of the Legislature after it has become a law either by the approval of the Governor or his failure to veto, either by petition signed by not less than twenty-five per cent of the legal voters or by the Legislature. Referendum petitions shall be addressed to and filed with the Secretary of State not more than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the Legislature that passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The filing of a referendum petition against any act shall not affect the validity of the act until disapproved by the people as hereinafter provided. The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to measures initiated and passed by the people, but laws passed by initiative shall be subject to amendment and repeal as other statutes. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be held at the biennial general election. Each measure submitted to the people by the initiative as a law shall become a law when approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise, save that no measure shall become a law unless it shall receive in its favor the votes of not less than one-third of the electors voting at such election.

Shall Become Part of Constitution

When.

"Each measure submitted to the people by initiative as a part of the Constitution shall become a part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the electors voting at such election, and not otherwise, and such laws and parts of the Constitution when approved as above stated shall take effect from and after the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the Governor, but not later than thirty days after the vote has been canvassed.

One-third of Electors Must Vote.

"Each statute submitted to the electors on referendum shall remain in full force as if not so submitted, unless a majority of the votes cast thereon shall be against such statute, but no law submitted by referendum shall be declared defeated unless at least one-third of the electors voting at such election shall cast their votes against the same.

On Regular Ballot - Constitutional Amendments on Separate Ballot.

"Every measure submitted to the people, whether by the legis lature or by initiative or by referendum, to become a law, shall be submitted on a regular ballot which contains the names of candidates for office; constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the people upon a separate ballot.

Basis Determined.

"This section shall not be construed to deprive the Legislature of the right to enact any measure. The whole number of votes cast for Secretary of State at the regular general election last preceding the filing of any petition for the initiative or referendum shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be determined.

Secretary of State Shall Submit - Signatures Must Be Verified.

"The Secretary of State shall submit all measures initiated by, or referred to the people for adoption or rejection at the polls, in compliance herewith. The petition shall consist of sheets having such general form written or printed at the top thereof, as shall be designated or prescribed by the Secretary of State; such petition shall be signed by qualified electors, in their own proper persons only, to which shall be attached the residence address of such person and the date of signing the same. To each of such petitions, which may consist of one or more sheets, shall be attached affidavits by three separate qualified electors, that each signature thereon is the signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the affiant each of the persons signing said petition so verified was, at the time of signing, a qualified elector. Such petition so verified shall be prima facie evidence that the signatures thereon are genuine and true, and that the persons signing the same are qualified electors. The text of all measures to be submitted shall be published as constitutional amendments are published, and in submitting the same and all matters pertaining

to the form of all petitions, the Secretary of State and all other officers shall be guided by the Constitution and general laws, and the act submitting this amendment, until legislation in harmony herewith shall be especially provided therefor.

Each Measure Voted for Separately.

"Each separate measure, whether a law or a constitutional amendment, shall be voted upon separately, and no general mark either at the head or elsewhere on any official ballot shall be counted as voting separately on any measure.

Must Contain Enacting Clause.

"The style of all laws adopted by the people through the initiative shall be, 'Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Wyoming.'

"This section of the Constitution shall be, in all respects, selfexecuting."

Ballot Must Contain How Voted.

Sec. 3. The general ballot upon which are the names of the candidates for offices at the next general election shall have printed or written thereon the words, "For the amendment to Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution, providing for the initiative and referendum, and for the manner of submitting to the voters laws and amendments to the Constitution," and "Against the amendment to Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution, providing for the initiative and referendum, and for the manner of submitting to the voters laws and amendments to the Constitution." Each elector voting at said election who desires to indicate his or her approval or rejection of the proposition for said constitutional amendment shall indicate the same by a cross (X) after one of such sentences so as to indicate his or her approval or rejection. The vote cast for the adoption or rejection of said amendment shall be canvassed and the result determined in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Wyoming for the canvass of votes for Representative in Congress, save and except that said amendment shall be declared carried only when approved by a majority of the electors, and not otherwise.

Sec. 4.

its passage.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

Approved February 18th, 1911.

XVII. WISCONSIN (PROPOSED)

[The following amendment to the constitution of Wisconsin was passed by the legislature at the 1911 session. It must be repassed by the next legislature before being submitted to popular vote.]1

[Jt. Res. No. 36, A.]

Joint Resolution to amend section 1, of article IV of the constitution, to give to the people the power to propose laws and to enact or reject the same at the polls, and to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislature; and to create section 3, of article XII of the constitution, providing for the submission of amendments to the constitution upon the petition of the people.

Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That section 1, of article IV of the constitution, be amended to read:

SECTION 1. 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and assembly, but the people reserve to themselves power, as herein provided, to propose laws and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislature, and to approve or reject at the polls any law or any part of any law enacted by the legislature. The limitations expressed in the constitution on the power of the legislature to enact laws, shall be deemed limitations on the power of the people to enact laws.

2. a. Any senator or member of the assembly may introduce, by presenting to the chief clerk in the house of which he is a member, in open session, at any time during any session of the legislature, any bill or any amendment to any such bill; provided, that the time for so introducing a bill may be limited by rule to not less than thirty legislative days.

b. The chief clerk shall make a record of such bill and every amend ment offered thereto and have the same printed.

1 Official copy furnished by Mr. Gale Lowrie, in the Legislative Reference Library of Wisconsin.

3. A proposed law shall be recited in full in the petition, and shall consist of a bill which has been introduced in the legislature during the first thirty legislative days of the session, as so introduced; or, at the option of the petitioners, there may be incorporated in said bill any amendment or amendments introduced in the legislature. Such bill and amendments shall be referred to by number in the petition. Upon petition filed not later than four months before the next general election, such proposed laws shall be submitted to a vote of the people, and shall become a law if it is approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, and shall take effect and be in force from and after thirty days after the election at which it is approved.

4. a. No law enacted by the legislature, except an emergency law, shall take effect before ninety days after its passage and publication. If within said ninety days there shall have been filed a petition to submit to a vote of the people such law or any part thereof, such law or such part thereof shall not take effect until thirty days after its approval by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.

b. An emergency law shall remain in force, notwithstanding such petition, but shall stand repealed thirty days after being rejected by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.

c. An emergency law shall be any law declared by the legislature to be necessary for any immediate purpose by a two-thirds vote of the members of each house voting thereon, entered on their journals by the yeas and nays. No law making any appropriation for maintaining the state government or maintaining or aiding any public institution, not exceeding the next previous appropriation for the same purpose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under this section. The increase in any such appropriation shall only take effect as in case of other laws, and such increase, or any part thereof, specified in the petition may be referred to a vote of the people upon petition.

5. If measures which conflict with each other in any of their essential provisions are submitted at the same election, only the measure receiving the highest number of votes shall stand as the enactment of the people.