The record-union., 1892-10-25
Amendment Number Five.
(Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XII

Section s. Any city containing n popuiG-
ton of more than three thousand five nun
dred Inhabitants, may frame a charter for its
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution and laws of this State. by
causing 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
ton, 10 prepare and propose charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such Board. or q ma
j0rity of them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof. or other chief executive officer
of such city, and tine other TO the Recorder OF
the county. such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers OF gem
eral circulation III such city, tOrat least twenty
days, and the first publication snail be made
within twenty days after the completion of
the charter; provided, that in cities containing
a population or 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 il shall be submitted to the quail
lied electors of such city at a general or
special election, and If majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat shall rattfy
the same, il shall thereafter he submitted to
the Legislature for Its approval or rejection
as a whole. without power OF alteration or
amendment. such approval may De made
by concurrent resolution. and II approved by
q majority vote OF the members eiected TO
each house. il shall become the cnarterOf such
city, or II sucn city be consolidated with %
Nr NJ
shall become the organic law thereof and su-
perSede any existing charter ana alllnmend-
ments thereof. and all laws incons lstent with
such charter. a conv OF such charter certi-
fed by the Mayor, or chef executive officer
and authenticated by the seal OF such city
setting forth the submission of such charter
10 the electors, and its ratification by them
shall, after the approval of such charter by
the Legislature, be made, in duplicate
and deposited, one IN the Office OF
the Secretary of State. and the other
after being recorded in SAID Re-
eOrders Office, shall be deposited in the arch
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 author
ity OF the city TO the quaIihed electors thereof
at general or special election. held at least
forty days after the publication Of such pro-
pOSals for twenty days in a daily newspaper
of general circulation in such city, and riti-
fled by at least three-tifths of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap
proval 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-
ture entitled IAN Act to provide for the SUBJ
mission Of certain proposed amendments TO
the Constitution of the State of California 10
the qualified electors for their approval" APP
proved March z, A. D. 1883. viz: "fSecton /.
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amendments to the Constitu-
ton Of this State, which amendment or
amendments shall have been passed in the
manner and form required by section one of
article eighteen OF the Constitution, and no
other mode is provided by law for the sub
mission of such amendment or amendments
TO the people for their approval, it shall be