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SUBJECT OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1920

No.   1. Authorizes five-sixths jury verdict in civil cases.
No.   2. Permits regulation by law of property rights of aliens.
No.   3. Declares English official language of the state and requires common school branches taught therein.
No.   4. Initiative and referendum. Reduces percentages in number of signatures required.
No.   5. Separate district legislative apportionment.
No.   6. Permits increase of state senators from 33 to 50.
No.   7. Increases legislative salary from $600 to $800.
No.   8. Majority of all members elected, (yea and nay vote), required to adopt conference reports between two houses.
             First and second reading of bills by title only.
No.   9. Prohibits appointment of members of legislature to state offices.
No. 10. Prohibits -raising salaries during term of office.
No. 11. Reserves mineral rights in state lands.
No. 12. Eliminates obsolete 1875 legislative apportionment.
No. 13. New executive offices may be created by two-thirds vote of legislature; executive budget; a board of pardons;
             five years residence required for eligibility for office of governor.
No. 14. Creates office of tax commissioner.
No. 15. New jurisdiction and procedure of courts.
No. 16. Concurrence of five judges of the supreme court to declare laws unconstitutional.
No. 17. Election of judges of the supreme court by districts.
No. 18. Woman suffrage.
No. 19. Soldier suffrage.
No. 20. Temporary school fund -distribution.
No. 21. Prohibits sale of school lands except at public auction.
No. 22. Election of university regents by districts.
No. 23. Prohibits state aid to sectarian institutions.
No. 24. Raises age for committment (sic) to industrial schools from 16 to 18.
No. 25. Provides board of education for normal schools.
No. 26. Requires uniform and proportional taxes on tangible property and franchises; permits classification of other property
             and permits taxes other than property taxes.
No. 27. Tax exemptions, including $200 of household goods to each family; forestry exemptions changed.
No. 28. County tax limit fifty cents on one hundred dollars actual valuation.
No. 29. Changes of county boundaries.
No. 30. Public utility corporations to report to railway commission.
No. 31. Prohibits consolidation of competing public utility corporations without permission of railway commission.
No. 32. Regulates stocks and dividends of public utility corporations.

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No. 33. Permits metropolitan cities to adopt present charter as home rule charter.
No. 34. Insures co-operative features in certain associations and permits limitation of shares and voting.
             Regulates foreign corporations. Stocks and bonds to issue only for actual value:
No. 35. Defines priority rights in use of water power.
No. 37. Minimum wage and conditions of employment of women and children.
No. 38. Permits creation of industrial commission to administer laws relative to labor disputes and profiteering.
No. 39. Provides that amendments to the constitution submitted by the legislature shall be ad opted by a majority voting
             on the question if the affirmative vote be equal to 35 per cent of the total vote cast.
No. 40. Fixes increased salaries of state officers including judges of the supreme and district courts, effective until changed
             by the legislature, (not oftener than once in eight years.)
No. 41. Eliminates obsolete provisions and provides a continuing schedule.

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