1944-11-07-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT

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-2- Section 3 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions. " is also amended by striking out the second sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of signers of a referendum petition on a law requesting that the operation of such law be suspended subsequent to the first ten signers and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as determined by the Attorney General as it will appear upon the ballot, together with, the names and residences of the first ten signers. Section 4 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions", is also amended by striking out the third sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of signers subsequent to the first ten signers of a referendum petition asking for the repeal of an emergency law or of a law which takes effect because the referendum petition does not contain a request for suspension, and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as such summary will appear on the ballot together with the names and residences of the first ten signers. Article XLVIII is further amended by striking out subheading "III. Form of Ballot" and subheading "IV. Information for Voters" under the heading "General Provisions" and inserting in place thereof new subheadings III and IV, which provide, respectively: III. FORM OF BALLOT. Anfair, concise summary of each proposed amendment to the Constitution and each law submitted to the people, as determined by the Attorney General shall be printed on the ballot. The Secretary shall give each question a number and cause such question, except as otherwise authorized in said article of amendment , to be printed on the ballot in the following form In the case of an amendment to the constitution: Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, (here state, in distinctive type , whether approved or disapproved by the general court, and by what vote thereon)? Yes.---No. (Set forth summary heret In the case of a law Do you approve of a law summarized below, (here state, in distinctive type, whether approved or disapparoved by the general court, and by what vote thereon)? Yes.---No. (Set forth summary here) IV. INFORMATION FOR VOTERS. The Secretary shall print and send to each registered voter the full text of every measure to be submitted to the people , together with a copy of the legislative committee' s majority and minority reports, with the names of the majority and minority members and a fair, concise summary of the measure as such summary will appear on the ballot, and, in such manner as may be provided by law, other arguments for and against the measure, -- which proposed amendment wag approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941, received 201 votes in the affirmative and 2 in the negative, YES and in a joint session of the two branches held May 12, 1943 , NO received 214 votes in the affirmative and 5 in the negative, --be approved?