Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-19
PROCLAMATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, !,
ExEcUTIvx DEPARTMENT,

oACHA = hStSs a N6uot VI AQUA.
WIEnEAs. THE LEcIsLATuRE OF THE III!
session. berinning on the fifth day OF January
A.. d. 1891. .two.lhirds cf all the members
lature yo ing In favor thereof, proposed the
following described amendments to the Consti
tuition of the State of taiifornia, towit:
Amendment Number One.
[senate Constitutional Amendment No. 1O.l
ARTIcLH Nv.
Section 2. The sessions OF the Legislature
shall commence at 12 o'clock m on the first
Monday after the first day OF January next sue
ceeding the election of Its members, and shall
interim convene the Legislature by proclama-
tion No pay shall be allowed TO members for
longer period than one hundred DAYS, and no
bill shall be introduced in either house after
the expiration OF sixty days from the com.
mencement of each session, without the con-
sent Of oftwo-thirds of the members thereof.
Amendments Number Two.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. IL
ARTICLE XII.
SEcTIoN 49, No county, CITY, town, town.
ship, Board of Eiucation 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 for
it for such year, without the assent of two
thirds Of the g qua a. ined led electors thereof voting
unless, before or at the time of mourning such
Indebtedness, provision sh II be made for the
collection OF an annual tax sufficient 70 pay the
aud also provision to constitute a sinking fund
for the payment OF the principal thereof on or
before maturity which shall not exceed forty
Any Indebtedness or liability incurred contra
ry to this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
Section Is. Lieutenant Governor shall bo
elected at the same time and place and in the
same manner as the Governor, and his term OF
once and his Qualifications Of eligibility shall
also be the same. He shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have only casting vote here
in. He shall also, when the Senate is not in
session, visit all the State insti utions prisons,
reformatory schools, asylums, and other insti-
tutions, supported in whole or ia part by the
state, and make careful examinations Of the
manner In which the appropriations for the
support of such institutions, and for permanent
improvements, have been expended. and re-
port the result of his examinations 10 the Gov
ernor to the Legislature, and to any other
officer or Board Of OH, ers, that the Legislature
may direct; provided, that in case the office of
Lieutenant Governor becoming vacant, or in
the case of the functions of Governor devolv-
ing upsn him, the President pro tenn of the
Senate, or his successor, shall perform tho
duties and receive the eEloluments 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 aud maine that such
examinations shall be made. II. during X va
cancy In the office Of Governor. the Lieuten-
ant Governor shall be imp ached, displaced,
resign, die, or beco % g incapable OF performing
the duties OF his Office, or be absent from the
state, th President pro tenn of the Senate shall
act as Governor until the vacancy be flied or
disability shall cease. The Lieutenant SOW
ernor shall be disqualified from holding any
other Office except as specially provided in tnis
Constitution, during the term for which he
shall have been elected.
Section 10. Governor Lieutenant Governor.
Secret ry of State, Controller Treasurer, At
torney- Gene raj, Surveyer-Gener j, shall, at
stated tim during their continuance in office,
receive for their services a. compensation.
which shall net be increased or dininished
during the term. which compensation Is hereby
fixed for the following officers for the two terms
next ensuing the adoption of this Constitut on,
as follows: Governor, six thousand ($6 900,
dollars per annum: the Attorney y-General,
three thousand t$3, ,O0O) dollars per annum; the
Secretary Of state Controller, Treasurer. three
thousand ($3.00O) dollars each per annum
surveyor General, three Thousand IS ,00Ol dol
lars per annum; and for the following officer
for the fractional term and for the two terms
d. eighteen hundred and ninety two, as fol-
lows: Leutenant-Governor, four thousand
penses when he m may be employed in s visiting
and examining State institutions such COM
pensat on to be in full for all services by them.
respectively, rendered, in any official capacity
or employment whatsoever, during their re-
spective terms OF office; prorfded, hoperer, that
the Legislature, after the expiration OF their
terms hereinbefore mentioned, may, by law,
diminish the compensation of any or all such
officers, but in no case shall have the power to
incre ase the same above the sunit hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may, in
its discretion, abo ish the Office of Surveyor
G neral, and none of the officers hereinbefsre
named shall receive fo' their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance cf any Of
fetal duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE w.
Section "a. No bill making an appropriation
for money. except the reneral appropriation
pill, alpd the deficiency bill for the appropria
tion of money exclusively devoted to the sup
port OF the General Government and state in
stitutions, shall contain more than one appro
priation, and that for single and certain pur-
pose, to be therein expressed When the
deficiency bill is presented to the Governor, he
may object to one or more items, while approx
ing other portions of the bill. No officer OF the
State shall have power to incur any deficiency
except in case OF actual necessity and then
only upon the written authority, first obtained,
OF the Governor, Secretary OF state, and Attor
tion of this provision shall pe void, and the
Legislature shall not have the power to appro
pirate money to pay the same.
Amendment No. 8.
[5enate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XI
Section g. Any city containing population
VI AiAoiC thnh VII &c tuoueduu I'VE uuuuTeu III
habitants, may frame a 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 lesst five years qualified electors
thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters Of
said city at any general or special election
whose duty II shall be, within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose 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 such city, and the other to the Recorder of
the county. Such proposed charter shall then
be published In two daily newspapers of geuer-
days. and the first publication shall be made |
within twenty days after the completion of the |
pr0vided. that in cities containing a |
population of not n ore than ten thousand In |
habitants, such proposed charter shall be pub |
lished in one such daily newspaper; and within |
not less than thirty days after such publication
1t shall be submitted to the qualified electors Of
said city at q general or special election and If
y majority OF such qualified electors voting |
thereat shall ratify the same 1t shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis;a ;ature for ite approval
OF rejection as whole, without power Of alter
alton or amendment Such approval may be |
made by conct1rrentresolutfon, and If approved
by majority vote Of the members elected to
each house, 1T shall become the charter of such
city, or II such city be consolidated with
county, then of such city and cotinty and shall
become the organic law thereof, and supersede
my existing charter and all amendments
hereof, and all laws inconsistent with such
he Mayor, or chief executive officer, and au.
heut tod hv tho eaat of ruoh o{ty catfirr, |