The record-union., 1892-10-24
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. IA
U NAVLAlEA -LLIItuN
ARTICLE XI.

tSenate Constitutional Amendment No. IAN
ARTICLE XI.
Section s. Any city containing a popula.
ton of more than three thousand FIVE hun
dred Inhabitants, may frame a charter for lis
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution and laws of this State by
causing board of fifteen freehoiders 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 it shall
be, within ninety days after such elec-
ton, to prepare and propose a charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such Board, or ma
jority of them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
OF sucn city, and the other to the Recorder of
the county. Such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers of gen
eral clrculat on in such city, fofat least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion Of
the charter; provided, that In cities containing
q population of not more than ten thousand
inhaoltants 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 ouaIi-
fed electors of such city at a general or
special election, and if a majority of stlch
qualified electors voting thereat snail ratifv
the same. it shall thereafter be submitted n
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
as whole, without power of alteration or
amendment. such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved nv
majority vote OF the members eected to
each house, 1t shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with a
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, ana all laws inconsistent with
such charter. A copy of such charter certf-
fed by the Mayor, or chief executive officer
and authenticated by the seal OF such city
setting forth the submission OF such charter
to 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 CT 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 tive years by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative author
ity ofthe city to the qualified 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 rati-
fed by at least three-fifths of tine qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, herein provided for the an
proval Of the charter. In submitting any
such charter, or amendments thereto aay al
tentative article or proposition may be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters and rna,-
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
of the Constitution. and an Act OF the Legisla-