The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-10-29
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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That Section /. of Article VII, of tbe
Constitution of the state of South D eae
kota be amended so as to read as follows.
Sectlon l. EVERY person resident of this
state VINO shall be of the age of twenty
one years and upwards, nor otherwise
~d.squalified. belonging to either of the fol-
1qwl4g classes, who shall have resided in
SIX months. in the county thirty DAYS. and
In the election precinct where such Der
son offers his vote. ten days next preced-
tor at such election. eee
FIRST. citizens of the United States.
second. Persons of foreign birth who
shall have declared their intention to be-
naturalization -
section s., No land shall be sold for
less tnan the appraised value and in no
case for less than ten dollars an acre
The purchaser shall pay one-fourth Of
the purchase price in cash n the re-
naming three-fourths as follows: One
fourth in five years, one-fourth in ten
years, one-fourth in fifteen years. with
interest thereon at the rate of not less
man I'VE per cent per annum. payable
may be sold for cash; provided further
that the purchaser or purchasers shall
nave the right and option of paying the
pa!ance OF the purchase price, or any in
stallment thereof at any time. All saias
snail be at public auction to the highest
bidder, after sixty days advertisement of
lne same IN at least two Of
general circulation in the vicinity of the
lands to be sold, and one at the seat Of
government. Such lands as shall not
nave been specially subdivided shall be
acres, and these subdivided in the small
est subdivision of lands designated for
sale and not sold within two years after
the their ba aPpfa, es shall be re-appraised by
PROVIDED before they are sold.
No. 3.
Sectlon .. In each organized county at
admission of the State of South Dakota
into the Union, and every two vears
thereafter. there shall be elected a clerk
81 the court sheriff. county auditor, reg
surveyor, coroner and superintendent Of
schools. whose terms of office respective
~ snail be w years, and except the
clerk of the court and superintendent Of
schools, no person shall be eligible for
more thar four years In succession to any
of the above named offices.
No. q.
be vested in a legislature, which shall
consist of a senate and house of renra.
sentatives. Except that the people ex-
propose measures, which measures tba
legislature shall enact and submit RI q
vote OF the electors of the state, and also
the right to require that any laws whicb
the legislature may have enacted sham
be submitted to a vote of the electors Of
the state before going into effect (except
such laws as may be necessary for tie
immediate preservation of the pubiic
peace, health or safety, support Of the
state government and Its existing public
tnstitut.onS). poe
Provided. that not more than five
centum of the qualified electors Of M
state snail be required to invoke etthar
the e,i initiatiye or the referendum.
to deprive the legislature or any n,e1,haS
thereof OF the right to propose any meas.
ure. The veto power OF the executive shall
NOT De exercised as to measures referred
20 vote OF the people. This seefinn
snal apply to municipalities; except IN the
case OF municipalities the lesisiattrs
snail by low fix the percentage Of the