§ 1. ARTICLE XII. STATE PRINTER. Election, Qualifications, Duties, Compensation, Etc. Laws may be enacted providing for the State printing and binding, and for the election or appointment of a State Printer, who shall have had not less than ten years' experience in the art of printing. The State Printer shall receive such compensation as may from time to time be provided by law. Until such laws shall be enacted the State Printer shall be elected and the printing done as heretofore provided by this Constitution and the general laws. NOTE. The above section was proposed by initiative petition filed in the office of the Secretary of State Feb. 3, 1906, and adopted by vote of the people 63,479 for, and 9,571 against, June 4, 1906. It went into effect upon proclamation of the Governor, June 25, 1906. ARTICLE XV. MISCELLANEOUS. § 1. Officers to Hold Until Successors Elected-Exception. All officers except members of the legislative assembly shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. § 2. Tenure of Office. When the duration of any office is not provided for by this Constitution, it may be declared by law; and if not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment. But the legislative assembly shall not create any office the tenure of which shall be longer than four years. Every person elected or appointed to any office under this Constitution shall, before entering on the duties thereof, take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States and of this State, and also an oath of office. § 1. ARTICLE XVII. AMENDMENTS. Amendments to Constitution, How Made. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either branch of the legislative assembly, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall, with the yeas and nays thereon, be entered in their journals and referred by the Secretary of State to the people for their approval or rejection, at the next regular general election, except when the legislative assembly shall order a special election for that purpose. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereby become a part of this Constitution. The votes for and against such amendment or amendments, severally, whether proposed by the legislative assembly or by initiative petition, shall be canvassed by the Secretary of State in the presence of the Governor, and if it shall appear to the Governor that the majority of the votes cast at said election on said amendment or amendments, severally, are cast in favor thereof, it shall be his duty forthwith after such canvass, by his proclamation, to declare the said amendment or amendments, severally, having received said majority of votes to have been adopted by the people of Oregon as part of the Constitution thereof, and the same shall be in effect as a part of the Constitution from the date of such proclamation. When two or more amendments shall be submitted in the manner aforesaid to the voters of this State, at the same election, they shall be so submitted that each amendment shall be voted on separately. No convention shall be called to amend or propose amendments to this Constitution, or to propose a new Constitution, unless the law providing for such convention shall first be approved by the people on a referendum vote at a regular general election. This article shall not be construed to impair the right of the people to amend this Constitution by vote upon an initiative petition therefor. The above section, which takes the place of the original sections 1 and 2, was proposed by initiative petition, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, February 3, 1906, and adopted by vote of the people, 47,661 for, and 18,751 against, June 4, 1906. It went into effect upon proclamation of the Governor, June 25, 1906. STATUTES RELATING TO ELECTIONS. OF THE TIME AND MANNER OF HOLDING ELECTIONS. § 3303. Time of Election-Officers to Be Elected. A general election shall be held in the several election precincts in this State on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1914, and biennially thereafter, at which there shall be chosen so many of the following officers as are by law to be elected in such year, namely: Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, United States Senator in Congress, Representatives in Con gress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Justice of the Supreme Court, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Printer, State Engineer, Dairy and Food Commissioner, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspector of Factories and Workshops, Commissioners of the Railroad Commission of Oregon, Superintendents of Water Divisions, Judges of Circuit Courts, District and Prosecuting Attorneys, State Senators, Representatives in the Legislative Assembly, county judges, county superintendents of common schools, commissioners of county courts, county clerks, sheriffs, county treasurers, coroners, assessors, county surveyors, justices of the peace and constables, and such other State, district, county and precinct officers as are now or may hereafter be provided for by law. [L. 1913, Chap. 288, p. 552.] § 3304. Election Precincts. It shall be the duty of the county court in the several counties of the State, at the regular December term preceding the general election, to set forth and establish election precincts within the county. Said court may set off and establish within such county as many election precincts as may be deemed necessary or convenient, and they shall be designated by numbers or names; provided, that no election precinct shall contain more than 300 electors, as nearly as may be ascertained by the court, and shall particularly bound the same. [L. 1913, Chap. 288, p. 552.] § 3305. Election Judges-Qualifications and Duties. The county court shall, at the regular term in January preceding a general election, appoint three judges and three clerks of election for each election precinct, to serve for the period of two years, and shall designate one judge to be chairman. Said judges and clerks shall each be duly qualified electors within the precinct for which they are appointed, able to read, write and speak the English language, not a candidate for an elective office to be voted for at the ensuing election. No more than two judges and two clerks shall be members of the same political party. At least 10 days before any election authorized by law the county court shall designate one polling place in each precinct and fill all vacancies that may happen among said judges and clerks by reason of death, removal from the precinct, disqualification or excusal by the board for good and sufficient cause. The said judges and clerks shall meet at eight o'clock a. m. at their respective polling places at the times prescribed by law for holding a general or special election, to act as judges and clerks of such election until relieved by the second board. [L. 1913, Chap. 288, p. 553.] § 3306. Additional Judges and Their Meetings. In all election precincts in which were cast one hundred and fifty (150) or more ballots at the last general election, or in which the county court believes that many ballots will be cast at the next general election, the county court may likewise, at said January term, appoint a second or additional board consisting of three judges and three clerks for each precinct, who shall hold their offices for two years, and who shall possess the same qualifications and exercise the same authority as the first board mentioned in Section 3305. The judges and clerks constituting the second board, for each precinct, shall meet at eight o'clock p. m. at their respective polling places as designated in the order appointing them, at the times prescribed by law for holding a direct primary election, a general or special election, and at the said hour of eight o'clock p. m. shall relieve and take the place of the said first board, and shall forthwith proceed to count and tally the ballots, in the manner prescribed by law. In case the count is not completed by eight o'clock a. m. of the next following day, the said first board shall reconvene and relieve the second board, and continue said count until eight o'clock p. m., when, if the count is not yet completed, the second board shall reconvene and again relieve the first board, and so, alternately, until said boards have fully completed the count and certified the returns. Judges and clerks constituting the first board, before being relieved by the second board at eight o'clock p. m. of the first day, shall certify and sign the poll books as required by Section 3324. The judges and clerks constituting the several boards shall number the ballots and count the tallies upon the tally sheets, as hereinafter provided, and certify the returns, so as to distinctly show the work of each board separately. [L. 1913, Chap. 288, p. 553.] § 3307. List of Judges to Be Posted Notices. Remonstrances Election Immediately after the appointment of said judges and clerks at said January term, as required by Sections 3305 and 3306, the clerk of the county court shall make a complete list, and certify the same, showing the names of the judges and clerks so appointed for each precinct, and post the same in a conspicuous place in his office, and keep the same posted for three months. All electors shall thereupon be entitled to make and file with the county clerk, without charge, their objections, remonstrances and suggestions, in respect to said appointments, with a view to have said appointments revised by the court. At 10 o'clock a. m. on the second Wednesday of the following term of the several county courts is hereby designated as the time at which the county court shall hear all objections, remonstrances and suggestions from electors in regard to the said appointments of the said judges and clerks, and the court shall continue in session from day to day, without permitting other business to interfere therewith, until all such objections, remonstrances and suggestions are heard and determined and the decisions of the court made and announced. When said appointments have been announced at said following term of the county court the county clerk shall forthwith make a complete and revised list of the judges and clerks so last appointed, and certify the same, showing the names of the judges and clerks so appointed for each precinct, and keep the same in a conspicuous place in his office for two years for public inspection. The clerk shall then immediately proceed and notify each of said appointees, by mail, of his appointment and request his acceptance in writing. The clerk shall procure a notification book, substantially in the following form, and use the same in notifying said appointees and preserving a record of the matter: |