Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-10
PROCLAMATION.

.HkUGLAMAIlUN.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
ExECUTIvE DEPARTMRNT,}
SACRAMENTO, August g, 1892.
w HEREAs, THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
w State of California, at its tweuty-ninth
session, BEGINNING on the fifth day OF January,
elected 70 VI tbs fo 81 M said Les
lature voing in favor thereof, proposed the
following described amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the State OF California, towit;
Amendment Number One.
[Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 1O.1
ARTICLE ".
Section 2. The sessions OF the Legislature
shall commence at IL O'Clock m on the hrst
Monday after the first day of January next sue.
ceedtng the election of its members, and shall
be biennial, unless the Governor shall In the
interim convene the Legislature by proclama-
tion. No pay shall be allowed to members for
a., longer period G than one hundred DAYS ana no
the expiration of sixty days from the COM
mencement OF each session. without the con-
sent OF two-thirds OF the members thereof.
Amendment Number Two.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. a..
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION 19. 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 for
it ior 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 mourning such
Indebtedness. provision shsll be made for the
collection OF an annual tax sufficient to pay the
interest n such Indebtedness as 1t falls due,
aud also provision to constitute q sinking fund
for the payment of the principal thereof on or
h.Afp ms oh. xh oil t,nf
years from the time of contra ting the same
Any indebtedness or liability incurred contra.
ry to this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. IL
ARTIcLEv.
Section IS. Lieu tenant. Governor shall be
elected at the same time and place and In the
same manLer 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. lie shall also, when the Senate is not in
ession, visit all the State insti utions prisons,
reformstory schools, asylums, and other insti-
| tutions, supported in whole or in 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 Officers that the Legislature
may direct; prorided, that in case the office OF
Lieutenant Governor becoming vacant, or in
| the case of the functions of Governor devolv-
| ing upgn him, the President pro tenn of the
| Senate, or his successor, shall perform the
duties and receive the enoluments of said
Lieutenant-Governor, during the term OF such
vacancy. or The time he is performing such
functions OF Governor. The Legislatures may
by law prescribe the time and manner thatsuch
examinations shall be made. If. during va
cancy in the Office of Governor. the Lieuten-
!, ant tGovernor shall be impe ached, displaced,
/ resign, die, or become incapable of performing
| Of his office he absent from the
| State, TIA President pro TEN of the Senate shall
act as Governor until the vacancy be filed or
ernor shall be disqualified from holding any
other Office except as specially provided in tails
Constitution, during the term for which he
shall have been elected.
Section 49, Governor Lieutenant Governor
Secret ry of State, Controller Treasurer, At.
| torney- General, Surveyer-Gener /, shall, at
| stated tim during their continuance in office.
receive for their services compensation,
which shall net be increased or diminished
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 9s6 600,
dollars per annum: the Attorney General,
Sc retary of state, Controller, Treasurer. three
| thousand ($300O) dollars each per annup !;
| surveyor General, three Thousand t$ ,O0O) dol
I lars per annum; and for the fol owing officer
| for the fractional term and for the two terms
| next ensuing the fourth day of Novem Der, A.
10 ows four rw1
| (S4 ,O00) dollars per annum, and travelling ex-
penses when he may be employed in visiting
| and examining State institutions. such COM
pensa on to be in full for all services by them,
respectively, rendered, in any. ofticial capacity
or employment whatsoever, during their re-
spective terms of office provided, however, 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 sums hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may in
its discretion, abo ish the office Of Surveyor
G neral, and none of the officers hereinbefore
named shall receive for their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance of any Of
fetal duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5. ]
ARTICLE ".
Section 81. No bill making an appropriation
pill and 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 a 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
ney- General. Any deficiency incurred in viola
tion of this provision shall pe void, and the
1
! pirate money to pay the same.
| Amendment No. 8.
[Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
| ARTICLE XI.
| Section g. Any city containing population
| of more than three thouss no five hundred In
habitants, may frame charter for its own
| government, consistent with and subject to the
| Co stitution and laws of this state by causin 2
| Fl 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 il shall be, within ninety days after
| such election, to prepare and propose a charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
| 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 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 gener.
al circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion of the
charter; prOvided. that in cities containing a
population of not " 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
it shall be submitted to the qualified electors OF
a majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratify the same, it shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis ature for its approval
or rejection as O whole, without power OF alter
alton or amendment Such approval may be
made by concurrentresolution and If approved
each house. 1T shall become the charter OF such
city, or If such city be consolidated with q
county, then of such city and county and shall
become the organic law thereof, and supersede
any existing charter and all amendments
thereof, and all laws inconsistent with such
aI,a arf. <.f ,ot, nlxo Artfa fan1h H.