The Nevada County picayune., 1920-08-12

measure, by the county election com missioners Cor legal substitute there for.)
 Conflicting Measures: If conflicting measures initiated or referred to the people shall be approved by q majority of the votes seyerally cast for and against the same at the same election, the one receiving thc~ highest number of affirmative votes shall become law
 THE PETITION
 Title: At the time of filing petitions the exact title to be used on the ballot shall by the petitioners be submitted with the petition, and on statewide measures. shall be submitted to the State Board of Election Commissioners, who shall certify such title to the See retary of State to be placed upon the ballot; on county and municipal meas ures such title shall be submitted to the county election board and shall by such board be placed upon the ballot in such county or municipal election.
 Limitation: No limitation shall be placed upon the number of conStitu tional amendments. laws, or other measures which may be proposed and submitte dt the people by either initiative or referendum petitions as provided in this section. No petition shall be held invalid if it shall contain greater number of signatures than required herein.
 NerifieatiOn: Only legal votes shall be counted upon petitions. Petitions may be circulated and presented in parts. but each part of any petition shall have attached thereto the atfi- davit of the person circulating the same that all signatures thereon were made in the presence of the atfant, and that to the best of the afiiant's knowledge and belief each signature is genuine, and that the person signing is legal voter and no other affidavit or verification shall be required to eStab fish the genuineneSs of such signatures
 Suffieieney: The suffcieney of all statewide petitions shall be decided in the first instance by the Secretary of State, subject to review by the Su preme Court of the State, which shall have original and exclusive jurisdie- tiOn over all such causes. The sutfi- ciency of all local petitions shall be decided ill the first instance by the county clerk or the city clerk as the ease may be. subject to review by the Chancery Court.
 Court Decisions: If the sufficieney of any petition k challenged such cause shall be Il preference cause and shall be tried at once but the failure Gf the courts to decide prior to the election as to the sufficieney of any such peti- ton. shall not prevent the question from being placed upon the ballot at the election named ih such petition, nor initiate against the validity of such measure. if it shall have been approved by vote of the people.
 Amendment of Petition: If the See retary of State. county clerk or city clerk, as the case may be, shall decide any petition to be insufficient. he shall without delay notify the sponsors of such petition and permit at least thirty days from the date of such notifica- ton, in the instance of a state wide petition. or ten days in the instance of a municipal or county petition. for cor rection CT amendment. In the event of legal proceedings to prevent giving legal effect to any petition upon any grounds, the burden of proof shall be upon the person or persons attacking the validity of the petition.
 t'nwarranted Restrictions PrOhib- tied: No law shall be passed to pro hibit any person or persons from giving or receiving compensation for c.rcu- lating petitions, nor to prohibit the circulation of petitions, nor in any manner interfering with the freedom of the people in procuring petitions; i; but laws shall be enacted prohibiting and penalizing perjury, forgery, and all other felonieS or other fraudulent practices, in the securing of signatures or filing of petitions.
 Publication: All measures submitted to vote of the people by petition under the pro,i isionS of this section shall be publ Shtl as is now. or here after may be provided ny law.
 Enacting Clause: The style of all bills initiated and admitted under the provisions of this section shall be :: Be If Enacted Ky The People of the State of Arkansa,. Municipality or County. as the C, z may bel" In sub hitting measures to the people, the Secretary of State and all other of iltidlS Slidil Dt Sultittl uR tiit StilNi di election laws or municipal laws as the case may be until additional legislation is provided therefor,
 Self-Executing: This section shall be Self-cxecuting. and all it's provisions shall be treated as mandatory, but laws may be enacted to facilitate its oper- alton. No legislation shall be enacted to restrict. hamper or impair the eXer- c;se of the rights herein reserved to the people,
 That this amendment to the COnsti tuition of the State be, and the same shall be in substitution of the lnitia- tive and Referendum Amendment, ap- proved February 19 1909, as the same appears in the Acts of Arkansas for 1909, on pages l239 and 1240 of the volume containing the same; and that [ the said amendment (and the act of the General Assembly to carry out the same approved June 30, 1911, so far as