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State Highways Jan 1926

State Highways

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution. Classifies highways as primary and secondary, enumerating primary. Arranges counties, by names, in two groups. Appropriates five million dollars annually for twelve years for construction, allocating three-fourths to primary in proportion group primary highway mileage, to entire primary highway mileage, and one-fourth to secondary in proportion group land area to state land area. Allocates one-third maintenance funds to primary highways according said mileage ratio, balance to primary and secondary highways in proportion group registration of vehicles to state registration. Permits, electors approving, group bond indebtedness or taxation.

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Suffrage Jan 1926

Suffrage

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 20. Amends Section 1 of Article II of Constitution. Declares that no alien ineligible to citizenship shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; extends the absent voters provisions of present section to those engaged in the civil or congressional service of the United States or of the state, and to those who because of injury or disability are absent from their precincts or unable to go to the polling places.

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Salaries Of State Officers Jan 1926

Salaries Of State Officers

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment Amends Section 19 of Article V of Constitution. Declares compensation of Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, and Surveyor General, shall be seven thousand dollars each per year, Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction eight thousand dollars each year; such compensation to be in full for all official services during their respective terms of office; provides that the Legislature may diminish such compensation but can not Increase the same.

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Salaries Of Judges Jan 1926

Salaries Of Judges

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 41. Amends Section 17 of Article VI of Constitution. Provides that the judges of Supreme Court, District Courts of Appeal, and Superior Court, shall severally, at stated times during their continuance in office, receive for their service such compensation as is or shall be provided by law; declares that the state shall pay three thousand dollars of the salary of each superior court judge, and that the county for which he is elected shall pay the remainder of his salary, as the same is now or may hereafter be established.

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Pensioning Judges Jan 1926

Pensioning Judges

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 25. Adds Section 26 to Article VI of Constitution. Declares Supreme Court, District Court of Appeal and Superior Court Judges, sixty years of age and no impeached, terminating service aggregating twenty-four years in one or more of said courts, shall receive for life monthly salary equaling half that last received; permits those who have not practiced law after such termination, if otherwise qualified, to serve as judges in courts wherein they were last eligible and in inferior courts of record, receiving therefor such additional compensation as legislature prescribes.

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Reapportionment Commission Jan 1926

Reapportionment Commission

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Section 6 ½ to Article IV of Constitution. Creates reapportionment commission composed of Secretary of State, Attorney General and Surveyor General. If Legislature fails, at first session after each census, to adjust senatorial and assembly districts and reapportion representation as provided by Constitution, requires said commission to make such adjustment and reapportionment, and file same with Secretary of State, within three months after adjournment of such legislative session. Declares said commission shall make and file such reapportionment on basis of 1920 census within three months after this amendment takes effect.

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Bonds For State Buildings And University Buildings Jan 1926

Bonds For State Buildings And University Buildings

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 39. Adds Section 4 to Article XVI of Constitution. Directs issuance of $8,500,000 of state bonds, and the use of the proceeds thereof, as provided in "California state buildings and state university buildings bonds act of 1925," for completion and equipment of state buildings at Sacramento, the erection and equipment of state building at Los Angeles and buildings tor University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles; validates said bond act of 1925; declares section self-executing but permits legislation in furtherance thereof.

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Repeal Of Wright Act Jan 1926

Repeal Of Wright Act

Propositions

Initiative measure. Repeals Act of Legislature commonly known as Wright Act, approved by electors on referendum November 7, 1922, which Act provided tor enforcement by State of California of the Eighteenth Amendment to United States Constitution, prohibited all acts or omissions prohibited by Volstead Act, adopted penal provisions of that Act, imposed duties on courts, prosecuting attorneys, sheriffs, grand juries, magistrates and peace officers in this State, extended their jurisdiction, and provided for the disposition of fines and forfeitures.

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Taxation And Local Assessment Exemption Jan 1926

Taxation And Local Assessment Exemption

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 32. Adds Section 1b to Article XIII of Constitution. Declares that all property used or held exclusively for the burial or other permanent deposit of the human dead or for the care, maintenance or upkeep of such property or such dead, except as used or held for profit, shall be free from taxation and local assessment.

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Exempting Secondary Schools From Taxation Jan 1926

Exempting Secondary Schools From Taxation

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 27. Amends Section 1a of Article XIII of Constitution. Exempts from taxation the buildings and equipment, the grounds within which such buildings are located, not exceeding one hundred acres in area, and the securities and income used exclusively for educational purposes, of any educational institution in California of secondary grade, not conducted tor profit, and accredited to the University of California.

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Corporations Jan 1926

Corporations

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 14. Amends Section 11 of Article XII of Constitution by requiring that any increase of stock or bonded indebtedness of a corporation be assented to by the holders of at least two-thirds of the amount in value of the stock instead of by a majority as now provided, and eliminates the present provision requiring that such increase be made at a meeting called for that purpose after sixty days’ public notice.

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Legislative Reapportionment Jan 1926

Legislative Reapportionment

Propositions

Initiative measure. Amends Constitution, Article IV, Section 6. For choosing legislators requires Legislature, immediately following each Federal census, and next Legislature using 1920 census, to divide State into forty senatorial and eighty assembly districts, comprising contiguous territory, with assembly districts as equal in population as possible, no county or city and county containing more than one senatorial district, and no senatorial district comprising more than three counties of small population; creates Reapportionment Commission, comprising Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Secretary of State, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to make apportionment if Legislature fails to act.

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Voter Information Guide For 1926, General Election Jan 1926

Voter Information Guide For 1926, General Election

Propositions

No abstract provided.

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Adverse Possesion: Personal Property: Tacking And Payment Of Taxes [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor Jan 1926

Adverse Possesion: Personal Property: Tacking And Payment Of Taxes [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor

Published Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Inheritance Taxation: Tax Payable At Domicile Of Testator On Intangible Personality In Another Jurisdiction [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor Jan 1926

Inheritance Taxation: Tax Payable At Domicile Of Testator On Intangible Personality In Another Jurisdiction [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor

Published Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Real Property: Landlord And Tenant: The Rule In Dumpor's Case [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor Jan 1926

Real Property: Landlord And Tenant: The Rule In Dumpor's Case [Student Comment], Roger J. Traynor

Published Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Legislative Reapportionment Jan 1926

Legislative Reapportionment

Initiatives

LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT. Initiative measure. Amends Constitution, Article IV, Section 6. For choosing legislators requires Legislature, immediately following each Federal census, and next Legislature using 1920 census, to divide State into forty senatorial and eighty assembly districts, comprising contiguous territory, with assembly districts as equal in population as possible, no county or city and county containing more than one senatorial district, and no senatorial district comprising more than three counties of small population; creates Reapportionment Commission, comprising Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Secretary of State and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to make apportionment if Legislature fails to act.

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Racing Jan 1926

Racing

Initiatives

"RACING. Initiative measure. Creates board, appointed by Governor, to regulate and license horse racing and Pari-Mutuel betting within race track enclosure; limits racing period at each track; prohibits licensing racing at tracks constructed, without board's approval, after November 1, 1926; limits licensee's return to nine per cent on capital invested; prescribes as license fees five hundred dollars each race day and licensee's net profits above return allowed; appropriates fees to board's salaries and expenses, dividing balance equally between Veterans' Welfare Board and State Agricultural Board; authorizes licenses for limited period at county fairs or agricultural exhibits."

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Water And Power Jan 1926

Water And Power

Initiatives

WATER AND POWER. Initiative measure adding Article XIVa to Constitution. Creates board, appointed by Governor and subject to recall, authorized to develop and distribute water and electric energy, acquire by any legal means any property therefor and do anything convenient thereto, including using and reserving state lands and waters; gives state and political subdivisions certain preferential rights as against privately owned public utilities selling water or electric energy to public; authorizes issuance of bonds not exceeding $500,000,000, to further such purposes, requiring board to fix rates to meet expenses and retire bonds in fifty years.

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Taxation Of Short Line Steam Railroads Jan 1926

Taxation Of Short Line Steam Railroads

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 40. Amends Section 14 of Article XIII of Constitution. Subject to change by Legislature, changes state tax on steam railroads not exceeding two hundred and fifty miles in length, operated separately and not as part of another railroad owning or operating lines exceeding such length, from seven to five and one-quarter per cent of gross receipts ascertained as provided in Constitution; if such classification violates Federal Constitution, or prejudices state's right to tax other steam railroads at different rate, taxes all steam railroads seven per cent, or percentage hereafter adopted.

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Exempting Forest Trees From Taxation Jan 1926

Exempting Forest Trees From Taxation

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 10. Amends Section 12 ¾ of Article XIII of Constitution. Exempts from taxation immature forest trees planted on lands not previously bearing merchantable timber, or planted or of natural growth, upon lands from which seventy per cent of merchantable original growth timber over sixteen inches in diameter has been removed; declares maturity of forest trees or timber shall be determined, after forty years from planting or removal of original timber, by a board comprising assessor of county wherein same are located and representatives from state boards of forestry and equalization.

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Election At Primary Jan 1926

Election At Primary

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 20. Adds Section 2¾ to Article II of Constitution. Declares candidate for judicial, school, county, township, or other non-partisan office, receiving at primary election votes on majority of all ballots cast for such office shall be elected thereto; where two or more candidates are to be elected to an office and more candidates receive a majority than are to be elected, those securing highest votes of those receiving such majority, and equaling number to be elected, shall be elected, declares freeholder’s charter governs whenever it provides different method of election.

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Giving Appellate Courts Trial Court Powers Jan 1926

Giving Appellate Courts Trial Court Powers

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 16. Adds Section 4 ¾ to Article VI of Constitution. Declares Legislature, in cases were jury trial is not matter of right or is waived, may empower appellate court to ascertain the facts from evidence in trial court, or from additional evidence in appellate court, and make findings of fact contrary or additional to those made by trial court and for such purposes hear additional evidence concerning facts occurring before its decision on appeal and direct entry of any judgment or order case may require.

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Motor Vehicle And Gasoline Taxes Jul 1924

Motor Vehicle And Gasoline Taxes

Initiatives

MOTOR VEHICLE AND GASOLINE TAXES. Initiative measure adding Section 15 to Article XIII of Constitution. Authorizes Legislature to provide for motor vehicle registration and license fees and license taxes on motor vehicle fuel distributors; distributing receipts therefrom, less administrative expenses, half to State and half to counties, according to motor vehicle registration therein; prorating county's portion among municipalities and general road fund, respectively, according to such registration within and outside of municipalities therein; until such registration in municipalities prorating their respective shares according to their respective proportions of the total county assessment, distributions hereunder to be exclusively for highway purposes.

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Requiring Bible In Schools Jul 1924

Requiring Bible In Schools

Initiatives

REQUIRING BIBLE IN SCHOOLS: Initiative measure amending Section 8 of Article IX of Constitution. Forbids appropriating public money for support of sectarian or denominational schools or those not exclusively controlled by public school officers; prohibits teaching sectarian or denominational doctrines, directly or indirectly, in public schools; authorizes purchase, with public funds, and use of Holy Bible therein, requiring copy thereof in every public school library and classroom; permits daily study thereof in school and reading therefrom by teacher, without comment, but requiring no pupil to read or hear it read, contrary to wishes of parent or guardian.

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State Taxation Of Highway Transportation Companies Jun 1924

State Taxation Of Highway Transportation Companies

Initiatives

"STATE TAXATION OF HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Initiative measure adding Section 15 to Article XIII of Constitution. Requires companies owning or operating, as common carriers, upon public highways, jitney busses, stages or motor vehicles, to pay annual state tax upon their operative property of four per cent of their gross receipts from operations, in lieu of all other taxes and licenses thereon except ad valorem tax to meet deficiencies or to pay bonded indebtedness, outstanding November 4, 1924, of political subdivisions; empowers legislature by two-thirds vote to change such percentage."

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Water And Power Jan 1924

Water And Power

Initiatives

WATER AND POWER. Initiative measure adding Article XIVa to Constitution. Creates board, appointed by Governor and subject to recall, authorized to develop and distribute water and electric energy, acquire by any legal means any property therefor and do anything convenient thereto, including using and reserving state lands and waters; gives state and political subdivisions certain preferential rights as against privately owned public utilities selling water or electric energy to public; authorizes issuance of bonds not exceeding $500,000,000. to further such purposes, requiring board to fix rates to meet expenses and retire bonds in fifty years.

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State Taxation Of Highway Transportation Companies Jan 1924

State Taxation Of Highway Transportation Companies

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Section 15 to Article XIII of Constitution. Requires companies owning or operating, as common carriers, upon public highways, jitney busses, stages or motor vehicles, to pay annual state tax upon their operative property of four per cent of their gross receipts from operations, in lieu ,of all other taxes and licenses thereon except ad valorem tax to meet deficiencies or to pay bonded indebtedness, outstanding November 4, 1924, of political subdivisions; empowers legislature by two-thirds vote to change such percentage.

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Transfer Of Funds Jan 1924

Transfer Of Funds

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 20. Amends Section 31 of Article IV of Constitution. Adds proviso requiring city or county treasurer, having custody of funds of political subdivision payable solely through his office, to' make, on or before last Monday in April in each current fiscal year, temporary transfers therefrom, not exceeding eighty-five per cent of taxes accruing to such subdivision, to meet obligations incurred by such subdivision for maintenance purposes, and to replace same from such taxes before meeting other obligations therefrom.

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Salaries And Expense Of Legislature Jan 1924

Salaries And Expense Of Legislature

Propositions

Senate constitutional amendment 23. Amends Section 23 and 23a of Article IV of Constitution. Declares members of Legislature shall receive one hundred dollars per month payable monthly in even numbered years, and during regular session as may be provided by law, and mileage not exceeding five cents per mile; Legislature to provide for selection of all officers and employees and, when advisable, under civil service, limiting total daily expenses thereof to three hundred dollars for either house during regular session and two hundred dollars for both houses during special session.

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