Repealing certain obsolete acts An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of public schools, approved March 20, 1865, approved March 29, 1907; An act making any banker, or any officer, agent, or clerk of any bank, receiving deposits, knowing that said bank is insolvent, guilty of embezzlement, and providing for the punishment thereof, approved March 29, 1907; An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act permitting the establishment of county high schools in the various counties of this state, and providing for the construction, maintenance and management of the same,' approved March 4, 1895, approved March 15, 1907, approved February 26, 1909; are each and all hereby specifically repealed. SEC. 2. No implication shall be drawn from such repeal that any of said acts were in force until so repealed. RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS No. 1-Senate Memorial and Joint Resolution, relative to the proposed Panama Canal exposition. [Approved January 25, 1911] congress to WHEREAS, The State of California is asking the congress of Urging the United States to give its sanction to the holding at the city give Panama of San Francisco of an exposition fittingly to celebrate the com- exposition to pletion of the Panama Canal, in which the nations of the world Francisco are to be invited to participate; and WHEREAS, The city of San Francisco is the metropolis, and is situated on the best harbor of the Pacific coast of the United States, and its people, after having met with the greatest catastrophe that has befallen any great city in modern times, have in the short space of four years rebuilt the city on nobler proportions than before, so that today it is, in physical construction, the most modern city in the world; an accomplishment of scarcely less magnitude than that of the building of the Panama Canal itself; and WHEREAS, The building of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of the city of San Francisco, being the two greatest constructive achievements of the American people in recent years, it is most fitting that the celebration of the completion of the former be held at the place of the accomplishment of the latter; therefore Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the people of the State of Nevada, by and through their representatives in the state legislature, do hereby heartily join with the people of the west generally, in memorializing congress to grant the prayer of the people of the State of California; and Resolved, That certified copies of this resolution be telegraphed to the senate and the house of representatives in congress, and that the governor be requested to transmit by the same means a copy thereof to the president of the United States. No. 2-Senate Concurrent Resolution, relating to the Panama- [Approved January 27, 1911] WHEREAS, Our neighboring sister State of California, has commenced preparations for an international exposition in commemoration of the completion of the Panama Canal, to be San Endorsing action of congress in selecting San Francisco as exposition held during the year 1915, at the city of San Francisco, United States of America, on San Francisco bay; and WHEREAS, San Francisco, because of its geographical, commercial and financial advantages is the logical place for the holding of such an exposition; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the State place for 1915 of Nevada, acting through her duly elected and qualified representatives, does favor the official designation of San Francisco, by the United States government as the logical place for the holding of said exposition; and be it further Resolved, That certified copies of this resolution be sent to the president of the United States senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, our senators and representative in congress. Amending constitution by adding section 3 to article 19 Initiative Percentage of electors required No. 3--Senate Substitute for Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, proposing to amend article nineteen of the constitution by adding to said article section three, relating to the initiative and referendum and the powers thereby conferred upon the qualified electors. [Approved February 1, 1911] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That section three be added to article nineteen of the constitution of the State of Nevada, said section so added to read as follows: Section 3. The people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws and the power to propose amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislature, and also reserve the power at their option to approve or reject at the polls, in the manner herein provided, any act, item, section or part of any act or measure passed by the legislature, and section one of article four of the constitution shall hereafter be construed accordingly. The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than ten per cent (10%) of the qualified electors shall be required to propose any measure by initiative petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions, for all but municipal legislation, shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than thirty (30) days before any regular ses sion of the legislature; the secretary of state shall transmit the same to the legislature as soon as it convenes and organ izes. Such initiative measure shall take precedence over all measures of the legislature except appropriation bills, and shall be enacted or rejected by the legislature, without change or amendment, within forty (40) days. If any such initiative measure so proposed by petition as aforesaid, shall be enacted by the legislature and approved by the gov ernor in the same manner as other laws are enacted, same shall become a law, but shall be subject to referendum peti |