Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-21
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE
 PETITION PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 13 TO THE CONSTITUTION OF
 ARKANSAS.

the Consultation of the State of Ark ansas, and Amendment No. 10 thereto proposing: :, That eight per cent of the legal voters may propose any law and ten per cent may propose constitutional amendment.
 That the second power reserved by the people is the referendum by which six per cent of the voters may by petition order the referendum of any general acts or any item of an ap-- Ipropriation bil Tor measure passed by the General Assembly. There shall be filed petitions from at least fifteen counties of the state and bearing sig natures of one-half percentage of cleo tors of such county.
 That two-thirds vote is neces- sary to attach the emergency clause to Legislative or Town Council meas ures.
 That the initiative and referendum powers of the people are reserved to the legal voters of each municipality and county.
 That the veto power of the gov ernor or mayor shall not extend to initiative or referendum measures and that the same is not subject to amend ment by the General Assembly or City Council except by two-thirds vote.
 That all measures initiated by the people shall be submitted only at reg ular elections except when fifteen per cent of voters petition for special elections.
 l That any measure shall take effect and become law when approved by a majority of the votes cast on such measure.
 i That no limitation shall be placed on the number of constitutional amendments, laws, or other measures which may be proposed.
 FOR AMENDMENT NO. 13 1 AGAINST AMENDMENT N. 13 Be It Enacted by the People of the | State of Arkansas:
 That Section of Article 5 to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas and ,. Amendment No. 10 thereto be amended 50 as to read as follows: | Section l., The legislative power of the people of this State shall be vested in General Assembly, which
 shall consist-of the Senate and House of Representatives, but the people re
 serve to themselves the power te propose legislative measures, laws ano amendments to the Constitution, and to enact or reject the same at thf
 polls independent of the. General As
 sembly; and also reserve the power
 at their own option to approve ol
 reject at the polls any entire act ol Iany item of an appropriation bill.
 Initiative: The first power reserv-
 ed by the people is the initiative
 Eight per cent of the legal voters may propose any law and ten per cent may propose a constitutional amend' ment by initiative petition, and every such petition shall include the full Fl text of the measure so proposed. hi. tiative petitions for statewide meas. lures shall be filed with the Secretary
 of State not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon: Provided, that al least thirty days before the aforemen' }tioned filing, the proposed peasure shall have been published once, at the
 expense of te petitioners, in some paper of general circulation. T Referendum: The second power re-
 served by the people is the referen-
 dum, and any number not less than
 six per cent of the legal voters may,
 by petition, order the referendum
 against any general act, or any item Iof an appropriation bill, or measure
 passed by the General Assembly, but
 the filing of a referendum petition
 against one or more items, sections or parts of any such act of measure shall not delay the remainder from
 becoming operative. Such petition shall be filed with the Secretary ot !, State not later than ninety days af- ter the final adjournment of the ses- sion at which such act was passed except when recess or adjournment shall be taken temporarily for lon
 ger period than niney days in which
 case such petition shall be filed not later than ninety days after such re- cess or temporary adjournment. Any measure referred to the people by ! referendum petition shall remain in abeyance until such vote is taken. : The total number of votes cast for
 the office of governor in the last pre-
 ceding election shall be the basis up-
 on which the number of signatures | of legal voters upon statewide initi-
 ative and referendum petitions shall be computed. <