The record-union., 1892-08-08
Amendment Number Five.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XII.

Senate Constitutional Amendment No. Ia
ARTICLE XII.
Section 8. Any city containing popula-
ton of more than three thousand five nun
dred Inhabitants, may frame charter for its
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution and laws of this State by
causing O. 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 after such cleo
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 gen.
eral circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days, and the tirst publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion of
the charter; provided, that In cities containing
population of not more than ten Thousand
inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty days after such
publication it shall be submitted to the quail
lied electors of such city at q general or
special election, and If q majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat shall raify
the same, it shall thereafter be submitted 10
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
as q whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and If approved by
I
each house, ii shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with a
county, then of such city and county, and
shall become the organic law thereof, and SUI
/ persede any existing charter and all amend
Inents thereof and all laws inconsistent with
! such charter. A copy 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, and its ratification by them,
| shall after the approval of such charter by
| the Legislature, be made, Tin duplicate,
! and deposited, one in the once OF
| the Secretary of State, and the other,
| after being recorded in said Re
| corder's Office shall be deposited in the arch
ives of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
1 take judicial notice of said charter. The
| charter so ratified, may be amended at inter.
walls of not less than two years by proposals
therefor submitted by the legislative author,
ity of the city 10 the qualified electors thereof
| at a general or special election, held at least
| forty days after the publication of such pro
| posals for twenty days in daily newspaper
/ OF general circulation in such city, and rati
fed by at least three-hfths of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap
| prevail OF the charter. In submitting any
such charter or amendments thereto, any al
tentative article or proposition may be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters. and may
be voted on separately without prejudice K
others.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provision.
| Of the Constitution, and an Act Of the Legisla