Alabama New Counties, Amendment 3 (1908)
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The Alabama New Counties, Amendment 3, also known as Amendment 3, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 3, 1908, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article XIX. The amendment proposed that new counties may be formed from pre-existing counties, provided that 1) 500 electors vote on the whether the land shall be taken from their county, 2) the removal of land from a pre-existing county does not reduce the population to below the threshold for the right to have a state representative, 3) the value of taxes of either county, old and new, does not drop below a million, 4) the counties’ total area remain within the constitutional limit, and 5) the new boundaries do not run within seven miles of the court of the old county, unless a county should have two court houses, in which case, one may be cut off into the new county. The vote should be held during the general election.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 3 (1908) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 45,281 | 52.86% | ||
| Yes | 40,379 | 47.14% | ||
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911
See also
- Alabama 1908 ballot measures
- 1908 ballot measures
- List of Alabama ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama
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