Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-20

FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.-Joint and concurrent resolution
submitting TO the qualified voters of the
Estate of Missouri, an amendment to sec
thereof.
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House
OF Representatives concurring therein:
Ihat at the general election TO be held
on the Tuesday next following the first
Monday in November, 1904. the following
amendment 70 section AZ N article. ~ OF
the constitution of the State OF Missouri
concerning the relief of members of police
departments in cities having one hundred
become disabled. crippled or superannu-
ated, and of their widows and minor
children after their decease, and of the
widows and minor children of deceased
members of police departments in such
cities, shall be submitted to the qualified
voters of said state. to witt:
Section l. That section AZ of article
~ of the constitution be amended by
adding thereto the following words, to
wit: ''and provided further, that the gen.
eral assembly may provide by law for
the pensioning of members OF police de,
partments in cities having one hundred
thousand Inhabitants or more, who may
become disabled, crippled or superannu-
ated, and for the relief of the widows and
minor children of such persons after their
d~ecease, and for the relief of the widows
and minor children of deceased members
OF the police departments in such cities;
the funds for such purposes to be APP
Go PtONloV Wy NlS "a oo
sembly from the municipal revenue of
such cities.
SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.AJoint and concurrent resolution
submitting to the qualified voters of the
State of Missouri an amendment to the
constitution thereof, providing for the
reservation to the people of the right to
propose measures for enactment, to re-
3quire. enactments of the general assembly
to be submitted to a vote of the people
for ratification, and to define referendal
n initiative petitions and the relations
of the executive and the general assembly
to measures approved or enacted by
electors.
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House
of Representatives concurring therein:
At the general election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday
of November, 1904, there shall be submit
ted to the electors of the State of Mis-
souri, an amendment to section ], article
Nv of the state constitution; so that said
section, when amended, shall read as fol-
lows:
Section /. The legislative power, sub
ject to the limitations hereafter con-
tanned. shall be. vested in a senate and
house OF representatives, to be styled
"the general assembly of the State of
Missouri The legislative power Of any
as city, town or village, or its own mu-
nicipal matters is inherent and shall be
vested in the electors of each municipal
division, subject to such laws of a gem
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throughout the state as the general as
sembly may enact.
A number Of electors in each congress
sional district in this state, equal to ten
per cent. of the total number of votes
cast in each congressional district at the
last preceding general election for gov
ernor, shall have power to require that
any act or part of an act, passed by the
:. general assembly, shall be referred to
, the, electors at the next general election,
by filing their signed demand with the
ninety days after adjournment Of the gen.
eral assembly which passed the act,
earlier than. which date no law or part OF
a law~can become operative, except APP
ate gpreservation of the public peace,
health and safety; and laws passed by
a two-thirds vote of the members elected
respectively to each house and approved
by the governor.
Il A number of the electors in each con-
gressional district in this state, equal to
fifteen per cent. of the total number of
votes cast in each congressional district
at the last preceding general election for
governor, shall have power to propose
any law, amendment to, or repeal of a
law, and require that it be referred to
the electors of the state, except as above
stated, to be voted on at the next gen
eral election, provided the election does
not occur within ninety days after the
fling of the petition with the secretary
of the state, and such law shall be in
effect from and after the date of the Off
cial declaration of the result of the vote,
if approved by a majority of those voting
thereon.
A number of electors in each congress
sional district in this state equal to twen-
ty per cent. of the total number of votes
cast in each congressional district at the
last preceding general election for gov
ernor, shall nave the power to propose
any amendment to the constitution of
the state of Missouri and require that
such amendment be referred to the next
g. oa,oral alantinn prOyidad the election
does not occur within six months after
the filing of the petition with the Sec
rotary Of state, and such constitutional
amendment shall be in effect from and
after the date of the official declaration
of the result of the vote, if approved by
a majority of those voting thereon,
All the component parts. or sheets OF
any petition, used to receive the sigma
turee of electors, to invoke either the
initiative or referendum as heretofore de-
scribed, shall have plainly printed there
ferred or proposed, and each signer there
to shall give his post office address, and
if in a city or town, the street and num-
bar of residence shall be included.
One of the signers, a qualified voter, on
each paper shall make oath before an
officer competent to administer .oaths,
that the statements therein made are
true. and hat each signature to said
paper appended is the genuine signature
of the person whose name purports to be
thereto subscribed. Any person who shall
make a false affidavit to any petition
provided shall be guilty of perjury.
The veto power of the. governor shall
not be exercised as TO the laws approved
or enacted by the electors. This
to deprive the general assembly of the
right to pass, or anymembert thereof, ofthe
right to propose any law or other meas
peal any law. The enacting clause of
every law shall be, BE 1t enacted by the
ipeople 8of the State of Missouri, as fol-
4 lows - ..s
All provisions of the constitution Of this
state and all laws thereof not Consistent
with this amendment, shall upon Its
adoption, be forever rescinded and of no
effect.
THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
! MENT.-Senate joint and concurrent res
olution submitting to the qualified voters
Of the state an amendment to article x
of the constitution of the State Of Mis-