Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-14
ACr NO. 3
PROPOSED by INITIATIVE PETl.
NION.


A Bill for an Act to Be Entitled Gan Act
to Reduce the Expenses of Publishing
Measures Submitted under the Authority
of Amendment No. 10 to the Constitn-
ton; 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 1t Enacted by the People of the State
of Arkansas:
Section l. That not later than the first
Monday of the third month before any
regular general election at which any pro-
posed law, part of an act or amendment
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
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.
See 3 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
in 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
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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. in one paper in each
county in the State. all general orders Of
the Commission.
Sec 4. Immediately after the adjourn
ment 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 Il description of all property upon
which the assessment was increased or
decreaael the name of the owner of such
properly. the amount which was returned
by the Assessor and the assessment there
on as fixed by the Board: also. Il 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. a 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
and the amount fixed by the County
Court
Sec. ). Immediately after the close of
each regular and special term Of the coun-
ty Court. the clerk thereof shall cause to
ne pHbiiSileu one tlIle, III oHc pdpcl pun
lished in such county. Il list of all claims
allowed against the county and the road
districts thereof, to whom allowed and for
what purpose. and the amount.
Sec. 6. All County Clerks who are not
on !: salary shall receive ten cents per
hundred words for the services required
under Sections 4 and ;.
Sec. I. The County commissioners OF
Accounts shall cause to be published one
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
mssioners Of special Improvement dis
tricts shall be published one time in one
newspaper published in the municipality
in which the district exists.
See 8. The fees allowed for the pub
| lcations provided for in this Act shall
not exceed one-half the legal rate provid
ed for by law for the publication of lega
| notices. except in cases of newspapers
! having sworn circulation of more thar
| five thousand. when full legal rates shall
be paid. All accounts for publication re-
quired by Section and of this Act
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 Commissions all accounts
| for publications required by Sections 4,
and shall be paid by the county II
which such publications are made, wheI
the same are approved by the Count!
Court. and the respective 'Levyint
Courts" 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