The Nevada County picayune., 1920-09-09

therefor) upon municipal or count. 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 majority of the votes severally cast for and against the same at the same election, the one receiving the 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 Sec 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.
 Limitations: Nc limitation shall be placed upon the number of constitu tional amendments, laws, or other
 
 submit.e dt the people by either initiative or referendum petitions as provided in this section. No petition shall be held invalid if it shall contain q greater number of signatures than required herein.
 VerificatiOn: 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 afii- davit of the person circulating the same that all signatures thereon were made in the presence of the affiant, and that to the best of the afiant's knowledge and belief each signature iSi genuine, and that the person signing iSI legal voter and no other affidavit orI yerification shall be required to estab fish the genuineness of such signatures
 Sufiicieney: The sufficiency of all statewide petitions shall be dec ded 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 jurisdic- tion over all such causes. The suffi- ciepcy of all local petitions shall bel decided in the first instance by the county clerk or the city clerk as the case may be, subject to review by the Chaneery Court.
 Court Decisions: If the sutficiency of any petition is challenged such cause shall be q preference cause and shall be tried at once, but the failure Of the courts to decide prior to the election as to the sufiiciency of any such peti- tion, shall not prevent the question from being placed upon the ballot at the election named in 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 n0titica- ton. in the instance of d statewide petition, or ten days in the instance of municipal or county petition. for cor rection or 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.
 I'nwarranted Restrictions Pr0hib- ited: No law shall be passed to pro hibit any person or persons from giving or receiving compensation for e3rcu lating petitions, nor to prohibit the circulation of petitions, nor in any manner interfering with the freedom of the people in procuring petitions but laws shall he enacted prohibiting and rcnalizing perjury, forgery. and all other felones or other fraudulent practices, ill the securing of s signatures or filing of petitions,
 Publication: All measures submitted to vote of the people hy petition under the provisions of this section shall be published as is now, or here after may be provided ny law.
 Enaeting Clause: The style of all bills initiated and submitted under the provisions of this section shali be: Be II Enacted By The People of the State of Arkansas. Municipality or County. as the case may be-" In sub hitting measures to the people. the
  lieials shall be guided by the general election laws or municipal laws as the case may he until additional legislation k provided therefor.
 Self Executing: This section shall be Self-eXecuting, and all it's provisions shall he 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 State be, and the same shall be in substitution of the lmitia- tive and Referendum Amendment, ap- proved February 19. 1909, as the same appears in the Acts of Arkansas for 1909, on pages 1239 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 go. 1911, so far as tbo Sana iS in conflict bprpwithl hn