Amendments to Constitution 'Mfvr and wmin Proposed Statutes with Arguments Respecting the Same To be Submitted to the Electors of the State of California at the General Election on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1916 p Index, ballot titles with numbers, and certificate appear in last pages Proposed changes in provisions are printed in black-faced type Provisions proposed to be repealed are printed in italics CERTIFIED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND PRINTED AT THE STATE PRINTING OFFICE 1916 PROHIBITION. Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor. After January 1, 1920, prohibits VT?Q the manufacture, sale or possession of same, except for medicinal, sacramental, k scientific and mechanical purposes under restrictions prescribed by law. Pre- scribes and authorizes penalties. Declares payment of Internal Revenue tax 1 prima facie evidence of violation. Declares this amendment shall not affect prohibitory liquor laws, or ordinances, enacted before such date, or be construed as in conflict with Article XXIV-A of Constitution if latter article is adopted, and that this amendment supersedes that article on that date. The electors of the State of California present ) the secretary of state this petition, and re- uest that a proposed amendment to the Consti- ltion of the State of California, adding thereto new article, to be known and numbered as rticle twenty-four, as hereinafter set forth, be nbmitted to the people of the State of California )r their approval or rejection, at the next ensu- lg general' election, or as provided by law. The roposed amendment is as follows: he people of the State of California do enact as follows: A new article is hereby added to the Constitu- on of the State of California, to be known and umbered as Article XXIV, in the following ords : Proposed Amendment. ARTICLE XXIV. Section 1. After January 1, 1920, no alcoholic quor shall be manufactured, kept or sold in, or b introduced into, or be received within, the tate of California, except for medicinal, sacra- lental, scientific or mechanical purposes, and for ich excepted purposes only under such restric- ons as are now, or shall hereafter be, provided y law. Section 2. The term “alcoholic liquor,” as used l this article, shall include spirituous, vinous nd malt liquors and any other liquor or mixture f liquors which contains more than one-half of tie per cent by volume of alcohol, and which is Dt so mixed with other drugs as to prevent its se as a beverage. Section 3. Any person, whether acting as prin- pal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating any rovision of this article, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars $1000.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail ot exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine- nd imprisonment ; but any person found guilty f violating any provision of this article by con- Lction for an offense committed after a previous onviction under this article, shall be punished y a fine of not less than two hundred dollars $200.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred ollars ($2500.00) and by imprisonment in the aunty jail for not less than thirty days nor more lan one year. All alcoholic liquors found in the ossession of any person convicted of violating his article shall be destroyed. Additional pen- lties may be imposed by law. Section 4. The payment of the internal evenue special tax, required of liquor dealers y the United States, by any person or persons, ther than registered pharmacists and manufac- arers of alcoholic liquors, shall be prima facie evidence that such person or persons are ‘keeping and selling alcoholic liquors in violation of this article, and in any prosecution under this article a certificate from the collector of internal revenue, or from any of his deputies or agents, showing that such tax has been paid by the defendant, either alone or in association with others, shall be sufficient evidence of the payment of such tax.^ Section 5. Nothing in this article shall be so construed as to repeal, or in any way affect the force or validity of any provision of any law or ordinance now in force or enacted prior to Jan- uary 1, 1920, which prohibits the manufacture, sale, giving away or delivery of any alcoholic liquor ; nor shall this article be construed as in conflict with another amendment to the Constitu- tion of the State of California, which adds thereto a new article to be known as Article XXIV-A, and which prohibits all sale of alcoholic liquors after January 1, 1918, except by pharmacists and manufacturers under certain restrictions, if said amendment is adopted at the same time as this is adopted ; it being the intention that this amendment shall supersede such other amend- ment on January 1, 1920, and not until then. ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, DESIGNATED AS NO. 1. This amendment provides for prohibition be- ginning in 1920. It gives interested persons time to adjust themselves to the new policy. It does not interfere with making or selling liquors for medicinal, scientific or sacramental uses. Alcohol is a narcotic poison. Its use injures body, mind and character. It is a race-poison, which unfits for fatherhood and motherhood. Prohibition means better babies and a better race. The liquor traffic is essentially wasteful. Its overthrow means material as well as moral gain. Experience in other states proves that prohibition is desirable and practicable. The Seattle “Times” and Spokane “Chronicle” op- posed prohibition in 1914. They thought it im- practicable for large cities. After six months’ experience they admit their mistake, and testify to its good effects. Oregon bankers opposed prohibition in 1914. So did the Portland “Oregonian.” The “Ore- gonian” recently said: “Bankers are firm in the belief that prohibition has helped not only their business, but business generally.” Where prohibition has been tried the incon- venience has been slight. Business quickly re- adjusts itself and those out of jobs soon find [Three] better ones. The money saved from saloons goes into legitimate business. More buildings and workers are required to conduct this in- creased business than were formerly employed in selling liquor. The Spokane “Chronicle,” which opposed pro- hibition in 1914, now says that under prohibition unemployment is less than twelve months ago. Denver’s Bureau of Charities reports: “We have had much less trouble with unemployment this year than last, and requests for assistance average 100 per month less.” From all “dry” states comes testimony that prohibition works. Not one of the predicted calamities has been realized. Prohibition has proved good for our neighbors. It will be good for California. The rest of the Pacific Coast is “dry.” If California remains wet, it will become the cess- pool of the West. This must not be. Pro- hibition will keep California among the most attractive and prosperous states in the Union. To the charge that prohibition will hurt Cali- fornia by destroying the wine-grape market, we reply that wine grapes are a small part of Cali- fornia’s grape industry. Last year raisins sold for $10,000,000 ; table grapes for $9,500,000 ; while wine grapes brought about $3,000,000, and little of that was profit. Shall the curse of the liquor traffic with its cost in men and money be fas- tended upon California for a paltry $3,000,000? Putting California “dry” will hasten “national prohibition.” This will be an invaluable factor in national preparedness. Experience in coun- tries now at war makes this clear. Lloyd George declares that the efficiency of Russia’s army has been increased more than 25 per cent by prohibition, and that England’s greatest enemy in this war is alcohol. Addressing his naval cadets recently, Emperor William said: “The nation which uses the least alcohol will win the battles of the future.” A nation’s best defense is a sober citizenry. Vote “Yes.” Albert J. Wallace. ARGUMENT AGAINST THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, DESIGNATED AS NO. 1. The principle of prohibition is wrong, for it seeks through legal enactment to govern the natural appetites of man and to make all con- form to the method of living approved by a few. Wrong in principle, impossible to enforce, pro- hibition does not justify its existence. It has never decreased crime, encouraged thrift nor im- proved the public health. It is a well known fact that among the peasantry of France, who are great wine consumers, there is no intoxica- tion, and they are the longest lived people on earth. The completeness of the failure of prohibitio is conclusively shown by the fact 'that it h£ never accomplished the primary aim of its suj porters — a decrease in the consumption of drinl Impossible of enforcement, disastrous in its r( suits, why vote to place it on the statute boofc We have the Wyllie local option law and tt initiative and referendum, and if any incorp rated city or supervisor district wishes to ado local prohibition or regulate any particular pha. of the business, it has the power to do so. The record of prohibition in other stat< promises nothing in the way of improved soci or industrial conditions. On the other hand, i enactment in California would without doubt d< stroy one of our largest industries and throw o\ of work thousands who are now employed healthful and profitable occupations. It wou close 700 wineries, and would force Californ to brand as outlaws in their vocation the owne of 170,000 acres of wine grapes. It wou cripple thousands of raisin and table graj growers who sell to the wineries annually mo than $1,500,000 worth of grapes which can n be used for any other purpose. For sixty years the state and federal gover ments have fostered and protected the Californ wine industry. They have been instrumental inducing thousands of thrifty people to reclai unproductive hillsides and barren wastes. Th have peopled our valleys and mountain slop| with men and women of industrious and ter perate habits. Prohibition would confiscate the property and forbid their continuing an occup tion which has brought prosperity to the state. The three years period of grace given o growers to pull up their wine grapes and pla something else is a hollow concession, for much of the land used for viticulture nothi j but the vine will grow. [, Following the adoption of this amendme more than sixty large brewing plants would j closed down. The valuable local market fj California hops would be destroyed and Ca fornia barley growers would have to look elsij where for a market for their malting barley. | Even more serious than the destruction vineyards, wineries and breweries would be tl| fact that 293,000 Californians in all walks of lij would have to look elsewhere for their livelihoc 1 It is unthinkable that the voters of the grei| State of California will lend themselves to su/j confiscation of property and destruction of p a rolls and join the ranks of the states where tjl spying, persecution, perjury and personal strijj always associated with prohibition serve to haxj per progress and promote hjnpocrisy and decel’i Vote “No” on Amendment No. 1. I: James Madison, General Manager California Associated Ra.isin C [Four] AMENDMENT a( *ding Article XXIV-A to Constitu- tion. Defines alcoholic liquor ; after January 1, 1918, prohibits its possession, gift or sale in saloon, dramshop, dive, store, hotel, restaurant, club, dance-hall or other place of public resort; pro- hibits sale, accepting or soliciting orders anywhere, except in pharmacies for 2 certain purposes and by manufacturers on premises where manufactured, under delivery and quantity restrictions. Owner or manager of all such places to prevent drinking therein. Restricts transportation. Payment Internal Revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Neither repeals nor limits state or local prohibition, or Article XXIV of Constitution. NITIATIVE YES NO The electors of the State of California present > the secretary of state this petition, and request lat a proposed amendment to the Constitution ' the State of California, adding thereto a new rticle, to be known and numbered as article venty-four-A, as hereinafter set forth, be sub- dtted to the people of the State of California >r their approval or rejection, at the next ensu- ig general election, or as provided by law. The roposed amendment is as follows : he people of the State of California do enact as follows : A new article is hereby added to the Constitu- on of the State of California, to be known and umbered as Article XXIV-A, in the following ords : Proposed Amendment. ARTICLE XXIV-A. Section 1. After January 1, 1918, no alcoholic quor shall be kept, given away or sold in any iloon, dramshop, dive, store, hotel, restaurant, ife, club, dance hall or other place of public ssort, except in a pharmacy or on the premises 'here such liquor is manufactured ; nor shall any ach liquor be sold or given away on or in any treet, alley, park or public place. Section 2. After January 1, 1918, no person, rm, corporation or association,’ which owns or manages any of the places mentioned in the pre- ious section or any other place of public resort, hall permit the drinking of any alcoholic liquor herein. This section applies to pharmacies and remises where liquor is manufactured, as well s to the other places mentioned in said previous ection. Section 3. After January 1, 1918, no person, rm, corporation or association shall sell any lcoholic liquor or shall solicit or accept an order or any such liquor anywhere in the State of lalifornia, except in a pharmacy or on the remises where such liquors are manufactured. Section 4. After January 1, 1918, no alcoholic quor shall be sold or given away at any phar- lacy except for medicinal, sacramental, scientific r mechanical purposes, under such restrictions s are now or shall hereafter be provided by rw ; and no such liquor shall be given away or old by manufacturers in any quantity less than svo gallons, and said manufacturers shall not eliver any such liquor except as follows : (a) To common carriers for shipment to the I urchaser ; ' (b) To pharmacists at their pharmacies; I (c) To the permanent residence of purchasers. | Section 6. After January 1, 1918, no alcoholic i quor shall be transported into or within the Itate of California in any quantity less than two i allons, except when obtained at a pharmacy as ■rovided in section, four hereof ; and after said date no such liquor shall be received or accepted within the State of California from any common carrier in any quantity less than two gallons. Section 6. The term “alcoholic liquor,” as used in this article, shall include spirituous, vinous and malt liquors and any other liquor or mixture of liquors which contains more than one- half of one per cent by volume of alcohol, and which is not so mixed with other drugs as to prevent its use as a beverage. Section 7. Any person, whether acting as prin- cipal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating any provision of this article, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1000.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment ; but any person found guilty of violating any provision of this article by conviction for an offense committed after a previous conviction under this article, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00) and by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year. All alcoholic liquors kept in violation of this article shall, upon con- viction of the owner or manager of the place where such liquors are kept, be destroyed. Addi- tional penalties may be imposed by law. Section 8. The payment of the internal revenue special tax, required of liquor dealers by the United States, by any person or persons, other than registered pharmacists and manu- facturers of alcoholic liquors, shall be prima facie evidence that such person or persons are keeping and selling alcoholic liquors in violation of this article, and in any prosecution under this article a certificate from the collector of internal revenue, or from any of his deputies or agents, showing that such tax has been paid by defend- ant, either alone or in association with others, shall be sufficient evidence of the payment of such tax. Section 9. Nothing in this article shall be con- strued as prohibiting the distribution or use of wine at the sacramental service of any religious organization. Section 10. This article shall not be so con- strued as to repeal any provision of any law or ordinance now in force prohibiting the manufac- ture, sale, giving away or delivery of any alcoholic liquor ; nor shall it be construed as limiting the power of the state, or of any munici- pality or other political subdivision of the state, immediately to prohibit the manufacture, impor- tation, transportation, sale or service of such liquor ; nor shall it be construed as in conflict with another amendment to the Constitution of the State of California, which adds thereto a new article, to be known as Article XXIV and which prohibits the manufacture, keeping or selling in, or introducing into, the State of California of any IFiYe] alcoholic liquor after January 1, 1920, with cer- tain exceptions, if said amendment is adopted at the same time as this is adopted, it being the intention that said amendment, if adopted, shall supersede this on January 1, 1920 ; but if this be adopted and said proposed Article XXIY be not adopted/ -this article shall have full force and effect after said January 1, 1920, as well as before that date. ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF INITIATIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2. This amendment will close saloons, and stop the service of liquor in /public places. It will not interfere* with the manufacture, importing or exporting of liquors, nor prevent people from buying liquor in California, pro- vided they buy directly from the manufacturer in two-gallon, or larger, lots to be delivered at the buyer’s residence. It will have no appreciable effect upon Cali- fornia’s wine industry. Theodore A. Bell, then attorney for the wine interests, stated in 1914 that of 42,000,000 gallons of wine produced in California in 1913, 40,000,000 gallons were shipped elsewhere. Of the small part left in California, only that consumed in public places would be affected by this amendment. Fresno county, with more than 40,000,000 grapevines and many large wineries, is dry under the local option law. Grape growers know that public drinking places hurt their homes and their business, and have voted them out. This amendment will do for the whole state what Fresno grape growers have done for themselves. The chief argument against it is that it will discourage tourists from coming to California, and so hurt hotels. This has not happened else- where. Before Colorado went dry, her citizens dis- covered that tourists remained in wet Denver an average of one and 'one-half days, and in dry Colorado Springs three and one-half days. Governor Carlson says this was an important factor influencing the people to vote dry. Chester H. Rowell, in the Fresno “Repub- lican,” says: “The great majority of California tourists come from conditions and homes in which wine is not customary.” He also points out that the total revenue from wine sold in hotels would not pay for the paint on the hoops of 1 wine barrels. The injury done to hotels by this measure would be as nothing compared with the gain to the state. Liquor-serving hotels and restau- rants are frequently the worst element in city life. Many of them become assignation houses whose chief profit is from vice. Even the re- spectable ones have their lapses. When the Palace Hotel’ * reopened in San Francisco the Sacramento “Bee” wrote thus of the celebra- tion: “A San Francisco exchange states that women flocked to the barroom as soon as t v e conventions began to give way; that they stood at the bar in rows; that they drank and shook dice — grandmothers, mothers and maidens.” When this could happen in a respectable hotel, what must conditions be in disreputable hotels? If the curse of saloons and French cafes is to be removed, the public drinking place must go. That is what this amendment will accomplish. It will close the dive, stop the treating custom, separate drink from public dancing, lessen danger from drunken automobile drivers, and take saloons out of politics. Neighboring states have found that closing saloons improves business, reduces crime, anf makes conditions better for the average man, and marvelously better for women and children! California’s dry communities have had a similar experience. Why not try it for the whole state? Vote “Yes.” Arthur Arlett. ARGUMENT AGAINST INITIATIVE AMEND- MENT NO. 2. Offered to California voters as an anti-saloon measure, this amendment is false to the name its supporters have given it, for it would wipe out every established channel or avenue of trade within the state for the sale or distribution of the product of the wine grape vineyard and hop field. It eliminates any branch or agency of a winery or brewery; it prohibits the soliciting of orders, prevents the handling of wine or beer by the gallon or bottle in grocery or other stores, forbids the serving of wine or beer with meals in restaurants, clubs and hotels, and would make felons of those who followed the custom of serv- ing wine or beer at public functions and ban- quets. It goes so far as to prevent the sampling or tasting of wine at the place of manufacture, and it forbids the contemplating purchaser from going to a winery or brewery and taking away with him any quantity he may wish to buy. The liberty it gives to the winery and brewery is poor solace. It tells the producers that they may make as much as they please, and then pro- ceeds to place almost every obstacle in the way of allowing them to market what they produce. Its restrictions are such that only the well-to-do can avail themselves of the opportunity to pur- chase. The amendment provides that these restric- tions shall be in force on and after January 1, 1918, which would bring prohibition two years sooner than provided for in the first amendment. The effect of this amendment would be as dis- astrous to the legitimate winery and brewery, to the vineyards and the hop fields as prohibition. Amendment No. 1. It would place legitimate business in the embarrassing and ludicrous po- sition of appealing for trade outside of the boundaries of the state and of saying to visitors, “If you stay out of California you may have our wines and beers, but if you come to California, they will be denied you.” The hotel industry would be given a deadly blow, especially in the case of the great tourist hotels. Instead of coming to California to spend, perhaps to invest their money and often to make their homes, thousands of tourists would go annually to other parts of the country and world where they could enjoy their holidays without being made subject to laws of which they do not approve and threatened with arrest and prosecu- tion for following habits to which they have always been accustomed. A law making such unjust discriminations be- tween residents and visitors, between the rich man who is able to maintain a wine cellar, and the workingman who is not able to do so, will not command public respect, will be incapable of enforcement and will bring all laws into disre- pute - : Prohibitiori, if tried here, will prove the dismal failure it has been in other states. Though at one time or another in force in 34 states, it has never decreased crime or insanity, improved in- dustrial conditions nor even accomplished the first of its avowed purposes — a decrease in the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Vote “No” on Amendment No. 2. * James Madison, General Manager California Associated Raisin Co [Six] FOE THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT OF 1915. ™ 9 p»- vides for the issuance and sale of state bonds in the sum of $15,000,000 for the construction of the uncompleted portions of the system of state highways prescribed by the State Highways Act of 1909 and extensions thereof ; and prescribes such exten- sions, and character of construction of same. 3 AGAINST THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT OF 1915. An act authorizing the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance and control of the uncompleted portions of the system of state highways prescribed and contemplated by an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction, acquisition, maintenance and control of a system of state highways in the State of California; specifying the work, fixing the payments to be made by counties for moneys expended therein; providing for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction and ac- quisition of such system; creating a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds; and providing for the submission of this act to a vote of the people,” approved March 22, 1909, and approved, ratified and adopted by the people of the State of California at the general election held in the month of No- vember, A. D., 1910, and known and cited as the “State Highways Act,” and certain extensions therefrom; specifying the work, fixing the payments to be made by counties for moneys expended therein; providing for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction, improve- ment and acquisition of the uncompleted portions of said system and certain exten- sions therefrom; creating a revolving fund to be used by the state department of engi- neering for the purposes of this act; creating a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds; and providing for the submission of this act to a vote of the people. [Submitted to the people by the legislature of the State of California, at its regular session commencing on the 4th day of January, 1915.] The people of the State of California do enact as follows: Section 1. The fund created for the construc- tion and acquisition of a system of state high- ways by an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction, acquisition, maintenance and con- trol of a system of state highways in the State of California; specifying the work, fixing the payments to be made by counties for moneys expended therein; providing for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the con- struction and acquisition of such system; creat- ing a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds; and providing for the submission of this act to a vote of the people,” approved March 22, 1909, and approved, ratified and adopted by the people of the State of California at the general election held in the month of November, A. D. 1910, and known and cited as the “State High- ways Act,” being inadequate to fully carry out the objects of said act, the uncompleted por- tions of said system prescribed by said “State Highways Act” and certain extensions there- from hereinafter specified shall be constructed, improved and acquired as and in the manner provided by law by the department of engineer- ing of said state at a cost not to exceed fifteen million dollars. For the purpose of providing for thg payment of the cost of the construction, improvement or acquisition necessary for and in completing said system of said highways and supplementing the fund created by said “State Highways Act,” the State of California is hereby authorized to incur an indebtedness in the man- ner provided by this act in the sum of fifteen million dollars. Immediately after the issuance of the procla- mation of the governor, as provided in section eleven of this act, the treasurer of the state shall prepare fifteen thousand suitable bonds of the State of California in the denomination of one thousand dollars each, to be numbered from 1 to 15,000 inclusive, and to bear the date of the third day of July, 1917. The total issue of said bonds shall not exceed the sum of fifteen million dollars and they shall bear interest at the rate of four and one-half per cent per annum from the date of issuance thereof. The said bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of value either at the office of the treasurer of said state or, at the option of the holder, at the fiscal agency for the State of California in the city of New York in the state of New York, at the times and in the manner following, to wit: The first three hundred seventy-five of said bonds shall be due and payable on the third day of July, 1923, and three hundred seventy-five of said bonds in consecutive numerical order shall be due and payable on the third day of July in each and every year thereafter until and including the third day of July, 1962. The interest accruing on all of said bonds that shall be sold shall be payable either at the office of the treasurer of the state or at said fiscal agency, as the holder may elect, on the third day of January and the third day of July of each and every year after the sale of the same. The interest on all bonds issued and sold shall cease on the day of their maturity and the said bonds so issued and sold shall on the day of their maturity be paid as herein provided and canceled by the treasurer of said state. All bonds remaining unsold shall, at the date of the maturity thereof be by the treasurer of the state canceled and destroyed. All bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be signed by the governor of this state, counter-' signed by the state controller and endorsed by the state treasurer, and the said bonds shall be [Seven] ao signed, countersigned and endorsed by the officers who are in office on the third day of July, 1917, and each of said bonds shall have the great seal of the State of California impressed thereon. The said bonds signed, countersigned, endorsed and sealed as herein provided, when sold, shall be and constitute a valid and binding obligation upon the State of California, though the sale thereof be made at a date or dates after the person so signing, countersigning and endors- ing, or either of them, shall have ceased to be the incumbents of said office or offices. See. 2. Appended to each of said bonds there shall be interest coupons so attached that the same may be detached without injury to or mutilation of said bond. The said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and shall bear the lithographed signature of the state treasurer who shall be in office on the third day of July, 1917. No interest shall be paid on any of said bonds for such time as may intervene between the date of said bond and the date of sale thereof, unless such accrued interest shall have been, by the purchaser of said bond, paid to the state at the time of such sale. Sec. 3. The legislature shall provide by ap- propriation sufficient money to defray all ex- penses that shall be incurred by the state treasurer in the preparation of said bonds and in the advertising of the sale thereof, as in this act provided. Sec. 4. When the bonds authorized by this act to be issued shall have been signed, counter- signed, endorsed and sealed as in section one provided, the state treasurer shall sell the same in such parcels and numbers as the gov- ernor of the state shall direct, to the highest bidder for cash. The governor of the state shall issue to the state treasurer such direction imme- diately after being requested so to do, through and by a resolution duly adopted and passed by a majority vote of the advisory board of the department of engineering. Said resolution shall specify the amount of money which, in the judgment of said advisory board, shall be re- quired at such time, and the governor of the state shall direct the state treasurer to sell such number of said bonds as may be required to raise said amount of money and that said bonds shall be sold in consecutive numerical order commencing with the first three hundred seventy-five thereof. The state -treasurer shall not accept any bid which is less than the par value of the bond plus the interest which has accrued thereon between the date of sale and the last preceding interest maturity date. The state treasurer may at the time and place fixed by him for said sale continue such sale as to the whole or any part of the bonds offered to such time and place as he ma 3 r at the time of such continuance designate. Before offering any of said bonds for sale, the said ‘treasurer shall detach therefrom all coupons which have matured or will mature before the date fixed for such sale. The state treasurer shall give notice of the time and place of sale by publica- tion in two newspapers published in the city and county of San Francisco and in one newspaper published in the city of Oakland, and in one' newspaper published in the city of Los Angeles and in one newspaper published in the city of Sacramento once a week for four weeks next preceding the date fixed for such sale. In addition to the notice last above provided for, the state treasurer may give such further notice as he may deem advisable, but the expenses and cost of such additional notice shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars for each sale so advertised. There is hereby created in and for the state treasury a fund to be known and designated as . the “Second State Highway Fund,” and imme- , diately after such sale of bonds the treasurer of the state shall pay into the state treasury , and cause to be placed in said second state high- way fund the total amount received for said bonds, except such amount as may have been | paid as accrued interest thereon. The amount * that shall have been paid at such sale as accrued interest on the bonds sold shall be by the treas- i urer of the state, immediately after such sale, a paid into the treasury of the state and placed ; in the “Second State Highway Interest and Sink- » ing Fund,” which is hereby created. Of the moneys placed in the said second state highway fund, pursuant to the provisions of this section, the sum of twelve million dollars, ' or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available, and shall be used ex- clusively for the acquisition of rights of way for i and the acquisition, construction and improve- ment of the uncompleted portions of the system " of state highways prescribed by said “State/ Highways Act.” And of said moneys so placed $ in said second state highway fund, the sum of ' three million dollars, or so much thereof as may5 be necessary, is hereby made available and - shall be used exclusively for the acquisition of rights of way for, and the acquisition, construe- t tion and improvement of certain extensions from said system of state highways prescribed by said “State Highways Act” as follows: An , extension connecting the interior and coast ; trunk lines in northern California through Trin- | ity and Humboldt counties by the most direct and practical route; an extension connecting the San Joaquin valley trunk line at a point between the city of Merced in Merced county, and the city of Madera, in Madera county, with the * coast trunk line at or near the city of Gilroy in Santa Clara county, through Pacheco pass, by the most direct and practical route; an extension of the Mariposa county state highway lateral to I or near the railway station El Portal, in Mari-j posa county; an extension connecting the San'j Joaquin valley trunk line in Tulare county with the coast trunk line in Monterey county, by the continuation of the lateral between the cities of Visalia and Hanford through Coalinga by the most direct and practical route ; an extension connecting the San Joaquin valley trunk line at or near Bakersfield with the coast trunk line in San Luis Obispo county, through Cholame pass, by the most direct and practical route; an extension of the San Bernardino county state highway lateral to Barstow, in San Bernardino county, by the most direct and practical route; an extension connecting Antelope valley, in the county of Los Angeles, with the city of Los Angeles, by the most direct and practical route; and an extension of the San Bernardino county state highway lateral to the Arizona state line near the town of Yuma, Arizona, via the cities of Brawley and El Centro in Imperial county, by the most direct and practical route ; provided, , nowever, that expenses of the acquisition, con—- struction and improvement of the extensions above enumerated and the acquisition of rights of way therefor, shall be partly borne by thql county or counties in which such extensions lie,! the extent and character of such division of ex-Jj penses between the state and county shall rest for final determination with the state depart-J ment of engineering and said department isg hereby authorized to enter into such agreed ments and undertakings as are necessary to properly carry out the intent of this section. \ The route or routes of said state highways to [Eight] be acquired, constructed or improved under the provisions of this act shall be selected by the department of engineering in the manner pro- vided by and to carry out the objects of said “State Highways Act” and in the manner pro- vided by and to carry out the objects of this act. Moneys shall be drawn from said second state highway fund for the purposes of this act upon warrants duly drawn by the controller of the state upon demands made by the department of engineering and allowed and audited by the state board of control ; provided; however, that out of the proceeds of the first sale of bonds made hereunder the state controller and the state treasurer shall transfer upon their respective books the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the credit of the “State Highway Revolving Fund,” which fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The moneys in said state high- way revolving fund, or such part thereof as the advisory board of the department of engineering shall deem necessary, may be expended, from time to time, upon the demands of the depart- ment of engineering, approved by the state board of control, for the purpose of making cash payments in advance for such expenditures as are necessary and proper to carry out the pro- visions of this act. Upon receipt of such de- mands, so approved, it shall be the duty of the state controller to draw his warrant upon said “State Highway Revolving Fund” in favor of the person or persons therein named, and the state treasurer shall pay the same. On or before the tenth day of each month thereafter, the department of engineering shall submit to the state board of control a verified, itemized state- ment, showing all expenditures during the pre- ceding calendar month of the moneys so withdrawn from said “State Highway Revolving Fund,” accompanied by proper vouchers and receipts therefor. Such statements shall be audited by the state board of control in the same manner that claims against the state are audited, and, if found to be correct, shall be approved by the state board of control and trans- mitted to the state controller with such approval endorsed thereon. The state controller shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the “Second State Highway Fund” in favor of the department of engineering for the aggregate amount of such expenditures, and upon the surrender of such warrant properly endorsed, the state treasurer shall transfer the amount thereof upon the books of his office from the said “Second State High- way Fund” to the said “State Highway Revolv- ing Fund,” to be expended as aforesaid. Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund in the state treasury such sum annually as will be necessary to pay the principal af and the interest on the bonds, issued and sold pursuant to the provisions of this act, as said principal and interest becomes due and payable. There shall be collected annually in the same nanner and at the same time as other state 'evenue is collected such a sum, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state as shall be 'equired to pay the principal and interest on said jonds as herein provided, and it is hereby made .he duty of all officers charged by law with any luty in regard to the collection of said revenue, o do and perform each and every act Which shall >e necessary to collect such additional sum. The treasurer of the state shall, on the first lay of January, 1918, and on the first day of iach July and the first day of each January hereafter transfer from the general fund of the rtate treasury to the “Second State Highway interest and Sinking Fund” such an amount of the money by this act appropriated as shall be required to pay the interest on the bonds thereto- fore sold, until the interest on all of said bonds so sold shall have been paid or shall have become due in accordance with the provisions of this act. There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known and designated as the “Second State Highway Sinking Fund.” The treasurer of the state shall on the first day of July of the year 1923, and on the first day of July, of each, any and every year thereafter in which a parcel of the bonds sold pursuant to the provisions of this act shall become due, transfer from the general fund of the state treasury to the said second state highway sinking fund such an amount of the moneys appropriated by this act as may be required to pay the principal of the bonds so becoming due and payable in such years. Sec. 6. The principal of all of said bonds sold shall be be paid at the time the same becomes due, from the second state highway sinking fund, and the interest on all bonds sold shall be paid at the time said interest becomes due, from the sec- ond state highway interest and sinking fund. Both principal and interest shall be so paid upon warrants duly drawn by the controller of the state upon demands audited by the state board of control, and the faith of the State of Cali- fornia is hereby pledged for the payment of the principal of said bonds so sold, and the interest accruing thereon. Sec. 7. The state controller and state treas- urer shall keep full and particular account and record of all their proceedings under this act and they shall transmit to the governor in tripli- cate an abstract of all such proceedings there- under with an annual report in triplicate, one copy of each to be by the governor, laid before each house of the legislature biennially. All books and papers pertaining to the matter pro- vided for in this act shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of any party interested, or the governor, or the attorney general, or a com- mittee of either branch of the legislature or a joint committee of both or any citizen of the state. Sec. 8. The highway constructed on acquired under the provisions of this act shall be perma- nent in character and be finished with oil or macadam or a combination of both, or of such other material as in the judgment of the said department of engineering shall be most suitable and best adapted to the particular locality tra- versed. The state department of engineering, in the name of the people of the State of California, may purchase, or receive by donation or dedica- tion from counties, or from public or private persons, or it may lease, any right of way, rock quarry or land necessary or proper for the con- struction, use, improvement or maintenance of said state highway and shall proceed, if neces- sary, to condemn under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to such pro- ceedings any necessary or proper right of way, rock quarry or land. The department of engi- neering in accordance with law shall have power and authority to purchase, sell, exchange, lease or otherwise acquire or dispose of all supplies, stock, material, machinery and implements and do all other things necessary or proper in the construction, improvement or maintenance of said state highway. The department of engineer- ing in accordance with law shall have power and authority to purchase, lease, or erect plants for manufacture of cement, crushed rock and other materials used in road or highway work, and also the power to dispose of said plants when no 2-^ca [Nine] longer required for such purposes. With the exception of those public highways which have been permanently improved under county or permanent road division bond issues within nine years prior to the adoption of this act, all public highways within this state lying within the right of way of said state highway as determined and adopted by the department of engineering shall be and the same shall become a part of the right of way of said state highway, without compensa- tion being paid therefor ; provided, nothing herein contained shall require the state to maintain any highway along or on said right of way, prior to the completion or acquisition of the permanent improvements contemplated by this act. When- ever any money received from the sale of bonds, under the provisions of this act, shall be ex- pended in any county in this state, such county must pay into the state treasury such sum each year as shall equal the interest, at the rate of four and one-half per cent per annum, upon the entire sum of money expended from the proceeds of the bonds issued under this act within such county in the construction of said state highway, less such portion of said amount expended as the bonds matured under the provisions of this act shall bear to the total number of bonds sold and outstanding; provided, however, that in all cases where, by reason of physical difficulties to be overcome, or other good and sufficient cause, the stafe department of engineering shall determine that the cost of construction of any portion of such state highway in any county, or counties, is so great as to entail an unjust and inequitable burden upon any such county, or counties, in refunding to the state the sums so paid for inter- est upon the bonds sold and the proceeds thereof applied as aforesaid, such county, or counties, shall not be required to refund the whole amount of such interest, but only such proportion thereof as the state department of engineering shall adjudge to be fair and reasonable. All highways constructed or acquired under the provisions of this act shall be permanently maintained and controlled by the State of California. Sec. 9. This act, if adopted by the people, shall take effect on the thirty-first day of Decem- ber, 1916, as to all its provisions except those relating to, and necessary for, its submission to the people and for returning, canvassing and proclaiming the votes, and as to said excepted provisions this act shall take effect ninety days after the final adjournment of the present session of the legislature. Sec. 10. This act shall be submitted to the people of the State of California for their rati- fication at the next general election to be holden in the month of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and all ballots at such election shall have printed thereon the words “For the State Highway Act of 1915” and such other designa- tion as may be necessary to properly identify this act. In a square immediately below the square containing s§Lid words there shall be printed on said ballot the words “Against the State Highway Act of 1915.” Opposite the words “For the State Highway Act of 1915” and “Against the State Highway Act of 1915,” there shall be left spaces * in which the voters may make or stamp a cross to indicate whether they, vote for or against this act, and those voting for said act shall do so by placing a cross opposite the words “For the State Highway Act of 1915” and those voting against said act shall do so by placing a cross opposite the words “Against the State Highway Act of 1915.” The governor of this state shall include the submission of this act to the people as aforesaid, in his proclamation calling for said general election. Sec. 11. The votes cast for or against this act shall be counted, returned and canvassed and declared in the same manner and subject to the same rules as votes cast for state officers, and if it appears that said act shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election, as aforesaid, then the same shall have effect as hereinbefore provided and shall be irrepealable until the principal and in- terest of the liabilities herein created shall be paid and discharged, and the governor shall make proclamation thereof. But if a majority of the votes cast, as aforesaid, are against this act then the same shall be and become void. Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the secretary < of state to have this act published in at least one j newspaper in each county, or city and county, it ’ one be published therein, throughout this state, < for three months next preceding the general elec-1 tion to be holden in the month of November, i A. D. nineteen hundred and sixteen ; the cost of , publication shall be paid out of the general fund , } on controller’s warrants duly drawn for thej purpose. Sec. 13. This a’ct shall be known and cited as' the “State Highways Act of 1915.” Sec. 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict ^ with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. ARGUMENTS iN FAVOR OF STATE HIGH- WAYS ACT OF 1915. This act provides for a bond issue of fifteen! million dollars to complete the system of stated highways outlined in the first highway act, rati-) fied by vote of the people in November, 1910. In addition to the original system, this act! provides for certain cross state tie-ups and ex-yj tensions ; roads imperatively needed, but beyond the current resources of the state. If our splendid system of highways is to be' completed, it should be done as a continuous^ job, instead of scrapping the equipment and or-! ganization which have taken years and money to create. The completion of our highway system, so conspicuously well begun, stands as the first great work before us, if the development of our ■ state is not to be hampered. Good roads and ' rapid development are synonymous ; they reduce our hauling costs from 30 cents to 8 cents per ton mile. Our scenic mountain assets can not be cashed ' without the mountain laterals to be built under this act. The expense of this bond issue is not levied, against your home or farm; the bonds are re-, tired from the state corporation taxes. This is a measure for the benefit of all the state, and which merits the support of all. her'i citizens, regardless of party creed, who have the - state’s interest at heart. William A. Avey, Assemblyman Seventy-seventh District. Road systems measure the success of com-;; petitive communities. California is competing for desirable population and capital investment. The legislature of 1909 submitted to the people a proposed system of roads, the estimated cost of which was above fifty million dollars. In 1910, the people adopted this system and appro- priated one-third the estimated cost, or eighteen millions, for purposes of construction. This one-third the estimated cost has, by good management, completed three-fifths the proposed system. That the construction is of a high type and at a minimum expenditure is the verdict of the world’s best road experts. The proposed fifteen million dollar bond issue will complete the system laid out under the measure of 1910 and provide funds to construct laterals whereby rapid and comfortable transit will be provided from interior to coast as well as to extend the original system to the Arizona state line. The state’s proper industrial and agricultural development demands the completion of the sys-| tern along the lines authorized by the people in 1910, and we can not afford to repudiate the de- ! cision we made at that time for good roads.. N Every logical consideration counsels the passage' of the measure. • Fred C. Scott, Assemblyman Fifty-fifth District. ‘ [Ten] DIRECT PRIMARY LAW. Submitted to electors by referendum. Amends provisions of Direct Primary Law of 1913 governing nominations at primary elections so as to permit declaration of party affiliation by elector at polls instead of when registering ; prescribes official ballot containing names of all candidates ; electors declaring at polls affiliation with party to vote for candidates of that party only and for present non-partisan offices, electors not so declaring to vote for non-partisan offices only; requires election officer, before delivering ballot to elector, to cancel such portion thereof as elector is not entitled to vote. YES NO Whereas, the legislature of the State of Cali- fornia, in extra session in January, 1916, passed, and the governor of the State of California, on the 11th day of January, 1916, approved a cer- tain act, which act, together with its title, is in the words and figures following, to wit : An act to amend an act entitled “An act to pro- vide for and regulate primary elections, and providing a method for choosing the dele- gates for political parties to state conventions and for nominating electors of president and vice-president of the United States, and pro- viding for the election of party county cen- tral committee^, and to repeal the act ap- proved April 7, 1911, known as the direct primary law, and also to repeal the act approved December 24, 1911, amending sec- tions one, three, five, seven, ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four of the said direct primary law, and also to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this act” ; approved June 16, 1913, by amending sections one, two, four, five, seven, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, six- teen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twen- ty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty- five, twenty-eight, thirty, and thirty-three thereof. The people of the State of California do enact as follows : Proposed Amendments. Section 1. Section one of an act entitled “An act to provide for and regulate primary elections, and providing a method for choosing the dele- gates for political parties to state conventions and for nominating electors of president and vice-president of the United States,, and pro- viding for the election of party county central committees, and to repeal the act approved April 7, 1911, known as the direct primary law, and also to repeal the act approved December 24, 1911, amending sections one, three, five, seven, ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four of the said direct primary law, and also to repeal all other acts or Darts of acts inconsistent with or in conflict with the pro- visions of this act,” approved June 16, 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 1. Words and phrases where used in this act shall, unless such construction be incon- sistent with the context, be construed as follows : 1. The words “primary election,” any and every primary nominating election provided for by this act. 2. The words “August primary election,” the primary election held in August to nominate can- didates to be voted for at the enduing November election or to elect members of a party central committee or delegates to a party convention. 3. The words “May presidential primary elec- tion,” any such primary election, held in May of each year of the general November election at which electors of president and vice-president of the United States are to' be chosen, as shall pro- vide for the indication of preferehce in the several political parties for party candidates for president of the United States through the elec- tion of delegates to national party conventions. 4. The word “election,” a general state, county, city or city and county election as distinguished from a primary election, recall election, or special election. 5. The words “November election,” either the presidential election, or the general state, county, or city and county election held in November of each even numbered year. 6. The words “judicial officer,” any justice of the supreme court, justice of a district court of appeal, judge of the superior court, justice of the peace, or justice of such inferior court as the legislature may establish in any county, town- ship, incorporated city or town, or city and county ; and the words “judicial office,” the office filled by any of the above judicial officers. 7. The words “school officer,” the superintend- ent of public instruction and the superintendent of schools of a county or city and county ; and the words “school office,” the office filled by any of the above school officers. 8. The words “county officer,” any officer elected within the boundaries of any county or city and county, except a member of the state senate or assembly or a member of the house of representatives of the congress of the United States or a member of any party county central committee or delegate to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district ; and the words “county office,” the office filled by any county officer. The words “township officer,” any such county officer as is elected within the boundaries of any judicial township that is now or may be hereafter provided by law ; and the words “town- ship office,” the office filled by any township officer. 9. The word or words “political party,” “party,” “political organization,” or “organiza- tion,” a political party or organization of electors which has qualified, as hereinafter provided, for participation in any primary election ; and such party or organization shall be deemed to have so qualified when one or both of the following con- ditions have been complied with : (a) If at the last preceding November election there was polled for any one of its candidates who was the candidate of such party only for any office voted on throughout the state, at least three per cent of the entire vote of the state, or for any one of its candidates who was the joint candidate of such party and any other party for [Eleven] any office voted on throughout the state, at least six per cent of the entire vote of the state ; or (b) If on or before a date which shall be the fiftieth day before any primary election, there shall be filed with the secretary of state a petition signed by registered qualified electors of the state, equal in number to at least three per cent of the entire vote of the state at the last pre- ceding November election, declaring that they represent a political party or organization the name of which shall be stated therein, which party said electors desire to have participate in such primary election; such petition to be circu- lated, signed, and the signatures thereon^ of the registered electors certified to and transmitted to the secretary of state by the county clerks sub- stantially as provided in section five of this act, for the circulation, signing, certification, and transmission of nomination papers for state officers ; providing, however, that no electors or organization of electors shall assume a party name or designation which shall be so similar to the name of an existing party or organization as to mislead voters. This statute shall be liberally construed, so that the real will of the electors shall not be defeated by any informality or failure to comply with all the provisions of this law. In each county and city and county in this state, having a registrar of voters or registrar of voters and a board of election commissioners, the powers conferred and the duties imposed in this statute upon a county clerk and his deputies, and other officers, in relation to matters of elec- tion and polling places, shall be exercised and performed by such registrar of voters or his deputies, or registrar of voters or his deputies and board of election commissioners ; and all nominating papers, list of candidates, expenses, and oaths of office, required by this statute to be made to county clerks, shall be filed with the registrar of voters. Sec. 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 2. All candidates nominated at a primary election for elective public offices shall be nomi- nated by direct vote at such election held in accordance with the provisions of this act ; pro- vided, that electors of president and vice-presi- dent of the United States shall be nominated as provided in subdivision two of section twenty- four of this act. This act shall not apply to recall elections or to special elections to fill vacancies ; nor to the nomination of officers of municipalities, counties, or cities and counties whose charters provide a system for nominating candidates for such officers ; nor the nomination of officers for any district not formed for munici- pal purposes; nor to the nomination of free- holders to be elected for the purpose of framing a charter; nor to the nomination of officers for cities of the fifth and sixth classes, nor to the nomination of school district officers. Sec. 3. Section four of said act ,is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 4. 1. At least forty days before the time of holding the August primary election in 1916 and biennially thereafter, the secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to each county clerk and to the registrar of voters in any city and county a notice in writing designating all the offices, except township offices, for which candi- dates are to be nominated at such primary elec- tion together with the names of the political parties qualified to participate in such election. 2. Within ten days after receipt of such notice such county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall publish once in each week for two successive weeks in not more than two newspapers published in such county or city and county so much thereof as may be applicable to his county, including a statement of the town- ship offices in the county for which candidates are to be nominated, and a statement of ffie number of members of the county central com- mittee to be elected by each political party in each supervisorial or assembly district, as the case may be, according to the provisions of sub- division four of section twenty-four of this act. 3. In the case of primary elections other than the August primary elections the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body of the political subdivision for which such primary election shall be held shall cause one publication of such notice to be given, such publication to be not more than forty and not less than fourteen days before such primary election. Sec. 4. Section five of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 5. 1. The name of no candidate shall be printed on an official ballot to be used at any primary election unless at least forty days prior to the primary election, if the candidate is to be voted for at the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, and at least twenty-five days prior to the primary election, if the candidate is to be voted for at a primary election other than the August or May primary election, a nomination paper nominating such candidate shall have been prepared, circulated, signed, verified and left with the county clerk for examination, or for examination and filing, in the manner provided by this act. 2. (a) The candidate may appoint verification deputies to serve within the county or city and county in which such deputies reside in securing signatures to his nomination paper for nomina- tion to the office for which he is a candidate, and the verification deputies thus appointed shall be recognized as the duly authorized verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate in such county or city and county. The document in which such veri- fication deputies are appointed as herein pro- vided shall be filed with the county clerk of the county or city and county in which such verifica- tion deputies reside, at or before the time the nomination paper of the candidate is left with the county clerk for filing or for examination as provided in subdivision four of this section. Said document shall be in substantially the following form : I, the undersigned, a candidate for the __ — party nomination for the office of which nomination is to be made by direct vote at a primary election to be held on the day of August, 19 , do hereby appoint the following registered qualified electors of the county of as verification deputies to obtain signatures in said county to a nomination paper placing me in nomination as a candidate of said party for said office of Verification Deputies. Name. Residence. (Signature) (Residence) Filed in the office of the county clerk of county this day of _19- £ounty clerk . By” , Deputy. [Twelve] In case it is desired to appoint additional veri- fication deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the words “ party,'’ and the words “of said party,” shall be omitted from said document. Or, as an alternative to the foregoing portion of this sec- tion and subdivision, verification deputies may be appointed in behalf of a candidate as follows : 2. (b) Any five qualified electors of any county or city and county may join in proposing a candidate for nomination to any office to be voted on in such county or city and county at the next ensuing primary election, and in appointing verification deputies to serve within such county or city and county in securing signa- tures to the nomination paper of such candidate for such office. If the office is an office the can- didate for which is to be voted on in more than one county, he may be proposed for nomination as herein provided by five of the registered quali- fied electors in each of the counties in which such electors may desire to circulate a nomination paper in his behalf. The signatures of the said five qualified electors shall be verified free of charge before any officer authorized to admin- ister an oath, and the document containing such signatures shall be filed with the county clerk of the county or city and county in which said five qualified electors reside, at or before the time the nomination paper of the candidate is left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for filing or for examination as provided in sub- division four of this section. In said document the five signers shall make a statement that the party for nomination by which they are pro- posing the candidate is the same party as that with which they intend to affiliate at the en- suing primary election; and shall make affidavit that the candidate therein named for the office therein specified has given his consent to be thus proposed for nomination to such office; and shall also state that the verification depu- ties therein appointed are duly registered qualified electors of said county or city and county; and the verification deputies therein appointed shall be recognized as the duly au- thorized verification deputies to secure signa- tures to the nomination paper of such candidate in such county or city and county. Said docu- ment shall be substantially in the following form: State of California, ) County of j ss ‘ We, the undersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that we are each qualified electors of the county of , State of California, and we do hereby propose ', who resides (at No. , street in the city of) or (in the town of) , county of , as a candidate for the nomination of the party for the office of , to be voted for at the primary election to be held on the day of August, 19 ; and we do solemnly swear (or affirm) that said has consented to this proposal of his name as candidate for the nomination for said office. We hereby appoint the following registered qualified electors of this county as verification, deputies to obtain signatures in this county to the nomi- nation paper of said to said office of We each do hereby declare it our intention to affiliate with said party at said primary election. Verification Deputies. Name. Residence. etc. etc. (Signed) Name. Residence. Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 19 ( Seal ) Notary Public (or other official). In case it is desired to appoint additional verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of said candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed, to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the provisions of this subdivision shall apply, except that the five qualified electors shall make no statement of their intention as to party affilia- tion and may affiliate with different parties or with no party; and the candidate proposed for nomination shall not be so proposed as the candidate of any party. 3. Verification deputies appointed as provided in subdivision two of this section to obtain sig- natures to the nomination paper of any candidate for any office to be voted for at any primary election, may, at any time not more than seventy days nor less than forty days prior to such elec- tion, obtain signatures to such nomination paper of such candidate for such office ; provided, that prior to primary elections other than August primary elections or May presidential primary elections, signatures may be obtained not more than forty nor less than twenty-five days prior to such election. Each signer shall declare that at the ensuing primary election it is his inten- tion to affiliate with the party for nomination by which he is proposing the candidate, and that he has not signed a nomination paper for any candidate of any other party for such primary election, nor a nomination paper for any other candidate for the same office. He shall also declare his intention to support such candidate for nomination, and shall add his place of resi- dence, giving his street and number if any. His election precinct shall also appear on the paper just preceding his name, and he shall write the date of his signature at the end of the line just after his residence. Any nomi- nation paper may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain the name of the candidate and the name of the office for which he is proposed for nomination. Each section shall bear the name ’of the city or town, if any, and also the name of the county or city and county, in which it is circulated, and only qualified electors of such county or city and county shall be competent to sign such section. Any section circulated within any incorporated city or town shall be signed only by registered qualified electors of such city or town. Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signa- tures numbered, and shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the verification deputy who has obtained signatures to the same, stating that all [Thirteen] the signatures to the attached section were made in his presence, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief, each signature to the sec- tion is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be; and no other affidavit thereto shall be required. The affidavit of any verification deputy obtaining signatures here- under shall be verified free of charge by. any officer authorized to administer an oath. Such nomination paper so verified shall be prima facie evidence that the signatures thereto appended, are genuine and that the persons signing the same are registered qualified electors, unless and until it is otherwise proven by comparison of such signatures with the affidavits of registration in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters. Each sectiofi of the nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the verification deputy who circulated it to one of the live electors by whom the said verification deputy was appointed ; and in this manner all the sec- tions circulated in any county shall be collected by said five electors of that county and shall be by them arranged for filing or for examination, as provided in subdivision four of this section. In case said verification deputy was appointed directly by the candidate according to the pro- visions of subdivision two (a) of this i section, the collecting and arranging of the sections of the nomination paper shall be done by the can- didate, or on his behalf, instead of by the five electors” as hereinbefore provided. Each section of the nomination paper shall be in substance as follows: , ... County of , city (or town) of (if Nomination paper of candidate for party nomination for the office of State of California, ) gg> County of > Signer’s Statement. I, undersigned, am a qualified elector of the city (or town) of , county of , State of California; and I hereby nominate — L-, who resides at No. street, city of , county 0 X State of California, as a candidate for the" nomination of the party for the office of to be voted for at the primary election to be held on the day of August, 19--. I ' have not signed the nomination paper of any other candidate for the same office, and I further declare that I intend to support for such nomina- tion the candidate named herein. I furthermore declare that 1 intend to affiliate with said party at the next ensuing primary election, and that l have not signed the nomi- nation paper of this candidate, or any other candidate for office, as candidate of any other No. Precinct j Signature Residence Pate 1 o r ~ * 1 L o 6 A ‘1 5 !- "TV • j etc. Verification Deputy’s Affidavit. j solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have ieen appointed according to the provisions of section five of the direct primary law, as a veri- ication deputy to secure signatures in the county )f to the nomination paper of as can- lidate for the nomination of the — -- party the office of ; that all the signatures on this [Fourteen] section of said nomination paper, numbered from one to , inclusive, were made in my presence, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, each of said signatures is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. (Signed) Verification Deputy. Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 19 — < , tyT VAX'” (Seal) ; Notary Public (or other official). In the case of a nomination paper for any candidate for a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the provisions of this subdivision shall apply, except that no such nomination paper nor any section thereof shall contain the name of any political party with which any signer thereto intends to affiliate, nor shall the candidate be referred to as a candidate for the nomination of any party. In case two or more persons are to be elected to the same office at the same election, an elector may sign the nomination papers of as many persons as there are persons to be elected to such office, and such act on the part of such elector shall not be deemed in conflict with the signer’s statement herein provided. 4. Prior to the filing of a nomination paper for any candidate, the sections thereof must be num- bered in order and fastened together by cities or towns or portions of the county not included in such cities or towns, substantially in the manner required for the binding of affidavits of- registra- tion by the provisions of section eleven hundred thirteen of the Political Code ; provided, that the sections of the nomination paper may be pre- ceded by an index of precincts, arranged by cities, towns or outside territory in the numerical or alphabetical order of such precincts for each such, city, town or outside territory and showing after the name or number of such precinct the numbers of the sections on which the names of the electors registered in such precinct are to be found, and after the number of each section, the number (in parenthesis) of times such names are to be so found on such section. ■ Such index shall be in substantially the following form: City of. No. of precinct Numbers of sections containing voters of precinct 1 1 (3 times) 2 (5 times) 3 (7 times) etc. 2 l (4 times) 2 (0 times) 3 (6 times) etc. ,etc etc. Town of. And provided, further, that for all nominations of candidates to be voted for in more than one county, or throughout the entire state, the nomi- nation papers, properly assembled, may be con- solidated and fastened or bound together by counties ; but in no case shall nomination papers signed by electors of different counties be fas- tened or bound together. The county clerk or registrar of voters of any county or city and county shall examine all nomination papers herein provided for which purport to have been signed by electors of his county or city and county, and shall disregard and mark “not suffi- cient” any name appearing on such paper or papers which does not appear in the same hand- writing on an affidavit of registration in his office. Such officer shall affix to all nomination papers a certificate reciting that he has examined the same and stating the number of names signed thereto which have not been marked "not sufficient” as hereinabove provided. All nomi- nation papers which by this act are required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall be left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for examination, as above provided, at least forty days prior to the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, and shall, with such certificate of examination attached, within five days after being so left, be forwarded by such county clerk or registrar of voters to the secretary of state, who shall receive and file the same. The verification of signatures to nomination papers shall not be made by the candidate, nor by any county clerk, or registrar of voters, nor by any of the deputies in the office of such county clerk or registrar of voters, nor within one hundred feet of anyv election booth, polling place, or any place where registration of electors is being conducted. Each candidate on or before the thirty-fifth day prior to the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, shall file in^the place where his nomina- tion paper is required to be filed, as provided in section six of this act, his affidavit, stating his residence, with street and number, if any ; his election precinct ; that he is a qualified elector in the election precinct in which he resides ; the name of the office for which he desires to be a candidate ; and that if nominated he will accept such nomination and not withdraw, and that he will qualify as such officer if nominated and elected ; and he shall also make the statement required in subdivision five of section six of this act. Nothing in this act contained shall be con- strued to limit the rights of any person to become the candidate of more than one political party for the same office upon complying with the requirements of this act, but no person shall be entitled to become a candidate for more than one office at the same election. 5. Except in the case of a candidate for nomi- nation to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, nomination papers shall be signed as follows: If the candidate is the candidate for an office to be voted on throughout the state, by not less than one-half of one per centum and not more than two per centum of the vote constituting the basis of percentage as defined in subdivision six of this, section, of the party of the candidate seeking nomination, within the state ; if the candidate is the candi- date for an office to be voted on in some political subdivision of the state, but not throughout the state, by not less than one per centum nor more than two per centum of the vote constituting the basis of percentage, as defined in subdivision six of this section, of the party of the candidate seeking nomination within said political sub- division in which such candidate seeks nomi- nation. 6. Except in case of a candidate for nomina- tion to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the basis of percentage in each political party shall be the vote polled for such party’s candidate for United States senator, at the last preceding November elec- tion at which a United States senator was elected, in the state or in that political sub- division for which the candidate is proposed for nomination. Such party’s candidate for United States senator may have been the candidate, either of the party alone, or of the party in conjunction with one or more other parties. But if such political party did not have any candidate for United States senator at such last preceding November election at which a United States senator was elected, the nomination paper must be signed by not less than one-half of. one per centum nor more than two per centum of the total vote polled for all the candi- dates for United States senator, at such last preceding November election in the state or political subdivision for which the candidate is proposed for nomination. 7. Whenever by rearrangement of political subdivisions of the state by any legislature, board of supervisors or other legislative body, the boundaries of such political subdivisions are- changed, the highest vote polled by each party in each of the new political subdivisions shall bo determined as follows : If the change occurs wholly within any county or city and county, the county clerk or registrar of voters of such county or city and county shall determine as nearly as possible the highest vote of each party in the new political subdivision by adding together for each party the highest vote in each of the former precincts which now are combined to make up such new political subdivision. If the change occurs outside the limits of any county or city and county, the secretary of state shall deter- mine the highest vote of each party in such new political subdivision by adding together for each party the highest vote in the counties which now are combined to make up such new political sub- division. In the same way that the highest vote for each party in each new political subdivision is ascertained, shall also be ascertained the total vote, as is required to be determined by the provisions of subdivision nine of this section. 8. Nothing herein shall be construed as pro- hibiting the independent nomination of candi- dates as provided by section one thousand one hundred eighty-eight of the Political Code ; except that a candidate who has filed nomination papers as one of the candidates for nomination to any office on the ballots of any political party at a primary election held under the provisions of this act, and who is defeated for such party nomination at such primary election, shall be - ineligible for nomination as an independent can- didate for the same office at the ensuing general election ; and no person shall be permitted to file nomination papers for a party nomination and an independent nomination for the same office, or for more than one office at the same election. Nor shall any person whose name has been writ- ten in upon any ballot or ballots for any office at any primary election, have his name placed upon the ballot as a candidate for such office at the ensuing general election, except under the provisions of section one thousand one hundred eighty-eight of the Political Code, unless at such primary election he shall have received for such office votes equal in number to the minimum number of signatures to the nomination paper which would have been required to be filed to have placed his name on the primary ballot as a candidate for nomination to such office. 9. In the case of a candidate for nomination to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, nomination papers shall be signed by not less than one-half of one per centum, nor more than two per centum of the total vote cast at the last general election in the state or political subdivision thereof in which such candidate for judicial or school, county, or township office seeks nomination. 10. The officer with whom nomination papers are filed shall keep a record in which he shall enter the names of every person presenting the same for filing, the name cf the candidate, the title of the office, the party, if any, and the tifne of filing. [Fifteen] Sec. 5. Section seven of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 7. 1. A filing fee of fifty dollars shall be paid to the secretary of state by each candidate for state office or for the United States senate, except as otherwise provided in this section. 2. A filing fee of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to the secretary of state by each candidate for representative in congress or for any office, except member of state senate and assembly, to be voted for in any district comprising more than one county. 3. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the secretary of state by each candidate for the state senate or assembly. 4. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county when the nomination paper or papers and affidavit of any candidate to be voted for wholly within one county or city and county are filed with such county clerk or registrar of voters. „ , . , A 5. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body of any municipality when the nomination paper or papers and affidavit of any candidate for a city office are filed with such clerk or secretary of such legislative body. 6 No filing fee shall be required from any person to be voted for at the May presidential primary election, or from any candidate for an office to the holder of which no compensation is required to be paid, or for township offices the compensation to the holder of which does not exceed the sum of nine hundred dollars per cUUXUUl. , , , . 7. In no case shall the secretary of state, county clerk, or city clerk, place the name of any candidate on the ballot or certify any such name to be placed thereon until the requisite filing fee has first been paid. 8. When a person for whom a nomination paper has not been filed is nominated for an office by having his name written on a primary election ballot, he must pay the same filing fee that would have been required if his nomination paper had been filed; otherwise his name must not be printed on the ballot at the ensuing general election. 9. When a candidate for nomination to office fs proposed for nomination by more than one political party, he must pay a separate filing fee for each party in which he is proposed for nomination; or if, having filed a nomination paper for one party, he is nominated by an- other party by having his name written on a primary election ballot, he must pay the same filing fee for such other party nomination that would have been required if his nomination paper for such other party had been filed; other- wise his name shall not be printed on the general election ballot as the nominee of such other party. , 10. The secretary of state, county clerk or city clerk with whom the nomination papers of any candidate are filed pursuant to the provisions of this act shall, if the same be found sufficient, unless the filing fee therefor has been paid, forthwith notify such candidate in writing of the filing of such nomination papers and demand payment of the required filing fee. Sec. 6. Section nine of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 9. The expense of providing all ballots, blanks, rubber stamps, colored pencils, and other supplies necessary to be used at any primary election according to the provisions of this act 'md all expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation for or the conduct of such primary election shall be paid out of the treasury of the city, city and county, county or state, as the case may be, in the same manner, with like effect and by the same officers as in the case of general elections. Sec. 7. Section ten of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 10. At least thirty days before any August primary election preceding a November election or before any May presidential primary election the secretary of state shall transmit to each county clerk or registrar of voters a certi- fied list containing the name and post office address of each person for whom nomination papers have been filed in the office of such secre- tary of state, including the candidate for delegate to a state convention, if any, from a “hold-over senatorial district” and who is entitled to be voted for in such county at such primary elec- tion, together with a designation of the office for which such person is a candidate and except in the case of a judicial office, or a school office of the party or principle he represents. Such county clerk or registrar of voters shall forth- with, upon receipt thereof, publish under the proper party designation the title of each office (except a judicial office or a school office) which appears upon the certified list transmitted by the secretary of state as hereinbefore provided, to- gether with the names and addresses of all per- sons for whom nomination papers have been filed for each of said offices in the office of the secre- tary of state, and also the names of all candi- dates for the county central committee, filed in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters. He shall also publish the title of each judicial office, school office, county office, and township office, together \yith the names and addresses of all persons for whom nomination papers have been filed for each of said offices, either in the office of the secretary of state or in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters, and shall state that candidates for said judicial, school, county, and township offices may be voted for at the primary election, by any regis- tered, qualified elector of the county. He shall also publish the date of the primary election, the hours during which the polls will be open, and that the primary election will be held at the legally designated polling places in each precinct, which shall be particularly designated. It shall be the duty of the eounty clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county to cause such pub- lication to be made once each week for two successive weeks prior to said primary election. Sec. 8. Section twelve of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 12. 1. All voting at primary elections shall be by ballot. On all ballots provided for use at an August primary election, the columns on the left hand side of the ballot shall be used as party columns, the first column being oc- cupied by the names of candidates for nomi- nation by one party, the next column for an- other party, and so on. These party columns shall be separated from one another by a heavy double line or rule. Every political party en- titled to participate in the August primary election, shall appear separately in one of these party columns (the column being headed by the name of the party), provided such party has any candidate for any office whose nomina- tion paper has been filed according to the pro- visions of this act. The order of .the offices under each party designation shall be as fol- lows: first, “congressional,” including the groups of names for United States senator in 'Sixteen] congress, if any, and for representative in con- gress; next, under the heading “state” shall be printed the groups of names of candidates for state offices, except judicial and school offices, and for members of the state board of equali- zation. In elections when state officers are not to be nominated, this heading shall be omitted: next, under the heading ^'legislative” shall be printed the groups of names for state senator, it any, for member of assembly, and for election as delegate to the state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, if any. Finally under the heading “county committee” shall be printed the names of the candidates for election to membership in the county central committee ot the party. The names of the parties at the heads of the party columns shall be arranged in alphabetical order for the first assembly dis- tnct; and thereafter for each succeeding as- sembly district, the party column appearing fi r,, , m . e ,ast preceding assembly district shall be placed last, the order of the other party columns remaining unchanged. Each elector shall be entitled to vote for the candidates for office who are proposed for nomination in that party with which he shall declare his affiliation at the time he receives his ballot, and for no other party candidates except as he may write in the names of such other candidates in the blanks provided for that purpose, if he does not express a desire to affiliate with any party he shall not be entitled to vote at such primary election for the nomination of any candidates for any of the offices appearing in these party columns; but he shall be entitled to vote for candidates for all judicial, school, county, and township offices, whether he expresses a de- sire to affiliate with any party or not. 2. To the right of these party columns shall be a solid black line, extending down trom the printed lines separating the instructions to voters from the lists of names of candidates to the bot- tom margin of the ballot. In the case of a primary election for the nomination of candi- dates to be voted for at a presidential or general state election, the order of precedence for the columns to the right of this solid black line shall be as follows, that is to say: Under the heading judicial shall be printed all the names of can- didates for judicial offices, in the order of chief justice supreme court, associate justices supreme court, judge of district court of appeals, judge of superior court, justice of the peace and other Judicial officers, if any. Next, under the heading school shall be printed all the names of candi- dates for school offices in the order of state superintendent of public instruction and county superintendent of schools. Next, under the head- ing J - J county ’’ shail be printed the groups of candidates for all county and township offices except judicial or school offices. In the case of primary elections where nominations are to be made for only a portion of these offices, at the right of the solid black dividing line there may be only one column. The tally sheets furnished to election officers shall have the names of offices and candidates arranged in the order in which said names of offices and candidates are printed on the ballots according to the provisions of this section. In the case of primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city, city and county or municipal offices only, the order of precedence shall be determined by the legislative body of such city or municipality or by the board of election commissioners of any such city and county. J 3. The group of names of candidates for nomi- nation for any judicial, school, county, or town- ship office shall include all the names receiving the requisite number of signatures on nomination papers for such office; but the groups of names ?inrtf'J 1 fi. da * teS i 0r V offlC u a PPearing on the ballots under the lead of each political party shall com- prise only the names of candidates for nomina- tion by such party. If any candidate is nomi- na ted to fill out a short term office as distin- guished from another candidate on the same ba Mot nominated for a full term of the same office, the words “short term” or “full term,” as the case may be, shall be printed below the title of such offices on the ballot, preceding the respective groups of names of candidates? 4. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county to provide printed official ballots to be used at any August primary election or May presidential primary election. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to provide printed official ballots for any primary election held within the municipality of which he is an officer for the purpose of nominating candidates to be voted on therein at a municipal election. Such official ballots shall be printed upon official paper fur- nished in the manner provided by section one thousand one hundred ninety-six of the Political Code, and such ballots to be used at any August primly election, shall be in the form herein- after provided. The names of all candidates for the respective offices for whom nomination papers have been duly filed shall be printed thereon. 5. Across the top of the primary election ballot shall be printed in heavy faced gothic capital type, not smaller than forty-eight point, the words: Official primary election ballot,” pro- viding that on any primary ballot less than four columns in width said words may be printed in heavy faced gothic capital type not smaller than twenty-four point. Beneath the heading “official primary election ballot,” shall appear in heavy faced gothic capital type, the name of the county in which the ballot is being used; and at least three-eighths of an inch below the name of the shall appear the supervisor district, pro- viding there are no more than five assembly dis- tricts in the county, or the assembly district, pro- viding there are more than five assembly districts m the county; the word “district” to be followed in either case by a semicolon and the date of the pnmary election. At least three-eighths of an inch below the district designation and the date of the pnmary election shall be printed in ten- point black gothic type, double leaded, the fol- lowing instructions to voters: “To vote for a person whose name appears on the ballot, stamp a cross ( X ) in the square at the right of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote. 1° vote for a person whose name is not printed, on the ballot, write his name in the blank space provided for that purpose; and it is optional, but not necessary, to stamp a cross after such name. Vote for candidates of that party only which is not marked ‘cancelled’ by the election officer: but vote for candidates for any or all of the non-partisan offices.” 6. The instructions to voters shall be separated from the lists of candidates by one heavy and one light line or rule. The names of the candi- dates and the respective offices shall, except as may be hereinafter otherwise provided, be printed on the ballot in parallel columns, each two and one-quarter inches wide. The first columns of the baMot to the left of the solid black line shall each be headed by the name of a party printed m heavy faced gothic capital type; and to the right of the solid black line shall appear in similar type the heading “non-partisan offices.” These headings shall all be printed directly under the heavy and light line or rule, and shall be separated from the lists of candidates by a single line or rule. 3 7. The order in which the list of candidates tor any office shall appear upon the primary elec- tion ballot shall be determined as follows : (a) If the office is an office the candidates for which are to be voted on throughout the entire state, including United States senator in con- gress, the secretary of state shall arrange the names of all candidates for such office in alpha- betical order for the first assembly district ; and thereafter for each succeeding assembly district, the name appearing first for each office in the last preceding district shall be placed last, the °L the . names remaining unchanged. If the office is that of representative in congress, or member of the state board of equalization, or 1S aa office the candidates for nomination to which are to be voted on in more than one county or city and county, but not throughout the entire state, except the office of state senator or assemblyman, or delegate to the state conven- tion from a hold-over senatorial district, the sec- reta.ry of state shall arrange the names of all candidates for such office in alphabetical order for that assembly district which is lowest in —CA [Seventeen] numerical order of any assembly district in which such candidates are to be voted on ; and thereafter for such succeeding assembly district in which such candidates are to be voted on, the name appearing first for such office in the last preceding district shall be placed, last, the order of the other names remaining unchanged. In transmitting to each county clerk or registrar of voters the certified list of names as required in section ten of this act, the secretary of state shall certify and transmit the list of candidates for nomination to each office according 1 to as- sembly districts, in the order of arrangement as determined by the above provisions ; and in the case of each county or city and county containing more than one assembly district, he shall trans- mit separate lists for each 'assembly district. Except for the office of state senator or assem- blyman, the order in which the names filed with the secretary of state shall appear upon the ballot, shall be for each assembly district the order as determined by the secretary of state m accordance with the above provisions, and as certified and transmitted by him to each county clerk or registrar of voters. (b) If the office is an office to be voted In the square at the RICHT of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote. To VOte for a person whose name Is not printed on the ballot, write his name In the blank space provided for that purpose; and It Is optional, but not necessary, to stamp a cross after such name. 'Vote for candidates of that party only which Is oot marked “cancelled" by the election officer; but vote for candidates for any or all of ths non-partisan offices. [Form for printing on back of ballot:] OFFICIAL PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SEVENTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT FORTY-EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT THIRD SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT OF MONTEREY COUNTY [Nineteen] the secretary of state, to the post office address as given in such nomination paper or certifica- tion, and he shall post a copy of such samplp ballot in a conspicuous place in his office. Be- fore such primary election the county clerk shall cause the official ballot to be printed as provided in section twelve of this act, and distributed in the same manner and in the same quantities as provided in sections one thousand one hundred ninety-eight, one thousand one hundred ninety- nine and one thousand two hundred one of the Political Code for the distribution of ballots for elections. In the case of primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city offices it shall be the duty of the city clerk, or such other officer charged by law with the duty of prepar- ing and distributing the official ballots used at elections in such city or municipality, to pre- pare and mail the sample ballot and to prepare and distribute the official primary election bal- lots, and so far as applicable the provisions of this act shall apply to the nomination of all candidates for city offices. Sec. 10. Section sixteen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 16. Any elector offering to vote at a primary election may be challenged by any elec- tor of the city, city and county or county, upon either or all of the grounds specified in section one thousand two hundred thirty of the Political Code, but his right to vote the primary election ticket of the political party with which, on receiving his ballot, he declares his intention to affiliate, shall not be challenged on any ground or subjected to any tests other than those pro- vided by the constitution and section one thou- sand two hundred thirty of the Political Code of this state, except on the ground of his having previously declared his intention to affiliate with another political party at such primary election, such declaration having been expressed at the time of his signing the nomination paper of a candidate of such other party. Sec. 11. Section seventeen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 17. Any elector qualified to take part in any primary election, who has, at least thirty days before the day of such primary election, qualified by registration, as provided by section one thousand ninety-six of the Political Code, shall be entitled to vote at such primary election, such right to vote being subject to challenge only as hereinabove provided ; and on writing his name or having it written for him on the roster, as provided by law for general elections in this state, he shall likewise write or have written upon the roster the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate in voting for candidates for office at the next ensuing Novem- ber election. He shall then, in an audible tone of voice, declare to the election officer from whom he receives his ballot the name of such political party with which he intends to affiliate, and the clerk whose duty it is, according to law, to write the name of the elector on the poll list, shall also write opposite such name the name of said political party with which the elector de- clares it his intention to affiliate. At the August primary election, the election officer having charge of the ballots, before giving him his ballot, shall write with ink, or, with a stamp provided for the purpose, stamp the word “can- celled” across the tops of the party columns, and shall draw a blue pencil line down the middle of such columns, which are headed by the names of all the political parties except that with which the elector thus declares his intention to affiliate, and the elector shall be entitled to vote only for candidates for nomination to offices printed or written in under the name of such party as is not thus marked “cancelled.” If the voter does not express a desire to affiliate with any party, be need not write, or declare, or have written the name of any political party, and in such case the election officer shall write or stamp the word “cancelled” and draw the blue line across the names of all candidates for nomination to office in the party columns, and the elector shall not be entitled to vote for any such candidates. No one shall be entitled to vote at any primary elec- tion who has not been a resident of the state one year, of the county ninety days, and of the precinct thirty days, next preceding the day upon which such primary election is held. The voter shall be instructed by a member of the board as to the proper method of marking and folding his ballot, and he shall theVi retire to an unoccupied booth and without undue delay stamp the same with the rubber stamp there found. If he shall spoil or deface the ballot he shall at once return the same to the ballot clerk and receive another. Sec. 12. Section nineteen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 19. When a voter has stamped his ballot he shall fold it so that its face shall be concealed and only the printed designation on the back thereof shall be visible, and hand the same to the member of the board in charge of the ballot box. Such folded ballot shall be voted as ballots are voted at general elections, and the name of the voter checked upon the affidavit of registra- tion as having voted. Sec. 13. Section twenty-one of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 21. As soon as the polls are finally closed the judges must immediately proceed to canvass the votes cast at such primary election. The canvass must be public, in the presence of by- standers, and must be continued without adjourn- ment until completed and the result thereof de- clared. Except as hereinafter provided, the can- vass shall be conducted, completed and returned as provided by sections one thousand two hun- dred fifty-four, one thousand two hundred fifty- five, one thousand two hundred fifty-six, one thousand two hundred fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred fifty-eight, one thousand two hun- dred fifty-nine, one thousand two hundred sixty, one thousand two hundred sixty-one, one thou- sand two hundred sixty-two, one thousand two hundred sixty-three, one thousand two hundred sixt>-four, one thousand two hundred sixty- four a, one thousand two hundred sixty-five, one thousand two hundred sixty-six, one thousand two hundred sixty-seven, and one thousand two hundred sixty-eight of the Political Code of this state ; provided, however, that the board of elec- tion shall count all the votes cast for each party candidate for the several offices and record the same by parties on the tally lists; and count all the votes on all the ballots for the candidates for judicial, school, county, and township offices, and record the same on the tally lists; and provided, also, that no vote shall be counted for any party candidate unless stamped or written in the column of that party which the voter was entitled to vote; and all votes written in such column shall be counted only as cast for the nomination of such candidate as the candidate of the party whose name appears at the head of the column. Sec. 14. Section twenty-two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 22. The board of supervisors of each county, the board of election commissioners in any city and county, or, in the case of a city or municipal primary election, the officers charged by law with the duty of canvassing the vote at any city or municipal election in such political subdivision, shall meet at the usual place of such meeting, or at any other place permitted by law, at one o’clock in the afternoon of the first Thursday after each primary election to canvass the returns, or as soon thereafter as all the returns are in. When begun the canvass shall be continued until completed, which shall not be later than six o’clock in the afternoon of the sixteenth day following such primary election. The clerk of the hoard must, as soon as the result is declared, enter upon the records of such board a statement of such result, which state- ment shall contain the whole number of votes cast for each candidate of each political party for each candidate for each judicial, school, county, or township office, for each candidate for delegate, if any, to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, and for each can- didate for membership in the county central committee; provided, however, that in entering the statement of such result, the provisions of subdivision six of section one thousand two hun- dred eighty-two of the Political Code shall apply; and a duplicate as to each political party shall [Twenty] be delivered to the county, city and county or city chairman of such political party, as the case may be. The clerk shall also make an additional duplicate statement in the same form, showing the votes cast for each candidate not voted for wholly within the limits of such county or city and county. The county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall forthwith send to the secretary of state by registered mail or by express one complete copy of all returns as to such candidates, and as to all candidates for the state assembly, state senate, represen- tatives in congress, judicial officers, except jus- tices of the peace, delegate, if any, to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, and as to all persons voted for at the May presi- dential primary election. The clerk shall also prepare a separate statement of the names of the candidates of each political party who have received the highest number of votes for the several offices to be voted for wholly within such county, city and county, or other political sub- division in -which such primary election was held. The secretary of state shall, not later than the twenty-fifth day after any primary election, com- pile the returns for all candidates voted for in more than one county, and for all candidates for the assembly, state senate, representatives in congress, member of the state board of equalization, and judicial offices (except justices of the peace), delegate, if any, to a state con- vention from a hbld-over senatorial district, and for all persons voted for at the May presiden- tial primary election, and shall make out and file in his office a statement thereof. He shall compile the returns for the May presidential primary election not later than the twenty-first day after such election, and shall compile said returns in such a manner as to show, for each candidate, both the total of the votes received and the votes received in each congressional district of the state. Sec. 15. Section twenty-three of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : Sec. 23. Except in the case of a candidate for nomination to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the person re- ceiving the highest number of votes, at a pri- mary election as the candidate for the nomina- tion of a political party for an office shall be the candidate of that party for such office, and his name as such candidate shall be placed on the official ballot voted at the ensuing election ; provided, he has paid the filing fee as required by section seven of this act. In the case of a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the candidates equal in number to twice the number to be elected to such office (or less, if the total number of candidates is less than twice the number of offices to be filled) who receive the highest num- ber of the votes cast on all the ballots of all the voters participating in the primary election for nomination to such office, shall be the candidates for such office at the ensuing election, and their names as such candidates shall be placed on the official ballot voted at the ensuing election ; pro- vided, however, that in case there is but one per- son to be elected at the November election to any judicial, school, county, or township office, any candidate who receives at the August pri- mary election a majority of the total number of votes cast for all the candidates for such office shall be the only candidate for such office whose name shall be printed on the ballot at the ensuing election; and provided, further, that in case there are twn or more oersons to be elected at the November election io any judicial, school, county, or townshio office, and in case any can- didates for such office receive at the August pri- mary election the votes of a majority of all the voters participating in the primary election in the state or political subdivision in which said office is voted upon (such candidates being herein designated as “majority candidates”) said “majority candidates” shall, if their number Is not less than the number of persons to be elected to such office, be the only candidates for such office whose names shall be printed on the ballot at the ensuing November election; and If the number of such “majority candidates” falls short of the number of persons to be elected to such office, the names of said “majority candi- dates” shall be printed on the ballot at the ensu- ing November election, together with such num- ber of additional names only of such other candi- dates receiving the next highest number of votes for nomination to such office as may equal twice the number to be elected to such office less twice the number of “majority candidates” (or a smaller number, if the list of said other candi- dates is exhausted). Of the candidates for elec- tion to membership in the county central com- mittee, the candidates equal in number to the number to be elected receiving the highest num- ber of votes in their supervisorial district or assembly district, as the case may be in accord- ance with the provisions of subdivision four of section twenty-four of this act, shall be declared elected as the representatives of their district to membership in such committee. It shall be the duty of the officers charged with the canvass of the returns of any primary election in any county, city and county or municipality to cause to be issued official certificates of nomination to such party candidates (other than congressional and legislative candidates, candidates for the state board of equalization, and delegates to the state convention from a hold-over senatorial district), as have received the highest number of votes as the candidates for the nomination of such party for any offices to be voted for wholly within such county, city and county, or munici- pality, and cause to be issued to each member of a county central committee a certificate of his election ; and to cause to be issued official certifi- cates of nomination to such candidates for judi- cial, school, county, or township office as may be entitled to nomination under the provisions of this section. It shall be the duty of the secre- tary of. state to issue official certificates of nomination to candidates nominated under the provisions of this act for representatives in con- gress, members of the state senate and assembly, members of the state board of equalization, and officers voted for in more than one county; and to issue a certificate of election to each delegate elected to the state convention from a hold- over senatorial district; and to issue certificates of election to all persons elected at the May presidential primary election as delegates to their respective national party conventions. Not less than thirty days before the November election the secretary of state shall certify to the county clerks or registrars of voters of each county and city and county within the state, the name of every person entitled to receive votes within such county or city and county at said November election who has received the nomina- tion as a candidate for public office under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, and whose nomination is evidenced by the compilation and statement required to be made by said secretary of state and filed in his office, as provided in section twenty-two of this act. Such certificates shall in addition to the names of such nominees respectively, also show separately and respec- tively for each nominee the name of the political party or organization which has nominated such person if any and the designation of the public office for which he is so nominated. Sec. 16. Section twenty-four of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 24. 1. Party conventions of delegates chosen as hereinafter provided may be held in this state, for the purpose of promulgating plat- forms and transacting such other business of the party as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 2. The candidates of each political party for congressional offices and for state offices, if any except judicial and school offices, and such candi- dates for senate and assembly as have been nominated by such political party at the pri- mary election, and in whose behalf nomination papers have been filed, together with one dele- gate chosen by such political party from each senatorial district represented by a hold-over senator, shall meet in a state convention at the state capitol at two o’clock in the afternoon of the third Tuesday in September after the date on which any primary election is held prelim- mary to the general November election. They shall forthwith formulate the state platforms of [Twenty-one] their party, which said state platform of each political party shall be framed at such time that it shall be made public not later than six o’clock in the afternoon of the following' day. They shall also proceed to elect a state central committee to consist of at least three (3) members from each congressional district, who shall hold office until a new state central committee shall have been selected. In each year of the general November election at which electors of president and Vice president of the United States are to be chosen, they shall also nominate as the candidates of their party as many electors of president and vice president of the United States as the state is then entited to, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to issue certificates of nomination to the electors so nominated, and to cause the names of such candidates for elector to be placed upon the ballots at the ensuing Novem- ber election. Membership in the state convention shall not be granted to a party nominee for a congres- sional office, state office, or office of senator or assemblyman who has become such bjr reason of his name having been written on \ ballot, and who has not had his name printed on the primary ballot by having had a nomination paper filed in his behalf, as provided in section five of this act ; nor shall membership in such convention be granted to the nominee of any party if such nominee has not, at the primary election at which he was nominated, declared his intention to affiliate with such party at the ensuing November election; and, in every such case, a vacancy in the membership of such convention shall be deemed to exist; and any such vacancy thereby existing, or existing because no nomi- nation for such office has been made, or for any other cause, shall be filled as hereinafter pro- vided. Each candidate who has received the nomination of more than one party for a con- gressional, state, or legislative office shall pro- cure from the county clerk of the county In which he resides, a certificate stating the party with which such candidate has affiliated, as shown by the roster in the custody of such county clerk; and this certificate shall be the credentials of such candidate to membership in the convention of his party. In any senatorial district represented by a hold-over senator there shall be chosen at such primary election by the electors of every politi- cal party one delegate to the state convention, who shall have nomination papers circulate^ in his behalf, shall have his name placed upon the ballot, and shall be chosen in the same manner as a state senator is nominated from any sena- torial district ; but' no such delegates shall be disqualified by reason of holding any office, nor shall any filing fee be required in order to have his name placed upon the ballot. The term “hold-over senator” as herein used shall apply to a state senator whose term of office extends beyond the first Monday in January of the year next ensuing after the primary election, and the term “hold-over senatorial district” shall apply to the district represented by such hold-over senator. In the event that there shall not have been filed any nomination paper for a candidate for any congressional or state office or office of sena- tor or assemblyman by the electors of any polit- ical party, or in the event that the nominee of any party for such office has not declared his affiliation with such party, as herein provided, the vacancy thus created in the state convention of such party shall be filled as follows: (a) If the vacancy occurs in a senatorial or assembly district situated wholly within the limits of a single county or city and county, by appointment by the newly elected county central committee of such party in such county or city and county. (b) If the vacancy occurs in a senatorial or assembly district comprising two or more coun- ties, by appointment by the newly selected chair- men of the several newly elected county central committees of such party in such counties. (c) If the vacancy occurs in a congressional or state office, by appointment by the state cen- tral commitee of such party. Such delegate so appointed shall present to the convention credentials signed by the chair- man and the secretary of the appointing com- mittee, or by the appointing chairmen of the several committees, as the case may be. 3. Each state central committee may select an executive committee, to which executive com- mittee it may grant all or any portion of its powers and duties. It shall choose its officers by ballot and each committee and its officers shall have the power usually exercised by such committees and the officers thereof in so far as may be consistent with this act. The various officers and committees now in existence shall exercise the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed until their successors are chosen in accordance with the provisions of this act. 4. At each August primary election there shall be elected in each county or city and county a county central committee for each political party, which shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive com- mittee selected by such state central committee. In all counties or cities and counties containing five or more assembly districts the county central committee of such party shall be elected by assembly districts and shall consist of one mem- ber for each seven hundred votes or fraction thereof in each such assembly district cast for such party’s candidate for United States senator at the last general election at which a United States senator was elected. In all counties con- taining less than five assembly districts the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to be elected from any supervisor district shall be determined as follows: the number of votes cast in such supervisor district for such party’s can- didate for United States senator at the last general election at which such senator was elected shall be divided by one-twentieth of the number of votes cast for such senator in such county; and the integer next larger than the quotient obtained by such division shall con- stitute the number of members of the county central committee to be elected by such party in said supervisor district. The county clerk or registrar of voters in each county or city and county shall, between the first Monday and the second Monday of June next preceding the primary election, compute the number of mem- ber^ of the county central committee allotted to each assembly district or supervisor district, as the case may be, by the provisions of this sub- division. Each candidate for member of a county central committee shall appear upon the ballot upon the filing of a nomination paper according to the provisions of section five of this act, signed in his behalf by the electors of the political subdivision in which he is a candidate, as above provided; and the number of cahdidates to which each party is entitled, as hereinbefore provided, in each political sub- division, receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. Each county central committee shall meet in the court house at its county seat on the second Tuesday in September following the August primary election, and shall organize by selecting a chairman, a secretary and such other officers and committees as it shall deem necessary for carrying on the cam- paign of the party. Sec. 17. Section twenty-five of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 25. In case as a result of any primary election a person has received a nomination to any elective office without first having nominat- ing papers filed, and having his name printed on the primary election ballot, he may at least thirty days before the day of election cause his name to be withdrawn from nomination by filing in the office where he would have filed his nominating papers had he been a candidate for nomination, his request therefor in writing, signed by him and acknowledged before the county clerk of the county in which he resides, and no name so withdrawn shall be printed on the election ballot for the ensuing general elec- tion. The vacancy created by the withdrawal [Twenty-two] of such person as aforesaid, or on account of the ineligibility of such person to qualify as a candidate because of the inhibitions of sub- division eight of section five of this act shall not be filled. In all other cases vacancies occur- ring after the holding of any primary election may be filled by the party committee of the city, county, city and county, or state, as the case may be, unless such vacancy occurs among candidates chosen at the primary election to go on the ballot for the succeeding general election for a judicial, school, county, or township office according to the provisions of section twenty- three of this act, in which case that candidate receiving at said primary election the highest vote among all the candidates for said office who have failed to receive a sufficient number of votes to get upon said ballot according to the provisions of said section twenty-three, shall go upon said ballo.t to fill said vacancy; provided, however, that if the vacancy occurs in a case where, by reason of having received a majority vote at the primary election, only one person is entitled to have his name printed upon the ballot at the ensuing November election, the names of the two candidates receiving the next highest vote at the primary election (if there were such number) shall be placed upon the ballot for the November election. Sec. 18. Section twenty-eight of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 28. Any candidate at a primary election, desiring to contest a nomination of another candidate for the same office, may, within five days after the completion of the official canvass v file an affidavit in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which he desires to contest the vote returned from any precinct or prbcincts in such county, and thereupon have a recount of the ballots cast in any such pre- cinct or precincts, in accordance with the pro- visions of this section. Such affidavit must specify separately each precinct in which a recount is demanded, and the nature of the mistake, error, misconduct, or other cause why it is claimed that the returns from such precinct do not correctly state the vote as cast in. such precinct, for the contestant and the contestee. The contestee must be made a party respondent, and so named in the affidavit. No personal service or other service than as herein provided need be made upon the contestee. Upon the filing of such affidavit the county clerk shall forthwith post in a conspicuous place in his office a copy of the affidavit. Upon the filing of such affidavit and the posting of the same, the superior court of the county shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties to such contest, and all candidates at any such primary election are permitted to be candi- dates under this act, only upon the condition that such jurisdiction for the purposes of the proceeding authorized by this section shall exist in the manner and under the conditions pro- vided for by this section. The contestant on the date of filing such affidavit, must send by registered mail a copy thereof to the contestee in a sealed envelope, with postage prepaid, addressed to the contestee at the place of resi- dence named in the affidavit of registration of such contestee, and shall make an affidavit of such mailing and file the same with the county clerk to become a part of the records of the contest. At any time within three days after the filing of the affidavit of the contestant to the effect that he has sent by registered mail a copy of the affidavit to the contestee, such con- testee may file with the county clerk an affidavit in his own behalf, setting up his desire to have the votes counted in any precincts, designating them, in addition to the precincts designated in the affidavit of the contestant, and setting up his grounds therefor. On the trial of the contest all of the precincts named in the affi- davits of the contestant and the contestee shall be considered, and & recount had with reference to 3ll of sal-d precincts; and the contestant shall have the same right to answer the affidavit of the contestee as is given to the contestee herein with reference to the affidavit of the contestant except that such answer must be filed not later than the first day of the trial of said contest. On the eighth day after the completion of the official canvass the county clerk phall present the affidavits of the contestant and the contestee and proof of posting, as aforesaid, to the judge of the superior court of the county, or any judge acting in his place, or the presiding judge of the superior court of a county or city and county, or any one acting in his stead, which judge shall, upon such presentation, forthwith designate the time and place where such contest shall proceed, and in counties or cities and coun- ties where there are more than one superior judge, assign all the cases to one department by the order of such court. Such order must so assign such case or cases, and fix such time and place for hearing, which time must not be less than one nor more than three days from the presentation of the matter to the court by the county clerk as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the contestee to appear either in person or by attorney, at the time and place so fixed, and to take notice of the order fixing such time and place from the records of the court, without service. No special appearance of the contestee for any purpose except as herein provided shall be permitted, and any appearance whatever of the contestee or any request of the court by the contestee or his attorney, shall be entered as a general appearance in the contest. No demurrer or objection can be taken by the parties in afiy other manner than by answer, and all the objec- tions must be contained in the answer. The court if the contestee shall appear, must require the answer to be made within three days from the time and place as above .provided, and if the contestee shall not appear shall note his default, and shall proceed to hear and determine the contest with all convenient speed. If the number of votes which are sought to be re- counted, or the number of contests are such that the judge shall be of opinion that it will require additional judges to enable the contest or contests to be determined in time to print the ballots for the election, if there be only one judge for such county, he may obtain the service of any other superior judge, and the proceedings shall be the same as herein provided in counties where there is more than one superior court judge. If the proceeding is in a county or city and county where there is more than one supe- rior court judge, the judge to whom the case or cases shall be assigned, shall notify the pre- siding judge forthwith, of the number of judges which he deems necessary to participate, in order to finish the contest or contests in time to print the ballots for the final election, and the said presiding judge shall forthwith designate as many judges as are necessary to such com- pletion of. such contest, by order in writing, and thereupon all of the judges so designated shall participate in the recount of such ballots and the giving of judgment in such contest or con- tests in the manner herein specified. The said judges so designated by said last mentioned order, including the judge to whom said contests were originally assigned, shall convene upon notice from the judge to whom such contest or contests were originally assigned, and agree upon the precincts which each one of said judges will recount, sitting separately, and thereupon such recount shall proceed before each such judge sitting separately, as to the precincts so arranged, in such manner that the recount shall be made in such precincts before each such judge as to all the contests pending, so that the ballots opened before one judge need not be opened before another judge or depart- ment, apd the proceedings before such judge in making such recount as to the appointment of the clerk and persons necessary to be assist- ants of the court in making the same, shall be the same as in contested elections, and the judge shall fix the pay or compensation for such persons, and require the payment each day in advance of the amount thereof, by the person who is proceeding with and requiring the re- count of the precinct being recounted. When the recount shall have been completed in the manner herein required, if more than one judge has taken part therein, all the judges who took part shall assemble and make the decision of court, and if there be any differences of opinion, a majority of such judges shall finally deter- mine all such questions, and give the decision [Twenty-three] or judgment of the court in such contest or contests, separately. Such decision or judg- ment of the court shall be final in every respect, and no appeal can be had therefrom. The judg- ment shall be served upon the county clerk or registrar of voters by delivery of a certified copy thereof, and may be enforced summarily in the manner provided in section twenty-seven of this act, ana if the contest proceeds in more than one county, and the nominee is to be certi- fied by the secretary of state from the com- pilation of election returns in his office, then the judgment in each county in which a contest may be had shall show what, if any changes in the returns in the office of the secretary of state relating to such county or city and county, ought to be made, and all such judgments shall be served upon the secretary of state, by the delivery of a certified copy, and he shall make such changes in the record in his office as such judgment or judgments require, and conform his compilation and his certificate of nomination in accordance therewith. If the office contested is one to be voted upon in more than one county, the time within which such contest may be brought in any county involved shall begin to run at the time of the declaration of the official canvass by the board of supervisors of the county last making such declaration. Sec. 19. Section thirty of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 30. Every person who shall be a candi- date for nomination to any elective office, shall make in duplicate, within fifteen days after the primary election, a verified statement, setting fo"th each and every sum of money contributed, disbursed, expended or promised by him, and, to the best of his knowledge and belief, by any and every other person or association of persons in his behalf wholly or partly in endeavoring to secure his nomination. This statement must show in detail all moneys paid, loaned, con- tributed, or otherwise furnished to him directly or indirectly in aid of his nomination, together with the name of the person or persons from whom such moneys were received; and must also show in detail, under each of the sub- divisions of section twenty-nine of this act, all moneys contributed, loaned, or expended by him directly or indirectly by himself or through any other person, in aid of his nomination, to- gether with the name of the person or persons to whom such moneys were paid, or disbursed. Such statement must set forth that the affiant has used all reasonable diligence in its prepa- ration, and that the same is true and is as full and explicit as ho is able to make it. Within the time aforesaid the candidate shall file one copy of said statement with the officer with whom his nomination papers were filed, and the other with the recorder of the county or city and county in which he resides, who shall record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and to be open to public inspection. No officer shall issue any certificate of nomination to any person until such statement as herein provided has been filed and no other statement of ex- penses shall be required except that provided, herein, and no fee or charge whatsoever shall be made or collected by any officer for the veri- fying, filing, or recording of such statements or a copy thereof. Sec. 20. Section thirty-three of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 33. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state and the attorney general to prepare on or before May 1, 1916, all forms necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, which forms shall be substantially followed in all primary elections held in pursuance hereof. And whereas, said extra session, of the said legislature finally adjourned January 11, 1916, and ninety days having not expired since said final adjournment ; Now, therefore, sufficient qualified electors of the State of California have presented to the secretary of state their petitions asking that said act hereinbefore set forth, so passed by the legislature, and approved by the governor, as hereinbefore stated, be submitted to the electors of the State of California for their approval or rejection. The title of the direct primary law approved June 16, 1913, certain sections of which are pro- posed to be amended, reads as follows : Existing Provisions. An act to provide for and regulate primary elec- tions, and providing a method for choosing the delegates for political parties to state conventions and for nominating electors of president and vice president of the United States, and providing for the election of party county central committees, and to re- peal the act approved April 7, 1911, known as the direct primary law, and also to repeal the act approved December 24, 1911, amend- ing sections one, three, five, seven, ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four of the said direct primary law, and also to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or in con- flict with the provisions of this act. Section one of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Section 1. Words and phrases where used in this act shall, unless such construction be in- consistent with the context, be construed as follows : 1. The words “primary election,” any and every primary nominating election provided for by this act. 2. The words “August primary election,” the primary election held in August to nominate candidates to be voted for at the ensuing Novem- ber election or to elect members of a party cen- tral committee or delegates to a party con- vention. 3. The words “May presidential primary elec- tion” any such primary election, held in May of each year of the general November election at which electors of president and vice president of the United States are to be chosen, as shall provide for the indication of preference in the several political parties for party candidates for president of the United States through the election of delegates to national party conven- tions. 4. The word “election,” a general state, county, city or city and county election as distinguished from a primary election. 5. The words “November election,” either the presidential election, or the general state, county, or city and county election held in November of each even numbered year. 6. The words “judicial officer,” any justice of the supreme court, justice of a district court of appeal, judge of the superior court, justice of the peace, or justice of such inferior court as the legislature may establish in any county, town- ship, incorporated city or town, or city and county ; and the words “judicial office,” the office filled by any of the above judicial officers. 7. The words “school officer,” the superin- tendent of public instruction and the super- intendent of schools of a county or city and county ; and the words “school office,” the office filled by any of the above school officers. 8. The words “county officer,” any officer elected within the boundaries of any county or city and county, except a member of the state senate or assembly or a member of the house of representatives of the congress of the United States or a member of any party county central committee or delegate to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district ; and the words “county office,” the office filled by any county officer. The words “township officer,” any such county officer as is elected within the boundaries of any judicial township that is now or may be hereafter provided by law ; and the words “township office,” the office filled by any town- ship officer. ; ; 9. The word or words “political party,” “party,” “political organization,” or “organiza- tion,” a political party or organization of electors which has qualified, as hereinafter provided, for participation in any primary election ; and such ITwenty-four] party or organization shall be deemed to have so qualified when any one or more of the three fol- lowing conditions have been complied with : a. If at the last preceding November election there was polled for any one of its candidates who was the candidate of such party only for any office voted on throughout the state, at least three per cent of the entire vote of the state, or for any one of its candidates who was the joint candidate of such party and any other party for any office voted on throughout the state, at least si* per cent of the entire vote of the state ; or b. If on or before a date which shall be the fiftieth day before any primary election, there shall have registered within the state, as intend- ing to affiliate with such party or organization as shall have been designated in their affidavits of registration, qualified electors equal in number to at least three per cent of the total number of electors registered throughout the state for the last preceding November election; the number of such registered qualified electors to be deter- mined by the secretary of state from the state- ments transmitted to him as required by sub- division one of section four of this act ; or c. If on or before a date which shall be the fiftieth day before any primary election, there shall be filed with the secretary of state a peti- tion signed by registered qualified electors of the state, whether registered as intending to affiliate with any political party or not, equal in number to at least three per cent of the entire vote ofv the state at the last preceding November elec- tion, declaring that they represent a political party or organization the name of which iihall be stated therein, which party said electors de- sire to have participate in such primary elec- tion ; such petition to be circulated, signed, and the signatures thereon of the registered electors certified to and transmitted to the secretary of state by the county clerks substantially as pro- vided in section five of this act, for the circula- tion, signing, certification, and transmission of nomination papers for state officers ; providing, however, that no electors or organization of electors shall assume a party name or designa- tion which shall be so similar to the name of an existing party or organization as to mislead voters. This statute shall be liberally construed, so that the real will of the electors shall not be defeated by any informality or failure to com- ply with all the provisions of law in respect to either the giving of any notice or the conducting of the primary election or certifying the results thereof. In each county and city and county in this state, having a registrar of voters or registrar of voters and a board of election commissioners, the powers conferred and the duties imposed in this statute upon a county clerk and his deputies, and other officers, in relation to matters of elec- tion and polling places, shall be exercised and performed by such registrar of voters or his deputies, or registrar of voters or his deputies and board of election commissioners ; and all nominating papers, list of candidates, expenses, and oaths of office, required by this statute to be made to county clerks, shall be filed with the registrar of voters. Section two of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows: Sec. 2. All candidates nominated at a pri- mary election for elective public offices shall be nominated by direct vote at such election held in accordance with the provisions of this act ; provided, that electors of president and vice president of the United States shall be nominated as provided in subdivision two of section twenty- four of this act. Party candidates for the office of United States senator shall have their names placed on the official primary election ballots of their respective parties and shall be in all re- spects nominated in the manner herein provided for state officers. This act shall not apply to special elections to fill vacancies; nor to the nomination of officers of municipalities, counties, or cities and counties whose charters provide a system for nominating candidates for such of- ficers ; nor the nomination of officers for any district not formed for municipal purposes; nor to the nomination of freeholders to be elected for the purpose of framing a charter ; nor to the nomination of officers for cities of the sixth class ; nor to the nomination of school district officers. Section four of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 4. 1. On the first Monday in February, on the Monday which is the fiftieth day before the first Tuesday in May, on the first Monday in June , and on the Monday which is the fiftieth day before the last Tuesday in August, in each even numbered year , the county clerk or registrar of voters of each county or city and county shall transmit a statement to the secretary of state of the total number of electors registered in his county since the first day of January next pre- ceding, together with the number so registered under each of the several political affiliations, and also the number declining or failing to declare such affiliation. At least forty days before the time of holding the August primary election in 1911f and biennially thereafter, the secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to each county clerk and to the registrar of voters in any city and county a notice in writing designating the offices for which candidates are to be nominated at such primary election, together with the names of the political parties qualified to par- ticipate in such election. 2. Within ten days after receipt of such notice such county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall publish once in each week for two successive weeks in not more than two newspapers published in such county or city and county so much thereof as may be applicable to his county, including a statement of the number of members of the county central committee to be elected by each political party in each super- visorial or assembly district, as the case may be, according to the provisions of subdivision four of section twenty-four of this act. 3. In the case of August primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city or city and county officers to be voted for at the November election in the odd numbered, years, the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body in any such city or the registrar of voters in any such city and county shall cause the publication of notice of such primary election, together with a complete statement of the offices for which candi- dates are to be nominated , once in each week for two successive weeks in not more than two newspapers of general circulation published in such city or city and county, the last publication to be made not more than forty and not less than fourteen days before such primary election. 4. In the case of primary elections other than the August primary elections the city clerk or -secretary of the legislative body of the political subdivision for which such primary election shall be held shall cause one publication of such notice to be given, such publication to be not more than forty and not less than fourteen days before such primary election. Section five of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 5. 1. The name of no candidate shall be printed on an official ballot to be used at any primary election unless at least forty days prior to the primary election, if the candidate is to be voted for at the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, and at least twenty days prior to the primary election, if the candidate is to be voted for at a primary election other than the August or May primary election, a nomination paper shall have been filed in his behalf as hereinafter provided by this act. 2. a. The candidate may appoint verification deputies to serve within the county . or city and county in which such deputies reside in securing signatures to his nomination paper for nomi- nation to the office for which he is a candidate, and the verification deputies thus appointed shall be recognized as the duly authorized verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination, paper of such candidate in such county or city and county. The document in which such verifi- cation deputies are appointed as herein provided shall be filed with the county clerk of the county or city and county in which such verification deputies reside, at or before the time the nomina- tion paper of the candidate is left with the county clerk for filing or for examination provided [Twenty-five] in subdivision four of this section. Said docu- ment shall be in substantially the following form : I, the undersigned, a candidate for the party nomination for the office of , which nomination is to be made by direct vote at a pri- mary election to be held on the day of August, 19 — , do hereby appoint the following registered qualified electors of the county of , as verification deputies to obtain signatures in said county to a nomination paper placing me in nomination as a candidate of said party for said office of of) or (in the town of county of ), as a candidate for the nomination of such party for the office of to be voted for at the primary election to be held on the day of August, 19 ; and we do solemnly swear (or affirm) that said has consented to this pro- posal of his name as candidate for the nomina- tion for said office. We hereby appoint the fol- lowing registered qualified electors of this county as verification deputies to obtain signatures iii this county to the nomination paper of said to said office of Verification Deputies. Names. Residence. Verification Deputies. Names. Residence. etc. etc. (Signature) (Residence) Filed in the office of the county clerk of county this day of , 19__. County Clerk. By , Deputy. In case it is desired to appoint additional verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the words “ party,” and the words “of said party,” shall be omitted from said document. Or, as an alternative to the foregoing portion of this section and subdivision, verification deputies may be appointed in behalf of a candidate as follows : b. Any five qualified electors of any county or city and county who are registered as intending to affiliate with the same political party may join in proposing a candidate of such party for nomi- nation to any office to be voted on in such county or city and county at the next ensuing primary election, and in appointing verification deputies to serve within such county or city and county in securing signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate for such office. If the office is an office the candidate for which is to be voted on in more than one county, he may be proposed for nomination as herein provided by five of the registered qualified electors in each of the coun- ties in which such electors may desire to circu- late a nomination paper in his behalf. The sig- natures of the said five qualified electors shall be verified free of charge before any officer author- ized to administer an oath, and the document containing such signatures shall be filed with the county clerk of the county or city and county in which said five qualified electors reside, at or before the time the nomination paper of the can- didate is left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for filing or for examination as pro- vided in subdivision four of this section. In said document the five signers shall make affidavit that the candidate therein named for the office therein specified has given his consent to be thus proposed for nomination to such office, and shall also state that the verification deputies therein appointed are duly registered qualified electors of said county or city and county ; and the verification deputies therein appointed shall be recognized as the duly authorized verification deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of such candidate in such county or city and county. Said document shall be substan- tially in the following form : State of California, ) County of f We, the undersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that we are each qualified electors of the county of State of California, and that we are each registered as intending to affiliate with the party ; and we do hereby propose who resides (at No. street in the city etc. etc. (Signed) Names. Residence. __ Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 19 (Seal) I* Notary Public (or other official). In ca£e it is desired to appoint additional veri- fication deputies to secure signatures to the nomination paper of said candidate, one or more similar documents may be filed, to supplement the first document. When the office for which the candidate is proposed is a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the provisions of this subdivision ■shall apply, except that the five qualified electors shall make no statement of their party affiliation and may be affiliated with different parties or with no party ; and the candidate proposed for nomina- tion shall not be so proposed as the candidate of any party. 3. Verification deputies appointed as provided in subdivision two of this section to obtain sig- natures to the nomination paper of any candi- date for any office to be voted for at any pri- mary election, may, at any time not more than seventy days nor less than forty days prior to such election, obtain signatures to such nomina- tion paper of 'such candidate for such office. Each signer of a nomination paper shall sign but one such paper for the same office ; pro- vided, that prior to primary elections other than August primary elections or May presidential primary elections, signatures may be obtained not more than forty nor less than twenty days prior to such election. He shall also declare his intention to support such candidate for nomina- tion, and shall add his place of residence, giving his street and number if any. His election pre- cinct shall also appear on the paper just preced- ing his name, and the date of his signature shall appear at the end of the line just after his residence. Any nomination paper may be pre- sented in sections, but each section shall contain the name of the candidate and the name of the office for which he is proposed for nomination. Each section shall bear the name of the city or town, if any, and also the name of the county or city and county, in which it is circulated, and only qualified electors of such county or city and county, registered as intending to affiliate with the political party in which the nomination is being made, shall be competent to sign such section. Any section circulated within any in- corporated city or town shall be signed only by registered qualified electors of such city or town. Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures numbered, and shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the verification deputy who has obtained signatures to the same, stating that all the signatures to the attached section were made in his presence, and that tc [Twenty-six] the best of his knowledge and belief, each signa- ture to the section is the genuine 'signature of the person whose name it purports to be ; and no other affidavit thereto shall be required. The affidavit of any verification deputy obtaining signatures hereunder shall be verified free of charge by any officer authorized to administer an oath. Such nomination paper so verified shall be prima facie evidence that the signa- tures thereto appended are genuine and that the persons signing the same are registered qualified electors, unless and until it is otherwise proven by comparison of such signatures with the affi- davits of registration in the office of the county clerk or registrar of. voters. Each section of the nomination paper, after being verified, shall be returned by the verification deputy who circu- lated it to one of the five electors by whom the said verification deputy was appointed ; and in this manner all the sections circulated in any county shall be collected by said five electors of that county and shall be by them arranged for filing or for examination, as provided in subdivision four of this section. In case said verification deputy was appointed directly by the candidate according to the provisions of subdivision two (a) of this section, the collecting and arranging of the sections of the nomination paper shall be done by the candidate instead of by the “five electors” as hereinbefore provided. Each sec- tion of the nomination paper shall be in sub- stance as follows : County of city (or town) of (if any). ‘ Nomination paper of , candidate for party nomination for the office of State of California, ) County of j SS * Signer’s Statement. I, undersigned, am a qualified elector of the city (or town) of , county of , State of California ; and am registered as intending to affiliate with the party ; and I hereby nomi- nate , who resides at No. street, city of , county of , State of California, as a candidate for the nomination of such party for the office of , to be voted for at the primary election to be held on the day of August, 19 — . I have not signed the nomination paper of any other candidate for the same office, and I further declare that I intend to support for such nomination the candidate named herein. No. Precinct Signature Residence Date 1 • 2 3 4 5 etc. Verification Deputy’s Affidavit. I, , solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have been appointed according to the provisions of subdivision two , section five, of the direct pri- mary law, as a verification deputy to secure signatures in the county of to the nomina- tion paper of . as candidate for the nomina- tion of the party for the office of ; that all the signatures on this section of said nomina- tion paper, numbered from 1 to inclusive, were, made in my presence, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, each of said signa- tures is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. (Signed) Verification Deputy. Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 19 — (Seal) Notary Public (or other official). In the case of a nomination paper for any candidate for a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the provisions of this subdivision shall apply, except that no such nomination paper nor any section thereof shall contain the name of any political party, of any signer thereto, nor shall the candidate be referred to as a candidate for the nomination of any party ; and any nomination paper for any candidate for a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office may be signed by any registered qualified elector of the county or city and county , whether registered as being affiliated with any, or with no, political party . 4. Prior to the filing of a nomination paper for any candidate, the sections thereof must be numbered in order and fastened together by cities or towns or portions of the county not included in such cities or towns, substantially in the manner required for the binding of affidavits of registration by the provisions of. section one thousand one hundred thirteen of the Political Code ; provided, that the sections of the nomina- tion paper shall be preceded by an index of pre- cincts, arranged by cities, towns or outside terri- tory in the numerical or alphabetical order of such precincts for each such city, town or out- side territory and showing after the name or number of such precinct the numbers of the sec- tion pages on which the names of the electors registered in such precinct are to ,be found, and after the number of each page, the number (in parenthesis) of times such names are to be so found on such section page. Such index shall be substantially the following form : City of ...I No. Of precinct Numbers of section pages containing voters of precinct 1 2 1 (3 times) 2 (5 times) 1 (4 times) 2 (0 times) etc. 3 (T times) etc. 3 (0 times) etc. etc Town of — — — — etc. etc. And. provided, further, that for all nominations of candidates to be voted for in more than one county, or throughout the entire state, the nomi- nation papers, properly assembled, may be con- solidated and fastened or bound together by counties ; but in no case shall nomination papers signed by electors of different counties be fastened or bound up together. The county clerk of any county or registrar of voters of any city and county shall examine all nomination papers herein provided for which purport to have been signed by electors of his county or city and county, and shall disregard and mark “not suffi- cient’ r any name appearing on such paper or papers which does not appear in the same hand- writing on an affidavit of registration in his office, or which ( except in the case of nomination papers of candidates for judicial, school, county, or township offices the signers of which may be registered as oi any or no party ) does not ap- pear on said affidavit as intending to affiliate with the party named in such nomination papers. Such officer shall affix to all nomination papers a certificate reciting that he has examined the same and stating the number of names signed thereto which have not been marked “not stiffi- cient” as hereinabove provided. All nomination papers which by this act are required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall be left with the county clerk or registrar of voters for examination, as above provided, at least forty days prior to the August primary election or the May presidential primary election, and shall, with such certificate of examination attached, within five days after being so left, be for- warded by such county clerk or registrar of voters to the secretary of state, who shall re- ceive and * file the same. The verification of signatures to nomination papers shall not be made by the candidate, nor by any county clerk, or registrar of voters, nor by any of the deputies in the office of such county clerk or registrar of voters, nor within one hundred feet of any elec- tion booth, polling place, or any place where registration of electors is being conducted. Each candidate on or before the thirty-fifth day prior to the August primary election or the May presi- dential primary election, shall file in the place [Twenty-seven] where his nomination paper is required to be filed, as provided in section six of this act, his affidavit, stating his residence, with street and number, if any ; his election precinct ; that he is a qualified elector in the election precinct in which he resides; the name of the office for which he desires to be a candidate; and that if nominated he will accept such nomination and not withdraw, and that he will qualify as such officer if nominated and elected ; and he shall also make the statement required in subdivision five of section six of this act. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to limit the rights of any person to become the candidate of more than one political party for the same office upon complying with the requirements of this act, but no person shall be entitled to become a candidate for more than one office at the same election. 5. Except in the case of a candidate for nomi- nation to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, nomination paper's shall be signed as follows : If the candidate is the candidate for an office to be yoted on throughout the state, by not less than one-half of one per centum and not more than two per centum of the vote or registration constituting the basis of percentage as defined in subdivision six of this section of the party of the candidate seeking nomination, within the state ; if the candidate is the candidate for an office to be voted on in some political subdivision of the state, but not throughout the state, by not less than one per centum nor more than two per centum of the vote or registration constituting the basis of per- centage, as defined in subdivision six of this section, of the party of the candidate seeking nomination within said political subdivision in which such candidate seeks nomination. 6. Except in case of a candidate for nomina- tion to a judicial office, school office, county of- fice, or township office, the basis of percentage in each case shall be the highest vote polled by the party for any such candidate as may have been the candidate of such party only , at the preceding general election, or, if there was no candidate who was the candidate of such party only, the basis of percentage shall be the lowest vote received by any candidate who was the joint candidate of such party and of one or more other parties; and if the candidate is the candidate of a party which had no candidate at the preceding general election, then the basis of percentage shall be upon the number of qualified electors who, on or before the fiftieth day prior to the primary election, shall in registering have de- clared their intention to affiliate with such party. Every political party qualified to participate in the primary election by the provisions of sub- division eight of section one of this act, whose membership or members shall comply ivith the provisions of this act by filing nomination papers for one or more candidates, shall be entitled to a separate party ticket at the primary election; but all such party tickets must be alike in the designation of candidates for judicial, school, county, and township offices. 7. Whenever by rearrangement of political subdivisions of the state by any legislature, board of supervisors or other legislative body, the boundaries of such political subdivisions are changed, the highest vote polled by each party in each of the new political subdivisions shall be determined as follows : If the change occurs wholly within any county or city and county, the county clerk or registrar of voters of such county or city and county shall determine as nearly as possible the highest vote of each party in the new political subdivision by adding to- gether for each party the highest vote in each of the former precincts which how are combined to mak6 up such new political subdivision. If the change occurs outside the limits of any county or city and county, the secretary of state shall determine the highest vote of each party in such new political subdivision by adding together for each party the highest vote in the counties which now are combined to make up such new political subdivision. In the same way that the highest vote for each party in each new political sub- division is ascertained, shall also be ascertained the total vote of all parties, as is required to be known by the provisions of subdivision nine of this section. [Twenty-eight] 8. Nothing herein shall be construed as prc hibiting the independent nomination of candidate as provided by section one thousand one hundre eighty-eight of the Political Code, as said sectio was enacted at the fortieth session of the legisla ture of the State of California ; except that candidate who has filed nomination papers a one of the candidates for nomination to an office on the ballots of any political party at r primary electmn held under the provisions of thi act, and who is defeated for such party nomina tion at such primary election, shall be ineligibl for nomination to the same office at the ensuin; general election, either as an independent candi date or as the candidate of any other party, an< no person shall be permitted to file nomination papers for a party nomination and an in dependent nomination for the same office, or fo more than one office at the same election. Noi shall any person whose name has been written in upon any balffit or ballots for any office a any primary election, have his name placed upon the ballot as a candidate for such office at the ensuing general election, except under the pro visions of section one thousand one hundred eighty-eight of the Political Code, unless at such primary election he shall have received for such office votes equal in number to the minimum number of nomination papers which would have been required to be filed to have placed his name on the primary ballot as a candidate for nomina- tion to such office. , 9- In the case of a candidate for nomination to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, nomination papers shall be signed by not less than one-half of one per centum, nor more than two per centum of the total vote cast by all political parties at the last election in the state or political subdivision thereof in which such candidate for judicial or school, county, or township office seeks nomina- tion. iO. The officer with whom nomination papers are filed shall keep a record in which he shall enter the names of all persons filing the same, the name of the office, the party, if any, and the time of filing. Section seven of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 7. 1. A filing fee of fifty dollars shall be paid to the secretary of state by each candidate for state office or for the United States senate. 2. A filing fee of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to the secretary cf state by each candidate for representative in congress or for any office, except member of senate and assembly, to be voted for in any district comprising more than one county. 3. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the secretary of state by each candidate for the state senate or assembly. 4. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county when the nomination paper or papers and affidavit of any candidate to be voted for wholly within one county or city and county are filed with such county clerk or registrar of voters. 5. A filing fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body of any municipality when the nomination paper or papers and affidavit of any candidate for a city office are filed with such clerk or secretary of such legislative body. 6. No filing fee shall be required from any person to be voted for at the May presidential primary election, or from any candidate for an office to the holder of which no compensation is required to be paid, or for township offices the compensation to the holder of which does not exceed the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum. 7. In no case shall the secretary of state, county clerk, registrar of voters, or city clerk, receive any nomination pavers for filing until the requisite fee for such filing, as prescribed in this section, has first been paid to him. 8. When a person is nominated for an office by reason of his name having been written on a ballot that has been voted at any primary elec- tion provided for by this act, he must pay the same filing fee provided for the same office to the same officer as would have been required if nomination papers had been filed to place his name on the primary ballot ; otherwise his name must not be printed on the ballot at the ensuing general election ; provided , he is not the nominee of another party for the same office. Section nine of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 9. The expense of providing all ballots, blanks and other supplies to be used at any pri- mary election provided for by this act and all expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation for or the conduct of such primary election shall be paid out of the treasury of the city, city and county, county or state, as the case may be, in the same manner, with like effect and by the same officers as in the case of general elections. Section ten of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 10. At least thirty days before any August primary election preceding a November election or before any May presidential primary election the secretary of state shall transmit to each county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county a certified list containing the name and post-office address of each person for whom nomination papers have been filed in the office of such secretary of state, including the candidate for delegate to a state convention, if any, from a “hold-over senatorial district” and who is entitled to be voted for in such county at such primary election, together with a designa- tion of the office for which such person is a candidate and except in the case of a judicial office, or a school office of the party or principle he represents. Such county clerk or registrar of voters shall forthwith, upon receipt thereof, publish under the proper party designation the title of each office (except a judicial office or a school office) which appears upon the certified list transmitted by the secretary of state as here- inbefore provided, together with the names and addresses of all persons for whom nomination papers have been filed for each of, said offices in the office of the secretary of state, and also the names of all candidates for the county central committee, filed in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters. He shall also publish the title of each judicial office, school office, county office, and township office, together with the names and addresses of all persons for whom nomination papers have been filed for each of said offices, either in the office of the secretary of state or in the office of the county clerk or registrar of voters, and shall state that candi- dates for said judicial, school, county, and town- ship offices may be voted for at the primary elec- tion, by any registered, qualified elector of the county, whether registered as intending to affili- ate with any political party or not. He shall also publish the date of the primary election, the hours during which the polls will be open, and that the primary election will be held at the legally designated polling places in each precinct, which shall be particularly designated. It shall be the duty of the county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county to cause such publication to be made once each week for two successive weeks prior to said primary election. Section twelve of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 12. 1. All voting at primary elections within the meaning of this act shall be by ballot. A separate official ballot for each political party shall be printed and provided for use at each voting precinct; but all such party ballots must > be alike in the designation of candidates for judicial , school, county, and township offices. The ballots must have a different tint or color for each of the political parties participating in the primary election. There shall also be printed and provided a non-partisan ballot of a different tint and color from all the others (or white , if all the others are colored ), which shall contain only, but in like manner, all the candidates for judicial, school, county, and township offices to be voted for at the primary election; and one of the non-partisan ballots shall, at the primary election, be furnished to each registered qualified elector who is not registered as intending to affiliate with any one of the political parties par- ticipating in said primary election ; but to any elector registered as intending to affiliate with any political party participating in the primary there shall be furnished, not a non-partisan bal- lot, but a ballot of the political party with which said elector is registered as intending to affiliate. Jt shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county or of the registrar of voters in any city and county to provide such printed official ballots to be used at any August primary election for the nomination of candidates to be voted for in such county or city and county at the ensuing November election and at any May presidential primary election. It shall be the duty of the city clerk or secretary of the legislative body of any municipality to provide such printed official bal- lots for any primary election other than the August primary election or the May presidential primary election. Such official ballots to be used at any primary election shall be printed on offi- cial paper, furnished by the secretary of state, in the manner provided by section one thousand one hundred ninety-six of the Political Code, and in the form hereinafter provided. The names of all candidates for the respective offices for whom the prescribed nomination papers have been duly filed shall be printed thereon. 2. Official primary election ballots used at any primary election for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at any presidential or general state election , except as provided in subdivision five of this section, shall be as^long as the herein prescribed captions, headings, party designations , directions to voters and lists of names of candi- dates, properly subdivided according to the sev- eral offices to be nominated for, may require; and no official primary election ballot shall be less than six and one-half inches wide. 3. Across the top of the ballot shall be printed in heavy-faced gothic capital type, not smaller than forty-eight-point, the words : “official pri- mary election ballot providing, that on a non- partisan ballot said words may be printed in gothic capital type not smaller than twenty-four- point. Beneath this heading shall be printed in hedvy-faced gothic capital type, not smaller than twenty-four-point, the party designation if it be a party ballot; or, in the case of a ballot con- taining the names of no candidates except candi- dates for a judicial, school, county, or township office, the woi'ds “ non-partisan ballot The in- structions to voters snail be printed in ten-point, gothic type. In the case of official primary elec- tion ballots to be used at any primary election . held for the nomination of candidates other than those to be voted for at a presidential or a general state election , and on which, in accord- ance with the provisions of this act, the names of candidates may be printed in a single column or in two parallel columns, as the case may be, the words “ official primary election ballot” shall be printed thereon in heavy-faced gothic t capital type, not smaller than twenty-four-point. The party or non-partisan designation shall be printed, in heavy-faced gothic capital type, not smaller than eighteen-point. The instructions to voters shall be printed in ten-point gothic type. 4. At least three-eighths of an inch below the assembly district designation and the date of the primary election shall be printed in ten-point gothic type, double leaded, the following instruc- tions to voters : “To vote for a person whose name occurs on the ballot, stamp a cross ( X ) in' the square at the right of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote. To vote for a per- son whose name is not printed on the ballot, write his name in the blank space provided for that purpose.” 5. The instructions to voters shall be separated from the lists of candidates and the designations of the several offices to be nominated for by one light and one heavy line or rule. The names of the candidates and the respective offices shall, except as may be hereinafter otherwise provided, be printed on the ballot in four or more parallel columns, each two and one-half inches wide. The number of such parallel columns shall be exactly divisible by two, and such parallel columns shall be equally divided on the ballot for party and non-partisan tickets by a solid black line, extend- ing down from the printed lines separating the instructions to voters from the lists of names of candidates to the bottom margin of the ballot. [Twenty-nine] In the case or a primary election for the nomina- tion of candidates to be voted for at a presi- dential or general state election, the order of precedence shall be as follows, that is to say: In the column to the left , under the heading State shall be printed the groups of names of candidates for state offices, except judicial and school offices, and for members of the state board, of equalization. In the second column , under the heading Congressional shall be printed the groups of names for United States senator in congress, if any, and for representative in con- gress. Next, under the heading Legislative shall be printed the groups of names for state senator, if any, for member of assembly, and for election as delegate to the state convention from a “hold- over senatorial district,” if any. Finally under the heading County Committee, shall be printed the names of the candidates for election to mem- bership in the county central committee of the party. In the case of primary elections where state officers are not to be nominated, at the left of the solid black dividing line there may be only one column. In the parallel columns to the right of the solid black dividing line shall be printed the groups of names of candidates for nomination to judicial , school, county, and town- ship offices in the following order: Under the heading Judicial shall be printed all the names of candidates for judicial offices, in the order of chief justice supreme court, associate justices supreme court, judge of district court of appeals, judge of superior court and justice of the peace. Next, under the heading School shall be printed all the names of candidates for school offices in the order of state superintendent of instruction, superintendent of schools, and school district of- ficers, if any. Next, under the heading County and Township shall be printed the groups of candidates for all county and township offices except judicial or school offices. In the case of primary elections where county officers are not to be nominated, at the right of the solid black dividing line there may be only one column. The non-partisan ballot provided for in sub- division one of this section shall be identical as to offices and names of candidates with that por- tion of the party ballot which is printed to the right of the solid black dividing line hereinabove described. The tally sheets furnished to election officers shall have the names of offices and candi- dates arranged in the order in whi.ch said names of offices and candidates are printed on the bal- lots according to the provisions of this section and subdivision. In the case of primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city, city and county or municipal offices only, the groups of names of candidates may be printed in two parallel columns and the order of precedence shall be determined by the legislative body of such city or municipality or by the board of election commissioners of any such city and county. 6. The group of names of candidates for nomi- yiation to any judicial office, school office, county office, or township office shall include all the names receiving the requisite number of signa- tures on a nomination paper for such office, and shall be identical for each such office on the pri- mary election ballots of each political party par- ticipating at the primary election ; but the groups of names of candidates for all other offices on the ballots of each political party shall comprise only the names of the candidates for nomination by such party. 7. The order in which the list of candidates for any office shall appear upon the primary election ballot shall be determined as follows: (a) If the office is an office the candidates for which are to be voted on throughout the entire state, including United States senator in con- gress, the secretary of state shall arrange the names of all candidates for such office in alpha- betical order for the first assembly district ; and thereafter for each succeeding assembly district, the name appearing first for each office in the last preceding district shall be placed last, the order of the other names remaining unchanged. If the office is that of representative in congress, or is an office the candidates for nomination to which are to be voted on in more than one county or city and county, but not throughout the entire state, except the office of state senator or assemblyman, the secretary of state shall ar- range the names of all candidates for such office in alphabetical order for that assembly district which is lowest in numerical order of any as- sembly district in which such candidates are to be voted on ; and thereafter for such succeeding assembly district in which such candidates are to be voted on, the name appearing first for such office in the last preceding district shall be placed last, the order of the other names remaining unchanged. In transmitting to each county clerk or registrar of voters the certified list of names as required in section ten of this act, the secre- tary of state shall certify and transmit the list of candidates for nomination to each office ac- cording to assembly districts, in the order of arrangement as determined by the above pro- visions ; and in the case of each county or city and county containing more than one assembly district, he shall transmit separate lists for each assembly district. Except for the office of state senator or assemblyman, the order in which the names filed with the secretary of state shall appear upon the ballot, shall be for each as- sembly district the order as determined by the secretary of state in accordance with the above provisions, and as certified and transmitted by him to each county clerk or registrar of voters. (b) If the office is an office to be voted on throughout, but wholly within, one county or city and county, except the office of representative in congress or state senator or assemblyman, the county clerk of such county or the registrar of voters of such city and county, shall arrange the names of all candidates for such office in alpha- betical order for the first' supervisorial district ; and thereafter for each supervisorial district, the name appearing first for each such office in the last preceding supervisorial district shall be placed last, the order of the other names re- maining unchanged ; provided, there are no more than five assembly districts in such county, or city and county. If there are more than five assembly districts in such county, or city and county, the county clerk or registrar of voters shall so arrange on the ballot the order of names of all candidates for such office that they shall appear in alphabetical order for that assembly district in such county, or city and county, which is lowest in numerical order, and thereafter for each succeeding assembly district in such county, or city and county, the name appearing first for each office in the last preceding assembly dis- trict shall be placed last, the order of the other names remaining unchanged. (c) If the office is that of state senator or assemblyman, or delegate to the state conven- tion from a “hold-over senatorial district,” or member of a county central committee, or any o'ffice except the office of representative in con- gress to be voted on wholly within any county or city and county but not throughout such county or city or county, the names of all candi- dates for such office shall be placed upon the ballot in alphabetical order. (d) If the office is a municipal office in any city or town whose charter does not provide for the order in which names shall appear on the ballot, the names of candidates for such office shall be placed upon the ballot in alphabetical order. 8. In publishing the names and addresses of all candidates for whom nomination papers have been filed, as required in section ten of this act, the county clerk or registrar of voters shall publish the names in the order in which they will appear upon the ballot ; provided, that in counties or cities and counties containing more than one assembly district the order of names of candidates shall be that of the assembly district in such county or city and county which is lowest in numerical order. 9. Each group of candidates to be voted on shall be preceded by the designation of the office for which the candidates seek nomination, and the words “vote for one” or “vote for two” or more according to the number to be elected to such office at the ensuing election. Such desig- nation of the office to be nominated for, and of the number of candidates to be nominated shall be printed in heavy-faced gothic type, not smaller [Thirty] ban ten-point. The word or words designating he office shall be printed flush with the left- land margin and the words “vote for one’’ or ‘vote for two” or more, as the case may be, shall xtend to the extreme right of the column and >ver the voting square. The designation of the iffice and the direction for voting shall be sepa- rated from the names of the candidates by a ight line. 10. The names of the candidates shall be irinted on the ballot without indentation, in oman capital type not smaller than eight-point, >etween light lines or rules three-eighths of an nch apart. Under each group of names of candi- iates shall be printed as many blank spaces, leflned by light lines or rules, three-eighths of m inch apart, as there are to be candidates lominated for such office. To the right of the lames of the candidates shall be printed a light ine or rule so as to form a voting square three- iightlis of an inch square. Each group of names jf candidates shall be separated from the suc- ceeding group by one light and one heavy line or - ule . Each series of groups shall be headed by :he word “state,” “congressional,” “legislative,” ‘county and township ” or “municipal” or other oroper general classification, as the case may be, minted in heavy-faced gothic capital type, not smaller than twelve-point. All official primary election ballots shall have printed on the back and immediately below the center thereof, in eighteen-point gothic capital type, the words “official primary election ballot,” and under- neath these words the respective numbers of the congressional, senatorial and assembly districts in which each ballot is to be voted. In the case of a primary election for the nomination of can- didates for city or city and county offices only, the designations on the back of the ballot, in addition to the ivords “ official primary election ballot,” shall be the official designation of the respective ward and voting precinct in any such city or municipality, or the number of the as- sembly district and of the voting precinct in any such city and county in which each ballot is to be voted. The ballot shall be printed on the same leaf with a stub and separated therefrom by a perforated line across the top of the ballot. On each ballot a perforated line shall extend from top to bottom one-half inch from the right hand side of such ballot, and upon the half-inch strip thus formed there shall be no printing except the number of the ballot which shall be on the back of each strip, in such position that it shall appear on the outside when the ballot is folded. The number on each ballot shall be the same as that on the corresponding stub, and the ballots and stubs shall be numbered consecutively in each county ; provided, that the sequence of num- bers on such official ballots and stubs for each party shall begin with the number one. The official ballots of each political party shall be made up in stub books, each book to contain ten, or some multiple of ten, ballots, in the manner provided by law for official election ballots, and except as to the order of the names of candidates shall be printed in substantially the following form : [Form of party ballot on page 32.] [Form of non-partisan ballot on page 33.] Section thirteen of the direct primary law, proposed t6 be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 13. At least twenty days before the August primary election or before the May presi- dential primary election each county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall prepare separate sample ballots for each political party, and a separate sample non-partisan ballot, placing thereon in each case in the order pro- vided in subdivision seven of section twelve of this act, and under the appropriate title of each office, the names of all candidates for whom nomination papers have been duly filed with him, or have been certified to him by the secretary of state, to be voted for at the primary election in his county or city and county. Such sample ballots shall be printed on paper of a different texture from the paper to be used on the official ballot, and one sample ballot of the party to which the voter belongs as evtdenced by hi3 registration shall be mailed to each such voter entitled to vote at such August primary elec- tion or May presidential primary election, as the case may be, not more than ten nor less than five days before the election. Not more than ten nor less than five days before the August primary election a non-partisan sample ballot printed on paper of a different texture from the paper to be used on the official ballot shall be mailed to each registered qualified elector who is not registered as intending to affiliate with any of the parties participating in said primary election. Such clerk or registrar of voters shall forth- with submit the ticket of each political party to the chairman of the county committee of such party and shall mail a copy to each candidate for whom nomination papers have been filed with him or whose name has been certified to him by the secretary of state, to the post-office address as given in such nomination paper or certification, and he shall post a copy of each sample ballot in a conspicuous place in his office. Before such primary election the county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall cause the official ballot to be printed as provided by section twelve of this act, and distributed in the same manner and in the. same quanti- ties as provided in sections one thousand one hundred ninety-eight, one thousand one hundred ninety-nine and one thousand two hundred one of the Political Code for the distribution of ballots for elections ; provided, that the number of party ballots to be furnished to any precinct shall be computed from the number of voters registered in such precinct as intending to affiliate with such party, and the number of non-partisan ballots to be furnished to any precinct shall be computed from the number of voters registered in such precinct without statement of intention to affiliate with any of the parties participating in the primary election. In the case of primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city offices it shall -be the duty of the city clerk, secretary of the legislative body of such city or municipality, or such other officer charged by law with the duty of preparing and distributing the official ballots used at elections in such city or municipality, to prepare and mail the sample ballot and to prepare and distribute the official primary election ballots, and so far as applicable and not otherwise provided herein the provisions of this act shall apply to the nomination of all candidates for city offices. Section sixteen of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 16. Any elector offering to vote at a primary election may be challenged by any elector of the city, city and county or county, upon either or all of the grounds specified in sec- tion one thousand two hundred thirty of the Political Code, but his right to vote the primary election ticket of the political party designated, in his affidavit of registration, as provided in section one thousand ninety-six of the Political Code, or his right to vote the non-partisan pri- mary ticket providing no such party is so desig- nated, shall not be challenged on any ground or subjected to any tests other than* those provided by the constitution and section one thousand two hundred thirty of the Political Code of this state. Section seventeen of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 17. Any elector qualified to take part in any primary election, who has, at least thirty days before the day of such primary election, qualified by registration, as provided by section one thousand ninety-six of the Political Code, shall be entitled to vote at such primary election, such right to vote being subject to challenge only as hereinbefore provided ; and shall, on writing his name or having it written for him on the roster, as provided by law for general elections in this state, receive the official primary election ballot of the political party designated in his affidavit of registration ; (or the non-partisan ballot, providing no such party was so desig- nated), and no other ; provided, however, that no one shall be entitled to vote at any primary election who has not been a resident of the state one year, and of the county ninety days, preced- ing the day upon which such primary election is held. He shall be instructed by a member of the board as to the proper method of marking and [Thirty-one] OFFICIAL PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT REPUBLICAN PARTY Forty-Eighth Assembly District, August 25, 014 to rot* for * penon whoeo name appears on the ballot, stamp a cross (X) la tbs square at lbs RIGHT of tbs name of tbs pejsnn-far wh am ysi 40 to Is. To rota for a person whose turns is not printed os tbs ballot, writs bis same In tbs blank space provided far that purpose. STATE CONGRESSIONAL 1 JUDICIAL Couity Clark Vata for Ona Ottwaar Vota tor Om United States Senator Vote for One Chief Justice Bup. Court Vote for One S R HALLOS Y 1 • ICUASLD ROE Charles n hart WALTER WILTER 1 James b iicCkearv | •1 CNR Y BROWN Walter bkownlow JOSEPH JENMNCS 1 1 asouky c laytime* | JOHN DOC Cassius \ clay THOMAS MERTON, 1 1 Auditor Vo(a for Coa Lieutenant Governor Vote fc rOn. Hepresentative in Congress 8th District Vote for One Associate Justice Sup. CL Vote for Two (01IX W OA.YTEL i WILLIAM SMITH PETER PETERSON WILLIAM BREWER M J FOSTER 1 THOMAS GREEN BASTICK BOYLAN ERASTUS PECK JOHN M PATTERSON 1 JtQRACG JOMtl HESRY HUDSON SAMUEL SNOW 1 P ALLEE 1 CEORCE TAWNEY CLARENCE D CLARK Secretary of State Vote for Otoe 1 JOHN TOURTlLLOTTE Treasurer Vote fat Otos Member Assembly 48th District Vote for One Judge of the Districi Court of Appeal, FRED T OL BOlS 1 rcTU e. haksos PETER PETERSON I ANTHONY BRENNAN PETER DREW 1 1 1 AUGUSTUS O OACON 1 ANDREW ANDERSON (AMES H BERRY 1 | Cootroilw Vote (or One OEOIiCE CAKCHEY THOMAS THOMPSON u Assessor Vote foe OBo Jd fthBcrioCtVtf SAMUEL ALDEN Delegate to State Convention 17th Senatorial District CEORCE BUNN J S SPOONEJ* WILLIAM S' STOKES WALTER CAMPBELL E W PETTUS AMOS STRONG* CHARLES R DAVIS i Tnumr Vote (or One THOMAS McCALL ERNEST W ROBERTS i i- L [ | HENRY SAMPSON Tan Collector Vote fin Oue A Y CHILTOH COUNTY COMMITTEE *KN*UTE NELSO.'t | SAMUEL JOHNSON Members County Central Committee Vote for Three REDFTFUJ PROCTOR 1 . JOHN f. HUNT l E. W CARMACK [ 1 Recorder Vote foa Gae Attorney General Vote fc rOn. JOSEPH T JOHNSON THOMAS SULLIVAN CEORCE. P WILSON H. L MAYNARD PETER HEPBURN W B. CURRAN E & MINOR CLAUDE SWANSON C M DE Mt\W 1 THOMAS O'BRIEN U f) ROBINSON ~ CHARLES W PULTON u EDWARD F. STEVENS THOMAS H. CASTER Curvsyor General Vote for One FRANK WHEATON SCHOOL J ublio Administrator Vote for One X1CHAEL KERN AN 5 SupL of Pub. Instruction Vote for One II. M. TELLER JOHN P. WALKER 1 CHARLES N STOVER I W BA 1 LEV FRANK N KENDALL 1 Member State Board of Equalization, First District Vote for One ARTHUR ROBERTS Coroner Vote foe One WILLIAM ADAMS JAMES B FRAZIEIt HARRY ALCIR iflonaty SupL of Schools Vote for One ll C LODCB 2 TIMOTHY HEALEY W P DILLINGIIaU ] f W REYNOLDS CHARLES CARSON Surveyor Vote foe One JOHN f DRY OEM ~ COUNTY AND TOWNSH ip 1 K FORA KKR tkmjff Vole to 1 • T DOLLIVER | Supervisor Vote fie Oae CHESTER 1 LONG C. B. PATTERSOK j EL K ALCER THOMAS SPICIIT ! (AMES E VTVYSQ* i Retinol Attorney Vete for Ons jl a. KirruEDCE | — ■ .r-xzrr~.-~j=r= Caastabla* Vata totCi'a JOHN T MORGAN R *Y l>RRER -8. J. BURKETT JOIIX A. STERLING i ... [Thirty-two] OFFICIAL PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT NON-PARTISAN BALLOT Forty-Eighth Assembly District, August 25, 1914 To vote tor a person whose name eppearo on Dio Ballot, etamp a erase (xj(M the aquara at the RIGHT of the name of the person for whom you desire tm arota. To vote tor a person whose name la not printed on the ballot, writs him eiame In the blank apace provided for.ahat purpose. JUDICIAL — ' ’ — '■ . ; - a County Clerk Vote for On* Chief Justice Sup. Court Vote for On* S. K. MALLORY | WALTER WILTER james a McCreary | JOSEPH JENNINGS ASBURY C LATT1MEB | THOMAS MERTON i Auditor VoU for On* AuociaU Jutice flop. CV VoU for Two JOHN W. DANIEL. l WILLIAM BREWER M. J. FOSTER ERASTUS PECK JOHN M. PATTERSON SAMUEL SNOW J. F ALLEE CEORCE TAWNEY CLARENCE D. CLARK Treemrer VoU for On* Jodfe of the District Court of Appeal, First District Vote for One FRED T. DU BOIS AUGUSTUS O. BACON ANTHONY BRENNAN PETER DREW JAMES H. BERRY Ju&f of the Superior Ct Vote for Two Aseesaor Vote foi On* J. & SPOONER GEORGE BUNN E. a NRWLANDS WALTER CAMPBELL CHARLES R DAVIS a W. PETTVS THOMAS McCALL ERNEST W ROBERTS Tut Collector VoU fs wOn. KNUTE NELSON REDFIELD PROCTOR E. W CARMACK: Jurtlee of the Peoce Vote for Two THOMAS SULLIVAN PETER HEPBURN Recorder VoU for On* CLAUDE SWANSON C M DE PEW CHARLES W. FULTON THOMAS H. CARTER SCHOOL Public Administrator Voter for Oa» Hupt of Pub. Instruction Vote for One H. M. TELLER CHARLES N. STOVER J W BAILEY FRANK N KENDALL ARTHUR ROBERTS Coroner VoU for On* JAMES B FRAZIER Omul, 8upt of School, VoU lor One H. C LODGE TIMOTHY HEALEY W P DILLINGHAM f W REYNOLDS CHARLES CARSON Snreeynr VoU for On* 1 JOHN F DRYDEN COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP J B. FORAKER BbefUf Vote for One V P DOLLIVER. Snporvaor VoU for On* CHESTER L LONG c a Patterson- | M. A. ALCER THOMAS SPIGHT } JAMES E. WATSON 1 District Attorney Vote for One L A B KJTTREDCB Oomubl* VoU foe On* JOHN T MORGAN R. W PARKER R’j BURKETT JOHN A STERLING folding his ballot, and he shall then retire to an unoccupied booth and without undue delay stamp the same with "the rubber stamp there found. If he shall spoil or deface the ballot he shall at once return the same to the ballot clerk and receive another. Section nineteen of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 19. When a voter has stamped his ballot he shall fold it so that its face shall be concealed and only the printed designation on the back thereof shall be visible, and hand the same to the member of the board in charge of the ballot box. Such folded ballot shall be voted as ballots are voted at general elections and the name of the voter checked upon the register as having voted. Section twenty-one of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 21. As soon as the polls are finally closed the judges must immediately proceed to canvass the votes cast at such primary election. The canvass must be public, in the presence of by- standers, and must be continued without adjourn- ment until completed and the result thereof de- clared. Except as hereinafter provided, the canvass shall be conducted, completed and re- turned as provided by sections one thousand two hundred fifty-three, one thousand two hundred fifty-four, one thousand two hundred fifty-five, one thousand two hundred fifty-six, one thousand two hundred fifty-seven, one thousand two hun- dred fifty-eight, one thousand two hundred fifty- nine, one thousand two hundred sixty, one thousand two hundred sixty-one, one thou- sand two hundred sixty-two, one thousand two hundred sixty-three, one thousand two hundred sixty-four, one thousand two hundred sixty-five, one thousand two hundred sixty-six, one thou- sand two hundred sixty-seven and one thousand two hundred sixty-eight of the Political Code of this state ; provided, however, that the ballots of each party must be sealed and returned in sep- arate envelopes, and the non-partisan ballots must be sealed and returned in another separate envelope. The number of ballots agreeing or be- ing made to agree with the number of names on the lists, as provided by section one thousand two hundred fifty -five of the Political Code , the board must take the ballots from the box, count those cast by each party, and string them sep- arately; count all the votes cast for each party candidate for the several offices and record the same on the tally lists; and count all the votes on all the ballots, both party and non-partisan, for the candidates for judicial, school, county, and township offices, and record the same on the ' tally lists. Section twenty-two of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 22. The board of supervisors of each county, the board of election commissioners in any city and county, or, in the case of a city or municipal primary election, the officers charged by law with the duty of canvassing the vote at any city or municipal election in such political subdivision, shall meet at the usual place of such meeting, or at any other place permitted by law, at one o’clock in the afternoon of the first Thurs- day after each primary election to canvass the returns, or as soon thereafter as all the returns are in. When begun the canvass shall be con- tinued until completed, which shall not be later than six o’clock in the afternoon of the sixteenth day following such primary election. The clerk of the board must, as soon as the result is de- clared, enter upon the records of such board a statement of such result, which statement shall contain the whole number of votes cast for each candidate of each political party for each candi- date for each judicial, school, county, or town- ship office, for each candidate for delegate, if any, to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, and for each candidate for membership in the county central committee ; and a duplicate as to each political party shall be delivered to the county, city and county or city chairman of such political party, as the case may be. The clerk shall also make an additional duplicate statement in the same form, showing the votes cast for each candidate not voted for wholly within the limits of such county or city [Thirty-three] and county. The county clerk or registrar of voters in any city and county shall forthwith send to the secretary of state by registered mail or by express one complete copy of all returns as to such candidates, and as to all candidates for the state assembly, state senate, represen- tatives in congress, judicial officers, except justices of the peace, delegate, if any, to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, and as to all persons voted for at the May presi- dential primary election. The clerk shall also prepare a separate statement of the names of the candidates of each political party who have received the highest number of votes for the several offices to be voted for wholly within such county, city and county, or other political sub- division in which such primary election was held. The secretary of state shall, not later than the twenty-fifth day after any primary elec- tion, compile the returns for United, States senator and for all candidates voted for in more than one county, and for all candidates for the assembly, state senate, representatives in congress and judicial offices, except justices of the peace, delegate, if any, to a state convention from a hold-over senatorial district, and for all persons voted for at the May presidential pri- mary election, and shall make out and file in his office a statement thereof. He shall compile the returns for the May presidential primary elec- tion not later than the twenty-first day after such election, and shall compile said returns in such a manner as to show, for each candidate, both the total of the votes received and the votes received in each congressional district of the state. Section twenty-three of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows: Sec. 23. Except in the case of a candidate for nomination to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the person re- ceiving the highest number of votes, at a pri- mary election as the candidate for the nomination of a political party for an office shall be the candidate of the party for such office, and his name as such candidate shall be placed on the official ballot voted at the ensuing election ; pro- vided, he has paid the filing fee required by subdivision eight of section seven of this act. The name of the person in each political party who receives at a primary election the highest number of votes for United States senator shall also be placed on the official ballot under the heading “ United States senator” In the case of a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, the candidates equal in number to twice the number to be elected to such office, or less, if so there be, who receive the highest num- ber of the votes cast on all the ballots of all the voters participating in the primary election for nomination to such office, shall be the candidates for such office at the ensuing election, and their names as such candidates shall be placed on the official ballot voted at the ensuing election ; provided, however, that in case there is but one person to be elected at the November election to a judicial office, school office, county office, or township office, any candidate who receives at the August primary election a majority of the total number of votes cast for all the candidates for such office shall be the only candidate for such office at the ensuing election. Of the candi- dates for election to membership in the county central committee, the candidates equal in num- ber to the number to be elected receiving the highest number of votes in their supervisorial district or assembly district, as the case may be in accordance with the provisions of subdivision four of section twenty-four of this act, shall be declared elected as the representatives of their district to membership in t such committee. It shall be the duty of the officers charged with the canvass of the returns of any primary elec- tion in any county, city and county or munici- pality to cause to be issued official certificates of nomination to such party candidates as have received the highest number of votes as the candidates for the nomination of such party for any offices to be voted for wholly within such county, city and county, or municipality, and cause to be issued to such delegate a certificate of his election ; and to cause to be issued official certificates of nomination to such candidates for judicial, school, county, or township office as may be entitled thereto under the provisions of I this section. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to issue official certificates of nomina- tion to candidates nominated under the provisions 1 of this act for representatives in congress, mem- bers of the state senate and assembly and offi- cers voted for in more than one county ; and to issue certificates of election to all persons elected at the May presidential primary election as dele- gates to their respective national party conven- tions, and to notify each of said delegates of the total vote received by each of the persons voted for in his party at said election , under the head- ing <( for presidential nominee” Not less than thirty days before the November election the secretary of state shall certify to the county clerks or registrars of voters of each county and city and county within the state, the name of every person entitled to receive votes within such county or city and county at said November election who has received the nomination -*as a candidate for public office under and pursuant to the provisions of this act, and whose nomination is evidenced by the compilation and statement required to be made by said secretary of state and filed in his office, as provided in section twenty-two of this act. Such certificates shall in addition to the names of such nominees re- spectively, also show separately and respectively for each nominee the name of the political party or organization which has nominated such person if any and the designation of the public office for which he is so nominated. The secretary of state shall also certify to the county clerk or registrar of voters the names of those persons who have received in their respective parties the highest number of votes for United States S@7ZCtt 07* Section twenty-four of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 24. 1. Party conventions of delegates chosen as hereinafter provided may be held in this state, for the purpose of promulgating plat- forms and transacting such other business of the party as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 2. The candidates of each political party for state officers, if any, except judicial and school officers, and such candidates for senate and as- sembly as have been nominated by such political party at the primary election, and in whose be- half nomination papers have been filed, to- gether with one delegate chosen by auch political party from each senatorial district represented by a hold-over senator, shall meet in a state convention at the state capitol at two o’clock in the afternoon of the third Tuesday in Sep- tember after the date on which any primary election is held preliminary to the general November election. They shall forthwith formu- late the state platforms of their party, which said state platform of each political party shall be framed at such time that it shall be made public not later than six o’clock in the afternoon of the following Thursday. They shall also pro- ceed to elect a state central committee to con- sist of at least three (3) members from each congressional district, who shall hold office until a new state central committee shall have been selected. In each year of the general November election at which electors of president and vice president of the United States are to be chosen, they shall also nominate as the candidates of their party as many electors of president and vice president of the United States as the state is then entitled to, and it shall be the duty oi the secretary of state to issue certificates of nomination to the electors so nominated, and to cause the names of such candidates for elector to be placed upon the ballots at the ensuing November election. Membership in the state convention shall not be granted to a party nominee for a state office or office of senator or assemblyman who has be- come such by reason of his name having been written on a ballot, and who has not had his name printed on the primary ballot by having had a nomination paper filed in his behalf, as provided in section five of this act ; and, in every such ease, a vacancy shall be deemed to exist; [Thirty-fourj nd any vacancy thereby existing, or existing ecause no nomination for such office has been lade, or for any other cause, shall be filled s hereinafter provided. In any senatorial dis- rict represented by a hold-over senator there hall be chosen at Such primary election by the lectors of every political party one delegate to he state convention, who shall have nomina- ton papers circulated in his behalf, shall have is name placed upon the ballot, and shall be hosen in the same manner as a state senator 3 nominated from any senatorial district ; but o such delegate shall be disqualified by reason f holding any office, nor shall any filing fee be equired in order to have his name placed upon he ballot. The term “hold-over senator’- as erein used shall apply to a state senator whose erm of office extends beyond the first Monday n January of the year next ensuing after the rimary election, and the term “hold-over sena- orial district” shall apply to the district repre- ented by such hold-over senator. In the event that there shall not have been iled any nomination paper for a candidate for ny state office or office of senator or assembly- aan by the electors of any political party, the 'acancy thus created in the state convention of ;uch party shall be filled as follows : (a) If the vacancy occurs in a senatorial or ossembly district situated wholly within the imits of a single county or city and county, by ippointment by the newly elected county central :ommittee of such party in such county or city tnd county. (b) If the vacancy occurs in a senatorial or issembly district comprising two or more coun- ies, by appointment by the newly selected chair- nan of the several newly elected county central jommittees of such party in such counties. (c) If the vacancy occurs in a state office, by ippointment by the state central committee of such party. Such delegate so appointed shall present to die convention credentials signed by the chair- nan and the secretary of the appointing com- nittee, or by the appointing chairmen of the several committees, as the ca,se may be. 3. Each state central committee may select an executive committee, to which executive com- nittee it may grant all or any portion of its Dowers and duties. It shall choose its officers by ballot and each committee and its officers shall have the power usually exercised by the such committees and the officers thereof in so far as may be consistent with this act. The various officers and committees now in existence shall exercise the powers and perform the duties aerein prescribed until their successors are ffiosen in accordance with the provisions of this ict. 4. At each August primary election there shall oe elected in each- county or city and county a ;ounty central committee for each political party, which shall have charge of the party campaign ander general direction of the state central com- .nittee or of the executive committee selected by 3uch state central committee. In all counties Dr cities and counties containing five or more as- sembly districts the county central committee shall be elected by assembly districts and shall consist of one member for each one thousand electors or fraction thereof in each such assembly district registered as belonging to the political party with which such electors are affiliated as shown by the register of voters of such county or city and county on the first Monday of June next preceding said primary election. In all counties containing less than five assembly dis- tricts the county central committee shall be fleeted by supervisorial districts, and the num- ber to be elected from any supervisorial district shall be determined as follows : The number of electors registered in any supervisorial district as intending to affiliate with any political party shall be divided by one-twentieth of the number of electors registered in the entire county as in- tending to affiliate with said party, as such regis- tration exists, in each case, on the first Monday of June next preceding the primary election; and the integer next larger than the quotient ob- tained by such division shall constitute the num- ber of members of the county central committee to be elected by such party in said supervisorial district. The county clerk or registrar of voters in each county or city and county shall, between the first Monday and the second Monday of June next preceding the primary election, complete the number of members of the county central committee allotted to each assembly district or supervisorial district, as the case may be, by the provisions of this subdivision. Each candi- date for member of a county central committee shall appear upon the- ballot upon the filing of a nomination paper according to the provisions of section five of this act, signed in his behalf by the electors of the political subdivision in which he is a candidate, as above provided ; and the number of candidates to which each party is entitled, as hereinbefore provided, in each polit- ical subdivision, receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. Each county central committee shall meet in the courthouse at its county seat on the second Tuesday in September following the August primary election, and shall organize by selecting a chairman, a secretary and such other officers and committees as it shall deem necessary for carrying on the campaign of the party. Section twenty-five of the direct primary law, proposed tp be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 25. In case, as a result of any primary election a person has received a nomination to any elective office without first having filed nominating papers and having his name printed on the primary election ballot, he may at least thirty days before the day of election cause his name to be withdrawn from nomination by filing in the office where he would have filed his nomi- nating papers had he been a candidate for nomination, his request therefor in writing, signed by him and acknowledged before the county clerk of the county in which he resides, and no name so withdrawn shall be printed on the election ballot for the ensuing general elec- tion. The vacancy created by the withdrawal of such person as aforesaid, or on account of the ineligibility of such person to qualify as a candi- date because of the inhibitions of subdivision eight of section five of this act shall not be filled. In all other cases vacancies occurring after the holding of any primary election may be filled by the party committee of the city, county, city and county, or state, as the case may be, unless such vacancy occurs among candidates chosen at the primary election to go on the ballot for the succeeding general election for a judicial, school, county, or township office according to the pro- visions of section twenty-three of this act, in which case that candidate receiving at said pri- mary election the highest vote among all the candidates for said office who have failed to receive a sufficient number of votes to get upon said ballot according to the provisions of said section twenty-three, shall go upon said ballot to fill said vacancy. Section twenty-eight of the direct primary law, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows: Sec. 28. Any candidate at a primary election, desiring to contest a nomination of another can- didate for the same office, may, within five days after the completion of the official canvass, file an affidavit in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which he desires to contest the vote returned from any precinct or precincts in such county, and thereupon have a recount of the ballots cast in any such pre- cinct or precincts, in accordance with the pro- visions of this section. Such affidavit must specify separately each precinct in which a recount is demanded, and the nature of the mis- take, error, misconduct, or other cause why it is claimed that the returns from such precinct do not correctly state the vote as cast in such precinct, for the contestant and the contestee. The contestee must be made a party respondent, and so named in the affidavit. No personal service or other service than as herein provided need be made upon the contestee. Upon the filing of such affidavit the county clerk shall forthwith post in a conspicuous place in his office, upon a bulletin board to be prepared for that purpose, and to have upon it in conspicuous letters the words “ notice of primary election contests ” a copy of [Thirty-five] the affidavit. Upon the filing of such affidavit and the posting of the same, the superior court of the county shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties to such contest, and all candidates at any such primary election are per- mitted to be candidates under this act, upon the condition that such jurisdiction for the purposes of the proceeding authorized by this section shall exist in the manner and under the conditions provided for by this section. The contestant on the date of filing such affidavit, must mail a copy thereof to the contestee in a sealed envelope, with postage prepaid, addressed to the contestee at the place of residence named in the affidavit of registration of such contestee, and shall make an affidavit of such mailing and file the same with the county clerk to become a part of the records of the contest. Within two days after the ex- piration of the time for filing such affidavits, the county clerk shall present all such affidavits and proof of posting as aforesaid to the judge of the superior court of the county, or any judge acting in his place, or the presiding judge of the superior court of a county or city and county, or any one acting in his stead, which judge shall, upon such presentation, forthwith designate the time and place where such contest shall proceed, and in counties or cities and counties where there are more than one superior judge, assign all the cases to one department by the order of such court. Such order must so assign such case or cases, and fix such time and place for hearing, which time must not be less than one nor more than three days from the presentation of the matter to the court by the county clerk, as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the contestee to appear either in person or by attorney, at the time and place so fixed, and to take notice of the order fixing such time and place from the records of the court, without service. No special ap- pearance of the contestee for any purpose shall be permitted, and any appearance whatever of the contestee or any request of the court by the contestee or his attorney, shall be entered as a general appearance in the contest. No demurrer or objection can be taken by the contestee in any other manner than by answer, and all the objec- tions of the contestee must be contained in his answer in the contest. The court if the contestee shall appear, must require the answer to be made within three days from the time and place as above provided, and if the contestee shall not appear shall note his default, and shall proceed with all convenient speed. If the number of votes which are sought to be recounted, or the number of contests are such that the judge shall be of opinion that it will require additional judges to enable the contest or contests to be deter- mined in time to print the ballots for the election, if there be only one judge for such county, he may obtain the service of any other superior judge, and the proceedings shall be the same as herein provided in counties where there is more than one superior court judge. If the proceeding is in a county or city and county where there is more than one superior court judge, the judge to whom the case or cases shall be assigned, shall notify the presiding judge forthwith, of the number of judges which he deems necessary to participate, in order to finish the contest or con- tests in time to print the ballots for the primary election, and the said presiding judge shall forth- with designate as many judges as are necessary to such completion of such contest, by order in writing, and thereupon all of the judges so designated shall participate in the recount of such ballots and the giving of judgment in such contest or contests in the manner herein specified. The said judges so designated by said last men- tioned order, including the judge to whom said contests were originally assigned, shall convene upon notice from the judge to whom such con- test or contests were originally assigned, and agree upon the precincts which each one of such judges will recount, sitting separately, and there- upon such recount shall proceed before each such judge sitting separately, as to the precincts so arranged, in such manner that the recount shall be made in such precincts before each such judge as to all the contests pending, so that the ballots opened before one judge need not be opened be- fore another judge or department, and the pro ceedings before such judge in making such re count as to the appointment of the clerk and persons necessary to be assistants of the cour in making the same, shall be the same as in con tested elections, and the judge shall fix the pa} or compensation for such persons and require tin payment each day in advance, of the amoun thereof by the person who is proceeding with and requiring the recount. When the recoun shall have been completed in the manner herein required, if more than one judge has taken par, therein, all the judges who took part shall as semble and make the decision of court, and i there be any differences of opinion, a majority o such _ judges shall finally determine all such questions, and give the decision or judgment o the court in such contest or contests, separately Such decision or judgment of the court shall be final in every respect, and no appeal can be had therefrom. The judgment shall be served upon the county clerk or registrar of voters by de livery of a certified copy thereof, and may be enforced summarily in the manner provided in section twenty-seven of this act, and if the con- test proceeds in more than one county, and the nominee is to be certified by the secretary ol state from the compilation of election returns ir his office, then the judgment in each county shal. show what, if any changes in the returns in the office of the secretary of state relating to such county or city and county, ought to be made, and all such judgments shall be served upon the secretary of state, by the delivery of a certified copy, and he shall make such changes in the record in his office as such judgment or judg- ments require, and conform his compilation and his certificate of nomination in accordance there- with. Section thirty of the direct primary law, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 30. Every person who shall be a candi- date for nomination to any elective office, includ- ing that of United States senator in congress shall make in duplicate, within fifteen days aftei the primary election, a verified statement, setting forth each and every sum of money contributed, disbursed, expended or promised by him, and, to the best of his knowledge and belief, by any and every other person or association of persons in his behalf wholly or partly in endeavoring to secure his nomination. This statement must show in detail all moneys paid, loaned, con- tributed, or otherwise furnished to him directly or indirectly in aid of his election, together with the name of the person or persons from whom such moneys were received ; and must also show in detail, under each of the subdivisions of sec- tion twenty-nine of this act, all moneys con tributed, loaned, or expended by him directly or indirectly by himself or through any other per- son, in aid of his election, together with the name of the person or persons to whom such moneys were paid, or disbursed. Such statement mus' set forth that the affiant has used all reasonable diligence in its preparation, and that the same is true and is as full and explicit as he is able to make it. Within the time aforesaid the candi- date shall file one c6py of said statement with the officer with whom his nomination papers were filed, and the other with the recorder of the county or city and county in which he re- sides, who shall record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and to be open to public inspection. No officer shall issue any certificate of nomination to any person until such statement as herein provided has been filed, and no other statement of expenses shall be required except that provided herein, and no fee or charge what soever shall be made or collected by any officer herein specified for the filing of such statements or a copy thereof. Section thirty-three of the direct primary law. proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Sec. 33. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state and the attorney general to prepare on or before August 1, 1913, all forms necessary tc carry out the provisions of this act, which form.: shall be substantially followed in all primary elections held in pursuance hereof. [Thirty-six] ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF BILL AMENDING DIRECT PRIMARY LAW. Bill Not “Non-partisan” This bill is a totally afferent measure from last year's “non-partisan ill.” It adds no non-partisan offices, applies nly to party primaries, and provides additional afeguards for party preservation. It simply ermits voters to declare party affiliation at the oils on primary election day, instead of declar- es it months before when registering. Provisions of Bill. The bill provides that the oter at the primary may declare in writing the ame of his party, and thereupon be permitted ) vote for its candidates. This declaration of arty, being written and public, amply assures lat voters will not venture to claim membership l parties not their own. Voters’ Present Attitude. Experience shows lat California voters dislike to declare party filiation months before party issues or personal mtests are defined. Nearly 300,000 voters thus sclined to declare party affiliation when regis- : ring this year, and were consequently excluded om the recent party primaries — a result clearly ?ry undesirable. Had this bill not been held 3 by referendum, these 300,000 voters could all ive participated in their party primaries by iclaring their party affiliation at the polls. Referendum — Why Invoked. The referendum i this comparatively unimportant measure was >viously invoked to shut out these 300,000 >ters from registering Republican at the polls, id voting for Governor Johnson if he became ndidate for senator. That contest being hap- ly settled, voters can now decide the question i its merits. This Bill No Innovation. In the greater part the Union, party affiliation is declared only at e polls. It is the system in Massachusetts, inois, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, dorado, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and most her states. The plan of declaring party when gistering is comparatively rare, and has been ed in California only nine years. Experience of Presidential Primary. Exactly is plan of declaring party affiliation at the polls the law for the California presidential pri- try, and was successfully used in selecting jpublican, Democratic, and Progressive dele- tes last May. This bill now proposes to extend » same procedure to the August primary, thus Dviding a uniform plan for both primary ctions. Abuses in Present Method. Registration is w commonly conducted, not at the county rk’s office before experienced, responsible offi- ls, but by local registration deputies on the eet or at the voter’s home. This opens wide Dortunity for possible error or undue influence ascertaining and recording party affiliation, e plan of letting the voter write down his own 'ty affiliation when he comes to vote, with one to influence him permitted near the polls, infinitely the better way. Conclusion. In a word, this bill simplifies the chinery of party nominations, opens the pri- .ries to fuller participation by the voters, iforms to the wise practice of other states. harmonizes the procedure in both California pri- mary elections, and protects the voter against undue and irresponsible influence in determining his party affiliation. The action of the legisla- ture in passing the bill should now be sustained by the vote of the people. Vote “YES.” C. C. YOUNG, Speaker of the Assembly. ARGUMENT AGAINST AMENDMENTS TO DIRECT PRIMARY LAW. On October 26, 1915, the electors of this state overwhelmingly repudiated the theory that parties should be destroyed in this state. It would be natural to suppose that this might settle the matter for a time at least. But such was not the case. A special session of the legislature was called and the mandate of the people, as expressed at the polls less than three months before, was openly defied by the pas- sage of this act. If the principle of direct legislation is to be justified, legislatures and governors must be shown that when the voters directly state their wishes, those wishes can not be openly defied with impunity. The fact that this measure was enacted in defiance of the re- sults of a referendum election by those who pretend to be the strongest advocates of direct legislation should open the eyes of the blindest. There is another aspect of this matter to be considered. This law would forbid party regis- tration and provides only for party declaration at the polls. This law would permit of a party’s control by its opponents at the pri- maries. It would allow boss domination in the centers of population. Under the provisions of this measure voters could flock to the polls, call for a Democratic ballot, and vote for a Repub- lican or a Progressive as the Democratic nominee for United States senator, and this in spite of the fact that such voters never had and never intended to affiliate with the party for which they were choosing the nominee. The law requiring voters who intend to take part in a party primary to register as members of that party, was passed nine years ago as a reform measure. It was passed because the abuses just mentioned had become serious "We see, therefore, that this is a reactionary meas- ure; that it is designed to put our election laws back in the condition that existed in the days before an enlightened electorate demanded that such corrupt practices should cease. Chief Justice Beatty, in a decision rendered in the case of Schostag vs. Cator, 151 Cal. 604, speaks of the provision requiring party declaration at the time of registration as a “provision evi- dently designed to prevent unscrupulous and mercenary electors from holding themselves free down to the day of election to vote with any party, upon any corrupt motive, for the purpose of influencing the nomination of its candidates for public office, while without any interest in their' success, and perhaps with an ’ interest in their defeat.” These reasons speak just as eloquently in favor of our retaining this safeguard and therefore defeating this act which would eliminate party registration, per- mit of boss domination in party primaries and the control of party nominations by the un- scrupulous. If you believe that those whom the people elect should carry out their wishes as they have directly expressed them, if you believe in party government, if you favor clean and honest pri- maries, vote “No.” Alfred L. Bartlett Assemblyman Sixty- third District. iThirty-saven] LAND TAXATION. Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amend- ing Article XIII of Constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive 6f improve- ments ; forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person ; permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, mothers’ endowments and workingmen’s disemployment and disability insur- ance. Declares land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man’s work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and wherever else practicable . by “Somers System” or other means of exact computation from central locations. YES NO The electors of the State of California present to the secretary Of state this petition, and re- quest that there be submitted to the voters of the state, for their approval or rejection at the next general election, or as provided by law, an amendment to the Constitution of the State of California. The proposed amendment is as fol- lows : The people of the State of California do enact as follows: Article thirteen of the constitution is hereby amended to take effect January 1, 1917, by the following section : Proposed Amendment. Public revenues, state, county, municipal and district, shall be raised by taxation of land values exclusive of improvements, and no tax or charge for revenue shall be imposed on any labor product, occupation, business or person; but this shall not prevent the assessment of incomes and inheritances to provide funds for old age pensions, mothers’ endowments, and workingmen’s disemployment and disability in- surance. Land holdings shall be equally assessed, ac- cording to their value for use or occupance, without regard to any work of man thereon; this value shall be determined in municipalities, and wherever else practicable, by the “Somers system,” or other means of exact computation from central locations. The intent of this provision is to take for public use the rental and site values of land, and to reduce land holding to those only who live on or make productive use of it. Conflicting provisions are hereby repealed. Article thirteen of the constitution, proposed to be amended, now reads as follows : Existing Provisions. Section 1. All property in the state except as otherwise in this constitution provided, not ex- empt under the laws of the United States , shall he taxed in proportion to its value, to he ascer- tained as provided by law, or as hereinafter pro- vided. The word “property,” as used in this article and, section, is hereby declared to include moneys, credits, bonds, stocks, dues, franchises, and all other matters and things, real, personal, and mixed, capable of private oxonership ; pro- vided, that a mortgage, deed of trust, contract, or other obligation by which a debt is secured when land is pledged as security for the pay- ment thereof, together with the money repre- sented by such debt, shall not be considered property subject to taxation; and further pro- vided, that property used for free public libraries and free museums , growing crops, property used exclusively for public schools, and such as ma belong to the United States, this state, or to an county, city and county, or municipal corporatio within this state shall be exempt from taxation, except such lands and the improvements thereo located outside of the county, city and county o municipal corporation owning the same as wer subject to taxation at the time of the acquisitio* of the same by said county, city and county o municipal corporation; provided, that no im provements of any character whatever con structed by any county, city and county o municipal corporation shall be subject to tax ation. All lands or improvements thereon, be longing to any county, city and county o municipal corporation, not exempt from taxation shall be assessed by the' assessor of the count . city and county or municipal corporation < which said lands or improvements are locate . and said assessment shall be subject to reviei equalization and adjustment by the state boat of equalization. The legislature may provid - except in the case of credits secured by mortgag or trust deed, for a deduction from credits < debts due to bona fide residents of 'this state. Section 1|. The property to the amount of o» thousand dollars of every resident in this sta ’ who has served in the army, navy, marine corp or revenue marine service of the United Stat in time of war, and received an honorable du charge ' therefrom; or lacking such amount property in his own name, so much of the proi erty of the wife of any such person as shall l necessary to equal said amount; and proper t to the amount of one thousand dollars of t, widow resident in this state, or if there be such widow, of the widowed mother resident t this state, of every person who has so serv and has died either during his term of service c after receiving honorable discharge from so, service; and the property to the amount of or thousand dollars of pensioned widows, father and mothers, resident in this state, of soldier sailors, and marines who served in the arm navy, or marine corps, or revenue marine servi < of the United States, shall be exempt from tax* tion; provided, that this exemption shall v apply to any person named herein owning pro, erty of the value of five thousand dollars < more, or where the wife of such soldier or saic owns property of the value of five thousand dr lars or more. No exemption shall be ma . ■under the provisions of this act of the propei of a person xoho is not a legal resident of hi S Section 1£. All buildings, and so much of i real property on which they arte situated as me be required for the convenient use and occupat of said buildings, when the same are used sol<$ [Thirty-eiglit] and exclusively for religious worship shall be free from taxation ; provided, that no building so used ivhich may be rented for religious purposes and rent received by the owner therefor, shall be exempt from taxation. Section 1|. All bonds hereafter issued by the State of California, or by any county, city and county, municipal corporation, or district ( in- cluding school , reclamation, and irrigation dis- tricts) within said state, shall be free and ex- empt from taxation. Section la. Any educational institution of col- legiate grade, within the State of California, not conducted for profit, shall hold exempt from tax- ation its buildings and equipment, its grounds within which its buildings are located, not ex- ceeding one hundred acres in area, its securities and income used exclusively for the purposes of education % Section 2. Land, and the improvements there- on, shall be separately assessed. Cultivated and uncultivated land, of the same quality, and similarly situated, shall be assessed at the same value. Section 3. Every tract of land containing more than six hundred and forty acres, and which has been sectionized by the United States government, shall be assessed, for the purposes of taxation , by sections or fractions of sections. The legislature shall provide by law for the assessment, in small tracts, of all lands not sec- tionized by the United States government. Section 4. All vessels of more than fifty tons burden registered at any port in this state and engaged in the transportation of freight or pas- sengers, shall be exempt from taxation except for state purposes, until and including the first day of January, nineteen hundred thirty-five. Section 5. [Repealed November 6, 1906.] Section 6. The power of taxation shall never be surrendered or suspended by any grant or contract to which the state shall be a party. Section 7. The legislature shall have the poioer to provide by law for the payment of all taxes on real property by installments. Section 8. The legislature shall by law re- quire each taxpayer in this state to make and deliver to the county assessor, annually, a state- ment, under oath, setting forth specifically all the real and personal property owned by such taxpayer, or in his possession, or under his con- trol, at twelve o’clock meridian on the first Mon- day of March. Section 9. A state board of equalization, con- sisting of one member from each congressional district in this state, as the same existed in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respec- tive districts, at the general election to be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and at each gubernatorial election thereafter, whose term of office shall be for four years; whose duty it shall be to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the several counties of the state for the purposes of taxa- tion. The controller of state shall be ex officio a member of the board. The boards of super- visors of the several counties of the state shall constitute boards of equalization for their Re- spective counties, whose duty it shall be to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the county for the purpose of taxation; provided, such state and county boards of equalization are hereby authorized and empowered, under such rules of notice as the county boards may pre- scribe as to county assessments, and under such rules of notice as the state board may prescribe as to the action of the state board, to increase or lower the entire assessment roll, or any assessment contained therein, so as to equalize the assessment of the property contained in said assessment roll, and make the assessment con- form to the true value in money of the property contained in said roll; provided, that no board of equalization shall raise any mortgage, deed of trust, contract or other obligation by which a debt is secured, money, .or solvent credits, above its face value. The present state board of equal- ization shall continue in office until their suc- cessors, as herein provided for, shall be elected and shall qualify. The legislature shall have power to redistrict the state into four districts, as nearly equal in population as practical, and to provide for the elections of members of said board of equalization. Section 10. All property, except as otherwise in this constitution provided, shall be assessed in the county, city, city and county, town or township, or district in which it is situated , in the manner prescribed by law. Section 10|. The personal property of every householder to the amount of one hundred dol- lars, the articles to be selected by each house- holder, shall be exempt from taxation. Section 11. Income taxes may be assessed to and collected from persons, corporations, joint- stock associations, or companies resident or do- ing business in this state, or any one or more of them, in such cases and amounts, and in such manner, as shall be prescribed by law. Section 12. No poll tax or head tax for any purpose whatsoever shall be levied or collected in the State of California. Section 12|. Fruit and nut-bearing trees under the age of four years from the time of planting in orchard form, and grapevines under the age of three years from the time of planting in vineyard form, shall be exempt from taxation , and nothing in this article shall be construed as subjecting such trees and grapevines to taxatiovi. Section 13. The legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. Section 14. Taxes levied, assessed and col- lected as hereinafter provided upon railroads, including street railways, whether operated in one or more counties; sleeping car, dining car , drawing-room car and palace car companies, re- frigerator, oil , stock, fruit, and other car-loaning and other car companies operating upon railroads in this state; companies doing express business on any railroad, steamboat, vessel or stage line in this state; telegraph companies; telephone companies; companies engaged in the transmis- sion or sale of gas or electricity ; insurance com- panies; banks, banking associations, savings and loan societies , and trust companies ; and taxes upon all franchises of every kind and nature, shall be entirely and exclusively for state pur- poses, and shall be levied, assessed and collected in the manner hereinafter provided. The word “ companies ” as used in this section shall include persons , partnerships, joint-stock associations, companies, and corporations. (a) All railroad companies, including street railtoays, whether operated in one or more coun- ties; all sleeping car, dining ' car , drawing-room car, and palace car companies, all refrigerator, oil, stock, fruit and other car-loaning and other car companies, operating upon the railroads in this state; all companies doing express business on any railroad, steamboat, vessel or stage line in this state; all telegraph and telephone com- panies; and all companies engaged in the trans- mission or sale of gas or electricity shall annu- ally pay to the state a tax upon their franchises, [Thirty nine] roadways , roadbeds, rails, rolling stock, poles, wires, pipes, canals, conduits, rights of way, and other property, or any part thereof used ex- clusively in the operation of their business in this state, computed as follows: Said tax shall be equal to the percentages hereinafter fixed upon the gross receipts from operation of such com- panies, and each thereof within this state. When such companies are operating partly within and partly without this state , the gross receipts with- in this state shall be deemed to be all receipts on business beginning and ending within this state, and a proportion, based upon the proportion of the mileage within this state to the entire mile- age over which such business is done, of receipts on all business passing through, into, or out of this state. The percentages above mentioned shall be as follows: On all railroad companies , including street railways, four per cent ; on all sleeping car , dining car, drawing-room car, palace car com- panies, refrigerator, oil, stock, fruit, and other car- loaning and other car companies , three per cent ; on all companies doing express business on any railroad, steamboat, vessel or stage line, two per cent; on all telegraph and telephone companies, three and one-half per cent ; on all companies engaged in the transmission or sale of gas or electricity, four per cent. Such taxes shall be in lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state, county and municipal, upon the property above enumer- ated of such companies except as otherwise in this section provided; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to release any such company from the payment of any amount agreed to be paid or required by law to be paid for any special privilege or franchise granted by any of the municipal authorities of this state. (b) Every insurance company or association doing business in this state shall annually pay to the state a tax of one and one-half per cent upon the amount of the gross premiums received upon ■its business done in this state, less return premiums and reinsurance in companies or as- sociations authorized to do business in this szate; provided, that there shall be deducted from said one and one-half per cent upon the gross pre- miums the amount of any county and municipal taxes paid by such companies on real estate owned by them in this state. This tax shall be ii lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state, county and municipal, upon the property of such companies, except county and municipal taxes on real estate, and except as otherwise in this section provided; provided, that when by the laws of any other state or country, any taxes, fines, penalties, licenses, fees, deposits of money, or of securities, or other obligations or prohibi- tions, are imposed on insurance companies of this state, doing business in such other state or country, or upon their agents therein, in excess of such taxes, fines, penalties, licenses, fees, de- posits of money, or, of securities, or other obliga- tions or prohibitions, imposed upon insurance companies of such other state or country, so long as such laws continue in force, the same obliga- tions and prohibitions of whatsoever kind may be imposed by the legislature upon insurance com- panies of such other state or country doing busi- ness in this state. (c) The shares of capital stock of all banks, organized under the laws of this state, or of the United States, or of any other state and located in this state, shall be assessed and taxed to the owners or holders thereof by the state board of equalization, in the manner to be prescribed by law, in the city or town where the bank is located and not elsewhere. There shall be levied and assessed upon such shares of capital stock an annual tax, payable to the state, of one per centum upon the value thereof. The value of each share of stock in each bank, except such as are in liquidation, shall be taken to be the amount paid in thereon, together with its pro rata of the accumulated surplus and undivided profits. The value of each share of stock in each bank which is in liquidation shall be taken to be its pro rata of the actual assets of such bank. This tax shall be in lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state, county and municipal, upon such shares of stock and upon the property of such banks, except county and municipal taxes on real estate and except as otherwise in this section provided. In determining the value of the capital stock of any bank there shall be deducted from the value , as defined above, the value, as assessed for county taxes, of any real estate, other than mortgage interests therein, owned by such bank and taxed for county purposes. The banks shall be liable to the state for this tax and the same shall be paid to the state by them on behalf of the stock- holders in the manner and at the time prescribed by law, and they shall have a lien upon the shares of stock and upon any dividends declared thereon to secure the amount so paid. The moneyed capital, reserve, surplus, un- divided profits and all other property belonging to unincorporated banks or bankers of this state, or held by any bank located' in this state which has no shares of capital stock, or employed in this state by any branches, agencies , or other representatives of any banks doing business out- side of the State of California, shall be likewise assessed and taxed to such banks or bankers by the said board of equalization, in the manner to be provided by law and taxed at the same rate that is levied upon the shares of capital stock of incorporated banks, as provided in the first para- graph of this subdivision. The value of said property shall be determined by taking the entire property invested in such business, together with all the reserve, surplus, and undivided profits, at their full cash value, and deducting therefrom the value as assessed for county taxes of any real estate, other than mortgage interests therein , owned by such bank and taxed for county pur- poses. Such taxes shall be in lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state , county and municipal, upon the property of the banks and bankers men- tioned in this paragraph, except county and municipal taxes on real estate and except as otherwise in this section provided. It is the in - ention of this paragraph that all moneyed capital and property of the banks and bankers mentioned in this paragraph shall be assessed and taxed at the same rate as an incorporated bank, provided for in the first paragraph of this subdivision. In determining the value of the moneyed capital and property of the banks and bankers mentioned in this subdivision, the said state board of equaliza- tion shall include and assess to such banks all property and everything of value owned or held by them, which go to make up the value of the capital stock of such banks and bankers, if the same were incorporated and had shares of capital stock. The word et banks” as used in this subdivision shall include banking associations, savings and loan societies and trust companies, but shall not include building and loan associations. ( d ) All franchises, other than those expressly provided for in this section, shall be assessed at their actual cash value, in the manner to be pro- vided by law, and shall be taxed at the rate of one per centum each year, and the taxes collected thereon shall be exclusively for the benefit of the state. ( e ) Out of the revenues from the taxes pro- vided for in this section , together with all other [Forty] >ate revenues , there shall be first set apart the honeys to be applied by the state to the support f the public school system and the state univer- Ity. In the event that the above named ivenues are at any time deemed insufficient to leet the annual expenditures of the state , includ- ig the above named expenditures for educational urposes, there may be levied , in the manner to e provided by law, a tax, for state purposes , on ll the property in the state, including the classes f property enumerated in this section , sufficient ) meet the deficiency. All property enumerated i subdivisions a , b, and d of this section shall e subject to taxation, in the manner provided y law , to pay the principal and interest of any onded indebtedness created and outstanding by ny city , city and county , county , town, town- hip or district , before the adoption of this sec- on. The taxes so paid for principal and interest n such bonded indebtedness shall be deducted - om the total amount paid in taxes for state urposes. (f) All the provisions of this section shall be zlf -executing, and the legislature shall pass all iws necessary to carry this section into effect, nd shall provide for a valuation and assessment f the property enumerated in this section, and hall prescribe the duties of the state board of lualization and any other officers in connection nth the administration thereof. The rates of ixation fixed in this section shall remain in 'tree until changed by the legislature , two-thirds f all the members elected to each of the two ouses voting in favor thereof. The taxes herein rovided for shall become a lien on the first londay in March of each year after the adoption f this section and shall become due and payable n the first Monday in July theredfter. The gross sceipts and gross premiums herein mentioned hall be computed for the year ending the thirty- rst day of December prior to the levy of such axes and the value of any property mentioned erein shall be fixed as of the first Monday in larch. Nothing herein contained shall affect ny tax levied or assessed prior to the adoption f this section ; and all laws in relation to such axes in force at the time of the adoption of this action shall remain in force until changed by the igislature. Until the year 1918 the state shall zimburse any and all counties which sustain >ss of revenue by the withdrawal of railroad roperty from county taxation for the net loss i county revenue occasioned by the withdrawal f railroad property from county taxation. The ; gislature . shall provide for reimbursement from 'ie general funds of any county to districts herein where loss is occasioned in such districts y the withdrawal from local taxation of prop- rty taxed for state purposes only. ( g ) No injunction shall ever issue in any suit, ction or proceeding in any court against this l ,ate or against any officer thereof to prevent or ijoin the collection of any tax levied under the revisions of this section; but after payment ction may be maintained to recover any tax legally collected in such manner and at such me as may now or hereafter be provided by tw. RGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF LAND TAX- ATION AMENDMENT. An acre on Market street, San Francisco, is 'Orth millions. An acre in the Mojave is orth — nothing. Why the difference in value? nswer: just people. Half a million people uster about Market street. Every stroke of ibor, every nickel spent, every child born in a community adds value to all the land of that community — idle as well as used. Who gets this increased value of the land? The people who create it? No. Private land owners get it. Is that right? You build a home. It costs money, skill, fore- thought, and it employs labor. Next door a speculator holds a vacant lot grown to weeds, unsightly, unused. Who pays the more taxes? You do. Is that right? The Constitution of California reads: “The holding of large tracts of land, uncultivated and unimproved, by individuals or corporations, is against the public interest.” Yet corporations hold millions of acres in this state, “unculti- vated and unimproved,” pay almost no taxes, while thousands tramp for jobs. Is this right? The farmer pays indirect taxes on everything he consumes and uses because industry is taxed. .On top of that he pays taxes on im- provements. Is this right? If there were but one tax — a tax on land values — the farmer would pay less than half what he now pays; the city block owner would pay more than enough to make up what the farmer saves. And that would be right. Can we do better than to make it unprofitable to hold idle land from use? Charles James. The Land Taxation amendment is essentially a repeal measure. Let us repeal all taxes on industry, thrift and enterprise, relying for pub- lic revenues on a tax on what the whole public creates, and depriving no person of what he produces. This will lower taxes on all improved and used land. Keeping land idle makes it harder for earners to own their homes, orchards or ranches. It will release land now held idle so that farmers will not be prevented from expanding their holdings as the size of their families grows. In no other way can agriculture be so efficiently encouraged. It will lower rents; will make employment more plentiful and more secure, thus raising wages and lowering cost of living. There is plenty of land when idle acres are free. Gasoline and fuel and shelter will be cheap when no oil lands, mineral deposits or forests can be held from use. This is a human measure, securing to the whole people land, air and sunshine free. Its call is to human love at its best — the passion in all of us to feed all children equally well; to secure to the weakest member of society at least ample shelter and food. It is to the interest of all the people to vote for this amendment; for even the pampered parasites who fatten off the labor of others will lead happier lives and leave their children a saner heritage by going to work like the rest of us. Lona Ingham Robinson. ARGUMENT AGAINST LAND TAXATION AMENDMENT. This amendment, which appears on the ballot by initiative petition, • proposes to lay upon the people of California the burden of experimenting with a certain theory known as the “single tax.” No state in the Union has put this theory into practice, and no economist or taxation authority of national standing can be found to endorse it. [Forty-one] Nevertheless it is vigorously championed by a group of persons throughout the United States who for some years past have concentrated their efforts on securing its adoption in Cali- fornia. A similar measure was defeated here in 1912 by a majority of 74,638 votes, and again in 1914 by 108,016 votes. The proposal is now ad- vanced for the third time, and presumably will continue to come before the people at each elec- tion until the fund supporting the propaganda is exhausted, or until the law is changed to correct this pernicious misuse of the initiative. Mean- time the continued vigilance of the voters is their only protection. Briefly, the amendment substitutes a land tax for all taxes now levied and collected on other forms of property. The result can be easily demonstrated. If other forms of property are released from taxation, land must of necessity pay more. Inasmuch as a tax upon land value can not be shifted, this amounts to the confisca- tion of a part, if not all, of the property of whoever owns land at the time the change goes into effect. A tax on land is a net deduction from the rent of the land, and .when the tax is made large enough to absorb most of the rent, as it would be under any form of the single tax, the value of the land disappears. Aside from the appalling economic effects of such a change, involving the readjustment of taxes amounting to $126,000,000 a year, the pro- posal is vicious in the highest degree, for it contemplates the deliberate abrogation of the social contract whereunder land has been held for centuries in private ownership. It is not denied that landowners as a class have acquired the values in their possession at a cost in labor and sacrifice commensurate with the cost of other property of equal value. Yet this class is singled out to be mulcted of tens of millions of dollars in values acquired with the sanction of law and society, on the theory, held by the pro- ponents of this amendment, that private owner- ship in land is robbery and its confiscation a duty — a doctrine that should excite the instinc- tive abhorrence of every right thinking voter. For farmers, whose property is chiefly in land, the proposed change would be ruinous. For the great majority of landowners, includ- ing the thousands who own small homes, the amendment would impose a heavy sacrifice in value. For all businesses the adoption of the amend- ment would mean a radical unsettlement of con- ditions which have been adjusted to the existing tax system through a long period of years. John S. Drum. [Forty-two] NEGLIGIBILITY TO OFFICE. Initiative measure amending Sec- I tion 19 of Article IV of Constitu- YES tion. Declares that no Senator or Member of Assembly shall, during the term O for which he shall have been elected, hold or accept any office, trust, or employ- ment under this State; provided that this provision shall not apply to any NO office filled by election by the people. The electors of the State of California present the secretary of state this petition, and re- est that a proposed amendment to section leteen of article four of the Constitution of the ite of California, as hereinafter set forth, be bmitted to the people of the State of Cali- mia for their approval or rejection, at the xt ensuing general election, or as provided by v. The proposed amendment is as follows : e people of the State of California do enact as follows : Section nineteen of article four of the Constitu- n of the State of California is hereby amended read as follows : i Proposed Amendment. Section 19. No senator or member of as- mbly shall, during the term for which he shall ve been elected, hold or accept any office, jst, or employment under this state; provided, at this provision shall not apply to any office ed by election by the people. Section nineteen of article four, proposed to amended, now reads as follows: Existing Provisions. Section 19. No senator or member of assem- r shall, during the term for which he shall ve been elected, be appointed to any civil of- e of profit under this state which shall have en created , or the emoluments of which have ?n increased, during such term, except such of- es as may be filled by election by the people. 1GUMENTS IN FAVOR OF INELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE AMENDMENT. It has always been the aim of any repub- an form of government to remove the legis- ive branch of the government from the con- >1 of the executive branch. It is evident that lere a member of the legislature is holding a id position in the executive department of 3 state that the separation which should exist tween these two branches of the government at an end. The American theory has always sn that those who execute the laws should t be the same individuals as those who make 3 laws, yet one who is both an assemblyman d a member of the executive department is just that position. It would not be an edify- ; spectacle, nor would it make for civic de- lcy, to see such an individual introducing a 1 in his legislative capacity which would in- case the pay he would receive in his executive pa city. There is another reason why this measure mid pass. We should remember that a legis- or who is holding a position on the state pay 1 is too apt to allow the wishes of the one tponsible for his appointment to dictate the. nner in which his vote shall be cast. A man such a position, is, to say the least, not in it independent frame of mind which should possessed by the ideal legislator. There can be no doubt that a vote “Yes” on s measure will tend materially to raise the ndard of the California legislature of the ure. Richmond P. Benton, Assemblyman Sixty-sixth District. iVhile some of our most efficient officials have m men holding_appointment under the state, the same time being members of the legisla- e, the practice is one which some day may be >jected to abuse. Tfie proposed law to render member of the legislature ineligible to any ce under the state, other than an elective ce, during the term for which he shall have ;n elected, is therefore in the interest of good rernment and should be adopted. Once such a law is written into our statutes, we eliminate the incentive which a legislator may have to favor a law creating a position to which later he may contemplate appointment. The legislator should have no selfish interest in connection with the enactment of any law or the creation of any office. The proposed law without doubt will very largely eliminate the possible selfish considerations. Here and there the state, by reason of such a law, will actually suffer, as it frequently hap- pens that the most highly specialized man for work in connection with a certain department of state is a member of the legislature. There are instances of that sort today, where, by the enact- ment of such a law, the state will lose the services of especially qualified and conscientious officials. To my mind, however, the advantages from the proposed law wholly outweigh the disad- vantages, and the net result of such a law will be beneficial alike to the legislature and to the public. Dr. John R. Haynes. ARGUMENT AGAINST INELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE AMENDMENT. To pass this constitutional amendment is in effect to say that every governor and member of the state legislature is dishonest and without integrity or character, because those who urge its adoption are loud in their cries that it will prevent the governor from bartering for legisla- tive votes by appointing senators and assembly- men who favor administration measures to state offices, and that it will further destroy the incen- tive for members of the legislature to vote with the governor in the hope of obtaining a state position in reward thereof. It is certainly a sad commentary on the integrity of our governors and legislators by thus stigmatizing executive and legislative service. And even if this amend- ment should pass, could not the governor, were he so lacking in integrity and unmindful of tne obligations of his high office, secure the same legislative votes by appointing relatives or politi- cal friends of such servile members of the legis- lature who would sell their honor and barter the trust reposed in them by their constituents? Its adoption must inevitably fail in the accom- lishment of any purpose except to close other avenues of political service to legislators. Do you realize that under this amendment a senator or assemblyman could not take a civil service examination for a state position? In many instances it makes for efficiency to appoint upon commissions members of the legis- lature who have given careful study to the needs, aims and objects of a commission created or a law enacted. Another argument advanced by the proponents of this measure is that members of the legisla- ture who are appointed to state offices receive two salaries, but the records will show that leaves of absence are invariably obtained by such appointees during sessions of the legislature and the actual time of the legislative session is gen- erally about eighty days every two years. Thus the people lose nothing, while the incumbent of a state position who is a member of the state legislature is better fitted through his legislative experience for the discharge of his duties. The American people love fair play ; they like to reward efficient and faithful public service by promotion, yet the adoption of this proposed measure would render every member of the legis- lature ineligible for promotion to higher positions and graver duties and responsibilities, however efficient and meritorious his services in the legis- lature may have been. Thos. P. White, Presiding Judge, Police Court, Los Angeles. [Forty-three] ■pfyp - the amendment to the state HIGH- wavact”- section 8 of state Highway Ac i of f 9 t by , C WAX AO A. v!ding that whenever state engineering department deter- mines that construction cost of state highway in county entails unjust burden on such county in refunding to state entire bond interest on bond proceeds scent therefor such county shall be required to refund only such portion thereof^ as such department adjudges reasonable. Amendment effective Decem- ber 31 , 1916 . ■ 7 — ' ' AGAINST THE AMENDMENT TO THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT. An act to amend an, act entitled .An act a^ho izing the construction, acquisition, mamte nance and control of a system of state mg ways in the State of California; specifying me work, fixing the payments to be made by counties for moneys expended therein, providing for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction and acquisition of siich system; ^eating a sinking fund for the payment pfsmd bonds and providing for the submission of thi* act to a vote of the people,” approved March 22, 1909, and approved, ratified and adopted by the people of the State of California at the general election held in the month of Novem- ber 1910, A. D., by amending section ei^ht thereof, relative to the reimbursement to the state by the several counties thereof of sums equal to the interest upon certain out- ItSing bonds, and the proceeds of sale thereof, sold and applied as m said act pro- vided, and providing for the submission 0 this act to a vote of the people, r Submitted to the people by the legislature of the ^ State of California, at its regular session commencing on the 4th day of January, 1915.] The people of the State of California do enact as follows: hi|hway a s n . C n thf StSJZt California; specifying; therein -^provid- ing tor the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction and acquisi- system; creating a sinking fund fo tlon ofS system ‘ creating a sinking. fund for the payment of said bonds; and providing for the submission of this act to a vote * nponte” approved March 22, 1909, and approved, ratified and adopted by the people of the State ofcahfornia at the general election held in the month of November 1910, A. D., *s hereoy amended to read as follows; Proposed Amendment. Sec 8. The highway constructed or acquired under the provisions of this act shall be perma- «««? in character and be finished with oil or macadam or a combination of both, or of such other material as in the judgment of the said department of engineering shall be most suitable and best adapted to the particular locality traversed. The state department of engineering, in the name of the people of the State of Cali- fornia, may purchase, receive by donation or dedication, or lease any right of way, rock quarry or land necessary or proper for the con- struction, use or maintenance of said state highway and shall proceed, if necessary, to con- demn under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to such proceedings any necessary or proper right of way, rock quarry or land. The department of engineering shall have full power and authority to purchase all supplies, material, machinery and to do all other things necessary or proper in the construction and maintenance of said state highway. With the exception of those public highways which have been permanently improved under county or permanent road division bond issues within three years prior to the adoption of this act, all public highways within this state lying within the right of way of said state highway as determined and adopted by the department of engineering shall be" and the same shall be- come a part of the right of way of said state highway, without compensation being paid therefor; provided, nothing herein contained shall recuire the state to maintain any high- way along or on said right of way, prior tc the completion or acquisition of the permanent improvements contemplated by this act. When- ever any money received from the sale o bonds, under the provisions of this act, shal be expended in any county in this state, sucl county must pay into the state treasury sucl sum each vear as shall equal the interest, at th< rate of four per cent per annum, upon the entir- sum of money expended within such county v the construction of said state highway, less sue: portion of said amount expended as the bond matured under the provisions of this act, sha bear to the total number of bonds sold and out standing; provided, however, that in all case where, by reason of physical difficulties to b overcome, or other good and sufficient cause, th state department of engineering shall determln that the cost of construction of any portion < such state highway in any county, or countie is so great as to entail an unjust and Jnequltab [Forty-four] burden upon any such, county, or counties, fn refunding to the state the sums so paid for interest upon the bonds sold and the proceeds thereof applied as aforesaid, such county, or counties, shall not be required to refund the whole amount of such interest, but only such proportion thereof as the state department of engineering shall adjudge to be fair and reason- able. All highways constructed or acquired under the provisions of this act shall be perma- nently maintained and controlled by the State of California. Sec. 2. This act, if adopted by the people, shall take effect on the thirty-first day of De- cember, 1916, as to all its provisions except those relating to, and necessary for, its sub- mission to the people and for returning, can- vassing and proclaiming the votes, and as to such excepted provisions this act shall take effect ninety days after the final adjournment of the present session of the legislature. Sec. 3. This act shall be submitted to the people of the State of California for their ratifi- cation at the next general election to be holden in the month of November, 1916, A. D., and all ballots at said election shall have printed thereon, and at the end thereof, the words “For the amendment to the state highway act” ; and in a separate line, under the same, the words “Against the amendment to the state highway act.” Opposite said lines there shall be left spaces in which the voters may make or stamp a cross to indicate whether they vote for or against said act and those voting for said act shall do so by placing a cross opposite the words “For the amendment to the state high- way act,” and all those voting against the said . act shall do so by placing a cross opposite the words “Against the amendment to the state highway act.” The governor of this state shall include the submission of this act to the people, as aforesaid, in his proclamation calling for said general election. Sec. 4. The votes cast for or against this act shall be counted, returned and canvassed and declared in the same manner and subject to the same rules as votes cast for state officers, and if it appears that said act shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election, as aforesaid, then the same shall have effect as hereinbefore provided and shall be irrepealable until the principal and in- terest of the liabilities created under the pro- visions of said state highway act, approved March 22, 1909, shall be paid and discharged, and the governor shall make proclamation thereof. But if a majority of the votes cast, as aforesaid, are against this act then the same shall be and become void. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to have this act published in at least one newspaper in each county, or city and county, if one be published therein, throughout this state, for three months next preceding the general election to be holden in the month of November, A. D. nineteen hundred and sixteen; the cost of publication shall be paid out of the general fund, on controller’s warrants duly drawn for the purpose. Section eight of the state highways act, pro- posed to be amended, now reads as follows: Existing Provisions. Sec. 8. The highway constructed or acquired under the provisions of this act shall be perma- nent in character and be finished with oil or macadam or a combination of both, or of such other material as in the judgment of the said department of engineering shall be most suitable and best adapted to the particular locality traversed. The state department of engineering, in the name of the people of the State of Cali- fornia, may purchase, receive by donation or dedication, or lease any right of way, rock quarry or land necessary or proper for the con- struction, use or maintenance of said state high- way and shall proceed, if necessary, to condemn under the provisions of the Code of Civil Pro- cedure relating to such proceedings any neces- sary 'or proper right of way, rock quarry or land. The department of engineering shall have full power and authority to purchase all supplies, material, machinery and to do all other things necessary or proper in the construction and maintenance of said state highway. With the exception of those public highways which have been permanently improved under county or permanent road division bond issues within three years prior to the adoption of this act; all public highways within this state lying with- in the right of way of said state highway as determined and adopted by the department of engineering shall be and the same shall become a part of the right of way of said state high- way, without compensation being paid therefor; provided nothing herein contained shall require the state to maintain any highway along or on said right of way, prior to the completion or acquisition of the permanent improvements con- templated by this act. Whenever any money received from the sale of bonds, under the pro- visions of this act, shall be expended in any county in this state, such county must pay into the state treasury such sum each year as shall equal the interest, at the rate of four per cent per annum, upon the entire sum of money ex- pended within such county in the construction of said state highway, less such portion of said amount expended as the bonds matured under the provisions of this act, shall bear to the total number of bonds sold and outstanding. All highways constructed or acquired under the pro- visions of this act shall be permanently main- tained and controlled by the State of California. ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF AMENDMENT TO STATE HIGHWAYS ACT. The proposed measure is an amendment to the State Highways Act enacted by the legis- lature during the session of 1909 and ratified by vote of the people in November, 1910. Under this act the counties pay the interest on state highway bonds, the proceeds of the sale of which are expended within the county. The unamended action of this law at times works an injustice on counties; at other times lays on the county a burden which it can not bear. Yolo county, for example, was assessed with the interest on the cost of the Yolo By-pass trestle because it happens to be built across a piece of marsh in a corner of Yolo county, though it is an asset for the entire state as well as for transcontinental traffic. Mono and Trinity counties, sections of small population but expensive road construction, can not pay the interest on the necessary cost of their highway links. These are striking examples of a needed re- lief. The proposed amendment empowers the Ad- visory Engineering Board of the state to adjudi- cate and adjust these interest burdens. The second highway ac^ (State Highways Act of 1915) contains this provision. William Kehoe, State Senator First District. [Forty-five 'l 30NDS, proposed Issue, completion of state highways DIRECT PRIMARY LAW, amendments proposed at 1916 session of legislature Argument against Argument in favor Existing provisions, act of 1913 Form of ballot, as amended, 1916 Form of ballot, non-partisan, act of 1913 Form of ballot, party, act of 1913 H IGH WAYS, STATE, act pf 1915 Amendment to act of 1909 Argument in favor of amendment to act of 1909 Arguments in favor of act of 1915 INELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE, affecting members of legislature Argument against Arguments in favor INITIATIVE AMENDMENT adding Article XXIV-A to Constitution Argument against — Argument in favor LAND TAXATION, and raising of public revenues Argument against Arguments in favor — PROHIBITION. Article XXIV of Constitution Argument against Argument in favor Page. 7 ___ 11 ___ 37 ___ 37 24 ___ 19 ___ 33 ___ 32 ___ 7 44 ___ 45 10 43 ____ 43 43 5 6 6 38 41 41 3 4 3 ORDER OF MEASURES ON BALLOT, AND LOCATION IN THIS PAMPHLET. 1. Prohibition. Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution ^ 2. Initiative amendment adding Article XXIV-A to Constitution 3. State Highway Act of 1915. Proposed $15,000,000 bond issue ^ 4. Direct Primary Law. Amendments to act of 1913 5. Land Taxation. Initiative measure amending Article XIII of Constitution “ -__ 7 6. Ineligibility to office. Initiative measure amending Section 19 of Article IV of Constitution 3 7. Amendment to State Highway Act of 1909 44 O SUMMARY OF MEASURES. (Total number, 7.) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION. Ineligibility to office Initiative amendment adding Article XXIV-A to Constitution Land Taxation Prohibition MEASURES PROPOSED BY LEGISLATURE. Amendment to Highway Act of 1909 Highway Act of 1915 ACT OF LEGISLATURE SUBMITTED TO REFERENDUM. Direct Primary Law. Amendments to act of 1913 RECAPITULATION. AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION BY ARTICLES AND SECTIONS. ^ Art. IV, Sec. 19. (Amended.) — 38 Art. XIII. (Amended.) 3 Art. XXIV. (New.) — 5 Art. XXIV-A. (New.) BONDING AND HIGHWAY PROPOSITIONS. 44 Amendment to Highway Act of 1909 “ 7 Highway Act of 1915 GENERAL LAWS. Direct Primary Law. [Forty-six] 11 MANNER IN WHICH PROPOSITIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND OTHER MEASURES WILL BE DESIGNATED AND APPEAR ON THE BALLOT. PROHIBITION. Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution. Defines alcoholic i liquor. After January 1, 1920, prohibits the manufacture, sale or possession of same, except for medicinal, sacramental, scientific and mechanical purposes under restrictions ! prescribed by law. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Declares payment of Internal \ Revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Declares this amendment shall not affect prohibitory liquor laws, or ordinances, enacted before such date, or be construed as in conflict with Article XXIV-A of Constitution if latter article is adopted, and that this amendment supersedes that article on that date. YES NO INITIATIVE AMENDMENT adding Article XXIV-A to Constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor; after January 1, 1918, prohibits its possession, gift or sale in saloon, dramshop, dive, store, hotel, restaurant, club, dance-hall or other place of public resort; prohibits sale, accepting or soliciting orders anywhere, except in pharmacies for certain purposes O a . n< ^ ky manufacturers on premises where manufactured, under delivery and quantity restric- tions. Owner or manager of all such places to prevent drinking therein. Restricts trans- portation. Payment Internal Revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Neither repeals nor limits state or local prohibition, or Article XXIV of Constitution. YES NO 1 FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT OF 1915. This act provides for the issuance and sale | state bonds in the sum of $15,000,000 for the construction of the uncompleted portions ij of the system of state highways prescribed by the State Highways Act of 1909 and exten- j| ^ sions thereof; and prescribes such extensions, and character of construction of same. I AGAINST THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT OF 1915. DIRECT PRIMARY LAW. Submitted to electors by referendum. Amends provisions of Direct Primary Law of 1913 governing nominations at primary elections so as to permit declaration of party affiliation by elector at polls instead of when registering; prescribes j official ballot containing names of all candidates ; electors declaring at polls affiliation with party to vote for candidates of that party only and for present non-partisan offices, electors not so declaring to vote for non-partisan offices only; requires election officer, before delivering ballot to elector, to cancel such portion thereof as elector is not entitled to vote. YES NO | LAND TAXATION. Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amending Article XIII of Constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive of improvements; forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person; permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, C mothers’ endowments and workingmen’s disemployment and disability insurance. Declares J land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man’s work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and wherever else prac- ticable by “Somers System” or other means of exact computation from central locations. YES NO INELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE. Initiative measure amending Section 19 of Article IV of Constitution. Declares that no Senator or Member of Assembly shall, during the term £ for which he shall have been elected, hold or accept any office, trust, or employment under ! W this State; provided that this provision shall not apply to any office filled by election by the people. YES NO FOR THE AMENDMENT TO THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT. Amends. Section 8 of State Highway Act of 1909 by providing that whenever state engineering department determines that construction cost of state highway in county entails unjust burden on such county in refunding to state entire bond interest on bond proceeds spent therefor, such county shall be required to refund only such portion thereof as such department adjudges y reasonable. Amendment effective December 31, 1916. AGAINST THE AMENDMENT TO THE STATE HIGHWAY ACT. {Forty-seven] CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. State of California, Department of Sacramento, California. I, Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State of the State of California, do hereby certify that foregoing seven measures will be submitted to the electors of the State of California at the election to be held throughout the State on the seventh day of November, 191G. Witness my hand and the great seal of State, at office in Sacramento, California, the fifth day of September, A. D. 191G. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Robert L. Telfer, Superintend* Sacramento, California [Forty-eight]