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‘ to pay the same, all of which ’ Endeavorers of Butler will hold a _ David Powell to Harry Wyatt 223¢ (The County Clerk’s Publication Continued.) SPECIAL ELECTION Proposed By Initiative Petition to the Bates County Court. In favor of indebtedness of $12,000.00, for the purpose of building a co! y poorhouse, and of an increase of the:tax levy of ten cents:on the one hundred dollars’ valuation for one year to pay the same: YES ‘In favor of indebtedness of $12,000.00, for the purpose of building a county poorhouse, and of an increase of the tax levy of ten cents on the one hundred dollars’ valuation for one year to pay the same; NO : State of Missouri, { ss County of Bates, | : I, Mrs. Luella Weeks, Clerk of the- County Court} of Bates County, Missouri, hereby certify that the fare-| going is a full, true and com-; plete copy of the six differ- ent ballots and the constitu-| tional ballot containing the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Missouri, and Referendum Proposi- tions Ordered by the Peti-| tion of the People; also,/; Proposition petitioned to) the County Court of Bates County, Missouri, to vote an indebtedness on the county and an increase of tax levy are to be submitted to the qualified voters of the Coun- ty of Bates and the State of Missouri, at the general election to be held on Tues- day the third day of No- PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF MISSOURI, AND REFERENDUM PROPOSITIONS ORDERED BY THE PETITION OF THE PEOPLE. FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND= J MENT. Joint and cone mitting to the @ sourl un amendment to the Constitution thereof, concerning the initiative and referendum: repealing section 57 of article 4 of the Constitution and enact- ing a new section im Meu thereof. Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein: That at the general election to be. held in this state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1914, there shall be submitted-for adoption to ithe qualified voters of the state the fol- lowing amendment to the Constitution, Section 1. That section 57 of article 4 of the Constitution of the state of Mis- souri is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. That in lieu of the said section 57 of article 4 of the Constitution of the state of Missouri hereby repealed there shall be enacted the following new section to be known as section 57 of article 4, viz: Sec, 57. The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative as- sembly consisting of a senate and house representatives, but the people re- rve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitu- tion and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative as- sembly, The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than eight per cent of the legal voters in each of at least two-thirds of the con- gressional districts in the state shall be required to propose any measure by such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the respective county clerks of the respective counties in which the signers thereof reside and vote not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon. With- in 30 days after said petitions are filed with the respective county clerks of the respective counties said initiative peti- tions shall be, by said respective county clerks laid before the county courts of the respective counties, and said petitions shall be examined by the respective ‘county courts of the respective counties, and if the signatures thereto are found to be genuine signatures of voters of such counties,.they shall, at least three months before the election at which they are to be voted upon, be certified vember, 1914. > In testimony whereof, I hereunto | set my hand and) affix the seal of the Bates County Court. _ Done in of- fice in the city of Butler,this 20th day of October; 1934.) Mrs. Luella Weeks, | County Clerk. By J. A. Rogers, Deputy. Presbyterian Church. Bible School 9:45 a. m. Public Worship 11:00 a. m. Young Peoples Talk, ‘‘An Object Lesson on Strong Drink.”’ Sermon, “The Great. Purpose of Life.” : Junior C. Endeavor meeting at 3:00 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. the Senior C. Union meeting in the Presbyterian church. A special program will be rendered by the societies. All young people invited. Public worship at 7:30 p. m. The subject will be “The Next Great Struggle to Help the Home and the Church in Missouri.’’ This will be helped by the famous cartoons which made The Rams Horn famous. - The stereopticon shows-them up in fine Shape. They have been a_ potent force in the presentation of truth and strong in driving home the truth by the respective county courts of the respective counties to the secretary of state. The second power is the referen- dum and it may be ordered (except as to matters’ of taxation hereinafter men- tioned, and as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, and laws making appropriations for the ourrent expenses of the state government for the mainte- nance of the state institutions and for the support of the public schools) either by petitions signed by five per cent of the legal voters in each of at least two-thirds of the congressional districts in the state, or by the legislative assembly as other bills are enacted. Referendum petitions shall be filed with the county clerks of | the respective counties in which the sign- ers thereof reside and vote not more than 90 days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislative assembly which passed the bill on which the ref- erendum is demanded, and within 30 days ‘thereafter the clerks of the county courts of the respective counties shall lay said petitions before the county courts of the respective counties—and within said time the county courts of the respective coun- ties shall examine and review waid ref- erendum petitions, and, if the signatures thereto are found to be the genuine sig- natures of voters of-such counties, the respective county courts shall certify said petitions to the secretary of state within 120 days after the final adjournment of the’ session of the legislative assembly which passed the bill on which referen- dum is demanded. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures referred to the people. All elections on measures referred to the. people of the state shall be had at the biennial regular general eleotions except when the legis- lative assembly shall order a special eleo- tion. Any measure referred to the people shall take effect and become the law when it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall be: “Be it enacted by the people of the state of Missouri.” This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the legislative assembly of the right to in- troduce any measure. The whole num- ber of votes cast for justice of the su- preme court at the regular election last preceding the filing of any petition for the initiative, or for the referendum, shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters necessary to sign said pe- against intemperance, selfishness and sin. We invite all who are up-to-date and desire to make Missouri a leading state in righteousness and truth. Midweek service Wednesday 7:30 p. m. ' Choir practice Tuesday evening. Our young people have a'social on hand, further particulars will be given later. Everybody cordially invited. C. H. Ticknor, Minister. _ Real Estate Transfers Gladys M Cumming to A L Bill- ings 10 asec 7 Howard........§ 1500 AL Billings to Gladys M Cum- ming pt lots 5, 6, 7, 8 all lota 9, 10 bik 1 Standish ad Hume.... 1350 DA Warner to R T Morrison tract secs 25, 35, 36 Homer..... J W Vandyke to D R Glenn 6.67 J C Short to Ellen Feeback lot 18 John Q Hough to J A Hough tract sec 29 New Home............- E Dudley to Ralph Matheny lot 4 8 C Dameron to ElmerO McCann 560 a secs 14, 22, 23 Prairie... 27500 J B Dovall to Chas Kuder 40 a sc 23 Elkhart . 1 1450 titions shall be counted. Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the ref> erendum shall be certified to and filed with the secretary of state as aforesaid, and in submitting the same to the people the secretary of state and all other of- ficer(s]-shall be guided by the general laws and the act submitting this amend- ment until legislation shall be especially provided therefor. Whenever the word “county” Is used herein it shall be con- atrued to include or mean the city of Rt. Louis, and whenever the words ‘‘coun- ty court” are used herein they shall be construed to include or mean the board of election. commissioners of said city, and whenever the words ‘county clerk” or “clerk of the county court” are used herein they shall be construed to in- clude or mean the secretary of said board of election commissioners. The powers reserved or contained in this section as aforesaid shall not be used to pass a law or constitutional amendment author- ising any classification of property for the purpose of levying different rates of taxation thereon, or of authorizing the levy of any single tax on land or land values or land sites at a higher rate or by a different rule than is, or may be, applied to improvements thereon, or to personal property. or to autherize or confer lecal option or other local powel! tm matters of taxation in or upon any of the counties, municipalities, or politi- cal subdivisions of the state, or to re- people, neither the same measure other measure which shall have, or tend PRR ES = youcived*by, the Senate, | 4 1 pee: day in November, A. DV. 1914, the fol- lowing amendment to section 12 of ar> ticle X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the state, to-wit: Section 1. “Municipal indebtedness—limit of—how increased—exceptions as to St. Louis and Kansas City.—Section 12 of article X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri shall be amended by ingert- ing after the following words: “Provided, | further, that in the' city of Kansas City, the amount ponds. issued by said-city, bearing date July [1],°7, 1895, for acquir- ing waterworks and all bonds hereafter issued in renewal of said bonds, or any portion thereof, shall not be<dincluded in the computation of the existing bonded indebtedness of said city in determining the amount of bonds authorized to be two-thirds of the. voters under the pro- visions of this article, but said city shall be authorized at any time to issue bonds with the assent aforesaid, to an amount, including oftstanding indebtedness, other than that above named, to the amount of five per centum of the value of the taxable property in said city, to be as- certained as above specified” the follow- lowing words: “Provided, further, that Kansas City may acquire by purchase, condemnation or construction, water- works, gas works, electric light works, street railways, telegraph and telephone systems, heating plants or any other plant or public service institution within or outside of the limits of said city, for use of the citizens in said city, and for the purpose of paying therefor, in whole or in part, may issue public utilities bonds, which appre utilities bonds. shall not be included in the liabilities or in- debtedness of the city prior provisions of this section; but the total amount of such public utilities bonds to be issued by Kansas City shall not exceed twenty per centum of the value of the taxable property in said city to be ascertained as above specified; the principal of said public utilities -bonds shall not constitute an obligation of the city enforcible out of the funds raised by taxation, but the principal of each issue of such bonds shall bé payable out _which such issue was made. The interest on such bonds and a sinking fund for the payment of the principal at ma- or sale of the utility, raised by taxation, or both, as shall be provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds. Such city shall have power to execute its mortgage or mortgages on any such utility, or any addition thereto, or extension thereof, to secure the payment of such public utili- ties bonds, and in case of default in the payment of such public utilities bonds, or interest thereon, suid bond holders, or their representatives, may apply to ‘any court of competent jurisdiction sitting in Jackson county, Missouri, and said point a receiver to take charge of such said property pending such proceeding in such court and until a final decree of foreclosure in such proceeding and for a period of one year thereafter, during which period the city may, upon pay- ment to the bond holders of all indebted- ness past due and court costs accrued to the date of payment, retake said prop- erty. If said property is not thus re- taken by the city within .said period of redemption, said receiver shall deliver all lability of, the city on said bonds shall cease and determine and its rights. as owner, of said utility or plant, shal cease and determine; and thereafter said utility or plant shall be operated by the party named in said order of the court, or his successors or assigns, in con- formity with and subject to the pro- visions of the ordinance authorizing the acquisition or purchase or construction of said public utility or plant and the issu- ance of bonds therefor; but Kansas City shall not issue any such bonds without the assenteof two-thirds of the voters thereof voting on that proposition at an election to be held for that purpose; and such proposition may be submitted at a special election or at a general election, in either of which events if two-thirds of all the legal votes cast on such prop- osition are in favor of the issue of said bonds, the city shall have authority to issue the same; and Kansas City may also issue its bonds other than public utilities bonds, for the payment, in whole or in part, for such public utilities, and such bonds other than public_utility bonds shall constitute a direct obligation of the city, but the total amount of such, bonds other than publio utility bends shall not exceed in the aggregate five per centum ‘| on the taxable property therein, as here- inbefore provided. Such utility may be acquired by condemnation proceedings in the same manner that Kangas City may acquire real estate for’ public purposes, or in such other manner as may be pro- vided by law. But whenever any public utility is being operated by any person, firm or_ corporation under a grant or per- mit from Kansas City, and the owner and operator of such utility is complying with the provisions of the grant under which the same is being operated, and with the laws and ordinances to which such utility and its owner are subject, and with all reasonable orders of any public officer, committee, commission or other authority having the power to make such orders the city shall not have power to acquire such utility, except as provided in such grant, or by agreement with the owner thereof. But the judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction that such owner or operator of such utility is not complying with such obligations, duties or orders shall authorize the acquisitio: by Kansas City of such utility. . THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- MENT. Joint and concurrent resolution sub- mitting to the qualified voters ef the mdment te the mcerning tax- Be it resolved by the Senaté, the House of Representatives concurring therein: That at the general election to-be held on Tuesday next following the first Mon- 1914, the following amendment to the Constitution of Mis- souri, concerning taxation, shall be sub- mitted to the qualified voters of- said issued by said city, with the assent of | limited by the | of the earnings or sale of the utility or/ plant for the acquisition or purchase of | turity shall be paid out of the earnings | or out of funds | court ,may, if said default continue, ap-| property and such receiver shall operate | said property to such party as the court | in such action may order, and thereupon | ime to time be pi dc to exceed five dollars per day for the first seventy days of each session and after that not to exceed one dollar per day for the remainder of the session, ex- cept the first seasfon held under this Constitution and during revising sessions when, they may receive five dollars per day for one hundred and twenty days and ohe dollar a day for the remainder of such sessién, In addition to per diem” and by inserting and ‘adopting in place of-said words so stricken out the follow~- assembly shall severally receive an an- nual salary of one thousand dollars. In addition to said salary,” so that sald’ segtion 16, of article 4, of said Constitu- tion when eo amended shall be and read | as follows: Section 16. The members of the gen- eral agsembly shall severally receive for their services an annual salary of Bh thousand dollars and in addition. to said salary; to receive traveling expenses or mileage for any regular and extra session not greater than now provided- by law; but no member shall be entitled to traveling expenses or mileage for any extra session that may be called within one day after | the adjournment of a regular session. Committees of either house, .or joint com- mittees of both houses, appointed to ex- amine the institutions of the state other than those at the seat of government, may receive their actual expenses, neces- | sarily incurred while in the performance of such duty; the items of such expenses | to be returned to the chairman of such committee, and by him certified to the state auditor, before the same, or any part thereof, can be paid. Each member may receive at each regular session jan additional sum of thirty” dollars, which shall be in full for all stationery used in his official capacity and all postage, and all other incidental expénses: and perquisites; and no allowance or emolu- ments, for any purpose whatever,. shall be made to or received by the members, or any member of either house, or for their use, out, of the contingent fund or otherwise, except as herein expressly pro- vided; and no allowance or emoluments, | for any purpose whatever, shall ever be paid to any officer, agent, servant or employee of either house of the general j}- assembly, or of any committee thereof, except such per diem as may be pro- vided for by law, not to exceed five dollars. FIFTH CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- ME T. Joimt and concurrent resolution pro- viding for the amendment of article X of the Constitution of Missouri b d= ing a new section to be known as sec- | thom 12b of said article, relating to the limit of indebtédness of certain cities. the House therein, Be it resolved by the Senate, of Representatives concurring as follows: That at the general election to be held on Tuesday next following the first Mon- day in November, A. D, 1914, the fol- lowing amendment to the Constitution of the state of Missouri, relating to the limit of indebtedness of certain cities of the state of Missouri, shall be submitted for adoption or rejection to the qualified voters of the state of Missouri, to-wit: That article X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri be and the same is hereby amended by [adding] a new séc- tion, to be known as section 12b of ar- ticle X, and to read as follows: Section 12b. Any city in this state containing one hundred thousand inhab- itants or over may become indebted in a | larger amount than specified in section 12 of article X of. the Constitution of the state of Missouri, not exceeding an ad- ditional five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be as- certained by the assessment next be- fore the last assessment for state and county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, for the purpose of constructing or acquiring by purchase, or otherwise, within its corporate limits a subway or subways, with land, ap- proaches and other appurtenances neces- sary for the construction and operation thereof, to be owned exclusively by such city for the transportation of persons, baggage, express and freight, and for pipes, wires and cables used for public service purposes: Provided, that no in- debtedness authorized by this section shall be incurred without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters of such city voting for or against such increase of dndebtedness: and, provided further, that such city shall, before or at the time of incurring any indebtedness au- thorized by this section, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to it falls due; also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within thirty years from the time of contracting the same, if payment of such interest and principal be not pro- vided for from the operation or lease of such subway or subways. SIXTH CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- . MENT. | Joint and concurrent resolution sub- mitting to the qualified voters of the atate of Missouri an amendment to the Constitution thereof, authorising the ied voters ef road districts to in- se the rate ef taxation by levying jpecial tax for road purposes. Be it resolved by the House of Repre- sentatives, the Senate concurring there- in, as follows: That at the general election to be held in this state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1914, there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the state for adoption the fol- Harker’ amendment to the Constitution Section 1. That article 10 of the Con- stitution of Missouri be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section to be known as section 28, article 10 ofthe Constitution of the state of Missouri, which said section shall read as follows: Section 23.' In addition to the taxes authorized to be levied for county pur- ing words: “The members of the general the members shall be entitled | pay the interest on such indebtedness as | erving blind, # subi “ passenger, mail, or express train, not deseined voters of said state, to-w' equipped with crew consisting of at Section’ 1. That section 47 of article 4 |teast one engineer, on fireman, one of the Constitution of Missiourl be | conductor, and one flagman, or to oper. amended by adding thereto the follow- | ate or permit to be. operated in ing words: “And provided, further, that | such. commerce, traffic, transportation, nothing in this or the preceding section | oy intercourse any passenger, mail or shall be construed as prohibiting the BeN- | express train composed of six cars our eral assembly from making provision more not equipped with a crew consist. law for the granting and payment of pen- | ing of at least one engineer, one fireman, sions or allowances to the deserving one conductor, one flagman and one blind, or from authorizing by law 4NY | prakeman; provided this. section, in so counties, cities or incorpprated towns or | far as it requires a brakeman, in addi. villages—of-this_state to provide for the |¢ion to the engineer, fireman, conductor granting and payment of such pensions OF }and flagman, on-passenger,mail_and ex. allowances. press teping: shall eatery pply to such .. | trains carrying less ree coach EIGure CONSTITUTIONAL AMEN? for the transportation of passengers. “. ™ ti Section 2. That it shall be unlawful for Joint and concurrent resolution sub- | any such person, persons, partnership, mitting to the qualified voters of the | or corporation, while: operating within atate of Missouri an amendment to sec~ | this state, elther as owner, lessee, or tion 16, article IX of the Constitution |yeceiver, any railroad or railway in thereof, concerning large cities frami- | whole or in part within the state to ing their own charters, operate or permit to be operated in any Section 1. Large cities may frame thelr such commerce, traffic, transportation, or own charters—how adopted and amended. intercourse, described in section 1 of this act, any freight train composed of Be it resolved by the House of Represen- | jess than forty cars, not equipped with tatives, the Senate concurring therein: a crew consisting of at least one engineer, That‘at the general election to be held one fireman, one conductor, one flagman, on the Tuesday next following the first and one brakeman, or to operate or per- Monday in November, A. D. 1914, the fol- mit to be operated im any such com- lowing amendment to section 16 of article merce, traffic, transportation .or inter- IX of the Constitution of the state of course, any freight train gomposed of " | forty cars or more not equipped with a Pneret La pe eae the quall- | crew consisting of at least one engineer, Section 1. That section 16 of article 1X cea a Se ali HOA ee noth. last sentence thereof, which now reads relief or ree SeareaD any case where a sufficient number of men to com- as follows: oot cherie adopts ply with this act are not available for Te eine ieee auing posthorities of | Service on such relief or wrecking trains, such cities, published for at least thirty nor any train consisting of only a loco- days in three newspapers, of largest cir- motive. when the crew of such train con- culation in such city, one of which shall sists of at least one sheltiget, one fire. man and one conductor, provided, further, be a newspaper printed in the seeed that all local or way freight trains, doing language, and accepted by three-fifths of | 14-4) switching, loading or unloading local the qualified voters of such city, voting | rreient shall be equipped with a crew at a general or special election, and not! -naisting of at. least one. conductor, one otherwise; but such charter stiall always | engineer, one fireman, one flagman, and be in harmony with and subject to the| ty, prakemen. 6 Constitution ahd laws of the state,” an@/ “g,. 3 ‘This set shall mit apply to inserting in lieu thereof the following | pinch or independent lines of less words: “Such charter, so adopted, maY| than forty-five (45) miles in length. be amended by a proposal therefor made| “geo 4, Any person, persons, partner- by the lawmaking authorities of such ship, or corporation, whi operating city, published for at-least three weeks| within sald state, elther as owner, in two newspapers printed therein, which | jegsee, or receiver, any rallroad or rail. have a bona fide sale or circulation in way in whole or in part ‘within said said city of at least two thousand copies state, as stated in the foregoing sec- of each issue in which said notice te tion of this act, and violating any of published, one of which shall be @ daily) the provisions of this act, shall, as to newspaper printed in the heccteae a lan-| each train, or locomotive used, run or guage, and which has been published con-| operated in violation of the provisions tinuously for fifty-two weeks next be- this act be liable to the state of fore such publication, such publication to} missouri in a penalty of not less than be made at least once each week and On| one hundred, nor more than five hun- the same day of the week in each Of] dreq dollars for each offense, and such said three weeks, and the last publicationp penalty shall be recovered, and suit to be within ‘two weeks of the date Of| therefor shall be brought in the name such election.’ Such amendment must} of the state of Missouri, by the attor- be accepted by three-fifths of the quall-| ney-general, or under his direction in fied voters of such city voting on such any-—court of competent jurisdiction, in proposition at a general or special elec-| any county in said state into or through tion, and not otherwise; and if three-| which such railroad or railway may run fifths of all the legal votes cast on such} op be operated, or by the prosecuting at- proposition are in favor of such amend-| torney of any county in said state ment to the charter, such amendment through, or into, or out of which such shall be adopted; such charter and all} rajiroad or railway may run or be oper- amendments thereof shall” always be in ated, or by the circuit attorney in the harmony with and subject to the Consti- city of St. Louis; provided, the penalty tution and laws of the state. So that} prescribed in this section shall not apply sald section, when amended, shall read| quring strikes of men in train service as follows and to be known as section 16:]| on the lines involved. Section 16, Large cities may frame their Approved April 16, 1918. own charters, how adopted and amended— eg by TENTH PROPOSITION. Any city having a population of more dred thi nd inhabitants a eG a bs REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE PETITION OF THE PEOPLE. may frame a charter for its own govern- ment, consistent with and subject to te Constitution and laws of this state, by House bill No. - causing a board of thirteen freeholders, venth Genera! ntsc pdarbetade who shall have been for at least five! the local optiom law: as to make the years qualified voters thereof, to -be| counties the sete units to- determine elected by the qualified voters of such| whether or mot intoxicating lquors city at any general or special election; | sfall be sold, furnished or given away which board shall, within ninety days). within: ‘ after such election, return to the chief] siunmictpalities of pul magistrate of such city a draft. of such| more the right to vote separately from | charter, signed by the members of such | their respective counties; board or a majority of them. Within} gitional quali@cations f thirty days thereafter, such proposed char- tion elections a ter shall be submited to the qualified | that dram: voters of such city, at a general or special election, and if four-sevenths of such Lal alt La ofa a ritien Tor eset one qualified voters voting thereat shall ratify | ¢iom election. the same, it shall, at the end of thirty : ‘3 days thereafter, become a charter of HOUSE BILL NO. 19. such city, and supersede any existing charter and amendments thereof. A du-| An act to amend sections 7238, 7240, 7241, plicate certificate shall be made, setting 7242, 7243 and 7244 of article III, of forth the charter proposed and its rati-| chapter 63 of the Revised Statutes of} fication, which shall be signed by the| Missouri for the year 1909, entitled chief magistrate of such city and au- “Local option,” and to repeal section te of said article, with an emergenc, clause. thenticated by its corporate seal. One of such certificates shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, and the other, after being recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county in which such city lies, shall be deposited among the archives of such city, and all courts shall take judicial notice thereof. Such charter, so adofted, may be amended by a proposal therefor made by the lawmaking authorities of such city, published for at least three = weeks in two newspapers printed therein, | the time of such petition, a population which have a dona fide sale or circulation of 2,600 inhabitants or more” in the sec in said city of at least two thousand end, third and fourth lines of. said sec: copies of each issue in which said no-| tion and by adding in the ninth Hne of tice is published, one of which shall be a| ®#/d section between the word ‘sold’ daily newspaper printed in the German and the word within” the words ‘fur: language, and which has been published nished or given away;” and by strik! continuously for fifty-two weeks next be- | 0Ut the words “lying outside of suc! fore such publication, such publication corporate limits of such city or town’) to be made at least once each week and in the tenth and eleventh lines of said ‘on the same day of the week in each of | Section; and by striking out the words said three weeks; and the last pub- ‘who is a resident of any incorporate lication: to be within two weeks of the| (own having a population of 2,509 in date of such election. Such amendment | #bitants or more, or” in the seven must be accepted by three-fifths of the teenth, eighteenth and nineteenth ‘line! qualified voters of such city voting on| 0% Se!d section and by adding to said such proposition at a general or a special | Section the words, “provided, furthe election, and not otherwise; and if three- that one-half of the judges in each pre: fifths of all the legal votes cast on such | cinct shall be for the sale of intoxicat ing liquors, and one-half of said judges proposition are in favor of such amend- be judges ment to the charter, such amendment | 2&#inst the sale of intoxicating liquors.) shal be adopted; such charter and all peter hasta said section shall read amendments thereof shall always be in Sec. 7288... Upon application. by. petition harmony with and subject to the Consti- signed by one-tenth of the qualified tution and laws of the state. voters of any county, who are qualified NINTH PROPOSITION. 4 vote for ernbers of the legislatul in any county of this state, the count! REFERENDUM ORDERED. BY TRE sun PETITION OF THE PEOPLE. court of such county shall order 4 election to be held in such county 4 Senate bill Ne. 117, enacted by Be it enacted by the Gencral Assembly} of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 4. That section 7238, of article I of chapter 63 of the Revised Stat. utes of Missouri for the year 1909 bq amended by striking out the word: “who shall reside outside the corporatg Nmits of any city or town having a the | the usual voting precincts for holdin Ferty-seventh General Assembly. Pre- | 277 ral election for state officers viding the minimum number ef em-| ‘© take place within forty days afte ployeen t= erews om passenger, mati,| the receipt of such petition, to deter express and freight trains, respectively, mine whether or not spirituous or ing 4, operated im the atate of Missouri; mak- | t°xicating liquors, including wine ¢ fag it wala for railread and rafiway |.¢er. be sold, furnished or giv compa eperate such character of | 2¥8Y within the limits of such coun trains without: such respeetive mini- | Such election shall be conducted, th mum. uumber of employees in said | eturns thereof crews, and prescribing penalties fee | ‘eTeot ascertained and determined. vielations ef said act. Sore eee tae femmes with the ise state governing gene jection SENATE BILL NO. 417. and the result the the records the expenses | ~paid out of the case of el Ret enacted of the State of eo folbewe: : : “Bection 1. Itfshall be: ;