State v. Kelsey
Oregon Supreme Court
From J acts on: Frank M. Calkins, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by the State of Oregon, on the relation of Josiah Beeman, against R. C. Kelsey, John Palmer, Joseph Dietrich, W. R. Walker, Frank WRmarth, and George Landis to determine the right of each to act as an officer in the City of Gold Hill, a municipal corporation, which town was incorporated by an act of the legislature: Laws Or. 1895, p. 248. The charter was amended April 13, 1907, under…
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From J acts on: Frank M. Calkins, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by the State of Oregon, on the relation of Josiah Beeman, against R. C. Kelsey, John Palmer, Joseph Dietrich, W. R. Walker, Frank WRmarth, and George Landis to determine the right of each to act as an officer in the City of Gold Hill, a municipal corporation, which town was incorporated by an act of the legislature: Laws Or. 1895, p. 248. The charter was amended April 13, 1907, under an exercise of the initiative power reserved to the people of municipalities by the organic law: Const. Or., Art. IV, §§…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
It will be remembered that ordinance No. 64, prescribing the manner of exercising the initiative power in the City of Gold Hill, required the recorder at every election to cause to be printed in consecutive order on the official ballot the title, of all measures to be voted upon, the affirmative of the first measure to be designated by the number “400” and the negative by “401”; that, not less than 10 days before any regular or special election at which any proposed charter amendment was to be submitted to the people, that officer was, by the enactment referred to, commanded to cause to be…
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