Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-01
FOR AMENDMENT NO. IA. AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. 14.

Be it Eenacted by the People Of the l State of Arkansas:
 1 Every elective public officer in the
 State of Arkansas may be removed from office by the electors entitled to vote | for a successor of such incumbent. through the procedure and in the man i ner herein provided for. which proceed | ure shall be known as the recall and is I in addition to any other method of re- moval provided by law.
 a. To effect the removal of an cleo 1 tive state officer. petition signed by | the electors entitled to vote for a sue cessor to the incumbent sought to be centdm of the entire vote cast at the | preceding election for all candidates for the office which the encumbent sought | to be removed occupies. demanding the named in said petition. shall be address 1 ed to the state board of election com missioners. provided said petition shall be circulated in not less than five coun- l ties in the state and shall be signed in 1 each of such counties by electors equal 1 in number to not less than one per cen. tum of the entire vote cast in each of said counties at said election as above l estimated. Such petition shall contain a general statement of the grounds upon | which the removal is sought. which
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 ciency of which shall not be open to re- view.
 b. When such petition shall be filed
 
 they shall submit the same. together
 with statement of it's sufficiency. to | the governor. who shall immediately
 order and fix date for the holding of | less than sixty days and not more than eighty days from the date of filing the petitions and certificate with the gov ernor. If. by the prayer of the peti. | tioners it is the governor whose removal l is sought. the petition and certificate
 before mentioned shall be filed with the auditor of state who shall proceed in the form and manner as prescribed for | the governor
 | c. In the event the officer sought to be removed is the governor. secretary Of state. or. attorney general, officials now comprising the state board of election commissioners. either official sought to be removed shall be disqualified as a member of said state board of election commissioners for the purposes herein provided and such vacancy or vacancies on said state board of election commits
 sioners shall be filled by other state of l fcials in the order named following: l. The auditor Of state
 ?. The state treasurer.
 5. The commissioner of mines. man. ufacturers and agriculture.
 4. The superintendent of public i'm struction.
 5. The justices of the supreme court
 in the order of their seniority as such l to he made publication Of notice for the holding of such election. and the cleo l tion commissioners of the various cOun- 1 ties of the state shall make arrange ments for such election. and the same shall be conducted. returned and the re- suits thereof declared, in all respects as ballot in such election shall be printed l in not more than two hundred worda | the reasons set forth in the petition de- manding the recall of the official And | in not more than three hundred words | there shall also be printed If desired by him. the officers Justification of his | course in office. Z s<3ssss ] county. townshfp, city F6r town o}91cial l or of any road pvef06tt IT 6ehpbl Fl.
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