The record-union., 1892-10-22
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. AL
ARTICLE XI.

ARTICLE Al.
Section s. Any city containing a popua-
ton OF more than three thousand rive hun
dred inhabitants, may frame a charter for It's
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution and laws OF this State, by
causing a board OF fifteen fre5hOlders, who
snail 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
ton, TO prepare ana propose q charter
for such city, which shall be signed. in dupl-
cate, by the members Of such Board, or a 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 CT gem
eral circulation in such city, iorat least twenty
days, and the ffrst publication shall be made
WlLhln twenty Gays alter the completion OF
the charter; provlOed, that IN cities containing
q population OF not mere 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 shah be submitted to the quail
led electors OF such city at general or
special election, aud If q majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat shall ratiIy
the same, it shall thereafter be submitted TO
the Legislature Tor its approval or rejection
as a whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and II approved by
a majority vote of the members elected to
each house, il shall become the charter of such
city, or IL 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 ana all amend-
ments thereof. and all laws inconsistent with
such charter: \ copy OF such charter, certi-
1ed 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. in duplicate,
and deposited, one in the oHice OF
aiter being recorded in SAID Re
corder's ofIee, 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 10 the qualified electors thereof
at q general or special election. held at least
forty days after the publication OF such pro-
pOsals for twenty DAYS in q daily newspa Der
fled by at least three-ilfths of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided Tor the ap-
pToval 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 to
Others.
Now, therefore. pursuant to the provisions
of the Constitution. and an Act OF the Legsla-
ture entitled IAN Act to provide for the sub
mission Of certain proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State of California to
the qualified electors for their approval ap-
proved March :, \. d. 1883, viz: '.Sectlon J.
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amendments TO the COnStittl-
ton of this state, which amendment or
7 amendments shall have been passed in the
manner and form required by section one of
article eighteen of the Constitution, and no
other mode is provided by law for the sub
mission OF such amendment or amendments