within thirty
days after such petition is filed; when,
ever such petition is signed by qualified
4 electors in number not less than ten per
/ cent of the next preceding gubernato-
rial vote in said city and county, with a
/ request for a special election the council
shall submit it at a special election to be
! held not less than thirty nor more than
/ sixty days from the date of filing the pc
! tition provided. that any question so
| submitted at a special election shall not
again be submitted at a special election
| within two years thereafter. In sub
mitting any such charter, charter amend
ment or measure, any alternative article
or proposition may be presented for the
choice of the voters, and may be voted on
separately without prejudice to others.
! Whenever the question of a charter con-
vention is carried by a majority of those
] Il
/ be called through a special election ordi-
nance provided in section four t4l
and held and the proposed charter sub
mitted to vote of the qualified electors.
approved or rejected, and all expenses
paid. as in said section provided
The clerk of the city and county shall
publish. with his official certification. for
newspaper. the first publication to be
with his call for the election. general
or special. the full text of any charter.
] charter amendment measure DTODO-
sal for a, charter convention. or alterna-
/ tive article or proposition. winch Is 70
days following the vote the said clerk
shall publish once in said newspaper the
ment, measure. or proposal for a charter
! convention, or alternative article or prop
osition, which shall have been approved
by a ma 1ority of those voting thereon.
and he shall file with the secretary of
state two copies thereof with the vote
him. and the same shall go into effect
from the date of such filing. He shall
also certify to the secretary OF state.
with the vote for and against two copies
of every defeated alternative article or
proposition. charter. charter amendment.
vention. Each charter shall also provide
for reference, upon proper petition
| Gil to a vote of the qualified electors. and
for the initiative by the qualified electors
of such ordinances as they may by petit
| ton request
The signatures to petitions in this
one paper Nothing herein or elsewhere
| shall prevent the council. If it sees fit.
from adopting automauc vote registers
No charter, charter amendment or
measure adopted or defeated under the
amended. repealed or revived. except by
petition and electoral vote. And no
measure shall diminish the tax rate for
state purposes fixed by act of the Cen
xxifh hA nf
CITIES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND
Sec. g. Cities of the first and second
class in this state, are hereby empoW-
| cred to propose for submission to vote
of the qualified electors, proposals for
charter conventions and to hold the same
and to amend any sneh eharter ,'paI Win q tng nd
have the same power. as near as may be,
as set out in sections four (D and five C5l
hereof, with full power as TO real ana
personal property and public utilities,
works or ways, as set out in section one
C) of this amendment.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONSOLIDATED.
Sec. z. The city and county of Denver
shall alone always constitute one school
district, to be known as District No. /.
but its conduct. affairs and business snail
be in the hands of board of education
consisting of such numbers, elected in
such manner as the general school laws
of the state shall provide, and until the
first election under said laws of a full
board of education which shall be had at
] the nTSt eieGtiOn nelu after the duOptlOll
of this amendment. all the directors of
school district No. l. and the respective
presidents of the school boards of school
districts Nos 2. l. II and 2l. at the time
this amendment takes effect. shall act as
such board of education. and all dis
tricts or special charters now existing
are hereby abolished
The said board of education shall per-
form all the acts and duties required to
be performed for said district by the
general laws of the state. Except as in
consistent with this amendment the gen
eral school laws of the state SHALL unless
the context evinces contrary intent be
held to extend and apply to the said
District No. l"
Upon the annexation of any contiguous
municipality which shall include a school
district districts of any part of dis
trict, said school district or districts OF
part shall be merged in said District
No l." which shall then own all the
property thereof, real and personal. To-
neXed municipality and shall assume and
pay all the bonds. obligations and indebt-
edness of each of the said included school
districts and a proper proportion OF
those of partially included districts;
Provided, however, That the indebted
any school district may be under at the
time when it becomes part. by this
amendment or by annexation. of saie
District No. L." shall be paid by said
school district so owing the same by g
special tax to be fixed and certified by
the board of education to the counei
which shall levy the same upon the prop
erty within the boundaries of such dis
trict respectively. as the same existed al
the time such district becomes part Of
said District No. L. and in case of par
TALLY included districts such tax shall b'