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November 1924 General

Initiative to the People 49

Yes/NoVotesPercentage
For15892241.78%
Against22150058.22%
Ballot Title:
An Act compelling children between seven (7) and sixteen (16) years of age to attend the public schools, and prescribing penalties.
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Initiative to the People 50

CandidateVotesPercentage
For12867737.78%
Against21194862.22%
Ballot Title:
An Act relating to the taxation of real and personal property and limiting the aggregate annual rate of levy thereon for general state, county, municipal and school district purposes to 40 mills.
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Initiative to the People 52

CandidateVotesPercentage
For13949239.09%
Against21739360.91%
Ballot Title:
An Act authorizing cities and towns to purchase, sell and dispose of electric current, inside or outside their corporate limits, without the payment of any tax thereon; authorizing the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of facilities in connection therewith, and authorizing cities and towns to condemn private property, including the right to use and damage railroads, not common carriers, booming, rafting and sorting works, for such purposes.
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Referendum Bill 3

CandidateVotesPercentage
For9945932.26%
Against20880967.74%
Ballot Title:
An Act authorizing the sale and disposal of surplus electric energy by cities and towns outside their corporate limits; authorizing the construction, betterment or extension of electric plants and the acquisition and maintenance of transmission lines, distribution system and equipment necessary therefor; providing the manner and form in which accounts and reports of such sales shall be kept and made, and for the payment monthly to the State Treasurer for state purposes of a tax of five per cent of the gross receipts of such sales, and providing penalties.
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Referendum Measure 16

CandidateVotesPercentage
For16904745.44%
Against20301654.56%
Ballot Title:
An Act to prohibit the manufacture, sale or excahnge of any substitute for butter containing milk which contains any vegetable fat or any cendensed or evaporated milk containing any vegetable fat; also prohibiting the manufacture, sale or exchange of any butter substitute containing milk unless the milk therein be pure milk from which no butter fat has been removed, or any condensed or evaporated milk, or substitute therefore containing milk, unless the milk used therein be pure and unadulterated; and providing penalties.
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Constitutional Amendment Article XI, Sec. 5

CandidateVotesPercentage
For13709351.52%
Against12900348.48%
Ballot Title:
An Amendment of section 5, article XI of the State Constitution relating to county officers, by providing that the legislature may classify counties by population and provide for the election of officers in certain classes of counties who shall perform the duties of two or more county officers.
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Constitutional Amendment Article XV, Sec. 1

CandidateVotesPercentage
For9969439.47%
Against15291160.53%
Ballot Title:
AN AMENDMENT of section 1, Article XV of the constitution, relating to harbors and harbor areas, by authorizing the relocation or reestablishment of harbor lines pursuant to such provision as may be made therefor by the legislature and extending the permissible maximum width of harbor areas from 600 to 2,000 feet.
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