The Monticellonian., 1916-08-24

ments or other measures which may oe proposed and submitted to the people by either Initiative or Referendum pet- tfons as provided in this section. nor shall this section be construed to con fict in any particular with Article l9. Section 22, of the Constitution provid- ing for the submission of constitutional amendments by the Legislative Assem- bly, and their adoption by the people.
 This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the Legislative Assembly of the right to introduce any measure. but no measure shall be sap- mitted to the people by the Legisla 'yva Assembly except a proposed constItu- tional amendment, or amendment as pro vided for in Article 19, Section 22 of the Constitution.
 Any measure submitted to the people by petition as herein provided shall tane effect and became law when approved by a majority of the votes cast there on and not otherwise. and shall not be required to receive a majority or the votes east for candidates in such cleo tion. Such measure shall be operative on and after the thirtieth day after the election at which 1t is approved.
 The veto power of the Governor or tho Mayor shall not extend to measures in itiated by or referred to the people.
 If conflicting measures referred to the people shall be approved by majority of the votes severally cast for and against the same, the one receiving tho higher number of affirmative votes shall thereby become a law.
 No measure approved by a vote of the people shall be amended or repealed by the General Assembly or any City Council except by a yea or nay vote upon roll call of three-fourths of all the mem hers elected, nor shall any such meas ure be set aside. in whole or in part, as unconstitutional except by unanimous decision of all the members of the Su- preme Court of the State.
 Legal voters only shall be counted upon petitions Petitions may be circu- To tod each part of any petition shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person cir culating the same. that all the sigma lures thereon were made In the pres enee of the affiant and that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief each signature is genuine, and that the other affidavit or verification shall be re 0uired to establish the genuineness of such signatures
 The suhiciency of all Statewide peti- tons shall be decided in the first in- stance by the Secretary of the State. and of municipal and local petitions by the City or Coursy Clerk, subject to re- view by the Supreme Court of the State which shall have exclusive and original jurisdiction over all such cases
 If the sutficiency of any petition is challeneed the question shall be tried at once without reference to term, time or vacation. and adiudicated without de- lay; but the failure of the courts to decide prior to the election, as to the SutHCtenCN of such petition, SHdtt not prevent the question from being placed upon the ballot at the election named in such petition. nor initiate against the validity of the measure if 1t shall have been approved by vote of the peo- pie. If the Secretary of State, County Clerk or City Clerk, shall decide any pe- tfon to be insufficient he shall. without delay. notify the sponsors of the peti- ton and permit at least thirty days from the date of such notification for correction or amendment. In the event of legal proceedings to prevent gl%lnS legal effect to any petition upnn any grounds the burden of proof shall be- upon the person or persons attackins5 the validity of the petition.
 No law shall be passed recurring distribution of signatures upon peti- tious in each of the counties or other political divisions of the State. nor to prohibit any person or persons from giN- ing or receiving compensation for cir culating petitions, nor to prohibit the circulation of petitions. nor in any way to interfere with the freedom Of the Peo- ple in securing petitions but laws may be enacted prohibiting and penalizinS any fraudulent practice, such as per jury, forgery. or any other mlsaeneanor in the securing or fling of petitions.
 All measures submitted to vote or the people by petitions under the pro- visions of this section shall be publish ed as is now or may hereafter be pro VIded by law.
 The style of all bills. initiated by the people and submitted under the provis- ions of this section. shall be- Be it enacted by the people of the State Of Arkansas tmuHtetPattty or county as the case may be4. In submitting meas ures to the people. the Secretary of State and all other officials shall be guided by the general laws until ad- ditfona1 legislation shall be provided
 The result of the vote upon any State measure shall be declared by the State Board of Election COmmi sstoncrs Ina cFff t6pTqfpr1 and suit of a vote for any city or town meas ure shall be declared by the City Gen. tral Committee or Town Council Cor any substitute therefor).
 This amendment shall be self-exe- cutting, but the Legislative Assembly may enact laws to facilitate it's oper- ation, and no legislation shall be en- acted to restrict. hamper or impair the exercise of the rights herein reserved to the people.
 All the provisions of this amendment st all be treated as mandatory
 That this amendment to the Gonstt- tution Of the State be. and the same shall be in substitution of the fnitia- tive and Referendum Amendment, ap- proved February 19. 1909, as the same appears in the Acts of Arkansas for 1909. on pages 1239 and 12f0 of the volume containing the same; and that the said amendment tand the act of the General Assembly to carry out the same, approved June 30, 1911, so far as the same is in conflict herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.
 The above proposed Amendment was filed in the office of the Secretary of State on January 23, 1915
 Each elector may vote For or Against the above proposed Amendment
 Witness my official signature this 25th day of July. f9l6
 EARLE W. HODGES,
 ESea9 Secretary of state. ------1-----~~o-@~--9