Article XI, § 4. time after thirty days from the beginning of the first session after his election. After one 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 which has paid such special election expenses the whole amount of the expenses for the preceding special election. The signatures to such petition need not be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature, which shall be in his own handwriting, his place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name purports to be thereunto subscribed. Such additional legislation as may aid the operation of this section shall be enacted by the legislature, including provision for payment out of the public treasury of the lawful special election campaign expenses of any such officer against whom a recall petition shall be filed. 1912. S. No. 13 (Int. 13). (Same as A. No. 331.) (For other proposals providing for the recall, see proposed amendment providing for the initiative, the referendum and the recall of elective officers, p. 293.) ARTICLE XI § 4. The Governor shall appoint the chiefs of the several staff departments, his aides-de-camp and military secretary, all of whom shall hold office during his pleasure, their commissions to expire with the term for which the Governor shall have been elected; he shall also nominate, and with the consent of the Senate appoint, all major-generals. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the short ballot, see p. 322.) 2. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.) Article XI, § 6 § 6. The commissioned officers shall be commissioned by the Governor as commander-in-chief. No commissioned officer shall be removed from office during the term for which he shall have been appointed or elected, unless by the Senate on the recommendation of the Governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the sentence of a court-martial, or upon the findings of an examining board organized pursuant to law, or for absence without leave for a period of six months or more. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections providing for the short ballot, see p. 322.) 2. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor short ballot (For proposed amendment to this and other sections changing the terms and salaries of the members of the legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor, and providing for the short ballot, see p. 319.) ARTICLE XII § 1. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations. AMENDMENT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE AND ADOPTED § 1. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations[]; and the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed by the state or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the state, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, Article XII, § 1 labor or services for the state, or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof. 1902. 1903. S. No. 984 (Int. 746). (Same as A. No. 1635.) To Sec. of State. A. J. 2343, 2516, 3126. A. No. 1635 (Int. 1207). (Same as S. No. 984.) A. J. 1547, 2013, 2054, 2955. S. J. 1253, 1473. S. No. 1052 (Int. 18). To A. Amended, A. No. 2112, and sub stituted for A. No. 2054. To Sec. of State. S. J. 20, 572, 838, 975, 1003, 1509, 1566. A. J. 2141, 2783, 2785, 2994. A. No. 2054 (Int. 574). (S. No. 1052 as amended, A. No. 2112, substituted.) A. J. 296, 691, 2242, 2772, 2785. Adopted Nov. 7, 1905. Vote: for, 338,570; against, 133,606. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Municipal home rule § 1. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations[], by the passage of general laws only, applicable alike to all cities or to all incorporated villages. [; and the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed by the state or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the state, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for the state, or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof.] And the legis lature shall not pass any special or local bill affecting the local or municipal government of a city or incorporated village. shall the legislature provide for the filling of any municipal office now existing or hereafter to be created, otherwise than by popular election or by appointment by the mayor, or other elected municipal officer; except that clerks and subordinates of departments may be appointed by the heads of such departments. The people of every city and incorporated village shall have the power to organize their own local and municipal government and to administer the same for local and municipal purposes, subject only to such general laws as the legislature may enact. No city or incorporated village shall increase its permanent debt, or under Nor Article XII, § 1 take new public works, or direct public funds into new channels of expenditure, or issue its bonds other than revenue bonds, until the act or resolution authorizing the same shall have been published for at least one month, and thereafter submitted to the people of the city, at a general election, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it, at such election. § 1. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations, by the passage of general laws only, applicable alike to all cities or to all incorporated villages. And the legislature shall not pass any special or local bill affecting the local or municipal government of a city or incorporated village. Nor shall the legislature provide for the filling of any municipal office now existing or hereafter to be created, otherwise than by popular election within such municipality, or by appointment by a duly elected officer of such munici pality. The people of every city and incorporated village shall have the power to organize their own local and municipal government and to administer the same for local and municipal purposes, subject only to such general laws as the legislature may enact. No city or incorporated village shall increase its permanent debt; or undertake new public works; or direct public funds into new channels of expenditures; or issue its bonds, other than revenue bonds, or bonds for public improvements the cost of which is to be met by assessment upon private property, or bonds issued for purposes from which the city or incorporated village is to derive a revenue other than by taxation to be applied to the redemption of such bonds; until the act or resolution authorizing the same shall have been published, for at least one month, in at least two newspapers circulating within the municipality, and thereafter submitted to the people of the municipality, at a general election, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it, at such election.[; and the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed Article XII, § 1 by the state or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the state, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for the state, or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof.] 1908. S. No. 423 (Int. 379). S. J. 173. § 1. (Proposal to add the following:) The legislature may provide by general laws applicable to all cities of a class for the holding in each of such cities at intervals to be fixed by law of charter conventions, composed of delegates to be elected by the voters of such city, for the purpose of revising the charter thereof. The legislature may also provide that such charter shall not take effect until it shall have been submitted to the voters of such city and approved in the manner provided by law. The legislature may also provide for the manner in which the charter of such city may be amended and for the submission of proposed amendments to the voters upon the initiation of the common council or other governing body, or upon petition of a percentage or number of the voters of such city, and for the manner in which such proposed amendments shall be adopted. § 1. It shall be the duty of the legislature [to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and] to restrict the towns, cities, villages and counties in their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations. All the affairs of the municipalities shall be controlled and regulated by the municipalities themselves; the powers and functions of the municipalities shall be and continue unrestricted excepting by the explicit provisions of this constitution and of the municipalities themselves. Every town, city and village may frame a charter for its own government consistent with and subject to the constitution, by causing a charter convention to be called for this purpose. The delegates to such convention shall be elected from the alder manic district. In cities of not more than twenty-five thousand population and in the villages all the delegates may be elected on |