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Amendment to the constitution relative to the initiative and referendum on constitutional amendments, proposed by the legislature of nineteen hundred thirteen, and ratified by the people at the April election of nineteen hundred thirteen.

ARTICLE SEVENTEEN.

SEC. 2. Amendments may also be proposed to this constitution by petition of the qualified voters of this State. Every such petition shall include the full text of the amendment so proposed and be signed by not less than ten per cent of the legal voters of the State. Initiative petitions proposing an amendment to this constitution shall be filed with the Secretary of State at least four months before the election at which such proposed amendment is to be voted upon. Upon receipt of such petition by the Secretary of State, he shall canvass the same to ascertain if such petition has been signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, and if the same has been so signed, the proposed amendment shall be submitted to the electors at the next regular election at which any State officer is to be elected. Any constitutional amendment initiated by the people as herein provided, shall take effect and become a part of the constitution if the same shall be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon and not otherwise. Every amendment shall take effect thirty days after the election at which it is approved. The total number of votes cast for Governor at the regular election last preceding the filing of any petition proposing an amendment to the constitution, shall be the basis upon which the number of legal voters necessary to sign such a petition shall be computed. The Secretary of State shall submit all proposed amendments to the constitution initiated by the people for adoption or rejection in compliance herewith. The petition shall consist of sheets in such form and having printed or written at the top thereof such heading as shall be designated or prescribed by the Secretary of State. Such petition shall be signed by qualified voters in person only, with the residence address of such persons and the date of signing the same. To each of such petitions, which may consist of one or more sheets, shall be attached the affidavit of the elector circulating the same, stating that each signature thereto is the genuine signature of the person signing the same, and that to the best knowledge and belief of the affiant each person signing the petition was at the time of signing a qualified elector. Such petition so verified shall be prima facie evidence that the signatures thereon are genuine, and that the persons signing the same are qualified electors. The text of all amendments to be submitted shall be published as constitutional amendments are now required to be published.

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CERTIFICATE.

MICHIGAN

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

LANSING.

I, Frederick C. Martindale, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, do hereby certify that the date of the final adjournment of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred thirteen was on the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred thirteen. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto affixed my signature and the great seal of the State, at Lansing, this eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred thirteen.

[L. S.]

FREDERICK C. MARTINDALE,
Secretary of State.

INDEX

TO THE

PUBLIC ACTS

OF THE

STATE OF MICHIGAN

ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1913, WITH REFERENCES TO THE
SECTIONS AND CHAPTERS OF

THE COMPILED LAWS OF 1897, VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3
RESPECTIVELY, AMENDED OR REPEALED.

Prepared and published under the supervision of the Secretary of State in com-
pliance with Act No. 44, Public Acts, 1899.

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