legislature shall make provision by law for a system of state roads and highways, connecting at least the various county seats of the state, and to be under the control and supervision of such state officers and agencies as may be prescribed by law. The legislature shall also provide a state revenue to build, construct, and maintain, or assist in building, constructing and maintaining the same, and for that purpose shall have power to authorize the issuing and selling of state bonds, the aggregate outstanding amount of which, at any one time, shall not exceed fifty million dollars. When a bond issue as aforesaid, is authorized, the legislature shall at the same time provide for the collection of an annual state tax sufficient to pay annually the interest on such debt, and the principal thereof within, and not exceeding thirty years. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Section 1. That the question of the ratification or rejection 2 of an amendment to the constitution of West Virginia, proposed 3 in accordance with the provisions of section two, of article four4 teen of said constitution, shall be submitted to the voters of the 5 state at the next general election, to be held in the year one 6 housand nine hundred and twenty, which proposed amendment is 7 as follows: 8 9 Proposed Amendment. The legislature shall make provision by law for a system 10 of state roads and highways connecting at least the various county 11 seats of the state, and to be under the control and supervision of 12 such state officers and agencies as may be prescribed by law. The 13 legislature shall also provide a state revenue to build, construct, 14 and maintain, or assist in building, constructing and maintaining 15 the same and for that purpose shall have power to authorize the 16 issuing and selling of state bonds, the aggregate outstanding 17 amount of which, at any one time, shall not exceed fifty million 18 dollars. 19 When a bond issue as aforesaid, is authorized, the legislature 20 shall at the same time provide for the collection of an annual state 21 tax sufficient to pay annually the interest on such debt, and the 22 principal thereof within, and not exceeding thirty years. Sec. 2. For convenience in referring to said proposed 2 amendment, and in the preparation of the form of the ballot 3 hereinafter provided for, said proposed amendment is hereby 4 designated as follows: To be known as "road amendment." Sec. 3. For the purpose of enabling the voters of the state 2 to vote on the question of said proposed amendment to the consti3 tution at the said general election to be held in the year one 4 thousand nine hundred and twenty, the board of ballot commis5 sioners of each county are hereby required to prepare separate 6 ballots from that of the official ballot to be voted at said election, 7 and print thereon the following: 8 Ballot on constitutional amendment for good roads. 10 11 The said election on the proposed amendment at each place 12 of voting shall be superintended, conducted and returned, and the 13 result thereof ascertained by the same officers and in the same 14 manner as the election of officers to be voted for at said election, 15 and all the provisions of the law relating to general elections, in16 cluding all duties to be performed by any officer or board, as far 17 as practicable, and not inconsistent with anything herein contained, 18 shall apply to the election held under the provisions of this act, 19 except when it is herein otherwise provided. The ballots cast 20 on the question of said proposed amendment shall be counted as 21 other ballots cast at said election. Sec. 4. As soon as the result is ascertained the commissioners, 2 or a majority of them, and the canvassers (if there be any) or 3 a majority of them, at each place of voting, shall make out and 4 sign two certificates thereof in the following form or to the follow5 ing effect: 6 "We, the undersigned, who acted as commissioners (or can 7 vassers, as the case may be), of the election held at... 10 hundred and twenty, upon the question of the ratification or 11 rejection of the proposed constitutional amendment do hereby 12 certify that the result of said election is as follows: 13 14 15 votes. For ratification of amendment for good roads. . . . . . . . votes. 16 Given under our hands this ........day of 17 one thousand nine hundred and twenty." 18 The said two certificates shall correspond with each other in 19 all respects, and contain the full and true returns of said election. 20 at each place of voting on said question. The said commissioners, 21 or any one of them (or said canvassers or one of them, as the 22 case may be), shall within four days, excluding Sundays, after 23 that on which said election was held, deliver one of said certifi24 cates to the clerk of the county court of his county, together with 25 the ballots, and the other to the clerk of the circuit court of the 26 county. 27 The said certificates, together with the ballots cast on the 28 question of said proposed amendment, shall be laid before the 29 commissioners of the county court at the court house at the same 30 time the ballots, poll books and the certificates of the election 31 for the members of the legislature are laid before them; and as 32 soon as the result of said election in the county upon the question 33 of such ratification or rejection is ascertained, two certificates of 34 such result shall be made out and signed by said commissioners, 35 as a board of canvassers, in the form or to the following effect: 36 "We, the board of canvassers of the county of..... 37 having carefully and impartially examined the returns of the 38 election held in said county, in each district thereof, on the...... 39 day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, do 40 certify that the results of the election in said county, on the 41 question of the ratification or rejection of the proposed amendment 42 is as follows: 43 44 45 votes. 46 For ratification of amendment for good roads..... Given under our hands this....... .day of.... 47 one thousand, nine hundred and twenty." 48 votes. One of the certificates shall be filed in the office of the clerk 49 of the county court, and the other forwarded by mail to the 50 secretary of state, who shall file and preserve the same until the 51 day of which the result of said election in the state is to be 52 ascertained, as hereinafter stated. Sec. 5. On the twenty-fifth day after the election is held, ? or as soon thereafter as practicable, the said certificates shall be 3 laid before the governor, whose duty it shall be to ascertain there4 from the result of said election in the state, and declare the same 5 by proclamation published in one or more newspapers printed at 6 the seat of government. If a majority of the votes cast at said 7 election upon said question be for the ratification of said amend8 ment, the proposed amendment so ratified shall be of force and 9 effect from and after the time of such ratification, as part of the 10 constitution of the state. Sec. 6. The governor shall cause the said proposed amend2 ment, with the proper designation for the same as hereinbefore. adopted, to be published one time at least three months before. 4 such election, in some newspapers in every county in which a 5 newspaper is printed, at a price to be agreed upon in advance, in C writing, and the cost of such advertising shall in the first instance, 7 if found necessary by him, be paid out of the governor's contingent 3 fund and be afterwards repaid to such fund by appropriation of the legislature. Senate Bill No. 164 AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections three, eight, ten, eleven, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three and twenty-nine of chapter five of the acts of the third extraordinary session of the legis lature of one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, concerning primary elections. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That sections three, eight, ten, eleven, twenty, twenty-one, twentythree and twenty-nine of chapter five of the acts of the third extraordinary session of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, concerning primary elections be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Section 3. For the purpose of this act, there shall be chosen 2 at the May primary for each political party, as hereinafter pro3 vided, a state executive committee consisting of two members 4 from each senatorial district, to be selected by the party voters 5 in such district and who shall not be residents of the same county; 6 provided, however, that the committee elected shall appoint three 7 additional committeemen at large; a congressional executive com8 mittee, and a state senatorial executive committee for each of the 9 respective congressional and state senatorial districts, each com.10 mittee to consist of one member from each county in the re11 spective districts, to be elected by the party voters of such county: 12 and a county executive committee consisting of two members 13 from each magisterial district therein, except that in any 14 county containing a city of ten thousand or more population 15 there shall be chosen one member of the committee from eaci 16 ward of such city in addition to the members chosen from the 17 magisterial district in which such city is situated. All members of 18 executive committees selected for each political division, as herein 19 provided, shall reside within the county or district, senatorial or 20 magisterial, from which chosen; provided, however, that any 21 political party which polled less than ten per cent of the total 22 vote cast for governor at the last or preceding general election, 23 or any group of citizens, may nominate candidates and elect com24 mittees for any political division either by party conventions or in £5 accordance with the provisions of section twenty-three of this 26 art; provided, however, that such nominations must be made and 27 the certificates filed within twenty days after said primary elec28 tion. 29 The term of office of all committeemen so elected shall begin 30 on the fifteenth day of June, succeeding said May primary, and 21 shall continue for four years thereof and until their successors 32 are elected and qualified. Vacancies in the state executive com33 mittee shall be filled by the members of the committee for the 34 unexpired term. Vacancies in the congressional, judicial, sena25 torial and county executive committees shall be filled by the exccu36 tive committees of the county in which such vacancy exists, and 37 shall be for the unexpired term. 37-a As soon as possible after the fifteenth of June, succeeding 38 the selection of the new executive committees as herein provided, 39 they shall convene within their respective political divisions, on the 40 call of the chairman of corresponding outgoing executive commit41 tees, and proceed to select a chairman, a treasurer, and a secre42 tary, each of which officers shall for their respective committees 43 perform the duties that usually appertain to such offices. 44 The various executive committees and officers thereof, now in 45 existence, shall exercise the powers and possess the duties herein 46 prescribed until their successors are chosen in accordance with this 47 act. Sec. 8. Any person who is eligible to hold any office (including member of a state or a county executive committee) may 3 file with the secretary of state, if it be an office to be filled by the 4 voters of more than one county, or with the clerk of the circuit 5 court, if it be for an office to be filled by the voters of a county. 6 or a sub-division less than a county, a certificate declaring himself |