Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-02
esidence as will identify the person


with the name upon the registration
books, and if the answers to such ques-
tons correspond with the INFORMATION
upon the registration books, shall as
certain whether the registration books
show that the registered voter has pre-
viously signed such petition, and if it
j signed, the officer shall permit such
/ person to sign such petition with pen
/ and ink. In either case the officer shall
compare the signature on the petition
with the signature ON the registration
books, and if such signature shall APP
pear to the officer to have been writ
enter upon the petition opposite the sig
nature the residence address, the pre-
cinct name ;e or number I'll the ward
Of Of the city Cor town. Of such voter
s. seoks: sn and shall write the ih5sials q
surname with pen and ink, on the petit
ton opposite and at the left of the sig
nature and shall write on the registra-
marks" the words Recall of (name of
officer charged)' If the signature up
on the petition appears to the officer to
than that on the Registration books;
the officer shall refuse to initial and
certify the signature. Whenever the
sbd II Of return petit Of
any petition deposited with any regis
tration officer, as hereinabove pro
yided and shall return 9Ia !, the receipt
| ink perpendicular line to be drawn
through the blank spaces for sigma.
lures on. any such petition and shall
| fill out the certificate and certify the
| number of initiated signatures on each
sheet of such petition and date and
sign such certificate.
SEC. 5. That section 494o-s, Rem: &
Bal Code be amended to read as fol-
| lows:
| Section 4940-S. When person, COM
mittee or organization demanding the
! recall of any public officer shall have
signatures of a number of legal voters
equal to twenty five per cent of the
total number of votes cast for all can
didates for the office to which the of
| ficer whose recall is demanded was
elected at the preceding election, in
case such officer be a state officer an
member of a school board in a city of
the first class, or a county officer of
county of the first, second or third
of legal voters equal to thirty-five per
cent of the total number of votes cast
for all candidates for the office to
handed was elected at the preceding
election, if the officer whose recall is
demanded is an officer of any other
political subdivision, city, town, town
ship, precinct or school district than
those hereinbefore mentioned, or is
state senator. OF. Representative, he or
|
for filing in his office. At the time
of submitting such petition the person,
the same shall file with the officer to
whom such petition is submitted full,
true and detailed statement giving. the
persons, corporations and organizations
| who have contributed any monies to
aid in the preparation of the charge
and in the preparation and filing of
| with ~
tributed by each, and a full, true and
detailed statement of all expenditures,
pose for which expended and the names
and post office addresses of the per-
sons and corporations to whom paid,
which s h a be yer III ao by
member of the committee or organiza-
ton making the Charge and until at such
statement is filed the officer shall re-
SEC. 6. That section 1900 Rem. &
Bal Code be amended to read as fol-
flows:
| Section 4940-9. Upon the filing. of
such petition in his office, the officer
with whom the charge was filed shall
of filing, and shall notify the persons
filing the same and the officer whose
recall is demanded by said petition,
canvassed, which date shall be not
less than five nor more than ten days
! from date of filing, and shall, at the
Ftime set for said canvass, in the pres
| ence of at least one person represent
| ing the petition and in the presence
of the officer charged or someone rep
to, be present, detach the. sheets. con
! tanning the signatures and certificates
| from the copies of the charge and cause
them to be firmly attached to one or
more copies of the charge in such vol
umes as will be most convenient for
canvassing and filing, and shall pro-
coed to canvass the pHtitions and to
certified legal voters thereon. If at
the conclusion of the canvass and
fGunt it shall be feuma that such petit
signatures of certified legal voters, the
officer with whom the petition is filed
shall fix date not less than ten nor
clusion of the canvass for calling a
special election to determine whether
or not the officer charged shall be re-
called and discharged from his office,
and shall on said date call such Spe-
cial election, to be held not less than
thirty nor more thar 91 forty days from, from
for calling special elections in the
state or in the political . subdivision,
| that the petition does not contain the
requisite number of signatures of GER
tified legal voters, the OFFICER shall SO
and, at the expiration of thirty days
from the conclusion of the count, shall
unless prevented therefrom by the in
! junction or mandate of the courts, as
hereinafter provided, destroy the petit
lions.
| SEC. T. That section 4940-10 Rem. &
Bal Code be amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 494o-1o. The officer making
the canvass as hereinabove provided
shall keep a record of all names APP
peafing on said petition which are not
! cnt.fif ioI fO hn loo nf q
or of the political subdivision, as the
case may be, and shall report the same
to the prosecuting attorneys of the re-
spective counties where such names APP
pear to have been signed, to the end