Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-11

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article fz0o ofMe constitution oTthe State
Of We5uda.
Approved February 3, 1911.
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly
concurring, That feet on nine be added
, to article two of the constitution of the
State of Nevada, to read as follows:
Section 8. Every public officer in the
State of Nevada is subject, as herein
provided, to recall from Office by the
qualified electors of the state, or of the
county, district, or municipality, from
which he was elected. For this pur-
pose not less than twenty-five per cent
(25%) of the qualified electors who vote
in the state or in the county, district,
or municipality electing said officer at
the proceeding election, for justice of
the supreme court, shall file their
petition in the manner herein provided,
demanding his recall by the people;
they shall set forth in said petition, in
not exceeding two hundred (2O0) words,
the reasons why said recall is demanded.
If he shall offer his resignation it shall
be accepted and take effect on the day
it is offered. and the vacancies thereby
caused shall be filed in the manner
provided by law. If he shall not re-
sign within five (5) days after the
petition is fled, special election shall
be ordered To be held within twenty
days (20) after the issuance of the Gals
therefor, in the stnte or county. dist.
riot. or municipality rlecring said
officer. TO determine whether the
people will recall said officer On the
ballot at said election shall be printed
verbatim as set forth in the recall
petition, the reasons for demanding the
recall of said officer, and in not more
than two hundred (200) words, the off
GERS Justification of his course in office.
He shall continue to perform the duties
of his Office until the result of said elec-
tion shall be finally declared. Other
candidates for the Office may be nomi-
mated to be voted for at said special
election. The candidate who shall re-
ceive the highest number of votes at
said special election shall be deemed
elected for the remainder of the term,
whether it be the person against whom
the recall petition was filed, or another.
The recall petition shall be filed with
the officer with whom the petition for
nomination to the Office shall be filed,
and the same officer shall order the spe-
cial election when It is required No
such petition shall be circulated or filed
against any officer until he has actually
held his Office six t6) months, save and
except that it may be filed against a
senator or assemblyman in the legisla-
ture at any time after ten 10y days from
the beginning Of the first session after
his election. After one such petition
and special election, no further recall
petition shall be filed against the same
officer during the term for which he
was elected, unless such further petit
tioners shall pay into the public treas
ury from which the expenses OF said
special election have been paid, the
whole amount paid out of said public
treasury as expenses for the preceding
special election. Such additional legis-
lation rs may MD the operation OF this
section shall be provided by law
No. 1t-.Senake Concurrent and Ioint
Resolution No. /, rtiakire to amcNding
section three Of article eicVen Of tic con-
Sfitution ofkhc State Of WeVadd.
Approved February Ia, 1911
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly
concurring, That section three of article
eleven Of the constitution of the State
of Nevada be amended to read rs fol.
lows:
Section 3. All lands, including the
sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, in
any township donated for the benefit
of public schools in the act of the thirty.
eighth Congress, to enable the people Of
Nevada Territory to form state gov
ernment, the thirty thousand acres of
public lands granted by an act Of Con.