The record-union., 1892-09-19
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. Ii.
ARTICLE XI.

Section s. Any city containing a popula-
ton OF more than three thousand five hun
dred Inhabitants, may frame charter for its
own government, consistent with and subject
TO the Constitution and laws of this State by
causing q board of fifteen freeholders who
shall have been for at least five years qualified
electors thereof, to be elected by the
qualified voters of said city at any general
or special election, whose duty il shall
be, within ninety days after such cleo
uon, TO prepare and propose Il charter
for such city, which shall be signed in dupli-
cate, by the members of such Board, or q ma
Jority of them, anu returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
of such city, and the other to the Recorder OF
the county. such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers of gem
eral circulation IN such city, fOr at least twenty
days, and the first publication shall tie mace
within twenty days after the completion of
the charter; provided, that in cities containing
"a population OF not more than ten thousand
Inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty days after such
publication it shall be submitted to the quail
lied electors of such city at a general or
special election, and if q majority of such
qualified electors voting theTeat shall ratify
the same, IL shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature Tor Its approval or rejection
whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved by
q majority vote of the members elected to
each house, it shall become the charter of such
city, or il such city be consolidated with q
county, then OF such city and county, and
shall become the organic law thereof, and SUI
perSede any existing Charter and all amend
ments thereof, and all laws inconsistent with
such charter. a copy of such charter, certi-
fed by the Mayor or chief executive officer
and authenticated by the seal of such citv
setting forth the submission of such charter
to the electors, and its ratification by them
shall, after the approval Of such charter nv
the Legislature, be made, .in duplicate
and deposited, one in the once 81
the Secretary of State and the other
after being recorded in SAID re-
corder's Office, shall be deposited in the arch
ives of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
take judicial notice of said Charter. The
charter, so ratified, may be amended at inter-
walls of not less than two years by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative aiIthor-
ity OF the city TO the qualified electors thereof
at general or special election held ut least
forty days after the publication of such pro-
posals for twenty days in a daily newspaper
OF general circulation in such city, aud rati-
lied by at least three-tfths of the qualified
electors voting tnereai, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the APP
proYal OF the charter. In submitting any
such charter, or amendments thereto, any al
tentative article or proposition may be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters, and may
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
OF the Constitution, and an Act OF the Legisla-