The Nevada County picayune., 1920-08-26

l therefor) upon a municipal or count. l measure, by the county election com
 missioners Cor legal substitute there l for)
 I Conflicting Measures: If conflicting l measures initiated or referred to the I 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 I THE PETITION
 Title: At the time of filing petitions I 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| l the county election board and shall by such board be placed upon the ballot I in such county or municipal election.
 Limitation: No limitation shall be
 placed upon the number of constitu tional amendments, laws, or other I measures which may be proposed and ] submitte dt o the people by either
 initiative or referendum petitions as
 provided in this section. No petition shall be held invalid If it shall contain
 a greater number of signatures than required herein.
 VerificatiOn: Only legal votes shall I be counted upon petitions. Petitions
 may be circulated and presented in
 parts, but each part of any petition shall have attached thereto the affi- 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 affiant's
 knowledge and belief each signature isl I genuine, and that the person signing is
 legal voter and no other affidavit or
 verification shall be required to estab I fish the genuineness of such signatures Sufficiency: The sufficiency 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 jurisdic-
 tiOn over all such causes. The suffi- ciency of all local petitions shall be Il decided in the first instance by the I county clerk or the city clerk as the
 case may be, subject to review by the
 Chancery Court.
 Court Decisions: If the Sufficiency
 of any petition is challenged such cause
 shall be a preference cause and shall be tried at once, but the failure Of the courts to decide prior to the election
 as to the sufficiency of any such peti-
 ton, 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 Sec 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 sta ate-wide
 petition or ten days in the instance of d municipal or county petition, for cor rection or amendment. In the event of I 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 | tne validity OI lHe petlllO1l
 Unwarranted Restrictions PrOhib-
 ited: No law shall be passed to pro
 hibit any person or persons from giving :, or receiving compensation for circu 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 be enacted prohibiting
 and penalizing perjury forgery, and all other felonies or other fraudulent
 practices, in the securing of sigma lures
 or filing of petitions.
 I Publication: All measures submitted
 to a vote of the people by petition under the pro, isiOnS of this section shall be published as is now, or here
 after may be provided by law.
 }, Enacting Clause: The style of all T bills initiated a..J. 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 ease may be-" In sub
 hitting measures to the people, the
 Secretary of State and all other of
 ficals shall be guided by the general
 election laws or municipal laws as the case may be until additional legislation
 is provided therefor.
 Self-Executing This section shall
 be self-executing, and all it's provisions shall be treated as mandatory, but laws | may be enacted to facilitate its oper-
 ation. No legislation shall be enacted Il to restrict. hamper or impair the exer- Il else of the rights herein reserved toI Il the people
 That this amendment to the Consti tuition of the State be, and the same T shall be in substitution of the Intia 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 land the act off the General Assembly to carry out the .,rA.,ro,.l,l Il1iaD 1l11 fn a.