The record-union., 1892-09-12
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XII

Section 8. Any city containing popula-
ton of more than three thousand five hun
dred inhabitants, 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 least five years qualified
qualified voters of said city at any general
or special election, whose duty it shall
be, within ninety days after such cleo
ton, 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
lority 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 first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion of
the charter; provided, thatin cities containing
q 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 1t shall be submitted to the quail
fed electors of such city at a general or
special election, and If q 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 q whole, without power of alteration or
amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and If approved by
q majority vote of the members elected to
each house, it shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with
shall become the organic law thereof, and su-
persede any existing charter and all amend
ments 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, gin duplicate,
and deposited, one in the office 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
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 to 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-fifths of the Qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the APP
prevail OF the charter. In submitting any
such cnarter, or amendments thereto, any al
ternatlye article or proposition max be pre-
sented Tor the choice of the voters and NAV
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others. W
NOW, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
OF The Constitution. and an Act OF the Legisla.