The Nevada County picayune., 1920-09-02

clared by the State Board of Electio Commissioners Cor legal substitut therefor) upon a municipal or count. measure, by the county election com missioners tor 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: No limitation shall be placed upon the number of constitu tional amendments, laws, or other 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 greater number of signatures than required herein.
 Notifications: 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 atii- davit of the person circulating the same. that all sigma lures thereon were made ill the presence of the affiant, and that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief each signature is genuine, and that the person signing is d legal voter and no other affidavit or verification shall be required to estab fish the genuinenesS of such signatures
 SufficienCy: The sutficiency 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 decided in the first instance by the 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 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- 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 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 al least thirty days from the date of such notifica- ton, in the instance of state wide petition. or ten days in the instance of q 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.
 Unwarranted Restrictions PrOhib- tied: 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 signatures or filing of petitions.
 Publication: All measures submitted to vote of the people by petition under the provisions of this section shall be published as is now, or here after may he provided by law.
 Enacting Clause: The style of all bills initiated and submitted under the provisions of this section shall be: Be Ii Enac,ed By The People of the State of Arkansas. Municipality or County, as the case may be- h. sub 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 legislation is provided therefor.
 Self-EXeeuting: This section shall be self-eXecuting, and all it's 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 ar impair the eXer- else of the rights herein reserved toI the people.
 That this amendment to the Consti tutioin of the State be, and the same shall be in substitution of the Initia tive and Referendum Amendment, ap- proved February 19. 1909. as the same appears in the Acts of Arkansas for 1902 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 thel