The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-07


| ratification, petitioning that such law.
| secI,on' or item thereof be submitted
! 20 the electors of the State for their
approval or rejection of such law,
| secllon, or Item, in the manner as is
ny law PROVIDED, at the next succeed
Ins regular Or general State election
| occurring more than ninety days af-
LOT the ming OF such petition, and If
sucn petltlon Is so filed, then no such
law, sectlons, or item shall 60 into
enect Until and unless approved by
majority OF those voting upon the
question. II, however, a referendum
petltlon Is filed against any item or
section Of such law, the remainder
thereof shall not thereby be prevent
ed or delayed from going into effect:
provided, however, that laws making
| provisions for tax Ievies, appropria-
tons for current expenses for the
State Government and state institu-
tions, and emergency laws necessary
for the immediate preservation of the
| public peace, health, or safety, shall
go into effect Immediately, and such
laws shall not be subject to the ref
| erendum.
| 1. The powers of the initiative and
referendum are hereby conferred on
the people of each municipality on all
questions, in the manner In which is
now or which may hereafter be pre-
scribed by the act of the General AS
sembly, subject to such constitutional
limitations upon the people of the
imposed upon the power of the gen
the municipalities as are or may be
imposed upon the power of the Gen.
eral Assembly to- legislate, and not in.
Guiding, however, the requirements
as to form and procedures: Provided,
that laws prohibiting the sale = and
manufacture OF spirituous, vinuous,
malt or intoxicating liquors shall not
be repealed or amended by the Gen
eral Assembly by vote of the people,
so as to allow such liquors to be
manufactured or sold in manner
now prohibited by law, unless such
change be approved by a majority of
the electors of the State who may
vote thereon at a State election. Sup
Elementary or referendum petitions
may be presented in separate parts,
but each part shall contain full and
correct copy of the title, text of the
law, section, or item sought to be
referred, Each signer of any initia-
tive or supplementary or referendum
petition must be an elector Of the
State.
j. No law submitted to electors by
the initiative and supplementary Pc
tition, which shall have received an
affirmative majority of the votes cast
thereon, shall be held to be invalid
or void on account of the insuffciency
or failure to comply with the law,
Of the petition by which such SUBJ
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nor shall the rejection of any law
submitted to the people by referen-
dunn petitions be held invalid for such
reasons.
k. The style of every law submitted
to the people by initiative and sup
Elementary petition shall be, BE it
enacted by the people of the State of
North Carolina"
1. The basis upon which the requir-
ed number Of petitions in cases under
the initiative and referendum shall be
determined shall be the total number
of votes cast for candidates for Gov
ernor at the last preceding election.
The provisions Of this amendment
shall be self-executing except as here
in otherwise provided.
m. 1t is the duty of the General
Assembly at its next regular, session,
and as it may seem necessary to the
General Assembly from time to time
thereafter to provide machinery for
the verifcation of signatures to initia-
tive, supplementary, and referendum
petitions, and the General Assembly
shall make provision for initiative
and referendum elections held at gen.
eral elections as above provided, and
for informing the people with respect
to the issues in such elections, and
for the purpose Of ascertaining and
declaring the result thereof.
n. Laws shall be passed by the
General Assembly to facilitate the op-
Grafton of the initiative and referen.
dunn as defined and contemplated by
this amendment, but it shall not re.
strict the power herein taken by the
people.
Nv. BY striking out section twenty.
,, eight of article two, and substituting
in lieu thereof the following:
Sec %. The members of the Gen
eral Assembly for the term for which
they shall have been elected. shall
receive as compensation for their SER
vices the sum of six hundred dol
lars ($6OO). They shall also be en-
titled to receive ten cents (10c) per
mile both, while coming to the seat
of the government and while returning
home, the said distance to be com
puted by the nearest line Or route
of public travel. Should an extra
session of the General Assembly be
called the members and presiding
officers shall receive a like rate OF
mileage, both while coming to the
seat of government and while re-
turning home, the said distance to be
computed as aforesaid.
V. BY adding at the end OF article
two a new section, to-wit:
Sec. 20. The General ASSENT bly,
shall not pass any local, private. or
special act or resolution:
Relating to health, sanitation, and
abatement of nuisances:
Changing the names OF cities,
| towns and Townships;