The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-09-21
BALLOTS ARE READY.
ROAD PROPOSAL HEADS coNsri.
TUTIoNAL AMENDMENTS
PROHIBITION is NO. 7.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City. the Various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

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Secretary of State Rood has pre-
pared the official sample ballots for
the constitutional amendments and re-
ferred laws to be voted upon at the
November election, and has given them
the following order upon the ballot.
The list of constitutional amendments
are:
No. IAN amendment to Article
XIII which would allow the state to
engage in road construction or to open
up the coal deposits on the state lands
upon a vote Of two-thirds of the legis-
lature for such state development.
No. 2.-Amending Article XXI to au-
thorize interested communities to en-
gage in irrigation projects by assess
ment of the land to be benefited.
No. 3.-Amending Article XI in re-
gard to revenues of the state, to allow
the classification of property for as
sessment purposes and for the taxation
of franchises and incomes and elimin-
ating the direct tax on moneys and in
comes, o required by the consti,
tuition.
No. Amending Article XIII to au-
thorize the state, or any county or
combination Of counties, to establish a
system of rural credits for loans on
farm property.
No. 5.-To amend Article XIII to au-
thorize the 1917 legislative session to
provide for a constitutional convention
to frame a new constitution to be sub.
mitted to the voters.
No. 6.-To amend Article VII to
grant equal suffrage to all residents of
the state Of a voting age.
No. adding Article XIV as a
prohibitory amendment for state wide
abolishing of the liquor business.
No. S.-To amend Article VIII to al
low term leases of more than five
years on state lands.
No. 9.-To amend Article XXI to al
low the legislature by a two-thirds
vote to fix the salaries of state Off
cials.
This ballot will be practically three
feet long, and the issues are placed on
in regular numerical position to allow
the voter to familiarize himself with
any particular issue which he desires
to favor or oppose by its number, and
making it easier for the voter to Sc
lect the issues he desires to express
his views upon.
There are five recorded laws to be
voted upon. The number rotation of
these issues upon that ballot will be:
No. 1-Reenactment of the Richards
primary act, with amendments. prac.
tically placing back upon the statutes
the old party proposal primary act
which was repealed by the last leg:s.
lative session. This is one of the initi-
ated laws.
No. ITO stop the provisions Of the
act of the last Legislature which pro.
vided that to secure a liquor license
would require a majority vote of al
the voters on any question at the cleo
ton where such privilege is asked. At
present the law requires only a ma
jority of the votes on the license IS
sue. This is a referred law
No. SIS the bank guarantee act
pra ctically as passed by the last legis-
1ative session and would make prac.
tically no change in the law as it now
exists. This is an initiated act.
No. As another initiated act
which provides for a bank guaranty
system in the state, radically different
from the present one. One Of the fes,
lures is the creation of a large central
fund, instead of the present system.
No. 5.-Is another referred act, in
which it is sought to stop the effect Of
the new jury act Of the last legisla-
tive session, which allows a five-sixih
verdict to be returned by juries in civil
actions instead of requiring the vote of
all twelve jurors to bring in a ver-
dict.
This ballot will not be as long as the
other.