The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-01

| at which such measure was enacteo
| No initiative Or Referendum petiuol
| shall be circulated or filed during
regular or special session OF INC 40
islature.
Each measure initiated by. or re
ferrad to the electors, shall be sub
mitted by its ballot title. which shal
he placed upon the ballot by TN
Secretary of State and SHAH De vote.
upon at any statewide election oesas
mated in the petition. or at any spe
cial selection called by the governor
, The result of the vote upon any mea
sure shall be canvassed ana oeciaree
by the board of canvassers.
Any measure. except an emergency
measure submitted to the electors W
the state shall become law WneL
approved by majority OF the votes
cast thereon. And such law snaat 9.
into effect on the thirtieth DAY aitei
the election. unless otherwise speci-
fled in the measure. e:,1a
Ii a referendum petition IS 1lIeo
against an emergency measure sucl
measure shall be law until voteu
then rejected by a majority OF the
votes cast thereon, it shall be thereby
repealed Any such measure snail
be submitted to the electors at spe-
cial election if SO ordered by tne
Governor or If the referendum petl,
by thirry-fiye thousand electors, at
large. Such special election shall pc
called by the Governor ana snall NC
held not less than one hundred nor
more than one hundred thirty Day
after the adjournment OF the session
The Secretary of State shall pass
upon each petition, and If he finds
it insufficient he shall notify the
committee for the petitioners" and
allow twenty days for correction or
amendment.
All decisions of the Secretary of
State in regard to any such petition
shall be subject to review by the Su-
preme Court. But il the sufficiency
of such petition is being reviewed at
the time the ballot is prepared, the
Secretary of State shall place the
quent decision shall invalidate such
measure if it is at such election APP
proved by majority of the votes
cast thereon. Ii proceedings are
brought against any petition upon
any, ground. the burden Of proof
No law shall be enacted limiting
the number of copies OF petition
which may be circulated. Such CO.
pies shall become a part Of the
original petition when filed or at
tached thereto. Nor shall any law be
giving or receiving compensation for
circulating the petition, nor in any
manner interfering with the freedom
in securing signatures to petitions.
Each petition shall have printed
thereon ballot title which shall
Of the measure, and the names of at
least five electors who shall consti-
tute the committee for the petit
and who shall represent and
act for the petitioners.
The enacting clause Of all measures
initiated by the electors, shall be: BE
1t enacted by the people of the State
Of North Dakota" in submitting mea-
sures to the electors, the Secretary Of
State and all other officials shall be
guided by the election laws until adj
ditional legislation shall be provid-
ed
If conflicting measures initiated by
or referred to the electors shall be
approved by majority of the votes
cast thereon, the one receiving the
highest number of affirmative votes
shall become the law.
The word measure" as used here
in shall include any law or amend
ment thereto, resolution. legislative
proposal or enactment of any charac-
ter.
The veto power Of the Governor
shall not extend to the measures ini-
No measure enacted or approved by
a vote of the electors shall be re-
pealed or amended by the legislature,
except upon Il yea and nay vote upon
roll call of two thirds Of all the men,
bers elected to each house.
This section shall be self-executing
and all of it's provisions shall be
treated as mandatory. Laws may be
enacted to facilitate it's operation. but
no law shall be enacted to hamper.
restrict or impair the exercise of the
rights herein reserved to the people.
REFERRED MEASURE
GASOLINE TAI
of Senate Bill No. 100,
Session Laws 1881
Approved by Governor, March II,
Submitted by referendum petitions:
An Act TO amend and re-enact Sec
ions ., and Of Chapter 166, SEES
sion Laws of North Dakota for the
year 1929, and providing for a tax
Of four cents per gallon upon motor
vehicle fuels, and further providing
for the distribution Of the revenues
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEG1S-
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. AMENDMENT.) That
Section Of Chapter 1866. Session Laws
Of North Dakota for the year 1929,
read as follows:
Section 2. That each and every
dealer in motor vehicle fuel, as de-
fined in this Act, who is now en-
gagged, or who may hereafter engage
in his own name, or in the name OF
sentative or agents, in this state, in
the sale or use of motor vehicle fuel
as herein defined, shall, not later
than the 18TH day of each calendar
month render to the State Auditor,
furnished by the state Auditor, a
sworn statement Of the number OF
gallons of motor vehicle fuel sold or
used by him or them during the pre-
ceding calendar month, which state
ment shall be sworn to by one Of the
officers in case of domestic
corporation; or by the resident gen.
eral agent. or agents. or attorney-in-
fact, or by chief accountant or Of
ficer in case of a foreign corpora.
ton; by the managing agent or own
dividual: and shall contain state
ment Of the quantities of motor
vehicle fuel sold or used within the
State Of North Dakota from his OF
their respective places of business
and il any of such motor vehicle fue
has been sold and delivered by said
dealer to customers in the Original
package, whether in tank cars, bar.
rels or other packages and in the
same form and condition in which the
same was imported, said statemen,
shall show the amount Of motor We.
hicle fuel SO sold and the names ant
addresses of the persons, firm OIL
corporation to whom the same wa.
sold.
Said dealer shall pay a license ia,
of four cents per gallon on all motor
vehicle fuel used and sold by him
other than such fuel sold by him OF
them, in the original packages a,
above specified. and shall have tn,
option of paying said tax of foul
cents per gallon on all motor vehicl,
fuel sold by him or them, in the state
in the original packages in which tn,
same was imported as above speci
fled.
Whenever any sale is made by
dealer Of motor vehicle fuel in tn
was imported as above specified, sucl
dealer shall deliver to the purchase
thereof an invoice of such motto
vehicle fuel, stating the name an,
address of the purchaser, the quantit,
and kind Of fuel sold, and whether O
not said dealer assumes and agree
to pay the license tax on said fue
above specified, and such dealer shal
transmit to the State Auditor at TIL
same time he shall render the state
ment above specified, duplicate CO
pies of all such invoices issued an,
delivered by him during the perio
covered by such statement.
Section 2. AMENDMENTS Tha
Section of Chapter 166, Session Law
of the State Of North Dakota for tn