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THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF JACKSONVILLE DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The following shall be substantially the form of a petition for any ordinance or amendment to the charter proposed by the Initiative. WARNING. It is a felony for any one to sign any Initiative or Referendum petition with any other name than his own, or to knowingly sign his name more than once for the same measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a legal voter. INITIATIVE PETITION. To the Honorable........................ Reeorder.of the City of Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon: We, the undersigned, citizens and legal voters of the City of Jackson ville, Jackson County, Oregon, respect fully demand that the following pro- i posed ordinance (or amendment to the city charter) shall be submitted to ■ the legal voters of the City of Jackson ville Jackson County, Oregon, for their approval or rejection at the regular (or special) city election to be held on the.........day of..................... 19...., and each for himself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a legal voter of the City of Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon, and my residence and street number are correctly written after my name. to the registration oks in the o’li.e of tho County Clerk of Jackson County, and if a sufficient number of qualified voters be found to have signed said petition, he shall file same within ten davs after presentation thereof to him. ¡lie are analified to sign a [etition for resolution, crime or police regulation; the refj, 'i.dum or for the initiative for providing for the exercise of the right any measure which he is entitled to of eminent domain, the purposes for vote upon. Any person signing any which private property may be con name other than his own to a petition, demned by the city and the pro or knowingly signing his name more cedure therein; providing for what act than once for the same measure at cn; and improvements special benefit as- • Section 7. Initiative petitions for election, who is not at the time of sessments may be levied, upon what any proposed ordinance, charter amend signing the same a legal voter of property, the manner afid procedure ment or measure shall be signed by Jacksonville, or any officer or other therein arid the collection and pay a number of legal voters equal to person violating any of the provisions ment theteof; providing for borrowing fifteen per centum of the votes cast of this ordinance, shall, upon convic money on the faith sf the City, the for mayor at the last preceding tion thereof, be punished by a fine not 1 issuance of warrants and bonds afid the municipal e'ection. Referendum peti exceeding five hundred dollars, or by limitations of indebtedness; powers tions against any ordinance or measure imprisonment in the city -jail rot ex and purposes of taxation and the col ceeding six months, or by both fine lection of the same; providing and proposed by the City Council shall be and imprisonment, in the discretion of defining the qualifications of electors signed by a number of legal voters the municipal court. at all elections and the manner of con- equal to ten per centum of the votes Section 13. The manner of voting , ducting the same; the manner and pro- cast for mayor at the last regular upon measures submitted to the legal j cedure Of exercising the Initiative and VERY TIME a man wants to get away preceding municipal electon. voters shall be the same as now is or ' Referendum powers reserved to the Section 8. An amendment to the may hereafter be, provided by law. | municipality by the Constitution of from all connection with the busy world charter of Jacksonville may be pro- No measure shall be adopted unless it i Oregon; and fully providing and de- The telephone is an important helper. posed and submitted to th? legal voters shall receive the affirmative majority ' fining all and every power and thereof by resolution of the City of the total number of legal votes cast ! authority of the council of the City of The local service is useful in arranging his affairs at Council without an initiative pt-tition; on sUch measure and entitled to be Jacksonville and the City of Jackson home, and the Long Distance Service of the Bell System said fesolutioh shall be filed with the counted thereon. If two or more laws ville, and everything needful [and re helps him to decide where to go and what to take. Recorder for submission not later than on the same subject or containing pro quisite to maihtain, establish and pro By means of his Bell Telephone he can find out whether ten (10) days before the election, at! visions that are conflicting shall be ap mote the peace, good order, health, which it is to be voted upon, and no I proved by the voters at the same elec cleanliness, the fish are biting or the birds are flying, and whether guides ornament, prosperity, amendment to the charter shall be! tion, the measure receiving the great- general welfare and government of the or horses can be secured. effective until it is approved by aI i est number of affirmative votes shall city and to protect the property and After he has been out awhile, if he wants to get word majority of the votes cast thereon by be nroclaimed to be the law adopted. persons of its inhabitants;” and from the city, the nearest Bel1 Telephone is a friend in need. the legal voters of said municipality. Section 14. The votes on measures WHEREAS, said proposed charter Section 9. Where an amendment to and charter amendments shall be in part provides that the duties hither the charter of Jacksonville may be counted, canvassed and returned as to devolving on the President of the THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. proposed and submitted to the legal votes for candidates are counted, can Board of Trustees shall in the future voters thereof by resolution of the vassed and returned. be performed and discharged by the Everu Bell Telephone is the Center of the System City Council without an initiative I Section 15. The Mayor shall within Mayor, and the duties hitherto devolv petition, the said resolution shall fifteen days from the time of such ing on the Board of Trustees shall in NAME RESIDENCE STREET NUMBER therein state the date of the regular election proclaim by the publication the future be performed and discharged municipal election, ¡or the date of a thereof in full once in the official news by the City Council; and (Here follow twenty numbered lines special election at which said resolution paper, or in the event of there being for signature) WHEREAS, said proposed charter will be submitted to be voted on. no such newspaper, by posting printed further provides that the name ‘ Town Section 2. The following shall be Section 10. When any measure for or typewritten copies of sueh procla of Jacksonville” should be changed to substantially the form of petition for Referendum to the people on any initiative or referendum legislation mation in at least two conspicuous that of “City of Jacksonville.” ordinance passed by the City Council. shall be filed by the Recorder afeer places in said municipality, the adop NOW, THEREFC RE, whenever in the number and genuineness of signa tion of each measure and amendment this Ordinance the words “Mayor,” WARNINGS tures thereto, as provided by Section which shall have received the affirma It is a felony for any one to sign 6, supra, have been ascertained, or tive majority of the total number of “City Council,” and “City of Jackson any Initiative or Referendum petition when any resolution of the City votes cast thereon, and upon such pro ville” appear, said words shall be with any other name than his own, or Council shall be filed with the Recorder, 1 clamation such measures and amend construed to mean the same officials to Knowingly sign his name more than as provided in Section 8 herein, the ments shall become in full force and and the same municipality ns designated once for the same measure, or to sign Recorder shall forthwith transmit to 1 effect, except in eases provided for in in the said act enacted by the 1st such petition when he is not a legal the Attorney of said municipality a Section Lt with reference to two cr legislative assembly of the State of Oregon, entitled “An Act to incorpor voter. copy of sueh measure, who shall, : more laws on the same subject or con ate the Town of Jacksonville,” ap REFERENDUM PETITION. within five days, provide and return to taining provisions that are conflicting. To the Honorable................................. the Recorder a ballot title for such In cases of ordinances which have been proved and signed by the Governor of the State of Oregon on October 19, Recorder of the City of Jacksonville, measure. The ballot ’¡tie shall be I passed by the City Council and voted A. D. 1860, as “President of the Cement Work of Any and All Kinds upon by referendum, proclamation of Jackson County, Oregon: printed with the number of the measure 1 Board of Trustees,” “Board of Trus We, the undersigned, legal voters of on the official ballot. In making such the result of such vote shall also be tees,” and “Town of JacKsonville.” All Work Guaranteed. made, and such ordinance shall con the City of Jacksonville, Jackson ballot title said Attorney shall to the 1 Section 18. WHEREAS, Chapter County, Oregon, respectfully demand best of his ability give a true and tinue in effect or cease to be in effect XVII of the said Charter of the City according to sueh result from the time that Ordinance No...................... en impartial statement of the purpose of ! 1 of Jacksonville contained provisions of titled (title of ordinance on which the the measure, and in such language 1 of such proclamation. a general nature for the manner and that the ballot title shall not be an Section 16. Where referendum pe referendum is sought), passed by the procedure of the exercise of the Citv Council of the City of Jackson argument for or liable to create pre- titions shall be signed by the required initiative and referendum powers re Office in Jacksonville Furniture Co. Building judice against such measure, number of legal voters against any Any ville at its meeting on the............ .day served to the voters of municipalities of.............. 19....shall be submitted person who is dissatisfied with the ordinances passed by the City Council, by the Constitution of the State of to the legal voters of the City of ballot title provided by the said At- same shall be filed with the Recorder Oregon; and Jacksonville for their approva1 or re torney for any such measure may within thirty days after the passage WHEREAS, said charter ’in part jection at the regular (or special) eity within five days after said ballot title and approval of the ordinance in ques specifically provides that in all matters tion. No ordinance shall take effect election to be held on the................ day is returned to the Recorder appeal to of................... 19...., and each for the City Council asking a different and beesme operative until thirty days of procedure provided for therein or himself says: I have personally signed title and giving the reasons therefor, : after its passage by the City Council which may not be provided for by Official Paper of the dtp of Jacksonville, Oregon this petition; I am a legal voter of the and stating why the title prepared by j i and approval bv the Mayor, or passage subsequent ordinance or charter amend City of Jacksonville, Jackson County, the said Attorney is improper, and the j by a two-thirds vote over the veto of ments, the provision;! of the general Oregon, and my residence [and ¡street City Council shall by resolution ap 1 the Mayor, except emergency meas- laws of the State of Oregon shall A weekly newspnper published every Saturday at the county seat of Jackson number are correctly written after prove the ballot title prepared by said i ures necessary for the immediate pre govern; NOW, THEREFORE, this ordinance Attorney, or shall by resolution servation of the peace, health or safety my name. County, Oregon. D. W. B agshaw , Editor. is enacted for the purpose of providing of the city; and no such emergency prescribe another ballot title therefor, NAME RESIDENCE STREET NUMBER and the ballot title so approved or so measure shall become immediately op for said municipality a uniform system Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1907, at the post office at Jacksonville, prescibed by the City Council shall be ! erative until same is pjssed by a ma- of procedure for use in said city and (Here follow twenty numbered lines the title placed upon the ballot. Such I jority of all the members of the City the manner of exercising said powers I Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. for signatures). ballot title shall in no case exceed one ! Council and also approved by the as near in conformity with the pro Section 3 . Each and every sheet of hundred words, and shall not resemble ' Mayor. visions of said charter as absolute every petition for either the initiative in so far as possible 'any other ballot j Section 17. WHEREAS, some ques- conformity with the genera) laws of SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 7.9 11 or referendum containing signatures title filed for any ¡measure to be sub- i tion has arisen concerning the regular- the State of Oregon on such subjects I shall be verified on the bacK thereof mitted at the same election. The ity, sufficiency and legality of the will admit. in substantially the following form by Section 19. WHEREAS, the officials SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnished on the person who circulated such sheet recorder of Jacksonville shall number | adoption of said Ordinance No. 117 and of said municipality are of the opinion such measures and ballot titles in the j of Ordinance No. 123 entitled: application. of said petition by affidavit thereon as most convenient and consecutive, “The People of the Town of Jack that proposed charter has never been follows: manner. The affirmative of the first sonville do ordain as follows: That legally adopted; and STATE OF OREGON, ) WHEREAS, an issue of bonds to measure shall be numbered 10«» and . there be and hereby is proposed the County of Jackson, t With prospects of a bountiful crop of fruit with good the amount of Thirty Thousand Dol the negative 101 in numerals, and the following Amendment to an Act en- City of Jacksonville. ) prices, this promises to be one of the most prosperous I........................................... being first succeeding measures shall be number-1 titled ‘An Act to incorporate the Town lars ($30,000.00) for the purpose of providing a system of water works for years in the history of Rogue River’s fruitgrowers. Cul duly sworn, say that (here |shali be ed 102, 103, 104, 105 and so on. It [ of Jacksonville’, enacted by the 1st said municipality has been attempted shall b" the duty of the Recorder to legislative assembly of the State of tivating the soil, caring for the trees, thinning the fruit, legibly written or typewritten the print sa<d ballot titles and numbers Oregon, approved and ¡signed by the to be authorized under the provisions name of the signers of the sheet) said proposed charter; and and later on the picking and packing, will afford labor at signed this sheet of the foregoing upon the official ballot. Measures re 1 Governor of the ^tate of Oregon, of WHEREAS, owing to the irregular ferred to the voters by petition shall October 19th, A. D. 1860, and all acts fair wages to a small army of men, women, and children. petition, and each of them signed his be designated “Referendum ordered or parts of acts amendatory thereof, ities and illegalities connected with the name thereto in my presence; I be-! Besides the work in the orchards many men will be em lieve by petition of the people.” Measures the same being the Charter of the passage of the same, it is impossible that each has stated his name, [ and dispose of said bonds; and ployed in constructing the numerous buildings now under residence and street number correctly, I proposed by the initiative petition Town of Jacksonville, and which to sell WHEREAS, the charter of said shall be designated “Proposed by Charter and Act when so amended way, or which will be soon commenced. Then consider and that each signer is a legal voter of initiative petition.” Charter amend shall be made to read as follows: municipality imposes upon its officials the City of Jacksonville. the duty of providing said municipality ments submitted by the City Council able road work has been planned by the county court AN ACT with a supply of good, pure and whole without initiative petitions shall be requiring a large force of men. Municipal improvements Subscribed and sworn to before me designated "Charter amendments sub To amend an act entitled ‘An Act to some water, and for said purpose, said of various kinds are now being made and others planned this.........day of............................... A. mitted to the voters by the City Coun incorporate the Town of Jacksonville,’ officials have attempted to sell and enacted by the 1st legislative assembly dispose of bonds therefor, which it cil.” in the different towns of the valley which will afford em D. 19....... of the State of Oregon, approved has been unable to do owing to the Section 11. Where a special election ployment to 'many. Taken as a whole: there is every (Signature and title of of is called either on petition for proposed and signed by the Governor of above irregularities and illegalities; reason to believe that the progress and prosperity of the ficer «nd his residence.) ordinances or charter amendments by the State of Oregon, October 19, ; and WHEREAS, it is necessary that a A. D. 1860, and all acts or parts of whole valley and its people, in 1911, will equal or surpass, Section 4. That forms herein given the initiative, or for submitting or 1 acts new charter be adopted in the manner amendatory thereof, the same are not mandatory and if substantially dinances by the referendum, or on provided by law at as early a date as that of any former year. followed in any petition it shad be charter amendments proposed by reso being the charter of the Town of possible, and in order properly so to sufficient, disregarding clerical and lution of the City Council, the Record Jacksonville, and to enact and provide do, it is recessary to enact this ordi a complete charter in the place there technical errors. er shall publish such proposed ordin ORDINANCE NO. 135. amended, and providing further for of for the government of the City of. nance, Section 5. Not more than twenty ances, referendum measure or charter Jacksonville, and therein providing j NOW, THEREFORE, an emergency the manner of exercising the other An ordinance to provide the carrying initiative and referendum powers re- signatures shall be signed to one amendment with the ballot title and for a cl a ge of the name of said is hereby declared to exist, and this into effect in the City of Jacksonville, served by the Constitution to the sheet of a petition, and a full and number in full tn the official news municipality from the name of ‘Town ordinance shall immediately go into Jackson County, Oregon, the Initiative people of said town, and providing the correct copy of the title and text of paper of Jacksonville once or oftener of Jacksonville, ’ to the name of ‘City ! effect upon and after its adoption and and Referendum powers reserved to manner of passing ordinances by the the measure proposed bv the Initiative within the ten (10) nays immediately of Jacksonville,’ and therein providing j ! approval. the legal voters of municipalities by initiative and of submitting to the petition or the measure demanded for preceding the special election at which and defining the geographical cor Passed by the Citv Council on this by the Referendum said proposed ordinance, referendum porate limits and boundaries of said the 10th day of April, 1911. Section 1-a of Article IV. of the people for decision, ordinances passed submission Constitution of the State of Oregon, by the Board of Trustees of said town, petition, as the case may be. shall measure or charter amendment is to city; providing for a city council and I Yeas—Britt, Dunford, Fick •nd and to enact and amend their municipal and designating the time within which be attached to each sheet circulated be voted on, or in the event of there all municipal officers, their election. ' Grieve. * charters reserved to legal voters of ordinances passed by the Board of for signature, and such full and cor being no official newspaper, by posting appointment, term of office. Dowers Nays cities and towns by Section 2 of Trustees shall become operative where rect copy of the title and text shall be printed or typewritten copies of such and duties; providing the police powers i Submitted to the Mayor of the Article XI of the Constitution of the not submitted to a vote of the people, shown to the voter before ¡his signa- | ’ measures in at least two conspicuous and regulations of the city and the City of Jacksonville, this 10th day of places in said city for a like period of State of Oregon, and providing for and defining the time within which ture is attached. manner of the exercise thereof; pro April, 1911. violation of this act, and to amend elections may be held for voting upon I Section 6. The Recorder of Jackson ten (10) days. A like rule as to publi viding a municipal court, its officers, Approved by the Mayor of the City Ordinance No. 117 entitled "'An Or the questions submitted to the legal I ville shall accept for filing any petition ' cation or posting shall be observed\ powers, authority, jurisdiction and of Jacksonville, this 10th day of dinance providing for the manner of voters of said town, and providing in [ for the initiative or for the referen-' where proposed ordinance, referendum procedure and the powers and duties April. 1911. submitting to the legal voters of the detail for the procedure to be followed dum. subject to the verification of the measure or charter amendments are of its officers; providing power and T. T. SHAW Town of Jacksonville, proposed amend for the exercise of the initiative and ; number and genuineness of the signa to be submitted at the regular elec authority for the punishment by fine, Mayor of the City of Jacksonville. ments to the charter of said town and j referendum powers reserved to the' tures and voting _ qualifications ,_________ of _ ____ the tion. I imprisonment iou liiiicruv nnu HENRY G. DOX, and taw* labor, , uhc one, , uuui both ut or I j Attest: providing how said charter may be I people.” j persons signing the same by reference | Section 12. Legal voters of Jackson-1 all, for the|violation of any ordinance, j (SEAL) Re-order. E The Jacksonville Cement ® Construction Co Concrete Buildings, Cement Cement Walks Call and See Us for Estimates È .•-JACKSONVILLE POST-:
