Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-09
ACT NO. 2 BY INITIATIVE PETI MON.
PUBLICITY ACT.

A Bill for an Act to Be Entitled '.An Act
 to Reduce the Expenses of Publishing
 Measures Submitted under the Authority
 of Amendment No. 10 to the Constitu-
 tion Providing for the Publication of all
 General Acts of the General Assembly;
 for Giving Publicity to the Orders of
 Certain Boards and the Expenditures of
 Public Money. and for Other Purposes:'
 FOR ACT No. 3.
 AGAINST ACT NO. 3.
 Be It Enacted by the People of the State
 of Arkansas:
 Section 1. That not later than the first Monday of the third month before any regular general election at which any pro to the Constitution or measure referred is to be submitted to the people, the Secre- tary of State shall cause to he published in one newspaper in each county, for twenty days. true copy of the title and text of each measure to be submitted, with the number and. form in which the ballot title thereof will be printed on the official ballot:
 Sec. ?. After ninety days from the final adjournment of each session of the General Assembly the Secretary of State shall cause to be published in one paper fin each county of the State synopsis of all general laws enacted by such General Assembly, except those upon which the referendum has been invoked. Such synop- sis is to be prepared by the Attorney General Such publication shall be for ten days. the first not later man one hun dred days from the final adjournment of the General Assembly.
 Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Arkansas Railroad Commission shall cause to be published one time. ill one paper ill each county in the State, all general orders of the Commission.
 Sec. 4. Immediately after the adjourn mcnt of the County Board of Equalization each year the County Clerk shall cause to be published one time in one news paper published in such county sum- mary of the proceedings of the Board. giving description of all property upon which the assessment was increased or decreased. the name of the owner of snch property. the amount which was returned by the Assessor and the assessment there on as fixed by the Board: also. a list of all property placed upon the tax books by the Board. And immediately after the adjournment of the October term of the County Court each year. the clerk there of shall cause to be published one time, in one newspaper published in such coun- ty. q summary of the orders of the County | Court in all cases where the court changes the assessments as fixed by the Board of Equalization. giving the name | of the owner of the property. the amount of assessment as fixed by the Board I and the amount as fixed by the County l Court.
 See. ,. Immediately after the close ot each regular and special term of the Coun l ty Court. the clerk thereof shall cause tC | be published one time, in one paper pub lished in such county, list of all claims allowed against the county and the roaG districts thereof. to whom allowed and fol what purpose and the amount.
 Sec 6. All County Clerks who are moi on salary shall receive ten cents per hundred words for the services required under Sections and ,.
 l Sec. [. The County "Commissoners ot Accounts" shall cause to be published ono time. in one paper in the county, copy of the report which they are required tc make to the Circuit Court
 Sec. 8. All annual reports of the com l missoners of special improvement dis tricts shall be published one time in one newspaper published in the municipality in which the district exists.
 ] Sec 3. The fees allowed for the pub lications provided for in this Act shal not exceed onehalf the legal rate provid ed for by law for the publication of lega notices, except in cases of newspapers I having sworn circulation of more than five thousand, when full legal rates shall 1 be paid. All accounts for publication re. | quired by Section l and 2 of this Act l when approved by the Governor, Auditor and Secretary of State. cons, .tuting the State. Printing Board, shall be paid by | the State, all accounts under Section !: shall be paid by the State when approved by the Railroad Commission: all accounts for publications required by Sections 4, 2 ] and ' shall be paid by the county in which such publications, are made. when the same are approved by fthe County Court. and the respective "I4evyine tourts' are hereby authorized to. make appropriations for that purpose: all ac counts for publications under Section $ shall be paid by the improvement districts making the publications. when the same have been approved by the commissioners