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L\ Ki\A lOKAi isir- i-ii" one the .lave passed the senate «.nd ouomitted to the electors by receiving highest number i-T^ver be preserved inviolate and no' vd.te persons or corporations owning a oj. ipresentawvess, cuu- tne legislature or by furtner petition, of affirmative votes shall prevail .uiiii.sheu and the Income arij-n. land adjoining such lakes iiii iiyjl foniucy co iue rules of each house suail become a part of the as to conflicting provisions. ii ^ui Lii« lease or sale of said sciivw shall not be destroyed or damaged a^u iue joint rules of the two constitution, if approved by a. majority land snail be distributed to uie anferent Witnout their consent, unless compensation v* houses, snail, before it becomes a of the electors voting at The style of all legislative measures townships throughout the statu, tnereior snaij oe uiot inw, ue presented to the governor sucn election, or by four-sevenths and amendments to the constitution in proportion to the number ol ucuuiars paiu or secured. The principal of of tne state. If he approves he of the electors voting on the proposed initiated by the people Proposed in each township, between the ages ail funds arising from u«e saie of amendment provided, not snaiA and deposit it in tne under this section shall be: "Be of five and twenty-one years and shall such iron ore, ir otner minerals, less than three-sevenths of the ©mce oi tne secretary of state for it enacted by the People of tho be iaithfully applied to the speciho snail loiever be preserveu inviolate electors voting at said election preservation, and notify tne nouse State of Minnesota." objects of the original grants or appropriations. anu uuuiminisned, Out ui« income voted for the proposed amendment. Wnei'e it originated of tne iucl. Suitable laws shall be therefrom shall be used for This section snail be construed as £ut ii nut, ne shall return it, with The provisions of this section enacted by the legislature for the safe the construction, imyru vement his objections, to ine house in a means in addition to Section 1, may be enforced by appropriate investment of the principal of all funds and maintenance of t±ie public wnich it snail have originated Article 14, of the state constitution, legislation, but until such legislation Which have heretofore arisen or which roads of the state. The principal for amending the same. When such objections shall be entered has been enacted, this section may hereafter arise from the sale or of such funds shall be loaned or at large on tne journal of (D) STATUTORY INITIATIVE. Shall be self executing. other disposition of such lands, or the invested in the same manner, by the same, ana the house snail proceed —When at any time prior to the income from such lands accruing fn" the same officers and upon the to reconsider the bill. If, commencement of any session of of THE PURPOSE AND EFFECT any way before the sale or disposition same terms as is, or from time to after such reconsideration, twothirds the legislature there shall have Amendments this amendment* If adopted, will be thereof Jn interest-bearing- bonds of time hereafter may be authorized of that house shall agree to been filed with the secretary of the United States, or of tile State of by the constitution and laws, for state, a petition proposing a law, pass the bill, it shall be sent, together three-fold. the loaning or investment of the Minnesota issued after the year 1860, signed by two per centum of the with the objections, to the (a) It will permit the voters to propose permanent school and university or of such other state as the legislature electors of the state, the secretary other house, by which it shall likewise funds of the state." amendments to the state constitution, may by law from time to time direct. of state shall transmit the same be reconsidered and if it be All swamp lands now hold by to the legislature not later than approved by two-thirds* of that for adoption, without action by ten (10) days after the commencement the state, or that may hereafter accrue THE PURPOSE of the proposed house it shall become a law. But the legislature. Under the constitution of the session. If the law to the state, shall be appriised and in all such cases the votes of both amendment cannot be more clearly ks it now stands constitutional amend* sold in the same manner and by the so proposed be not passed by the houses shall be determined by •tated than is expressed therein. same officers, and the minimum pries legislature at such session, or if yeas and nays, and the names of stents can be proposed only by the legislature. shall be the same less one-third, as ia it be passed in an amended form, the persons voting for or against provided by law for the appraisement THE EFFECT of the amendment, If then upon a further petition or the bill shall be entered on the Jy. If the amend­ and sale of the school lands under the petitions, each signed by six per (b) So, too, adopted, adopted, would be to confer power on ournal of each house respectiveIf centum of the electors of the state, provisions of title one of chapter any bill shall not be returned ment will permit electors to propose ilie legislature to provide by law for thirty-eight of the General Statutes. filed with the secretary of state by the governor within laws for enactment and if not enacted tlie mining of iron ore and other minerals, The principal of all funds derived within six months after the adjournment three days (Sundays excepted) from sales of swamp lands as aforesaid of the legislature, the by the legislatures, the voters may by which the state owns in its sovereign after it shall have been presented shall forever be preserved inviolate law proposed in the first petition capacity and situate under the to him, the same shall be a law in sufficient petition, require the question and undiminished. One-half of or one or more amended forms like manner as if he had signed of the enactment of the proposed law the proceeds of said principal .shall be bed of any meandered public lake or thereof, shall be submitted to the it, unless the legislature by adjournment appropriated to the common school electors at the next general or special to be submitted to the voters. If approved river, subject to the restriction that within that time, prevent to the fund of the state the remaining onehalf state-wide election, occurring the rights of riparian owners on any its return in which case it by a majority of the electors shall be appropriated to the educational not less than ninety days after the shall not be a law. The governor such lake or river, slmll not be destroyed voting, thereon, provided the vote la and charitable institutions of filing of any such further petition may approve, sign and file in the the state in the relative ratio of cost or Injured without compensation. or petitions, and if approved by a favor of the proposed law is not less office of the secretary of state, to support said institutions." majority of the electors voting within three days after the adjournment If the legislature exercises the than thirty-three per cent of the total thereon, provided the vote in favor of the legislature, any The paragraph which It Is proposed power, in case it is conferred, It couid number of votes cast at such election* of the proposed law be not less act passed during the last three a same Constitution ulso provide for ibe drninage or diversion than thirty-three per centum of the same becomes law with the to add to raid Section Two reads as days of the session, and the same the total number of votes cant at as of tlie waters of tlie lake or shall become a law. If any bill follows force and effect though passed by such election, the same shall become presented to the governor contains river with reference to which it so the legislature. The governor will a law and go into effeefc several items of appropriation of "A revolving fund of not over legislates it could also prescribe by thirty days after such election, and have no power to veto a law so passed, money, he may object to one or two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall supersede any amended form more of such items in whole or in ($250,000) may be set apart whom such minerals could be mined but the people cannot so pass any law of such law which may have been part, while approving of the other from the fund derived from the and the compensation to lte paid to the passed by the legislature. No law r.hieh is prohibited ly the conliitiiticn. portion of the bill. In such case sale of school and swamp lands, state therefor. The proceeds of the parsed by the initiative petition he shall append to the bill, at the to be used in constructing roads, and approved by the electors shall Bale of any such minerals would constitute time of signing it, a statement of ditches and fire breaks in, through (c) So too, If adopted, the amendment of the be subject to the veto of the governor. the items and parts of items to and around unsold school and a fund to be loaned and invested The authority of the people will permit the voters by proper which he objects, and the part of swamp lands and in clearing such the same as tlie permanent school to enact laws, as provided in this any appropriation so objected to petition to require a vote on the question lands, such fund to be replenished subdivision, shall extend only to and university funds, the income of shall ndt take effect. If the legislature as long as needed from the enhanced of whether or not any law or part laws authorized by the provisions be in session, he shall transmit value realized from the sale such fund to be used in the construction, of the constitution. thereof, of certain classes of laws, to the house in which the bill of such lands so benefited." improvement and maintenance of originated a copy of such statement, passed by the legislature shall be repealed. STATE OF (c) THE REFERENDUM. If public roads. Under Section Two as It now stands and the items objected to in If the petition asking for the within ninety days after the final the proceeds of the sale of school and whole or in part shall be separately adjournment of any session of the referendum is signed by fifteen per reconsidered. If, on reconsideration, Swamp lands constitute the principal legislature, a referendum petition, one or more of such items cent of the voters of the state, the number of a trust fund, the income of which signed by six per centum of the be approved by two-thirds of the is used for the support of the schools, 4. of whom is to be determined by PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. electors ef the state, shall be filed members elected to each house, educational and charitable institutions with the secretary of state against the number of votes cast for Governor the same shall be a part of the of the state. Section Two as it now By Chapter 382, Laws 1915, the legislature any law or any part of a law, law, notwithstanding the objections at the preceding election, the law so' stands provides that the principal of proposed an amendment to Section passed by the legislature at such of the governor. All the such fund "shall forever be preserved Two (2) of Article Six of the Con-. referred to the voters will not take session, such law, or such part of provisions of this section, in relation inviolate and undiminished." stitution. a law shall be submitted to the effect pending the referendum vote to bills not approved by the electors at the next general or governor, shall apply in capes in THE EFFECT of the proposed thereon. The vote required to repeal a as Said Section 2 now reads follows I special state-wide election, occurring which he shall withhold his approval amendment, If adopted, will be to modify law passed by the legislature and the not less than ninety days after in whole or in part from "Section 2. SUPREME COURT— the provision last quoted to the the filing of said petition. If a classes of laws which cannot be so any item or items contained in a The supreme court shall consist of majority of the votes cast thereon extent of permitting the legislature to bill appropriating money." repealed are specified in Subdivision one chief justice and two associate justices, be in the negative, provided such but the number of associate justices t(C" of the proposed amendment as set aside not to exceed 9250,000 of the negative vote be not less than PURPOSE AND EFFECT* Under may be increased to a number thirty-three per centum of the total Kbove printed. principal of the trust fund as revolving the Constitution as It now is, the governor not exceeding four, by the legislature, number of votes cast at such fund to be used for the purposes Submitted by the by a two-thirds vote, when it shall be may veto any item in an appropriation election, such law or such part of •tated in the amendment proposed. deemed necessary. It shall have original a law shall thereby be repealed. bill, but he cannot cut down jurisdiction in such remedial cases Provided, that if a referendum petition the amount appropriated for any specific as may be prescribed by law and appellate PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8, is signed by fifteen per centum Legislature at Its jurisdiction in all cases, both in purpose. The amendment, if adopt- of the electors of the state, By Chapter 386, Laws 1915, the, legislature tne law, or part of a law, against PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 1. j2"yty['n"."id'\e™rf'nW"! SlVS? «v« «. Sov.r.or «. proposed for adoption by the which such petition Is filed shall electors an amendment of Section 7. hold one or more terms in each year, reduce the amount of an appropriation General Session, be suspended pending the referendum By Chapter 880, Laws 1915, the legislature Article 6, of the constitution. as the legislature may direct, at the for any purpose, unless upon vote thereon. Provided the proposed for adoption by the given same shall equal S3 per cent of the electors, an amendment of Section Six KXy 0r'r?vK"Tvnia"i^t6h!?£"'^tre: «». .f The section now reads as follows! votes at such election. of Article Eight of the Con­ 1915, Together (6), (8) that gne term in each year shall be statement of the part of an item of an stitution. PROBATE -"Section 1. COURTS— held in eatfh or any Judicial district. It appropriation bill to which he objects, Any law providing for a tax levy The^e shall be established in each organized shall be the duty of such court to appoint or appropriating money for the Section Six as It now stands reads the two houses, each by a two-thirds a reporter of its decisions. There county in the state a probate With a Statement current expenses of the state government ss follows I vote, approve the item as it was originally shall be chosen, by the qualified electors court, which shall be a court of record, or state institutions, any of the state, one clerk of the supreme passed. and be held at such times and act of the legislature submitting "Section 6. INVESTMENT OP court, who shall hold his office places as may be prescribed by law. a constitutional amendment or SCHOOL FUNDS The permanent of the for the term of four years, and until It shall be held by one judge, who other question to the electors of •chool and university fund of this state shall be elected by the voters of the his successor is duly elected and qualified the state, or any emergency law may be invested in the bonds of any and the Judges of the supreme county for the term of two years. He necessary for the immediate presfiXYaJtion county, school district, city, town or PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. I, court, or a majority of them, shall have ehali be a resident of such county at of the public peace, village of this state, but no such investment the power to fill any vacancy in the the time of his election, and reside health, or safety, shall go into effect shall be made until approved By Ch»«ter 384, Laws 1915, the legislature therein during his continuance in office office of clerk of the supreme court immediately upon its passage p: oposed an amendment of Sec- by the board of commissioners designated until an election can be regularly had." and his compensation shall be and approval by the governor, and by law to regulate the investment tli)Il^rrh,rteen Article One (1) (13 of provided by law. He may appoint his such laws, except emergency laws, of the Constitution. of the permanent school fund and If the proposed amendment is adopted own clerk where none has been elected shall not be subject to a referendum the permanent university fund of this but the legislature may authorize the section will then read as follows vote. All other laws shall go The section as It now stands reads state nor shall such loan or investment the election, by the electors of any into effect ninety days after the be made when the bonds to be mm followsi county, of one clerk of register of probate adjournment of the legislature. A issued or purchased would make the for such county, whose powers, AND EFflCTS, bill proposing an emergency law entire bonded indebtedness exceed fifteen "Section S. The supreme. court' "Section 13. PRIVATE PROPERTY duties, term of office and compensation ehali contain -ja preamble briefly per cent of the assessed valuation shall consist of one chief justice FOR PUBLIC USE Private property shall be prescribed by law. A probate setting forth the facts constituting of the taxable real property of the and six associate justices. Five ./ shall not be taken, destroyed or damaged court shall have Jurisdiction over the the emergency. A separate county, school district, city, town or shall constitute a quorum, and the for public use, without just compensation estates of deceased persons and persons vote shall be taken upOn the preamble village issuing such bonds nor shall concurrence of at least four shall therefor first paid or secured." under guardianship, but no other of such bill by a call of the such loans or indebtedness be made at be necessary to a decision. It Jurisdiction,, except as prescribed by yeas and nays, and if the preamble a lower rate of interest than three per shall have original jurisdiction in this constitution. be adopted by a two-thirds vote cent per annum, nor for a shorter period such remedial cases as may be prescribed If the amendment is adopted the see* of all the members of each house, than five years, nor for a longer by law, and appellate jurisdiction The amendment simply proposes to tlon will read as follows! it shall be an emergency law. period than twenty years, and no in all cases, both in law and Prepared by Hon substitute the word "four" for the change of the town, school district, equity, but there shall be no trial "Section IS. Private property (d) GENERAL PROVISIONS.— word "two" so that the sentence prescribing city, village or of county lines shall by jury in said court. It shall hold shall not be token, destroyed or All petitions provided for in this relieve the real property in such town, one or more terms in each year, the duration of the term of damaged for Public use, without section shall contain a title indicating school district, county, village or city as the legislature may direct, at office will, if the amendment is adopted, Just compensation therefor first the subject and purpose of in this state at the time of the issuing the seat of government, and the paid or secured, and such private the proposed law or constitutional read as followai of such bonds from any liability for legislature may provide, by a twothirds property may be taken, destroyed amendment, or the law, or part of taxation to pay such bonds." vote, that one term in each J'ear a Lyndon A. or damaged for the purpose of private Smith, a law to be referred, ana if "It shall be held by one Judge, shall be held in each or any as well as public drainage change is proposed in an existing who shall be elected by the voters If the proposed amendment Is adopt* udicial district. It shall be the upon just compensation therefor constitutional provision or statute, of the county for the term of four duty of such court to appoint a reporter td It will then read as follows being nrst paid or secured." in addition to referring to the years." of its decisions and a clerk same, it shall state the general of the supreme court." "The permanent school and university THE PURPOSE of the proposed effect of the proposed change and PURPOSE AND EFFECT! Tho fund of this state may be also the full text of the proposed amendment is to permit the taking of PURPOSE AND EFFECTS The Supreme Rmendment, if adopted will make the invested in the bonds of any county, law or amendment to the constitution, private lands for the purpose of dratnage school district, city, town or Court as now constituted consists a term of office of the Judge of Probata Attorney General or of the law or part of village of this state,, and in first of a chief justice and four associate purposes where the drain or ditch law, to be referred. Any initiative four years instead of two. mortgage loans secured upon improved or referendum petition may be justices. The clerk of said court will be of no public benefit, but on the and cultivated farm lands signed in separate parts but each Is now elected. If the amendment is contrary will only benefit the land or of this state. But no such investment of Minnesota. part shall conform to the provisions or loan shall be made until adopted, two associate justices will be lands of the person or persons con* herein contained. All petitions Wind From The approved by the board of commissioners shall be signed and verified added to the court and the clerk will itructing the drainage ditch. J. wind that's from the rocks ,nl pc-u designated by law to regulate before a person authorized to administer be appointed by the court instead ol the investment of the permanent by an oath, and shall be in and scented the pine school fund and the permanent being elected by the voters. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 7. such form that a person signing a Sweeps through the sycamores today. university fund of this state ?etition thereby states under oath, Addressed to nor shall such loan or investment PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 5. By Chapter 385, Laws 1915, the legislature he date of his signature, his residence, and where sequoias iine be made when the bonds to be issued proposed for adoption by the that he is a qualified elector, The ranks of giant sentinels that guard or purchased would make the By Chapter 383, Laws 1915, the legislature electors, an amendment of Section One that he uas not previously lulius A. Sdimahl entire bonded indebtedness exceed proposed f.r adoption by the (IT of Article Four (4).of the Constitution. signed any part of such petition, the western slopes, 15 per cent of the assessed valuation (lectors, an amendment of Section and that he has signed the petition The balsam of this briny breeze brings of the taxable property of the Elev.#i (11) of Article Four (4) of the with knowledge of the contents county, school district, city, town Constitution. thereof. To each part of such petition Section One aa it now stands, reads heavy hearts oew hopes. or village issuing such bonds nor shall be attached the affidavit as follows! shall any farm loan, or investment Said section now rends as follows! of the person before whom be made when such investment or the same was signed, which affidavit The mountains and the rivers cry the "Section 1. TWO HOUSES SESSIONS loan would exceed 30 per cent of 'Section 11. APPROVAL OF BILLS shall contain a statement of The legislature shall consist cretary of State message that is Maine's the actual cash value of the farm DY GOVERNOR VETO POWiLK— the number of signers thereon, Of the senate and house of representatives. land mortgage to secure said investment Livery bill which shall have passed the that each of the signatures attached To men whose pride was shattered, which shall meet biennially at AjJ nor shall such investments senate and house of representatives, in to such part was made in the seat of government of the state, or loans be made at a lower conformity to the rules of each house and their desperation wanes the presence of the affiant, that at such time as shall be prescribed by rate of interest than 3 per cent and the joint rules of the two houses, to the best of his knowledge and Again their hearts are raised to look law, but no session shall exceed the per annum, nor for a shorter period shall, before it becomes a law, be presented belief each signature is the genuine term of ninety legislative days, and no than five years, nor for a longer to the governor of the state. If the future in the face signature of the person whose new, bill shall be introduced in either period than thirty years, and no he approves he shall sign and deposit name it purports to be, that he believes For Maine has been the clarion that's branch except on the written request change of the town, school district, it in the office of the secretary of state the persons who have signed l)PF. OF THE ATTORNEY GEN­ of the governor, during the last twenty city, village or of countylines miBwT for preservation, and notify the house heartening a race. such petition to be electors, that days of such session, except the attention shall relieve the real property where it originated of the fact. But they signed such petition with ERAL, ST. PAUL. of the legislature shall be in such town, school district, if not, he shall return it with his objections, knowledge of the contents thereof, called to some important matter of county, village or city in this state to the. house in which it shall Twas shame that sunk the souls of us and that each person signed the April 7, 1916. general interest by a special message at the time of issuing of such have originated when such objections same on the date stated opposite from the governor." to depths we never knew bonds from any liability for taxation shall be entered at large on the journal his name. The circulation of the Bonorable Julius A. Schmahl, to pay such bonds." of the same, and the house shall petition provided for herein, or In days our flag was honored in the If the amendment is adopted, the Secretary of State, proceed to reconsider the bill. If, the prohibition of the circulation harbors where it flew, THE PURPOSE of the amendment Is after such reconsideration, two-thirds •ection will then read as follows Ciipitol. thereof, may be regulated by law, of that house shall agree to pass the and in case the circulation of any When nations paid us homage, for to authorize the investment of the permanent Sec. 1. TWO HOUSES—SES­ bill, it shall be sent, together with the DEAR SIR: Pursuant to your request petition is prohibited by law, the school and university funds in they knew our hands were white, objections, to the other house, by which SIONS. The legislature shall percentage of signers required on and in accordance with the provisions 'Srst mortgage loans secured upon improved consist of the senate and house of it shall likewise be reconsidered and any petition provided for in this Ere blood of our own countrymen had of Section 46, Statutes 1913, I representatives, which shall meet if it be approved by two-thirds of that and cultivated farm lands section shall be one-half of the stained them like a blight. house it shall become a law. But in biennially at the seat of government ^herewith hand you statement of the percentage specified in subdivisions n-here the amount of the loans so secured of the state, at such time as all such cases the votes of both houses a, and c- of this section. purposes and effect of all amendments does not exceed 30 per cent of shall be prescribed by law, but no shall be determined by yeas and nays, And now again our songs we sing of to the Constitution proposed by the session shall exceed the term of and the names of the persons voting the value of the land mortgaged. The percentage in any case shall ninety (90) legislative days, and for or against the bill shall be entered legislature of 1915 and to be submitted deeds that we must do be based upon the total number of no bill shall be introduced in either on the journal of each house respectively. THE EFFECT of the adoption of the Votes cast for governor at the next to the electors at the next general To make the dream that passed away branch, except, on the written request If any bill shall not be returned preceding election. All petitions proposed amendment will be to permit the tlection such statement also shows of the governor, during the by the governor within three come marvelously true provided for in this section shall the legislature to authorise the Investment last twenty days of such session, days (Sundays excepted) after it shall reading of the existing sections and contain the signature of not less except the attention of the legislature For the sturdy souls that breathe the have been presented to him, the same of the permanent school and if the than one-half of the designated the way the same will read shall be a law in like manner as if shall be called to some important fess university funds in farm mortgages as iercentage of the electors in not pine have brought to life again intendments are adopted he had signed it, unless the legislature, matter of general interest than one-fourth of the counties as kbove stated, well as In the bonds a by a special message from the The faith that fills nation's heart by adjournment within that time, prevents Yours truly, of the state. In initiating a governor but the people reserve »f any county, school district, city, its return in which case it snail aH law or constitutional amendment, that feels the wind from Maine. LYNDON A. SMITH. to themselves direct power as follows: not be a law. The governor may approve, town or village of this state. Under electors who have signed the first Attorney GeneraL l/i sign and file in the office of tne EDWARD S. VAN Z1LE. bonds shall be qualified to sign the second lection Six as it now reads cu secretary of state, within three days petition. N. Y. Sun, Sept. 13. after the adjournment of the legislature, sot be purchased unless they mature (a) CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE.—When any act passed during the last AT* and aot twenty it least more thau at any time prior to The sufficiency of all petitions three days of the session, and the same 'PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 1. the commencement of any session purchase. If the fears after nmendnent Shall be decided By the secretary shall become a law. If any bill presented of the legislature, there shall have Is adopted* bonds and mortgages of state subject to review by the to the governor contains several By Chapter S79, Laws 1915, the legislature been filed with the secretary of court. If the secretary of state items of appropriation of money stay bo purchased If they mature not proposed for adoption by th( state a petition proposing an decides that any petition is insufficient, SURRENDER TO FORCE he may object to one or more of such Hectors, an amendment of Section Two amendment to the constitution, than live nor mora than thirty less he shall permit a. reasonable items, while approving of the other 12) of Article Eight of the Constitution, signed by two per eentum of the WOULD TEND TO time for making corrections rears after purchase, portion of the bill. In such case, he by adding to said Section Two ft electors of the stato, the secretary or for filing additional signatures. shall append to the bill, at the time DISASTER. pew paragraph. of state shall transmit the In the event of legal proceedings of signing it, a statement of the items PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 3. same to the legislature not later In court to prevent giving effect to as It mow reals to which ne objects, and the appropriation Section Two stands than ten (10) dans after the commencement any such petition on account of "That kind of virus In our leglslature so objected to shall not take effeet. By Chapter 381, Laws 1916, the of the session. If the insufficiency, or any other ground, |s follows! If the legislature be in session, proposed for adoption by tho amendment So proposed be not submitted life—surrender to force—would the burden of proof Shall be upon he shall transmit to the house in which llectors, an amendment or Article Nifte to the electors by the legislature Section 2. -SCHOOL. AND SWAMP the person attacking the petition. bring us no end of disaster. If the bill originated a copy of such statement, [9) of the Constitution by adding at such session, or if it be LANDS—SCHOOL FUNDS FROM SALS No law or amendment to the constitution seotion, as and the items objected to shall thereto a now which reads are submitted in an amended form, we let capitalists or workingmen, IF—The proceeds of such lands as initiated and approved by follows: he separately reconsidered. If, on reconsideration, may be then, upon a further petition or pr hereafter granted by the the electors as herein provided, any interest, learn that the one or more of such the petitions each signed by eight per shall be heJ.d unconstitutional or United States for use of schools Items be approved by two-thirds of the way to get what is wanted is by IT. Tho centum of the electors of the state, void on account of the insufficiency Within each township in this^ state "Section legislature members elected to each house, the filed with the secretary of state »hall remain a perpetual school fund hereby authorized to provide by of any initiative petition nor shall applying pressure and if we continue not more tame shall be a pjet the law. not­ to the state ana than onethird of within six months after the adjournment the repeal of any law submitted law for the mining and sale of air may withstanding1 the objections of the governor. in that course for a few of the legislature, the by referendum petition be held invalid of said lands be sold in two iron ore or other minerals which All the provisions of this section. in onein amendment proposed in the first for such insufficiency. the state owns, in its sovereign capacity. fears, one-third live years, and years, democracy will be a failure, in relation to bills not approved petition, or one or more amended and as trustee for the people ten years but the lands of bv th» governor. ssfctOi in oases nrmlv forms thereof, shall be submitted and we might as well give of the state, which are' situate All Initiative laws and constitutional greatest valuation shall be sold |n. which he shall withhold his approval to the electors for their approval under the waters or bed of any amendments* shall be so provided, that no portion of said up our form of government."— from any ft.^m or items contained in a or rp.iection at the next general or meandered public lake or river, submitted to the electors as to be stod otherwise than at bill appropriating money." "racial state-wide election occurHnar Mr. Hughes in His Speech at ajid for that purpose mav provide •r.lp. The principal of aU funos permit an affirmative or negative not less than ninety days for the drainage of any such lake vote upon each measure submitted. ""ntn s»les or other disposition Portland, Maine. asiieadl It is proposed^ to faai secttatt Q*ter the filing of any such fur-': or or rfver. or the diversion of the If conflicting proposed laws i'- other property, granted to petition Anv amendment Waters thereof a new bed or that it or corv!icfirig nrnnoiofl amend•icntfi i. this state In each townWho --onosed bv initiative petition and. channel, provided, however, that shall ^eo9oa3eoa»oe3ececeoeoec8oeoeoe»jejeceo8afeKeo8o to the constitution be apJWpyeS for educational purposes, original or tn In its an amended the vested riparian rights pvi» of ,. ^^lection 11. Every bill whM tha m»ma election. --7-,- #4 S* -it Vi ft. JSP 4 DEFECTIVE PAGE