clause tion as provided in section one and two of this article. If Initiative said initiative measure be rejected by the legislature, or if no action be taken thereon within said forty (40) days, the secretary of state shall submit same to the qualified electors for approval or rejection at the next ensuing general election; and if a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon shall approve of such measure it shall become a law and take effect from the date of the official declaration of the vote: an initiative measure so approved by the qualified electors shall not be annulled, set aside, or repealed by the legislature within three (3) years from the date said act takes effect. In case the legislature shall reject such initiative measure, said body may, with the approval of the gov ernor, propose a different measure on the same subject, in which event both measures shall be submitted by the secretary of state to the qualified electors for approval or rejection at the next ensuing general election. The enacting clause of all bills proposed by the initiative shall be: "The People of the State of Nevada do enact as follows." The whole Enacting number of votes cast for justice of the supreme court at the general election last preceding the filing of any initiative petition shall be the basis on which the number of qualified electors required to sign such petition shall be counted. The second power reserved by the people is the referendum, Referendum which shall be exercised in the manner provided in sections one and two of this article. The initiative and referendum powers in this article provided for are further reserved to the qualified electors of each county and municipality as to all local, special and municipal legislation of every character in or for said respective counties or municipalities. The legislature may provide by law for the manner of exercising the initiative and referendum powers as to county and municipal legislation, but shall not require a petition of more than ten per cent (10%) of the qualified electors to Percentage order the referendum, nor more than fifteen per cent (15%) to propose any municipal measure by initiative. If the conficting measures submitted to the people at the next ensuing general election shall both be approved by a majority of the votes severally cast for and against each of said measures, the measure receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall thereupon become a law as to all conflicting provisions. The provisions of this section shall be self-executing, but legislation may be especially enacted to facilitate its oper ation. of electors No. 4-Senate Substitute for Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution No. 8, proposing that section nine be added to article two of the constitution of the State of Nevada. [Approved February 2, 1911] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That section Adding new nine be added to article two of the constitution of the State of Nevada, to read as follows: section to article 2 of constitution Recall of public officer Petition Special election Ballot, etc. In case of legislative officer Section 9. Every public officer in the State of Nevada is subject, as herein provided, to recall from office by the qualified electors of the state, or of the county, district, or municipality, from which he was elected. For this purpose not less than twenty-five per cent (25%) of the qualified electors who vote in the state or in the county, district, or municipality electing said officer, at the preceding election, for justice of the supreme court, shall file their petition, in the manner herein provided, demanding his recall by the people; they shall set forth in said petition, in not exceeding two hundred (200) words, the reasons why said recall is demanded. If he shall offer his resignation, it shall be accepted and take effect on the day it is offered, and the vacancy thereby caused shall be filled in the manner provided by law. If he shall not resign within five (5) days after the petition is filed, a special election shall be ordered to be held within twenty days (20) after the issuance of the call therefor, in the state, or county, district, or municipality electing said officer, to determine whether the people will recall said officer. On the ballot at said election shall be printed verbatim as set forth in the recall petition, the reasons for demanding the recall of said officer, and in not more than two hundred (200) words, the officer's justification of his course in office. He shall continue to perform the duties of his office until the result of said election shall be finally declared. Other candidates for the office may be nominated to be voted for at said special election. The candidate who shall receive the highest number of votes at said special election shall be deemed elected for the remainder of the term, whether it be the person against whom the recall petition was filed, or another. The recall petition shall be filed with the officer with whom the petition for nomination to such office shall be filed, and the same officer shall order the special election when it is required. No such petition shall be circulated or filed against any officer until he has actually held his office six (6) months, save and except that it may be filed against a senator or assemblyman in the legislature at any time after ten (10) days from the beginning of the first session after his election. After one such petition and special election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer during the term for which he was elected, unless such further petitioners shall pay into the public treasury from which the expenses of said special election have been paid, the whole amount paid out of said public treasury as expenses for the preceding special election. Such addi tional legislation as may aid the operation of this section shall be provided by law. No. 5-Senate Joint Resolution No. 3. ing demo electing U. S. senator Resolved, By the republican minority in this joint session of Congratulatboth houses of the twenty-fifth session of the Nevada legisla- cratic ture, in which a democratic majority has voted to make unani- majority on mous the election of a republican candidate to the senate of republican the United States, that our thanks and congratulations be extended with a hearty good-will to the democratic members for the honorable way in which they have accepted the result of the last election and bowed to the will of the people as expressed by the popular vote. Be it further tions to Hon. Resolved, That we extend our sincere congratulations and Congratulagood-will to the Hon. Key Pittman of Nye County for the Key Pittman unequivocal manner in which he has carried out his part of the "gentlemen's agreement" made between himself and the Hon. George S. Nixon in the campaign of last fall in withdrawing from the contest after the result of the election was announced and that he has earned the lasting regard of his political opponents by the fair, able and honorable campaign made by him in his fight for the senatorial toga, thereby making a record of which every true Nevadan may well be proud. Be it further for U. S. senator Resolved, That the election of a republican, who was chosen Popular vote by the popular vote, as against a candidate for the same office with a democratic majority in control of the legislature on joint recognized ballot, emphasizes an epoch in American politics of which the senate of the United States may well take heed, until the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people shall become the law of the land. Be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to both houses of congress in Washington. No. 6-Senate Joint and Concurrent Resolution No. 4, authorizing the appointment of a joint committee of five to investigate the conduct of the state board of prison commissioners. [Approved February 6, 1911] to investigate recent state WHEREAS, Various unofficial charges have been made of Joint comirregularity and mismanagement on the part of the board of mitigat prison commissioners in connection with the affairs of the action of Nevada State Prison, with particular reference to the awarding prison board of a certain contract for furnishing steel cells for the new state prison whereby it is alleged the state has suffered large and unnecessary loss and damage; and of committee WHEREAS, It is deemed for the best interests of the state that the members of the legislature shall have full knowledge of all the facts relative to the affairs and management of the said state prison and with reference to the said contract for steel cells; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That a joint Composition committee of five, composed of two members of the senate and three members of the assembly, to be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly respectively, is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to investigate and examine into, without delay, the conduct of said board of prison commissioners, with particular reference to the facts and circumstances pertaining to the awarding of said contract for said steel cells, and to report the result of such investigation to the legislature not later than March 1, 1911. Said joint committee is hereby authorized to subpena any person to testify before said committee and to send for any papers and records, to administer oaths, swear and examine witnesses, to take possession of, or order produced before it, any books, papers, documents, contracts, minutes, or memorandum which it may deem necessary for the proper conduct of such investigation. Said joint committee is also authorized to employ a stenographer and to fix his compensation, to be paid out of the legislative fund. teenth No. 7-Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, ratifying the sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. [Approved February 8, 1911] WHEREAS, Both houses of the sixty-first congress of the Ratifying six United States of America at its first session, by a constitutional amendment majority of two-thirds thereof, made the following proposition to U. S. to amend the constitution of the United States of America in the following words, to wit: constitution A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the constitution, namely: Article XVI. The congress shall have power to lay and Income tax collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, with out apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration. Therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate con- Resolution to curring, That the said proposed amendment to the constitution be forwarded of the United States of America be, and the same is hereby, ratified by the legislature of the State of Nevada. That certified copies of this preamble and joint and concurrent resolution be forwarded by the governor of this state to the president of the United States, secretary of state of the United States, to the presiding officer of the United States senate, and to the speaker of the United States house of representatives. No. 8-Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution No. 5. [Approved February 8, 1911] mittee for affairs Resolved, That the president of the senate and the speaker Joint comof the assembly be, and they are hereby requested and author- investigation ized, to each appoint a committee of three from their respective of state houses to act as a joint committee on investigation and recommendations of state affairs, said committee to have all power and authority necessary to examine any and all records or books of any state official for the purpose of gaining whatever information it may desire or deem necessary, in order that it may intelligently arrive at the actual amount of all receipts and disbursements, this knowledge so gained to be used as a foundation for such recommendations as seem justified. This resolution is offered in accordance with the widespread and repeated demands of the people throughout the state that all extravagances, negligences and abuses of state funds and institutions be abolished. No. 9-Senate Resolution No. 3. [Approved February 8, 1911] memory of WHEREAS, It has pleased the Almighty Father to call from In respect to the scene of his labors our beloved friend and fellow-member, Stor Senator A. C. House; and WHEREAS, In his departure from our midst we have lost a faithful friend and coworker, one whose every thought, word and act was dictated by the love of truth, honesty and justice, whose every aspiration was for the betterment of humanity, and the good of his fellow-man, and whose uniform gentleness, kindness and courtesy endeared him to all with whom he came in contact; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the members of the senate of the twenty House. deceased |