The record-union., 1892-10-19
Amendment Number Five.
GSenate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.l
ARTICLE XI.

ANL4CLE Al.
Section s. 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 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 cleo
ton, to prepare ana propose u charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate oy 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 of gen.
eral circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days, ana the f1rst publication snail be made
Wlthln 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 after such
publication 1t shall be submitted to the quaIi-
ned electors of such city at general or
special election, and If o majority of such
qualified electors voting thereat snail fatify
the same, 1t shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
as a whole, without power OF alteration
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
county, then of such city and county and
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, In 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 general or special election, held at least
forty days after the publication Of such pro-
posals for twenty days in a daily newspaper
of general circulation in such city, and rati-
! fed by at least three-tfths of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap-
proval 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 Legisla-
ture entitled AN 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 z, A. D. 1883, viz: "Sectlon l.
w henever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amendments to the COnstitu-
tion OF this state, which amendment or
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