Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-24

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lAssembly Constitutional Amendment No. ~
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION 1s.. No county, city, town, town
snip; Board OF Ed9cstion, or school district
snail incur any Indebtedness or liability, in
any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in
any year the income and revenue provided for
thirds Of tbe Wse9a5 cne o. swo
at an election to be held for that purpose nor
unless, before or at the time Of incurring such
collection OF an annual tax sufficient to pay the
interest n such Indebtedness as 1t falls que,
ana also provision to constitute sinking fund
before maturity, which shall not exceed forty
years from the time of contra ting the same.
Any Indebtedness or liability incurred contra.
ry TO this provision shall be void.
Amendment Number Three.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTICLE ".
Section 15. A Lieu tenant Governor shall be
elected at the same time and place and in the
once and his Qualifications of eligibility shall
also be the same. He shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have only acasting vote here
in. He shall also, when the Senate Is not in
ession, visit all the state instl utions 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
tSs - asye been and re-
error, to the legislature, and to any other
officer or Board of officers, that the Legislature
may al,sc, Rrou1aed case sns once 2,
| 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 emoluments of said
Leutenant-Governor, during the term of such
| vacancy. or the time he is performing such
| by law prescribe the time and mannt r that such
examinations shall be made. II. during va
cancy in the office of Governor. the Lieuten-
ant.Governor shall be Imp ached, displaced,
resign, die, or beco ne incapable OF performing
| the duties of his office, or be absent from the
State, th' President pro tenn of the Senate shall
| act as Governor until the vacancy be flied or
disability shall cease. The isieutenant-9ov
ernor shall De disqualified from holding any
ether Ee except as specially provided IN t1is
shall have been elected
section 10. Governor Lieutenant Governor
Secret ry of State, Controller Treasurer, At
torney- General, Surveyor-Gener j, shall, at
stated times during their continuance in Office
receive for their services a compensation,
which shall net be increased or disrinished
during the term, which compensation IL hereby
fixed for the following officer, for the two terms
next ensuing the adoption of this COustitut on
as follows: Governor, six thousand ($6 600,
dollars per snnum: the Attorney General,
three thousand t$3, ,O00) dollars per annum; the
Sc retary OF state, Controller, Treasurer. three
thousand (s3,O0U dollars each per annum;
surveyor General, three thousand IS ,OOO) dol
lar per annum and for the following officer
for the fractional term and for the two terms
next ensuing the fourth day of Eovem Der, A.
d. eighteen hundred and ninety two. as fol
lows: Leutenant-Governcr, four thousand
t$4. .0O0) dollars per annum, and travelling ex.
and examining State institutions such com,
ensat on 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, h0tceUer, 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
fncre asa the same above the sums hereby fixed
by this Constitution. The Legislature may, In
its discretion, abo ish the office of Surveyor
G neral. and none of the officers hereinbefsre
named shall receive for their own use any fees
or perquisites for the performance OF any Of
fetal duty.
Amendment Number Four.
[Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5. ]
ARTICLE w.
Section 34 No bill making an appropriation
for money. except the general appropriation
bill, aud the cefcieDcy bill for the appropria-
tion OF money exclusively devoted to the sup
stitutions, shall contain more than one appro-
priation, and that for single and certain pur-
pose, to be. therein expressed. When the
| deficiency bill is presented to the Governor, he
| may object to one or more items, while approx
ing other portions of the bill. No oiicer OF the
| State .hall 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
| tion of this provision shall De void, and the
| Legislature shall not have the power to appro
| pirate money to pay the same.
Amendment No. 5.
| [5enate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.]
| ARTICLE XII.
| Section 8. Any city containing population
| of more than three thousand five hundred in
| habitants may frame charter for its own
| government, CONSISTENT with and subject to the
| Constitution and Jaws of this state, by causing
| a Board of fifteen Freeholders, who shall have
| been for at lest five year, qualified electors
thereof to be elected by the qualified voters Of
| said city at any geLera or special election,
whose duty II shall be, within ninety days after
| such election, 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
| 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 publish 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
| population of not II ore than ten thousand In
| habitants, such proposed charter shall be pub
IN sqeh daily and whn
it shall be submitted to the qualified electors Of
said city at general or special election, and IT
therest shall ratify the same it shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis ature for Its approval
| or rejection as whole, without power OF alter
alton or amendment. Such approval may be
made by concurrentresolution and II 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 a
county, then of such city and county and shall
become the organic law thereof, and supersede
any existing charter and all amendments
thereof, and all laws Inconsistent with such
charter. copy of such charter, certified by
the Mayor, or chief executive officer, and au.
thenticated by the seal of such city, setting
electors, and its ratification by them, shall,
after the approval of such charter by the Leg
islature, be made, in duplicate, and deposited,
one in the office of the Secretary OF state, and
the other, after being recorded In said Record.
ers Office, shall be deposited in the archives OF
the city, and theyeafter all Courts shall take
judicial notice OF said charter. The charter.
so ratified, may be amended at intervals OF not
less tbsn two years by proposals therefor, sub.
mitted by the legislative authority OF the city
to the qualified electors thereof, at general or
special election, held at least forty days after
the publication OF such proposals for twenty
days in daily newspaper Of general clrcula'
op IN such city and oy ~ ieas1
and approved by the Legislature, as herein pro-
vided for the ap proval of the charter. In sub
mitting any such charter, or amendments
thereto, any alternative article or proposition
may be presented for the choice Of the voters,
and may be voted on separately without preju-
NOW, THEREFORE, Pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Constitution, and an Act OF the
submtssion of certain proposed amendments TO
the Constitution of the State OF California to
the qualified electors for their approval" ap.,
proved March 2, A. D. 1883, viz: Section 1.
amendment or amendments to the Constil ution
az this Sta e, which amendment or amend