The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-22
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. al
ARTICLE XII


Section 8. Any city containing a nonula
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 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 elec
Ion, 70 prepare and propose a charter
cate, by the members of such Board or a ma
tority 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 gem
erai 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, 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 alter such
publication 1t shall be submitted to the quail
ned electors of such city at q general or
special election, and If a majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat Shall ratify
the same, it shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature FOR its approval rejection
as whole, without power of alteration or
amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved bV
o ma ority vote OF the members elected to
each house, it shall become the charter of such
city, or if such city be consolidated with q
shall become the organic law thereof, and SUI
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 citv'
setting forth the submission of such charter
TO the electors, and its ratification by them
shall, after the approval OF such charter bv
the Legislature, be made, lin duplicate
and deposited, one in the Office OF
the Secretary of State, and the other
after being recorded in said Re-
corder 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 pronoSais
therefor submitted by the legislative author
ity of the city TO the qualified electors thereon
at general or special election, held at least
forty days after the publication of such nro
posals for twenty days in daily newsn.iner
of general circulation in such CITY. and Tsti-
ned by az least three-tifths of the oualified
electors voting thereat, and approved bv the l
Legislature, us herein provided for the an
prevail OF the charter. IN submitting any
such charter, or amendments thereto. anv al
Tentative article or proposition mas be pra.
sented for the choice of the voters. and ma
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others. W
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
OF the Constitution, and an Act OF the Lerisln-