Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-26


SEC 4. That section 4971-7 of Rem
& Bal. Code be amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 4s71-7. Petitions ordering
that bills or parts of bills passed by the
legislature be referred to the people at
the next ensuing general election, or
special election ordered by the 1egisla-
ture to be filed with the secretary Of
state within ninety days after the final
adjournment of the session of the legis-
lature at which such bill was passed.
shall be substantially in the following
form:
WARMING
(Same form as in section %
PETITION FOR REF ERENDUM
To the Honorable.-..--.-.---.
secretary of state of the State of Wash
ington:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
State of Washington and duly regis
tered legal voters of the respective pre-
clnets set opposite our names, respect
fully order and direct that Referendum
No. entitled (here insert the
established ballot title of the measure)
being a Cor part or parts of a. bill
pf tbs Safe as the of
regular Especially session of said legis-
lature, shall be referred to the people
of the state. for their approval or re-
lection at the regular Especially cleo
ton to be held on the. day of.,
A. D. 49,; and each for himself says /
have personally signed this Petition 1
am duly registered legal voter of the
precinct, and city Cor town., written
after my name, and my residence is
correctly stated.
(Followed by the same form of
blanks and certificate as in section 81
SEC. s. That section 4971-s of Rem
& Bal. Code be and the same is hereby
repealed.
SEC g. That section 4971-9 of Rem
& Bal. Code be amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 49719. Each initiative or re-
ferendum petition shall at the times of
signing, certifying and filing with the
secretary of state, as hereinafter in this
act provided, consist of not more than
five sheets with numbered lines for not
more than twenty signatures on each
sheet, with the prescribed warning,
title and form of petition and certiti-
cate on each sheet, and a full, true and
correct copy of the proposed measure
paper of like size and quality as the
petition, firmly fastened together.
SEC. Z. That section 497110 of Rem
& Bal Code be amended to read as fol-
Section 4971-10. Upon the ballot title
of any initiative or referendum meas
ure being established as hereinabove
provided, and from time to time there
may deposit such number of blank pc
tlt1ons, in the proper form hereinabove
in this act prescribed, as they may
officer of any city, town or precinct
and take his receipt therefor, and it
shall be the duty of each registration
officer with whom blank petitions are
deposited to, at all times, display in a
conspicuous place or places in his office
and in each branch office under his
charge, signs or placards bearing the
words Initiative or Referendum petit
tions may be signed here" which words
shall be in letters of sufficient size to
be easily read, and it shall be the duty
of every registration officer, whenever
initiative rafaran61nn natitiOn
shall be filed in his office for signing,
to keep the office or offices under
nj his chars eharge open for for the purpose
so to do to sign the same on
each Friday and Saturday evening from
six o'clock until nine o'clock, and to
days Immediately following the ad-
}ournment Of any session of the legis-
lature, in the case of referendum petit
Immediately preceding the time they
must be filed with the secretary OF
state, in the case of initiative petitions
and it shall be the duty of each such
registration officer to- at all times
when his office is open for the registra-
ton of voters, permit any duly regis
tered voter whose registration appears
upon the books of such office, and who
has not heretofore signed the particu-
lar initiative or referendum petition
which yah IN ne desires to sign, to sign any
oQCIl OI DeL1U1On
deposited in his office, provided that
he shall not permit more than twenty
registered voters to sign on any one
sheet of such petition. and shall re-
sign upon the blank lines for that pur-
pose. Whenever any person shall APP
ply to the registration officer for per-
mission to sign any initiative or refer
endum petition, the registration officer
or his deputy. to whom the application
is made shall if such person has not
registered, require such person to reg
lister in the manner provided by law
before permitting him to sign initia-
tive referendum petition. If such per-
son states that he is a registered voter
concerning his place of birth, age, oc-
cupation and place of residence as will
IDENTIFY the person with the name upon
the registration book, and if the an
with the information upon the registra
ton book shall ascertain whether
the. registration book shows that the
f f
has not previously signed, the officer
snail permit, such person to sign such
petition with pen and ink. In either
case the officer shall carefully compare
the signature on the petitions with the
signature on the registration book,
and if such signature shall appear to
same hand the officer shall enter upon
the. petition opposite the signature the
residence address, the precinct name
or number, the ward number if any,
and the name of the city or town of
such voter as shown by the registra-
ton book, and shall write the initials
OF his given name or names and of his
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 letter "I' or "R', followed
by the number of the initiative or re-
ferendum petition, as the case may be,
petition appears to the officer to be
written by different hand than that