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! The first power reserved BY the PEG
pie is the initiative, and not more than
eight per cent of the legal voters shall
be- required to propose any measure
by initiative petition, and every such
petition shall include the full text Of
the measure so proposed, but the same
constitutional amendment shall not
be proposed oftener than once in ten
years. Initiative petitions shall be filed
with the secretary of state not less
than thirty days before any regular
session of the legislative assembly.
He shall transmit the same to the leg
islative assembly, as soon as it. con-
venes. Such initiative measures shall
take precedence over all other meas
ures in the legislative assembly except
appropriation bills, and shall either
be enacted or rejected without change
or amendment by the legislative as
sembly within forty days. If such in
itiative measure shall be enacted by
the legislative assembly it shall be
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may be referred by the legislative as
sembly to the people for approval or
rejection. If it is rejected or no &C
ton is taken upon it by the Legislative
assembly within the said forty days,
the secretary of state shall submit it to
the people for approval or rejection at
the next ensuing regular general cleo
ton. The legislative assembly may
reject any measure so proposed by in
ttiative petition and propose a differ
ent one to accomplish the same pur-
pose and in any such event both
measures shall be submitted by the
secretary of state to the people for
approval or rejection at the next ensu-
ing regular election. If con-
1llcting measures submitted to the peo-
pie at the next ensuing election shall
be approved by majority of the votes
severally cast for and against the
same, the one receiving thte highest
number of affirmative votes shall
thereby become valid and the other
shall thereby be rejected.
The second power is the referendum,
and it may be ordered Except as to
laws necessary for the Immediate
preservation of the public peace,
health or safety as to any measure or
any parts, items or sections of any
measure passed by the legislative as
sembly, either by a-petition signed by
five per cent of the legal voters or by
the legislative assembly if a majority
of the members-elect vote therefor
When 1t is necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public peace,
health or safety that law shall be-
come effective without delay, such
necessity and the facts creating the
same shall be stated in one section of
the bill, and If upon aye and nay vote
in each house two-thirds of all the
| members elected to each house shall
vote on separate roll call in favor
of the said law going into instant op-
Grafton for, the immediate preservation
of the public peace, health or safety,
such law shall become operative upon
approval by the governor.
The filing of referendum petitions
against one or more items, sections or
parts of an act shall not delay the
remainder of that act from. becom-
ing operative. Referendum petitions
against measures passed by the legis-
lative assembly shall be filed with the
! secretary Of state not more than nine.
ty days after the final adjournment of
the session Of the legislative assembly
! which passed the measure On which
the referendum is demanded. !. The
veto power of the governor shall not
extend to measures referred to the peo-
pie. All elections on measures refer
| red to the people of the state shall be
had at biennial regular general cleo
tons, except as provision may be made
by law for a special election or cleo.
tons. Any constitutional amend.
ment or other measure referred to the
people shall take effect when it is ap.
proved by a majority of the votes cast
thereon and not otherwise, and shall
| be in force from the date of the official
! declaration of the vote. The enactine