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Arizona republican., 1912-09-24
CHAPTER V. Nominations of Officers and Primary EIections

Section l. (a) The mode of nom ination of elective officers of the city to be voted for at any municipal cleo ton shall be as follows, and not other wise:
 (b) The name of a candidate shall be printed upon the ballot when a petition of nomination shall have been filed in his behalf in the manner and form and under the conditions here matter set forth.
 Gel The petition of nomination shall consist of a printed or written statement or certificate, substantially in the following form, with the blanks properly filled in:
 PETITION FOR NOMINATION State of Arizona County of Maricopa-ss
 City of Phoenix.
 We the undersigned, do hereby cer- tify that We do hereby join in a peti ton for the nomination of whose residence is at No. ,..,.,... ,.,,..,.,,...,....
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(NW H) of said Section five (5) Ito it's intersection with a prolonga- ton of the West line of Simm's Addi- tion to the City of Phoenix. a plat of which is of record in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, in book of Maps, page 27; thence South on a straight line to the Northwest corner of said Simm's Addition; thence East along the North line of said Simms Addi ton to it's intersection with the West line of the Northeast Quarter (N.E Il of said Section five (5): thence North along the West line of the Northeast Quarter (NE A) of said Section five (5); to the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter (NE A) of said Section five (5); thence East along the North line of said Section five (5) to the North west corner of Section four (D; Township one CD North. Range three (3) East of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian; thence East along the North line of said Section four (4 to the Northeast corner of the Northwest Quarter (NW A) of said Section four (4; thence South along the East line of the West half (W 1s) of said Section four (4) to the North west corner of the Northeast Quar- ter (NE A) of Section nine (O, Township one CD North, Range three (3) East of tn Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian; thence East along the North line of said Section nine (9) to the point of beginning, all situate. lying and being within the County of Maricopa. State of Ari- zona.
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For the ordinance
Against the ordinance

If a majority of the qualified elec- tors vote in favor thereof such ordi- nance shall become a valid and bind ing ordinance of the city and take effect on the day following the day on, which the result of such election shall have been legally declared.
 Section '. Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
 Section s. There shall not be held under this chapter more than one special election in any period of six months.
 Section g. The commission may submit a proposition for the repeal or any such ordinance, or for amend ments thereto, to be voted upon at any succeeding general municipal election, and should such proposition, so submitted. receive @ majority or the vote cast thereon at such cleo ton. such ordinance shall be repealed or amended accordingly; an ordinance proposed by petition and adopted by a vote of the people cannot be re- pealed or amended except by vote of the people.
 Section 1O The commission may bv ordinance make such further regu- la tions as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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and the submission of proposed or

and the submission of proposed or dinance.
 Section 4. If the petition accom- panying the proposed ordinance be signed by electors equal in number to fifteen per cent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor or com missioner at the last preceding gen eral municipal election at which the mayor or commissioner was elected, and contain a request that said or dinance be submitted forthwith to the vote of the people at the special cleo ton, then the commission shall either: (a) Pass said ordinance without alteration within twenty days after the attachment of the city clerks cer- tificate to the sufficiency of the ac- companying petition Subject to a ref erendary vote, under the provisions of Chapter TX of this Charter). or (b) Within twenty-five days after the city clerk shall have attached to the petition accompanying such ordl-
 nance his certificate of sufficiency. the commission shall proceed to call special election at which said or dinance without alteration shall be submitted to the vote of the people. Section 5 Whenever any ordi- nance or proposition is required by this Charter to be submitted to the voters of the city at any election, either (a) the commission shall cause the ordinance or proposition to be printed. and it shall be the duty of the city clerk to enclose a printed copy thereof in an envelope with a sample ballot and mail the same to every registered voter, at least five days prior to the election, or (b) the com mission may order such ordinance or proposition to be printed in the or ficial newspaper of the city and pub lished in like manner as ordinances adopted by the commission are re- ouired to be published. and may order that such publication shall take the place of the printing and mailing or the ordinance or proposition and of 1 the sample ballots as first above pro- vided.
 Section G. The ballots used in vol ing upon such proposed ordinance
 shall contain a complete copy Of
 such proposed ordinance and shall further have below such copy the
 following:
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CHAPTER TX. The Referendum

Section l. No ordinance passed by the commission shall go into effect before ten days from the time of It's final passage except when otherwise required by the general laws Of the state, or by the provisions Of tnis chapter respecting street improve ments and except the ordinance max ing the annual tax levy, and excepting an ordinance for the immediate pres ervation of the public peace, health or safety which contains a statement of it's urgency; provided, that no grant of any franchise shall be construed to be an urgency measure. II durlhS said ten days petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal HI number to at least fifteen per cent or the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor or commissioner at the last preceding general municipal election | at which a mayor or commlssioher l was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance, be pre- | scented to the commission, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation; and it shall pc | the duty of the commission to recon slider such ordinance and if the same | be not entirely repealed, the com
 mission shall submit the ordinance, as i is provided in Chapter X. or thls 1 Charter. to the vote of the electors
 of the city, either at the next general election or at a special election to De called for that purpose; and such or tdinance shall not go into effect or De- come operative unless majority or | the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. Ihe lproyisions of Chapter x. of this Char
 ter respecting the form, the filing. lcertification, rejection and action on recall petitions shall apply to petl- lions of the kind referred to in tnis chapter. with such modifications as tthe nature of the case may require. | Section ? Any ordinance or mea-
 sure that the commission or the quail | fled electors of the city shall have the authority to enact, the commits
 sion may of it's own motion submit to the electors for adoption or re- 1 lection at general or special mum icipal election, in the same manner and with the same force and effect as is provided in this chapter for | ordinances or measures submitted on | petition At any special election called under the provisions of this
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spective offices at such first election, shall be the only candidates at said second election; provided, that if there be any person, who under the provisions of this subdivision would have been entitled to become a candi- date for any office, except for the fact that some other candidate re- ceived an equal number of votes therefor, then all such persons re- ceiving said equal number of votes shall likewise become candidates for such office.
 Section r, The candidates equal in number to the persons to be elect ed who shall receive the highest num- Der of votes at said second election shall be declared elected to such of flee.
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CHAPTER VI Special Elections

Section l. All special elections herein provided for shall be conducted in the same manner and under the same provisions .as are provided for the holding of general elections, in cluding the qualifications of electors and the nomination of candidates.
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in the City of Phoenix, Arizona, for the office of be voted for at the municipal election to be held in the City of Phoenix on the ................ day of .,......... l9...., and We each do hereby fur ther certify, for ourselves individually, and not one for the other, that I am a qualified elector and am not at this time a signer of any other petition nominating any other candidate for the above named office; or, in case there are several places to be filled in the above named office, that I have not signed more petitions than there are places to be filled in the above named office; that my residence is as set opposite my name hereinbelow. and that my occupation is as set op- pOSite my name hereinbeloW
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Notary Public, MaricOpa
 County, Arizona. My oOnniSS pXnireS

My commission expires. .........., 19....
 (d) It shall be the duty of the city clerk to furnish upon application a reasonable number of forms of said petition
 (e) The signatures of such peti- tioners for such nominees need not be on one petition, but more than one petition may be filed for any nominee or candidate. Each of said petitions shall also have printed thereon, at the end thereof. the following:
 "The petition of nomination of which this certificate forms a part shall, if found insufficient, be returned to ...............'..' ..'...'..'''.' at No. ......-............ PhoenlX' Arizona"
 (f) Each of such petitions must be of uniform size as determined by the city clerk: it shall contain the name of one candidate and no more; and each signer thereto shall possess the qualification and must not at the time of having signed his name thereto, have signed any other cer- tificate or petitions for any other candidate for the same office, nor in case there are several places to be filled in the same office, signed more petitions for candidates for that office than there are places to be filled in such office.
 Section 2. The petition or peti- tions for nomination. consisting of signatures aggregating not less than five per cent of the number of votes cast for mayor or commissioner at the last preceding municipal election at which a mayor or commissioner was elected, may be presented to the city clerk not earlier than sixty days, nor later than twenty days before the date set for election. The city clerk shall endorse on such petition or peti- tions the date when the same was
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TWENTY THIRD YEAR
PROPOSED NEW CHARTER FOR
 THE CITY OF PHOENIX, TO BE
 VOTED UPON ON A DATE TO
 BE SET BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
DREAM BILE

We, the people of the city of Phoe- nix, in the County of Maricopa. State of Arizona, under the authority of the Constitution Of the state of Arizona, and having population of over three thousand five hundred inhabitants. do ordain and establish this Charter for the City of Phoenix
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CHAPTER W. Elective Officers


 Section l. The elective officers Of the City of Phoenix shall be mayor and two commissioners and at least one city magistrate, each of whom shall be elected at large by the quail fled electors of the city.
 Section 2 The term of all elective officers, except as otherwise provided herein. shall commence at 10 O'CLOCK a. m. on the first secular day of May following their election, and except as otherwise provided herein shall be for two years and until their suc- cessors are elected and qualified Provided, however, that of the two commissioners first elected under thls Charter, the term of the one cecel"- ing the highest number of votes shall expire on the first secular day of May, 1915, and the term of the other commissioner and the city magistrate shall expire on the first secular day of May, 1914; and
 Provided further. that the term of the elective officers first elected under this charter shall coEimence at 12 o'clock noon on the third Tuesday following the first general municipal election after the adoption of this charter and except as otherwise pro- vided shall end at 10 o'clock a. n1' tlc 1 first secular day of May, 1915. Section 3. The mayor and each of the commissioners and the city magistrate hereinabove provided for l shall each be an elector of the City of Phoenix and a resident and tax payer therein for at least three years prior to the date of his nomination.
 for office; the city magistrate shall ! be elected from the taxpayers, and shall be a resident of the said city l for at least three years, shall have been duly admitted to practice law | in the Territory of Arizona or Stafe of Arizona for at least three years prior to his nomination as such City Magistrate.
 l Section A. If a vacancy shall occur 1 in the office of mayor or commission
 CT, the remaining members of the
 commission shall appoint an eligible | person to fill such vacancy. va
 cancy shall exist, except under the
 recall provisions of this charter, Whef
 an elective officer fails to auaiify within thirty days after commence ment of his term, dies, resigns, re-
 moves from the city, absents hnseli
 continuously without reasonable eS- cuse for twenty-one days from the duties of his office, is convicted foi
 violating any provision of this char
 ter, or of felony, or is judiciallS declared lunatic as defined bS statute If at any municipal e.eo- ton held under the provisions Of this
 charter mayor or the required mum.
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Initiative

Section l. Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the commission by a petition signed by fifteen per cent of the qualified electors of the city. computed on the vote for the candidates for mayor or commissioners last elected.
 Section 2 Any proposed ordinance. desired to be submitted to the com mission, shall be presented upon $ petition substantially in the following form:
 Phoenix. Arizona, ..... To the Commission of the City of
 Phoenix:
 We. the undersigned, residents of the City of Phoenix Arizona. and duly qualified electors therein, do hereby submit and propose to you. for adoption by you; the following or dinance and request that action be taken by you relative to the adoption or rejection of such proposed ords- nance, at the earliest possible mo- ment, and that the same be forth with submitted to a vote of the peo- pie, to-wit;
 (here insert proposed ordinance in
 fulO
 Name of Signer Address - = . State of Arizona.
 County of Maricopa: sS ........'.... ...-'..-'.-. pelnS first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that he is a resident and a duly qualified elector of the City of Phoe nix, Arizona; that the signatures appearing hereinabove are the genuine signatures of the per sons whose names they bear and that each and all of them are residents and duly qualified cleo tors of the City of Phoenix. that the names of the persons procuring the said petition and who should be no- tified of all proceedings and action taken in reference to such petition are (here insert the names of three persons and their addresses).
  | Subscribed and sworn to before me 1 this ...... day of ..-........., 19. ...  Notary Public, Maricopa County Arizona.
 l My commission expires ........ l 19.. ......
 Section 3. The provisions of Chap ter K of this Charter, in so far as l they relate to the method of filling with, examination and certification by l the City Clerk. reference of petition l to the commission and notification oi presenters of said petition. by the l city clerk, as therein set out relative to petitions for the recall of officers shall apply to petitions for initiative
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CHAPTER LII. Form Of Government

Section 1. The City of PhoenlX shall hereafter be governed by com- mission, consisting of a mayor and two commissioners, who shall have the qualifications hereinafter pre- scribed and who shall be elected as hereinafter provided. There shall also be elected as hereinafter provided, at least one city magistrate. who shall have the qualifications and shall pos sess the powers, rights, duties and jurisdiction as hereinafter prescribed.
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State of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa-ss.

DelnS by me first duly sworn on oath, says, that he is a qualified elector in the City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona; that to the best of his knowledge and belief all the signers to the above mentioned paper are electors in the said City of Phoenix. Arizona; that he knows that they signed the same with knowledge of the contents thereof; that their re- spective residences are correctly sta ted therein; that each signed the same on the date set opposite his name and that affiant intends to support the candidate therein named
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of ..................,
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-04

INTERMOUNTAIN EMPLOYMENT
Agency, w 2nd South. Both phones
1889. Hotel and restaurant help. Estsb-
lished IL years. a22l3
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-04
HAM SENTENCED To
LONG PRISON TERM
Former President of United
States Banking Co. in Mex
leo Gets Twelve Years.

MEXICO CITY, April 3.-George l.
Ham. president of tho defunct United
States Banking company. was sen
teuced today TO twelve years impris-
onmept on three counts OF the indict
mont against him charging misappro-
priation OF the funds of the Institution.
Ham has been confined IN the federal
district prison since the failure of the
bank in January, 1910.
In addition. Ham was sentenced 10
paw fine Of 1000 pesos. The defense
appealed.
was alleged to have been wrecked
through draft-kiting operations with q
local packing concern involving many
million pesos. w. T.. Stavert, of Mon
treal. was appointed receiver. he re.
Gently authorized the payment OF
twenty-five per cent of all claims
against the bank.
The case has been one of great in
tcrcst throughout the republic because
of the MANY interests and individuals
caught in the crash and because OF
Ham e former popularity. Many small
depositors were ruined and many busl-
ness concerns crippled.
Immediately after the failure, Ham
suffered from nervous strain and was
for weeks under guard in "A local san
itarium. He has since recovered his
health.
Bail was denied under the Mexican
law pending adjustment OF the bank 5
affairs and Ham has been confined IN
Belem. Mexico's famous prison, where
he has been allowed special privileges.
The Judge announced in rendering
the decision that the finding might be
modified under the law on further con
sideration by him of arguments made
today by attorneys for both sides
Six dsys were allowed for such fur
ther consideration of the decision.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-04
GAS IN YOUR STOMACH.
BlOAT AND PRESSURE
AROUND YOUR HEART

Because BAALMANN' GAS TAB
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very often it nervousness or rather
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These peculiar tablets are sold for
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IL not IN stock. tell him 20 get them
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-04
FORMER GOVERNORS
TESTIFY FOR LEWIS


ST. LOUIS, April 3.-Formcr Cover
nors Folk and Stephens were witnesses
for the defense in The trial OF +. G.
Lewis. charged With fraudulent use Of
the mails in promoting his University
City enterprises. Mr. Folk testified that.
at Lewiss Invitation, he made speech
TO about 5000 persons attending con-
veatlon OF the American Woman 8
league. He said his address did not dif-
Ter in purpose or intent from many he
made before. during and after his term
as governor
Stephens said that he was = director
of the Peoples United States bank until
II was put out or business by fraud
order. and that he and the other direc-
tors Of the bank became directors of the
Lewis Publishing company.
lie testified that after the second
cilss mail privilege had been restored.
Lewis seemed TO believe his plans would
succeed. He said Lewis told him Gev-
eral times the enterprises were losing
money. but always was hopeful that they
would turn out right in the end.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-04
EDITOR OF MAGAZINE
PAYS WOMAN'S FINE

Ey international News Service
NEW YORK. April 3.-Mrs. Elizabeth
G. Seaman C"Nellie Bly,, one-time
globe trotteT and journalist, but now
head OF the Ironclad Manufacturing
company OF Brooklyn, waited in vain to-
day TO be arrested. She had refused to
paw fine OF $500 imposed upon i1er for
contempt of court in connection with her
involuntary bankruptcy proceedings. and
her commitment 10 jaii was ordered.
This afternoon she called up the clerk
Of the federal court 10 learn why she had
no. been arrested. She was Informed
that her fine had been paid by Marcus
Braun. the editor OF Fair Play, a ma ga
zine.
'T am deeply grateful to Mr. Braun"
said Mrs. Seaman, 'out 1 never should
have paid IT,"
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DIED.


2056 South Eighth
East street, April 3. 1912. Of bowel trout
BILE. John p, Boddidge, son OF John 5.
and Tho late Elizabeth Bowdidgo. in his
thirty eighth year. native Of England.
Funeral Friday mt 3 r. m, from the fam
lily residence. Friends ar. Invited TO at
tend. Joseph William Tayor has charge
oI tho remains. Interment In city GENE
terry.
BERGELIN-In this citv April .. 1912.
at 2.io n m. Mrs Maria Christine
Bergelin, MT tho home OF her daughter.
Mrs. Selma Bunenbcrger, SjI Roberta
street. OF general debility. She was born
ia Sweden eiGhty-ouc years ago and was
the widow OF the late Olof Bergclin. Fu
neral Friday. April 5. NJ p. III. from
the Third ward chapel. Iutcrment In city
cemetery,
HANFORD--in this city, April . 1872
OF pneumonia, Mrs. Ellen Short Han
ford aged Is years. widow OF the late
James Hanford. Funeral notice later.
BOWDTDGE;-A Al @O55l South Eighth East
John b. Bowdjdse. In his 3Sth year.
Notice of funeral later.