Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-15
PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CAIIFoBN1A,

ExECUTIvE DEPARTMRNT(
SACRAMENTO, August 9, 1892.
w HEREAs. THE LEGISLATURES OF THE
w State Of California, at its twenty ninth
session, bepinnfng on the fifth day OF January,
A. D.. 1891. two-l birds Of all the members
elected to each of the two houses OF SAID Legs
lature vo.ing In favor thereof, proposed the
following described amendments TO the Constl-
tuition of the State of Laliforhia, towits
Amendment Number One.
[5enate Constitutional Amendment No. 1O.1
ARTICLE Nv.
section2. The sessions Of the Legislative
shall commence at 12 O'Clock m. on the fifst
Monday after the first day of January next sue
ceeding the election of its nsembers, and snail
be biennial, unless the Governor shall IN the
interim convene the Legislature by proclama
ton. No pay shall be allowed TO members LOT
a longer period than one hundred day s, and no
bill shall be introduced in either mouse use , sd,er
mencement OF each session, without the con-
sent OF two; thirds of the members thereof.
- - Amendment Number Two. go
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. ~
ARTICLE XI.
SECTION 1S. No county city, town, town
ship, Board of Education, or school district
shall incur any indebtedness or liability, IN
any year the income and revenue provided for
it for such year, without the assent OF two
thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting
unless, before or at the time of incurring 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
and also provision to constitute 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.
Any indebtedness or liability incurred contra
ry TO this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
tcano,o onst;tnt;ora aJ A Auandynant M I'll
ARTICLE v.
Section IS. Lieu utenant- Governor shall be
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 oflthe
Senate, but shall have only casting vote there
in. He shall also, when the Senate is not in
session, visit all the state utions prisons,
tutions, supportedin whole or in part by the
State, and make careful examinations of the
manner in which the appropriations Tor the
support of such institutions, and for permanent
improvements, have been expended, and re-
port the result of his examinations the Gov
ernor, to the Legislature, and to any other
officer or Board of Officers 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 upon him, the President pro tenn OF the
| Senate, or his successor, shall perform the
| duties and receive the emoluments of said
Lieutenant Governor. during the term of such
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| functions OF Governor. The Legislature may
| by law prescribe the time and manner that such
examinations shall be made. If. during va
| cancy in the Office of Governor. the Lieuten-
ant Governor shall be impeached, displaced,
| resign, die, or becom incapable OF performing
the duties Of his Office Or be absent from The
act as Governor until the vacancy be filed or
disability, shall cease. The Lieutenant-Gov-
other office except as specially provided In tlis
Constitution, during the term for viii. h he
shall have been elected.
Secretary Of state, Controller Treasurer, At
| torney- General, Suryeyor-Genersl, shall, at
stated times during their continuance in office.
receive for their services compensation,
which shall not be increased or diminish, d
| during the term, which compensation is hereby
fixed for the following officers for the two terms
next ensuing The adoption of this Constitute on,
| as follows: Governor, six thousand ($6, ,000)
| dollars per annun the Attorney-General,
three Thousand ($3,00O) dollars per annum: the
| thousand (s3,0OO) dollars each per annum;
| urveyor General, three thousand IS ,OOO) dol
lars per annum; and for the following ofhcer
| for the fractional term and for the two terms
| next enGuing the fourth day of November, A.
( d. eighteen hundred and ninety two, as fol-
(, lows: Lieutenant-Go four thousand
($4 ,pOO) dollars per annum, and travelling ex-
penses when he may be employed in visiting
and examining State institutions. Such COM
Iensat 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; provided, howeper, 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 hereinbefiare
| or perquisites for the performance Of any Of
| fetal duty.
A A Z !
ARTICLE w.
| Section a. No bill making an appropriation
| for money, except the ceneral appropriation
| bill, and the deficiency bill for the appropria-
port port Of the General Government t and state @ In
| stitutions, shall contain more than one appro-
| priation, and that for single and certain pur-
deficiency bill is presented to the Governor, he
| may object to one or more items, while approy-
| ing other portions of the bill No officer of the
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 be void, and the
Legislature shall not have the power to appro
pirate money to pay the same
Amendment No. 5.
[Sepate Constitutional Amendment No. IA
ARTICLE XII.
Section g. Any city containing population
of more than three thousand five hundred in
habitants, may frame a charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject to the
Board of ffteenFreeholders, 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 1t shall be, within ninety days after
such election, to prepare andpropose 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; pr0yided. that In cities containing q
population of not m ore than ten thousand In
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 general or special election and If
9: majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratify the same, 1t shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legislature for its approval
or rejection as a whole, without power of alter
alton or amendment. Such approval may be
made by concurren resolution, and ii approved
by q majority vote of the members elected to
city, or II such city be consolidated with
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
| charter. copy OF such charter, certified by
| the Mayor, or chief executive oficer, and au-
| thenticated 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 Leg
one in the office of the Secretary Of state and
| the other after being recorded in said Record