The Little River news., 1920-08-14

1SASh +hi ASSGulDly or Dy any Clty COUn- GIL excest upon a yea and nay vote on roll call of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the general Assembly or of the city coun- cl' as the case may be.
 <. Election, All measures Initiated by the people whether for the State, county city or town, shall be submitted SSnly at the regular elections, either referendum petitions may be referred 10 tne people at special elections to be called by the proper official and such special elections shall be called when ntteen per cent of the legal voters shall petltlon for such special election, and II the referendum is invoked as to any measure passed by a city or town coul. Gil, such city or town council may order special election.
 Majority, Any measure submitted to tne people as herein provided shall take enect and become law when approved oy a majority of the votes cast upon snail not be required to receive ma 1ority of the electors voting at such election. Such measures shall be oper- a:!ve on and after the thtrtieth day after the election at which itais ap- the act.
 This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the General Assembly of the right to introduce any measure, but no measure shall be sub mitted to the people by the General Assembly, except proposed constitu- tional amendment or amendments as provided for in this Consti tuition.
 Canvass nnd Declaration of Result The result of the vote upon any State measure shall be canyassed and de- clared by the State Board Of Election therefor); upon 8 municipal or county measure, by the county election com- Inissioners Cor legal substitute there for).
 Co,,lictsrr Heasures: If conaicting measures initiated or referred to the people shall be approved by a majority of the votes severally cast for and Against the same at the same election the one receiving the highest numb CT of affirmative votes shall become law
 THE PETITION
 Tftlei At the time of filing petitions the exact tile to be used on the ballot shall by the petitioners be submitted with the petition, and on statewide measures, shall be submitted to the who shall certify such title to the Sec retary of State to be placed upon the ballot; on county and municipal meas ures such title shall be submitted to said 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 oth e, submitted to the people by either initiative or referendum petition as provided In this section. No petition shall be held invalid if it shall contain greater number of signatures than required h eyein.
 yeril cation: Only legal votes shall be counted upon petitions Petitions parts but each part of any petition shall have attached thereto the affi- davit of the person circulating tho same. that all signatures thereon were n Affilnt and that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief eacht tsignature is genuine, and that the person signing is ver1lca tion shall be required to estab- fish the genuineness of such signatures
 suffieisncy, The sufficiency of al! in the first instance by the Secretary of State. subject to review by the Su. preme Court of the State, which shall have erisinam and exclusive jurlsdis- ciency of all local petitions shall be decided in the first instance by the county clerk or tAe city clerk as the case may be. subject to review by the Chancery Cour<-
 Court DecHions, If the sufficisn @ of any petition Is challenged such cause be tried at once, but the failure of tn, courts to decide prior to the election as to the suff.ciency of any such peti- tion. shall not prevent the question
 
 the election named In such petition. nor initiate against the validity of such measure if 1t shall have been approved by vote of the peonlN.
 Amendment of Petitf0ns If the Sec- retary of State, county clerk or city clerk. as the case may be, shall decide any petition to be insufficient, he shall such ition and permit at least thirty days from the date of such notifca- tion, in the instance of a statewide 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 upon the person or persons attacking the validity of the petition.
 Unwnrrnnted Restrictions P-obiS- ited: No law shall be passed to pro- hibit any person or persons from givin g or receiving compensation for .circu- atins petitions, nor to prohibit the riroulat tion of petitions: nor In any but laws shall be enacted prohibit ting and pen;aliiSlng ;aias perjury, forgery and all practices. in the securing of sienatures
 Publication: All measures submitted ,a, to vote .t of the people by petition shall be published as is now. or here after may be provided by law
 Enact.nE Ciause, The style of all bills initiated and submitted under the provisions of this section shall be: Be It Enacted By The People of the State of Arkansas. Municipality or County. as the case may be)." In sab- hitting measures to the people, the Secretary of State and all other of- fcials shall be guided by the general election laws or municipal laws as the case may be until additional leg isl a tfon is provided therefor
 Self-ExecutinRi This section shall be self-executing, and all its provisions shall be treated as mandatory, but laws may be enacted to facilitate it's oper- ation. No legislation shall be enacted TO restrict, hamper or impair the exer- else Of the rights herein reserved to the people.
 That this amendment to the Consti- tuition of the Stat" be, and the same shall be ii substitution of the Initia- tive and Referendum Amendment, ap- proved February 19. 1909 as the same appears in the Acts of Arkansas for 1989, on pages 1239 and 1240 of the volume containing the samo; and that the said amendment (and the act of the General Assembly to carry out the same, approved June 30, 1911. 50 far as the same is in conflict herewith be- and the same are hereby repealed
 Witness my official signature this 24th day of Juiy. 1920.
 [Seal1 TOM J. TERRAL,
 secretary of State.