Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-02

blanks and certificates as in section ~
SEC. 4. That section 4971-7 of Rem.
& Bal Code be amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 49717 Petitions ordering
that bills or parts of bills passed by the
legislature be referred to the people at
special election ordered by the legisla-
ture, to be filed with the secretary of
state within ninety days after the final
adjournment of the session of the legis-
shall be substantially in the following
form:
WARNING.
PETITION FOR REFERENDUM.
To the Honorable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
ington:.
State of Washington and duly regis
tered legal voters of the respective pre-
cincts set opposite our names, respect
fully order and direct that Referendum
No. -.--.-....-... entitled (here insert the
established ballot title of the measure)
being e. =, COR +, part or parts Of a. bill
Of the State Of washington at ss the last
regular Especially session Of said legis-
lature, shall be referred to the people
lection at the regular Especially cleo
ton to be held on the. day of--.,
A. ID. 3D.; and each for himself says /
nave personally SlSHGu In1S p0C1C1On:
am a duly registered legal voter of the
precinct, and city Cor town., written
after my name, and my residence is
correctly stated.
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repealed.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-s 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 certifi-
cate on each sheet, and full, true and
correct copy Of the proposed measure
referred to herein printed on sheets of
paper of like size and quality as the
petition, firmly fastened together.
SEC. Z. That section 4971-10 of Rem.
lows:
Section 49711O. Upon the ballot title
of any initiative or referendum meas
ure being established as hereinabove
provided, and from time to time there
after the proponents of such measure
may deposit such number of blank pc
titions, in the proper form hereinabove
in this act prescribed, as they may
deem expedient with the registration
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
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
rictr Of I,
any, initiative or referendum petition
shall be filed in his office for signing
to keep the office or offices under
of ns e eenrge open vo fqF the 1sTe
each Friday and Saturday evening from
six O'Clock until nine o'clock, and to
supply sufficient deputies to facilitate
such signing, during the ninety (9O)
days Immediately following the ad-
lournment of any session of the legis-
lature, in the case of referendum petit
tons, and during the ninety 600 days
must be filed with the secretary Of
state, in the case of initiative petitions,
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
has not heretofore signed the particu-
lar Initiative or referendum petition
which he desires to sign, to sign any
such 81 Initiative or referendum petition
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 ap-
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
before permitting him to sign initia-
tive referendum petition. If such per-
son states that he is a registered voter,
the officer shall ask such questions
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
registered voter has previously signed
such petition, and if it appears that he
has not previously signed. the officer
shall permit such person to sign such
petition with pen and ink. In either
the signature on the petitions with the
signature on the registration book,
and II such signature shall appear to
the officer to have been written by the
oc1iiiO ietilu, IllS OluCSI SIdll 0IlI0F 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
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-
ton book in the column headed ere
marks" the letter "I' or "R", followed
by the number of the initiative or re-
ferendum petition, as the case may be,
so signed. If the signature upon the
petition appears to the officer to be
written by a different hand than that