The record-union., 1892-10-27
Amendment Number Two.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. ~
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Amendment Number Two.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. ~
ARTICLE XII
Section is. No county, city town, town.
ship, Board OF Education or School District
snail incur any Indebtedness or liability in
any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in
any year the income and revenue provided
for II for such year. without the assent or two
thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting
at an election to Se held for that purpose nor
unless before or at the time OF mourning sucn
Indebtedness, provision shall be made tor the
collection Of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the interest on such Indebtedness as it 1aiis
due and also provision to constituted sinking
fund Tor the payment OF the principal thereof
on or before maturity, which shall not exceed
forty years from the time OF contracting tho
same. Any Indebtedness or liability incurred
contrary to this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTICLE V.
Section IS. A Lieutenant-G Governor shall
be elected at the same time and place and in
the same manner Is 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 insLitU-
tions, prisons, refOrmatOry schools, asyluns
and other institutions, supported in whole or
in part by the State, and make careful eXa1nin-
ations OF the manner in which the approprla-
tIOns for the support OF such institutions, and
for permanent Improvements, have been ex-
pended, and report the result OF his eNaInln-
ationS TO the Governor, TO the Legislature, and
10 any other officer, or board OF omcers that
the Legislature may direct provided, that in
case the Office of Lieutenant-GOveruor becOnl-
ing vacant, or in the case Of the functions Of
Governor devoIving upon HIM, the President
pro TEN. OF the Senate, or his successor, shall
perform the duties and receive the eInolu-
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
ana manner that such examinations shall be
made. II, during vacancy in the Office Of
Governor, the Ileutenant-GOVernor shall be
i'm peached, displaced. resign, die or become in
capable OF performing tie uutieS OF his once,
or be absent from the State, the President pro
tenn OF Ihe senate shall act as Governor until
the vacancy be filled or disability shall cease.
the Ltcutenant-GO7ernor snail be disqualified
from holding any other Office, except as spec-
iGlIy provided in this Constitution, during the
term for which he Shall have been elected.
section Is. Governor, LiCutenant-CIOvCr-
nor, Secretary OF State. Controller, Treasurer,
Attorney General SurYeyOr-General, shall, ut
stated times during their continuance il once,
receive for their services Il com pensaUiOn,
which shall not be increased nor diminished
during the term, which compensation IS
hereby fixed Tor the following officers for the
two terms next ensuing the adoption of this
Constitution, as follows: Governor, six thou
sand SO, ,OO0ldoilars perannum; the Attorney
General, three thousand 50, ,O0O) dollars per
a.lnum; the Secretary Of State, Controller,
4 treasurer, three thousand (SJ,UOOi dollars
each Eer annUm; Surveyor-General, three
Thousand ,0OO) 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
niuety-tWo, as follows: LieutennnL L-GoverLOr,
fotr thousand $4,000 dollars per annum,
ana travelling expenses when he may be en-
plOyed in visiting and examining State insti-
tuuons. such compensation to De in full for
all services by them. respectively, rendered,
Off low
sOever during their respective terms of Office;
provided, however, that the Legislature, after
the expiration OF their terms herelnbeio-e
mentioned, may, by law, diminish the COM
Pensation OF any or all such officers, but in 10
case shall have the power to increase the same
above the sums hereby fixed by this Constitll-
abolish the Office OF Surveyor General. and
none on the officers hereInbeiore named shall
receive for their own use any fees or FerQui-
sites for the performance OF any official duty.
Amendment Number -Four.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE ".
Section "a. No bill making an approDria>
ton for money, except the general approprlsi-
tlon bill ana the deficiency bill for the apprO-
prlation of money exclusively devoted to the
support OF the General Government ana State
institutions, snail contain more than one
appropriation, ana that tor IL single and GER
taiu purpose. TO be therein expressed. When
Inc UeQClenCy OIL Is iICSBulGQ 10 Ll1C tyONGI-
nor, he may OBJECT 10 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 nave the power TO appropriate money
10 pay the same.
Armand rr1ay1t Nr1rY1 Five
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. IAN
ARTICLE XII.
Section 8. Any city containing popula-
ton Of more than three thousand 1ive nun
dred inhabitants, may frame charter Tor its
own government. consistent with and suDicet
TO the Constitution and laws OF this State by
causing q board OF fifteen freeholders who
electors thereof, to be elected by tine
qualified voters OF said city at any general
or special election, whose duty il shall
be- within ninety days after such C
ton, 10 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 10 tho
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive oEicer
Of such city, and the other 10 the Recorder or
the county. such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers OF gen
eral circulat on In such city, tor at least twenty
days, and the nrst publication shall be ma "a
within twenty days after the completion OF
the charter; provlded, that In cities containing
a population OF not mere than ten Thousand
inhabitants suca proposed charter shall 10
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty days uIter sach
publication ii shall be submitted to the quail
lied electors Of such city at n general or
special election, ana II q majority OF such
qualified electors voting thereat sEa!l ratlfy
the same, il shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for Its approval or rejection
as whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. Such approval may De mGde
by concurrent resolution, and II approved by
a majority vote Of the members e-ected TO
each house, il shall become the charter OF such
city or il such city be consolidated Will a
county, then Of such city ana county, and
shall become the organic law thereof, and sue
,,srsefia any existing charter and all amend
ments thereof. anu all Avs inconsistent with
such charter. copy OF such charter. certt'
ded nv the Mayor, or chief executive officer,
and tfcated by the seal Of such cit y
setting tOrth the submission OF such charter
10 the electors, and Its Iatlncatlon by them,
shall after the appToyal OF such Charter by
the LEGISLATURE, be made, in duplicate,
ana deposited, one in the Office oi
the Secretary T.a1aed' q 2ISG' ana in S the other
ccrder.g once shall be deposited in the arch
ives az the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
Charter SO ratified, may be amended at inter-
vaIs Of not less than two years by proposaH
therefor submitted By the legislative autbor1
ify or the cityLo the qualified electors thereof
al q general or special election, held at tLasl
forty DAYS after the publication OF such nros
posals for twenty days in daily newsparsI
Of general circulation in such city and ratE
fed py at least three-nfihs of the 0ualided
electors voting thereGt, and approved nv tt1
Legislature, as herein provided for the an,
proval of the charter. In submitting any
such charter. or amendments thereto anv al
Tentative article or proposition nlar be prel
sented for Sbe choice OF the voters. and NAV
be voted or separately without preludfce ID
others.
Vow, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
OF the Constitution. and an Act OF the Legisl&