Land title law. Initiative act amending act for certification of land titles. Constitutes county recorders registrars of title; prescribes procedure for obtaining decree establishing title and ordering registration; provides for issuance of certificates of title, method of effecting transfers, notation of liens, encumbrances and charges, correction of register and certificates, protection of bona fide purchasers, registration fees, and penalties for fraud and forgeries; regulates transactions respecting registered land; creates from certain fees, paid on original registration, title assurance fund held by state treasurer to indemnify persons for loss of any interest in land through operation of act.

Election November 3, 1914: Adopted-Yes, 359,757; No, 224,846.

(In effect five days after December 13, 1914.)

Article I, Sections 26 and 27.

Suspension of prohibition amendment. Initiative amendment adding section 26a to article I of constitution. Provides that if proposed amendment adding sections 26 and 27 to article I of constitution relating to manufacture, sale, gift, use and transportation of intoxicating liquors be adopted, the force and effect of section 26 shall be suspended until February 15, 1915, and that, as to the manufacture and transportation for delivery at points outside of state only, it shall be suspended until January 1, 1916, at which time section 26 shall have full force and effect.

Election November 3, 1914: Adopted-Yes, 448,648; No, 226,688.

(In effect five days after December 13, 1914.)

Article IV, Section 19.

Ineligibility to office. Initiative measure amending section 19 of article IV of constitution. Declares that no senator or member of assembly shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, hold or accept any office, trust or employment under this state; provided that this provision shall not apply to any office filled by election by the people.

Election November 7, 1918: Adopted-Yes, 414,208; No, 230,360.

(In effect five days after December 16, 1918.)

Usury law. Initiative act restricting and regulating rates of interest upon the loan or forbearance of money, goods, things in action, accounts and judgments; limits fees, charges and commissions in connection with loans of money; provides penalties for violation of law and repeals sections 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920 of the Civil Code and all conflicting laws.

Election November 5, 1918: Adopted-Yes, 231,147; No, 212,207.

(In effect five days after December 5, 1918.)

Alien land law. Initiative act. Permits acquisition and transfer of real property by aliens eligible to citizenship, to same extent as citizens except as otherwise provided by law; permits other aliens, and companies, associations and corporations in which they hold majority interest, to acquire and transfer real property only as prescribed by treaty, but prohibiting appointment thereof as guardians of estates of minors consisting wholly or partially of real property or shares in such corporations; provides for escheats in certain cases; requires reports of property holdings to facilitate enforcement of act; prescribes penalties and repeals conflicting acts.

Election November 2, 1920: Adopted-Yes, 668,483; No, 222,083.

(In effect five days after December 4, 1920.)

Article XVI, Section 3.

Highway bonds. Initiative measure adding section 3 to article XVI of constitution. Creates state highway finance board to serve without compensation. Directs cancellation of unsold forty thousand bonds authorized by section 2 of same article;

authorizes other bonds to same amount, to be issued as provided in said section, but at times and interest rate, not exceeding six per cent, determined by said board under then prevailing market conditions; makes provisions of said section otherwise govern said bonds and proceeds thereof. Beginning July 1, 1921, relieves counties from payments to state on account of highway construction. Election November 2, 1920: Adopted-Yes, 435,492; No, 311,667.

(In effect five days after December 4, 1920.)

Article IX, Section 6.

School system. Initiative measure amending section 6, article IX, of constitution. Adds kindergartens to public school system; requires addition to state school fund, and creation of state high school fund, from state revenues to provide elementary, secondary, and technical schools, respectively, with minimum of thirty dollars per pupil; requires county tax levies producing for elementary schools amount not less than state apportionment, and for secondary and technical schools amount at least twice state apportionment; requires school district tax levies for school purposes; applies state apportionment, and at least sixty per cent of county school taxes, to teachers' salaries exclusively.

Election November 2, 1920: Adopted-Yes, 506,008; No, 268,781.

(In effect five days after December 4, 1920.)

SUMMARY OF INITIATIVE MEASURES REJECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITH VOTE FOR AND AGAINST EACH INITIATIVE MEASURE: 1912-1920.

Proposing to amend section 7 of article XI of the constitution of the State of California, relating to the formation of consolidated city and county governments, etc.

Election November 5, 1912: Defeated-Yes, 174,076; No, 280,465.

An act to prohibit bookmaking and pool-selling, and to provide for the appointment of a state racing commission to grant licenses for horse racing, etc. Election November 5, 1912: Defeated-Yes, 149,864; No, 353,070. Proposition to amend article XIII of the constitution of the State of California by the adding of a new section to said article, to be designated and numbered as section 84 of said article, relating to taxation by counties, cities and counties, cities, towns, districts and townships, etc.

Election November 5, 1912: Defeated-Yes, 169,321; No, 243,959.

Eight Hour Law. Initiative act adding section 393 to the Penal Code. Declares it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment in county jail or both for any employer to require or permit, or to suffer or permit his overseer, superintendent, foreman or other agent to require or permit, any person in his employ to work more than eight hours in one day, or more than forty-eight hours in one week, except in case of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood, or danger to life or property.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 282,692; No, 560,881. Prohibition. Initiative amendment adding sections 26 and 27 to article I of constitution. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, gift, or transportation wholly within the state, of intoxicating liquor; permits any citizen to enjoin violations; makes the showing that the manufacture, use, sale, gift or transportation was for medicinal, scientific, mechanical or sacramental purposes, a defense to civil and criminal actions, and requires regulation by law of such acts for said purposes; prohibits transportation into this state of intoxicating liquor, unless shown to be for such purposes, subject, however, to United States laws; prescribes and authorizes penalties.

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Regulating Investment Companies. Initiative act authorizing governor to appoint auditor of investments empowered to employ deputies and fix their compensation, defining investment companies, authorizing examination thereof by auditor and judicial investigation of their practices, defining securities and prohibiting sale thereof to public, or taking subscriptions therefor, by such companies before filing with auditor their financial statement and description of security, excepting from act certain companies and individuals, securities thereof and certain installment securities, regulating advertisements and circulars regarding securities, creating fund from official fees for salaries and expenses under act; repeals all laws on subject adopted heretofore or concurrently herewith.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 249,500; No, 353,812.

Qualifications of Voters at Bond Elections. Initiative amendment adding section 7 to article II of constitution. Provides that no elector may vote on question of incurring bonded indebtedness of state or political subdivision thereof, unless he is owner of property taxable for payment of such indebtedness and assessed to him on last assessment roll.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 312,193; No, 337,951.

Voting by Absent Electors. Initiative act providing for issuance of certificate of identification and ballot to voters who will be absent from home precincts on election day; provides that upon presentation by elector of such certificate and ballot in sealed envelope to judge of election on election day at polls in any precinct more than ten miles from polls where registered, such elector may mark said ballot in secret, judge to mail same to county clerk where voter registered; prescribes form of certificate and canvass of ballots; authorizes elector to vote at home precinct upon surrender of certificate and ballot.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 244,855; No, 390,353.

Deposit of Public Moneys. Initiative amendment to section 16 of article XI of constitution. Present section unchanged except in following particulars: Authorizes banks in which public moneys are deposited to furnish, as security, bonds of districts within municipalities, or of a corporation qualified to act as sole surety on bonds or undertakings, to an amount in value, or with a penalty, of at least ten per cent over amount of deposit; provides that no deposit under section shall exceed at any time fifty per cent of paid up capital and surplus of depository bank.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 236,573; No, 324,558.

City and County Consolidation, and Annexation With Consent of Annexed Territory. Initiative amendment to section 8 of article XI of constitution. Present section unchanged except to authorize chartered cities to establish municipal courts and control appointments, qualifications and tenure of municipal officers and employees; authorizes cities exceeding 175,000 population to consolidate under charter and to annex any contiguous territory, but only upon consent of such territory and of county from which such territory is taken; prescribes procedure for consolidation and annexation.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 248,112; No, 318,224.

Los Angeles State Building Bonds. Initiative act providing for the issuance and sale of state bonds in the sum of $1,250,000 to create a fund for the acquisition of a site in the city of Los Angeles, for the construction thereon of a state building and for equipment thereof to be used by the officers and departments of the state maintaining offices in said city, said bonds to bear interest at four per cent and to mature at different periods until July 2, 1965.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 285,796; No, 320,302.

One Day of Rest in Seven. Initiative act prohibiting, except in cases of urgent emergency, the working for wages, or requiring or employing any person to work, more than six days or forty-eight hours a week, the keeping open or operating certain places of business or selling property on Sunday; declares Sunday provisions of act inapplicable to works of necessity, or to member of religious society which observes another day as day of worship and who on

such day keeps his place of business closed and does not work for gain; declares violation of act misdemeanor and prescribes penalties.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 290,679; No, 457,890.

Drugless Practice. Initiative act creating state board for drugless physicians, with office in Oakland, creating fund from fees for members' and employees' salaries and expenses, regulating examinations and issuance of certificates. Authorizes holders thereof to treat all physical or mental ailments of human beings without drugs or medicine, use "Doctor," "Dr." or "D. P." in connection with "Drugless Physician," and sign birth and death certificates. Exempts from examination any person practicing any drugless system for six months prior to effective date of act. Prescribes penalties for violations of act; and repeals all inconsistent provisions of medical act.

Election November 3, 1914; Defeated-Yes, 223,217; No, 462,355. Prohibition Elections. Initiative amendment adding section 1 to article IV of constitution. Prohibits, for eight years after this election, state election on question of prohibiting or permitting transportation of intoxicating liquors and any election on question of prohibiting or permitting the manufacture or sale thereof; prohibits state election or election under local option law or charter upon latter question within eight years of like election thereon; declares majority vote in each municipality or district at this election upon prohibition amendment to article I of constitution, and at any statewide prohibition election hereafter, makes same license or nonlicense territory.

Election November 3, 1914: Defeated-Yes, 355,394; No, 435,701. Prohibition. Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor. After January 1, 1920, prohibits the manufacture, sale or possession of same, except for medicinal, sacramental, scientific and mechanical purposes under restrictions prescribed by law. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Declares payment of internal revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Declares this amendment shall not affect prohibitory liquor laws, or ordinances, enacted before such date, or be construed as in conflict with article XXIV-A of constitution if latter article is adopted, and that this amendment supersedes that article on that date.

Election November 7, 1916: Defeated, Yes, 456,639; No, 538,200.

Initiative Amendment adding article XXIV-A to constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor; after January 1, 1918, prohibits its possession, gift or sale in saloon, dramshop, dive, store, hotel, restaurant, club, dancehall or other place of public resort; prohibits sale, accepting or soliciting orders anywhere, except in pharmacies for certain purposes and by manufacturers on premises where manufactured, under delivery and quantity restrictions. Owner or manager of all such places to prevent drinking therein. Restricts transportation. Payment internal revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Neither repeals nor limits state or local prohibition, or article XXIV of constitution.

Election November 7, 1916: Defeated-Yes, 461,039; No, 505,783.

Land Taxation. Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amending article XIII of constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive of improvements; forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person; permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, mothers' endowments and workingmen's disemployment and disability insurance. Declares land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man's work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and wherever else practicable by "Somers system" or other means of exact computation from central locations. Election November 7, 1916: Defeated-Yes, 260,332; No, 576,533.

Liquor Regulation. Initiative act. After July 1, 1919, prohibits keeping drinking saloons or similar places, regulates the traffic in and various acts relating to alcoholic liquors, prohibiting sales and various other dispositions thereof (except

in specified cases or under specified conditions, some applying to vinous or malt liquors containing distilled spirits or more than certain percentages of alcohol, and others to alcoholic liquors generally, or to other particular kinds thereof), limits number of municipal licenses for sale of vinous or malt liquors for consumption elsewhere than on premises where sold, permits further municipal regulations, and prescribes penalties.

Election November 5, 1918: Defeated-Yes, 256,778; No. 341,879.

County and School Tax Limitations. Initiative Act. Creates state board of authorization; requires each county officer to file financial statements with governing body of county which shall submit same with budget to such state board before making tax levy; limits yearly increase in amounts raised thereby to five per cent of amount produced preceding year, unless greater amount authorized by such board or electors; makes special provisions for school matters, regulating such five per cent increase by average daily attendance; declares governing body of any political subdivision may subject same to provisions hereof; authorizes legislature to amend or repeal act.

Election November 5, 1918: Defeated-Yes, 167,049; No, 227,953.

Land Values Taxation. Initiative measure adding section 15 to article XIII of constitution. On and after January 1, 1919, requires all public revenues, state, county, municipal and district, be raised by taxation of value of land irrespective of improvements thereon; declaring war veteran, college and church exemptions in sections 1, 14 and la of same article not affected hereby; asserts intent of amendment to prevent holding land out of use for speculation and to apply to community purposes land values which community creates. Repeals all constitutional provisions and laws conflicting herewith.

Election November 5, 1918: Defeated-Yes, 118,088; No, 360,334.

Dentistry. Initiative act amending dental law. Requires dentist, hereafter appointed member of board of dental examiners, have degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine, and some other degree from recognized institution; limits member to one four-year term in six years; as exception to present requirements, declares any applicant of good moral character, with five years practice, and examined and licensed by any state dental board, shall receive license without examination upon paying twenty-five dollars; forbids administering anesthetic in practicing dentistry, except when adult third person present; declares advertising or charging low fees not unprofessional conduct.

Election November 5, 1918: Defeated-Yes, 200,475; No, 314,713.

Prohibition. Initiative act. Declares that every person, firm or corporation, which manufactures, imports or sells intoxicating liquors after December 31, 1918, except denatured alcohol, shall be guilty of misdemeanor punishable by twenty-five dollars fine and twenty-five days imprisonment for first offense, and by fifty dollars fine and fifty days imprisonment for second offense, and by one hundred dollars fine and one hundred days imprisonment for each subsequent offense. Election November 5, 1918: Defeated-Yes, 275,643; No, 306,488.

Salaries of Justices. Initiative measure amending section 17 of article VI of constitution. Increases the salary of each justice of the supreme court from $8000 a year to $10,000 a year, and of each justice of the district courts of appeal from $7000 a year to $9000 a year.

Election November 2, 1920: Defeated-Yes, 232,418; No, 538,655.

Initiative. Initiative measure amending section 1, article IV, of constitution. Inserts proviso therein increasing the number of signatures of qualified electors necessary to initiative petition presented to Secretary of State under that section when such petition relates to assessment or collection of taxes, or provides for modification or repeal of this proviso; requires such number to be twenty-five per cent of all votes cast for all gubernatorial candidates at last preceding election at which governor was elected, instead of eight per cent thereof as now required. Makes no other substantial change in section.