The record-union., 1892-10-24
Official.
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, !
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
SACR ANIErNTO AuulISf e 1899

ninth session, beginning on the 5th day OF
January, a. D., 1891, two-thirds of all the
members elected 10 each Of the two Houses OF
said Legislature voting in favor thereof, pro-
posed the following described amendments 10
the Constitution Of the State of California,
to wit:
Amendment Number One.
lSenate Constitutional Amendment No. 1O.I
ARTICLE ".
Section 2. The sessions OF the Legislature
shall commence at IL O'Clock NJ on the first
Monday after the first day of January next
succeeding the election OF its members and
snail be biennial, unless the Governor shall III
the interim convene the Legislature by procla-
nation. No pay shall be allowed to members
Tor longer period than one hundred days,
and no bill shall be introduced in either Holrse
after the expiration Of sixty days from the
commencement of each session, without the
consent of two-thirds of the members thereof
Amendment Number Two.
ASSEMBLY Constitutional Amendment No. ~
ARTICLE XII
Section is. No county, city, town, town.
ship, Board OF Education, or School district
shall incur any Indebtedness or liability, in
any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in
any year the income and revenue provided
Tor 1t tor such year, without the assent of two
thirds OF the qualified electors thereof voting
at an election to be held for that purpose nor
| unless before or at the time OF incurring such
Indebtedness, provision shall be made Tor the
collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as 1t falls
due, and also provision TO constituted sinking
fund for the payment OF the principal thereof
on or before maturity, which shall not exceed
forty years from the time of contracting the
same Amy Indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
ISepate Constitutional Amendment No. IL
ARTICLE V.
Section ! 5. A Lieutenant-Governor shall
be elected at the same time and place and in
the same manner as the Governor, and his term
of Office and his qualifications OF eligibility
shall also be the same. He shall be President
OF the Senate but shall have only a casting
vote therein. He shall also, when the Senate
is not in session, visit all the State institu-
tions, prisons retormatory schools, asylums,
and other institutions, supported in whole or
in part by the State, and make careful examin-
ations OF the manner in which the appropra-
tons for the support OF such institutions, and
for permanent Improvements, have been eZ-
pended, and report the result of his eXamin-
ations to the Governor, to the Legislature and
to any other officer, or board OF officers, that
the Legislature may direct; provided, that in
case the office of Lteutenant-Cfovernorb becom-
ing vacant or in the case of the functions OF
Governor devolVing upon him, the President
pro tenn. OF the Senate, or his successor shall
perform the duties and receive the emolu-
mentS of said Lieutenant Governor, during
the term of such vacancy, or the time he is
performing such functions Of Governor The
Legislature may by law prescribe the time
and manner that such examinations shall be
made. IT. during vacancy in the Office of
! Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor shall be
impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become in
capable of performing the duties of his Office,
or be absent from the State, the President pro
tenn. Of the Senate shall act as Governor until
the vacancy be filled or disability shall cease.
The Lieutenant-Governors shall be DISQUALIFIED
| from holding any other Office, except as spec
| tally provided in this Constitution during the
term for which he shall have been elected.
Section 10. Governor. LleGtenant-Gover-
nor, Secretary of State Controller, Treasurer
| Attorney General, Surveyor-Ceneral shall, at
| stated times during their continuance in Office,
| receive for their services a compensation,
which shall not be increased nor diminished
during the term, which compensation is
| hereby fixed for the following officers for the
two terms next ensuing the adoption of this
Constitution, as follows: Governor six thou
sand(S6, ,O0Oldollars per annum; the Attorney
General, three thousand (S3, ,000) dollars per
annum; the Secretary of State, Controller,
treasurer, three thousand (S3,OOOl dollars
each per annum; Surveyor-General, three
thousand tS3, ,O0O) dollars per annum, and
for the following officer for the fractional term
and for the two terms next ensuing the fourth
day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, as follows Lieutenant-Governor,
four thousand $4,000 dollars per annum,
and travelling expenses when he may be eln-
ployed in visiting and examining State insti-
buttons. such compensation to be in full for
all services by them, respectively, rendered.
IN any official capacity or employment what
soeYer. during their respective terms of Office;
provided, however, that the Legislature after
the expiration of their terms herein before
mentioned, may, by law, diminish the COM
pensation of any or all such officers, but in no
case shall have the power to increase the same
above the sums hereby fixed by this Consttu-
tion. The Legislature may, in its discretion,
abolish the Office of Surveyor General and
none of the officers herenbefore named shall
receive for their own use any fees or perqui-
sites for the performance OF any official duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE ".
Section "a. No bill making an appropria-
tiOn for money, except the general appropria-
tion bill, and the deficiency bill for the appro-
priation of money exclusively devoted to the
support of the General Government and State
institutions, shall contain more than one
appropriation, and that tor single and GER
tain purpose, to be therein expressed. When
the deficiency bill is presented to the Cover
nor, he may object to one or more items,
while approving other portions of the bill.
No officer of the State shall have power to in
cur any deficiency except in case of actual
necessity, and then only upon the written
authority first obtained, Of the Governor,
Secretary of State and Attorney-General.
Any deficiency incurred in violation Of this
provision shall be void, and the Legislature
shall not have the power to appropriate money
to pay the same.
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.1
ARTICLE XI.
Section 8. Any city containing q popula-
ton of more than three thousand five nun
dred inhabitants, may frame u 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 it shall
be. within ninety days alter such elec-
for such city, which shall be signed in dupIi-
cate, by the members of such Board or a ma
jority of them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive o6cer
of such city, and the other to the Recorder OF
the county. such proposed charter shall then
be published In two daily newspapers of gens
eral circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days, and the first publication snall be unaue
within twenty days after the completion OF
the cnarter; PROVIDED, that In cities containing
a population OF not mere than ten thousand
inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty daVs after such
publication it shall be submitted to the quail
lied electors OF such city at general or
special election, and II a majority OF such
qualified electors voting thereat shall ratily
the same, IL shall thereafter be submitted TO
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
whole. without power OF alteration or
amendment. Such approval may De mace
by concurrent resolution, and If approved Dy
q majority vote OF the members eiScted 10
each house. 1t shall become the charter OF such
city, or if such city De consolidated with a
county, then of such clty ana county, and
shall become the organic law thereof, and SUI
rersede any existing charter and all amend-
ments thereof and all laws inconsistent with
such charter. A copv OF such charter certi-
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, ana lts Tatincaton py them,