Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-12
PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF CALIFoRNrA,
ExEcuTIvR DErARTMHNT,{
SACRAMENTO, August 9, 1892.
w HEREAs. THE LEGIsLATURE OF THE
w. State OF California, at its twenty ninth
session, bep1nntng on the fifth day OF January,
A. d. 1891. twothirds Of all the membefs
elected to each of the two houses of said Leeis-
iature young In favor thereof, proposed the
following described amendments 10 the Consti-
tuition of the State of california, towit:
Amendment Number One.
fSenate Constitutional Amendment No. 10.l
ARTICLE Nv.
Section 2. The sessions of the Legislature
shall commence at IL O'Clock m on the first
ceeding the election of its members, and shall
be bienplal, unless the Governor shall in the
interim convene the Legislature by proclama-
longer period than one hundred day 8, and no
bill shall be introduced in either house after
the expiration OF sixty days from the COM
sent OF two-thirds of the members thereof
Amendment Number Two.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. ~
ARTICLE XII.
sEcTIoN 10. 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
thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting
at an election to be held for that purpose, nor
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 que,
aud also provision to constitute sinking fund
the M NJ thQ ri mol IN nr
before maturity, which shall not exceed forty
years from the time Of contras ting the same
Any indebtedness or liability incurred contra
ry TO this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTIcLEv.
Section 15 A Lieutenant Governor shall be
elected at the same time and pace and in the
ooe and hs ~ Of sha
also be the same. He shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have only casting vote there
session, visit all the State institutions, prisons,
reformatory 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 OH eers, 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 upon him, the President pro tenn of the
Senate, or his successor, shall perform the
duties and receive the enoluments of sara
LieutenantG Governor, during the term of such
vacancy, or the time he is performing such
functions OF Governor. The Legislature may
bylaw prescribe the time aud manner that such
examinations shall be made. II. during va
caney in the Office OF Governor. the Lieuten-
ant Governor shall be imps sached, displaced,
Il hx.n,
the duties of his Office or be absent from the
State tha President pro tenn of the Senate shall
act as Governor until the vacancy be Allied or
ernor shall ne disqualified from holding any
other Office except as specially provided in tlis
Constitution, during the term for which he
Section 19. Governor Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Controller Treasurer, At
torney. General, Suryeyor-Gener- ], shall, at
stated tim Is during their continuance in office.
receive for their services a compensation,
which shall net be increased or diminished
during the Term. which compensation is hereby
next ensuing the adoption of this Constitution,
as follows: Governor, six thousand $4,000,
dollars per annum: the. Attorney-General,
three thousand l$3, ,00O) dollars per annum; the
Sc Sretary of state, Controller, Treasurer, three
thousand ($3,O00) dollars each per annum; (;
surveyor General, three Thousand t$ ,0O0 dol
lars 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 ninety,two, as foi; ;
| ($4, ,000) dollars per annum, and travelling ex-
penses when he may be employed in visiting
and examining State institutions. such COM
pensation to be in fun 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
increase the sameabove the sums hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may, in
its discretion, sbo ish the office of Surveyor
named shall receive for their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance of any Of
fcial duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 81
ARTICLE w.
Section "a. No bill making an appropriation
for money. except the general appropriation
bill, aud the deficiency bill for the appropria
tion of money exclusively devoted to the sup
pt port 9i the S Senerai GoyernmenS ana state IN
priation, and that for single and certain pur-
pose, to be therein expressed. When the
aefcisncy bill is presented to the % Goyernor. ne
ing other portions of the bill. No officer of the
State shall have power to incur any deficiency
only upon the written authority, first obtained,
of the Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor
ney- General Any deficiency incurred in viola
JlOu OF ILLS prOVlslOu Hndll De VOlu, 6uQ Cne
Legislature shall not have the power to appro
pirate money to pay the same.
Amendment No. 5.
[Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.]
ARTICLE XII.
Section 8. Amy city containing population
of more than three thousa M five hundred in
habitants, may frame a charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject to the
Constitution and laws of this state, by causing
Board Of fifteen Freeholders, who shall have
been for at least i've years qualified electors
thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of
said city at any geL eral or special election,
whose duty it shall be, within ninety days after
such election, to prepare and propose charter
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 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
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
said city at general or special election, and IL
majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratify the same 1t shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legislature for its approval
alton or amendment Such approval may be
made by concurrentresolution, and If approved
by majority vote of the members elected to
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