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Show AMENDMENT NO. 1. H One of the most important amendments to the constitution of the Slate of I tali i- proposed in ' Amendmenl No. 1" to be voted on next Tucsda: 1 is known as the home rule amendment and pro- H vidca that an;, city mas adopt a charter freeing the municipality from legislative interference in purely city affairs H Inasmuch as the amendment leaves it optional for any city to H accept or reiect the privilege of coming under the operation of the! H amendment, if it passes, it is advisable to vote in favor of the ami ad-; ment. In other stales home rule measures have been well received an I many cities todaj arc governed under similar provisions The powers to he conferred on cities electing to operate under the provisions of the amendment include the following: H (a) To levy, assess and collect taxes and borrow money within H the limits prescribed bj general lav. and to levy and collect special assessments for benefits conferred, i (b) To furnish all local public services; to purchase, lure mn- H struct, own, maintain and operate, or lease, public utilities, local in extent and use; to acquire ly condemnation, or otherwise, within or without the corporate limits property necessary for any such pur-poses, pur-poses, subject to restrictions imposed by general law for the prnte.-H prnte.-H tion of other communities: and to grant local public utility Iran-j H chisea and regulate the exercise thereof sttbjed to the continuing Hi power of regulation of public utilities, their rate and service by the HI state, as is now or may hereafter be, provided by general law (c) To make local public improvements and to acquire by con Hi uemnation, or otherwise, property within its corporate limits ue.-es-; H sarv for such improvements , and also to acquire an excess over that needed for any such improvement and to sell or lease such excess H property with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvement. im-provement. (d) To issue and sell bonds' on the security of any arncD excess I property, or of any public utility owned by the city, or of the reve- nu?s thereof, or both, including, in the case of a public utility, fl Iran- chise stating the terms upon which, ill case of ' foreclosure, the pur , H ehaspr may operate such utility |