The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-10-13

vote shall be taken upon the pre-.
amble Of such bill by call OF the
Bile be adopted by two-thirds vote
OF all the members of each house.
It shall be an emergency law.
.(d) GENERAL PRovIsIONs.-
All petitions provided for in this
section shall contain a title indie
eating the subject and purpose OF
the proposed law or constitutlonat
= law to be referred. and II .
change is proposed in an existing
constitutional provision or statute.
in addition to referring to the
s eject of t Saa pro ssassd Change ana
also the full text of the proposed
law or amendment to the constitu-
ton. or OF the law or part Of q
I've tive or r. re S petition may b
signed in separate parts but each
part shall conform to the PROV.
sions herein contained. All petit:
before person authorized to ad-
, minister an oath. and shall be in
such form that a person signing q
petition thereby states under oath.
The esc date hs ct his sgna5ure es e ess1
tor. that he has not previously
and that he has signed the petition
with knowledge Of the. contents
tition shall be attached the .affi-
davit Of the person before whom
the same. was signed, which affi..
davit shall contain. statement OF
the number of signers thereon.
that each Of. the signatures at
tached to such part was made in
the presence Of the aff1ant, that
to the best of his knowledge and
uine signature Of the person whose
name it purports to be, that he be-
lieves the persons who have signed
such petition to be ELECTORS, that
knowledge Of the contents thereof.
and that each person signed the
same on the date stated opposite
his name. The circulation of the
the prohibition Of the Circulation
thereof, may be regulated by. law.
and in case the circulation of any
petition Is prohibited by law, the
ey petEon OF progyded for In ths
section shall be one-half Of the
percentage specified in subdivf-
sions a, b and Of this section.
The percentage in any case shall
votes cast for governor at the. next
preceding election. All .petitions
provided for in this section shall
contain the signature Oh not less
than ene-half Of the designated
percentage of the electors in not
less than one-fourth of the coun-
ties of the state. In initiating
law or constitutional amendment,
shall be qualified to sign the Sec
ond petition.
The sufficiency of all petitions
shall he decided by the secretary
court. # the secretary of state
decides that any petition is insult
ficient, he shall permit a reason
able time for making corrections
or for filing additional signatures
In the event of legal proceedings
in court to prevent giving effect to
any such petition on account OF
insufficiency, or any other ground,
the burden Of proof shall be upon
the person attacking the petition.
No law or amendment to the con-
stitution initiated and approved by
the electors as herein provided,
shall be held unconstitutional or
void on account Of the insuffciencY
of any initiative petition: nor shall
the repeal of any law submitted
valid for such insufficiency.
All initiative laws and consti-
tutional AMENDMENTS shall be so
submitted to the electors As to
permit an affirmative or negative
vote upon each measure submit
or conflicting proposed amend
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